🇬🇧 Mandatory Reading Tests At 13 To Check Literacy Rates ▫A national assessment, expected to be set out in a white paper, will check children’s progress at the end of year 8 ▫@nicolawoolcock #frontpagestoday #UK @thetimes

THE TIMES: Digital ID card scheme will confirm right to work #TomorrowsPapersToday

Universities with poor teaching records could be stopped from charging full tuition fees under plans being considered by the Office for Students (and its new chair calls for more TikTok-style teaching) Exclusive in The Times https://t.co/vVm4zr171b

Nine students in Gaza with offers from British universities have been told the UK will attempt to bring them out to start their studies. The students have Chevening scholarships funded by the government but no access to biometric data to prove their ID https://t.co/vX40ge1If5

Teenagers are supposedly addicted to their devices - but are anxious about making phone calls. Now schools are teaching them how to ring universities ahead of A-level results day. https://t.co/MQJMOQXQK3

As families brace themselves for the long summer break... should it be cut to a month? Most parents think so according to new polling by @Parentkind https://t.co/d5uD7bo3vA

Britain's biggest taxpayer, Alex Gerko, will open first specialist maths secondary school and wants to change the culture of bright kids doing PPE at Oxford. Russian-born billionaire is funding 1729 Maths School in north London, opening next September https://t.co/k2gLzkk3VE

Thrilled to get my first byline in @TheTimes today, on ChatGPT usage among Cambridge students w/@ebratton26 @nicolawoolcock

The interim report, shared with The Times, also calls for greater diversity in textbooks to ‘challenge discrimination’ and more focus on teaching applied skills

You can read coverage of the research in today’s @thetimes by @nicolawoolcock https://t.co/iBwlJ3WA3E

My son Charlie was born with a severe learning disability. For 12 years we never knew what was wrong…..then we got a phone call out of the blue…. Today I’ve written about the amazing scientific discovery that changed our life https://t.co/URegR0Cpcg

I want the U.S. to stand more firmly on our side. This is not just a war between our two countries; Russia brought this war onto our territory and into our homes. They are wrong because they disrespected our territorial integrity.

The practice, in which children lead their own education, has grown in popularity online, but one woman says it ‘irreparably damaged’ her relationship with her parents https://t.co/QMEiJEJCWZ

Important issues raised by Professor Wendy Larner of @cardiffuni in the @thetimes today. Increased collaboration between universities has the potential to multiply their strengths and create opportunities that would not otherwise be possible👇

Competition laws prevent universities from working together when courses under threat, says Russell Group head Prof Wendy Larner, VC of Cardiff University, told @thetimes drastic changes needed so that universities not forbidden from discussions by CMA https://t.co/Do4fWsMH7l

Young people more likely to trust social media influencers than government, landmark study by @PearsFoundation finds Conspiracy theories are rife in classrooms and children (and parents) see no harm in spreading them Exclusive in @thetimes @Ed_Dorrell https://t.co/FUs8nj6gCD

Today, Public First publishes a landmark research study: the report from the Commission into Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools. Thanks to the support of the Pears Foundation, we were able to carry out first-of-its-kind research into this issue. 1/13

Also! Breaking! You can read all about it, courtesy of @nicolawoolcock in her brilliant Times piece this morning.

Ace interview by @nicolawoolcock: '[He wanted to buy] doorstops for the 2,500 bedrooms on campus — “I didn’t want students disappearing into their rooms and never talking to other students” — but the plan failed because the rooms had fire doors.' https://t.co/YrThLsOuVD

This is a project we're doing with ⁦@ChloeCombi on perfectionism in girls. Excellent piece by ⁦@nicolawoolcock⁩ High-achieving girls learn that sometimes good is better than perfect https://t.co/rhK8x9tEyT