public-administration

Over the last two decades, nearly every U.S. state passed laws to support students with dyslexia. A new analysis of national education data shows these legislative efforts have yielded highly mixed results for special education diagnoses and reading test scores.

Senior lawyers call on prime minister to request Indian prosecutors drop charges that would breach double jeopardy rule Four senior lawyers, including the former attorney general Dominic Grieve, have written to Keir Starmer urging him to request that Indian prosecutors drop charges against the British national Jagtar Singh Johal on the basis that continued prosecution would be in manifest breach …

Rehabilitation of young offenders is vital. But victims should not leave court wondering why they bothered The decision to review the sentences of two teenage boys convicted of raping two girls, aged 15 and 14, in separate incidents in November 2024 and January 2025, and a third boy who took part in the second rape, is correct. A knife was used to threaten the second victim, and the attacks were …

India’s Digital Future Is Moving Faster Than Its Laws Artificial Intelligence can now generate art, clone voices, imitate personalities, and create highly convincing deepfakes within seconds. Yet, many of these emerging issues are still being governed through legal interpretation of statutes enacted long before the AI era. India currently has: no dedicated AI legislation, no standalone deepfake r…

Prof Mark R Sanderson says the council is Britain’s most effective instrument of soft power and should be funded properly, not hollowed out The hollowing out of the British Council across Europe should alarm anyone who cares about the UK’s standing in the world ( Soft power sell-off: anger as British Council announces sale of historic Madrid building, 22 May ). For decades, it has been one of Bri…

IntroductionThis article presents an in-depth single-case study of Kazakhstan and examines the latent negative effects that may accompany the expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector. The central premise is that such risks arise less from isolated technical performance indicators of particular AI systems than from the broader architecture of legal regulation, institution…

Suppose there is a family of four living in Maryland: A mother, a father, and two adult children. The parents have significant jointly-owned assets. It seems likely that the mother and two children ...

Links between Trump Organization and Ivanishvili family for Tbilisi skyscraper raise new conflict of interest concerns A Trump Tower planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, is to be built on land currently part-owned by the son of the US-sanctioned leader of the country, according to official records. The proposed skyscraper, a joint venture between a local consortium and the Trump Organizatio…

Jay Morris denies experts’ claims that he violated ethics rules over land deals near the site of Meta’s Hyperion datacenter This story is from Floodlight , a non-profit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action For more than two years, John “Jay” Morris, a Louisiana state senator, helped pave the way for Meta to build one of the world’s largest datacenters, called Hyperion, in…

Ex-husband of Nicola Sturgeon admits reduced charges in court after deal with prosecutors Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National party, has pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling £400,310.65 from the party after agreeing a deal with prosecutors. Murrell, the ex-husband of the former SNP leader and first minister Nicola Sturgeon, appeared in the high court in Edinburgh…

From a meso-level governance perspective, this study explores the synergistic pathways between discipline construction and postgraduate education under the doctoral project construction based on an analysis of their synergistic theoretical logic and taking Zhongyuan University of Technology as a case. Further, it systematically examines the implementation mechanisms for collaboration between disc…

IntroductionInstructional leadership is central to school improvement, yet it remains underexplored in geographically isolated schools where principals face chronic resource scarcity, weak infrastructure, and cultural isolation. This study examines how elementary school principals in Tawi-Tawi, one of the Philippines' most remote provinces, exercise adaptive instructional leadership to sustain te…

Academic underperformance in the General Education and Training (GET) band, particularly in Grades 8 and 9, remains a persistent crisis in rural South African districts. While substantial policy attention and resources are directed toward Grade 12 outcomes, the foundational years of secondary education suffer from systemic neglect, creating a critical gap in understanding the drivers of early sec…

The design of autonomous AI agents that behave responsibly and foster trust in open multi-agent systems remains a fundamental challenge. Traditional game-theoretical approaches largely assume self-interested behaviour, yet real-world collaborations among humans often rely on prosocial considerations that extend beyond individual utility. To address this, for the first time in this paper, we inves…

Nearly a third of vice-chancellors would cut hardship support if necessary over next three years, according to poll Vice-chancellors have said they may need to cut hardship support for impoverished students and reduce outreach activities aimed at disadvantaged groups if the dire funding struggles at universities continue. The anonymous poll of leaders by Universities UK (UUK) revealed the extent …

Announcement comes after Alan Milburn says Britain has neglected generation of young people struggling to access work and training opportunities Ministers are expanding youth work experience and training schemes, after Alan Milburn warned Britain is spending £25 keeping young people on benefits for every £1 spent helping them into work. Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary will announce …

Education secretary asks UK watchdog to look into nursery practices, including non-refundable deposits and add-ons Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, is ordering a competition review of hidden childcare charges amid concerns parents are being hit with extra charges, despite the government’s flagship expansion of funded childcare hours. Phillipson has written to the Competition and Marke…

The director of national intelligence was sidelined as the president abandoned his pose as the ‘candidate of peace’ Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, stayed loyal to Donald Trump until the end – and nurtured the president’s grievances against his political enemies. Last year, she accused Barack Obama and several of his top national security officials of leading a “treasonou…