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My parents first came to the United States in the 1970s to flee the cruelty and violence of Haiti’s dictator, François Duvalier, or “Papa Doc” as…

The chief organiser of South Korea’s notoriously gruelling university entrance exams has resigned – after complaints that an English test he designed was too difficult.Passing the…

The government is to invest £3bn in creating bespoke places within local state schools for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), a crucial part…

Reform UK has ignored requests to share the evidence for its claim to have saved £331m since it took charge of 10 English councils in May,…

Two-thirds of councils in England have not prosecuted a single landlord in the past three years, despite receiving 300,000 complaints from desperate tenants living in unfit…

English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books,…

Private companies operating care services in just three regions of England have taken more than £250m in profits in three years, with more than a third…

University tuition fees in England are to rise in line with inflation, but only for institutions that meet “tough new quality thresholds”, the government has announced.In…

Every few weeks, another announcement. Immigrants must do this to earn the right to stay in the UK. Others must do that if they are to…

The requirement that children who fail GCSE maths and English must repeatedly resit the exams is too inflexible and needs to be overhauled, according to Becky…