By Julie Wharton, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Education, University of Winchester
Sencos – special educational needs coordinators – play a vital role in maintained mainstream English schools, nursery schools and sixth forms. If you are a parent, you may encounter them if you have concerns about your child’s progress or the support available, or during review meetings. Children may meet them through assessments, pupil interviews or informal check-ins.
They are teachers who take on additional leadership responsibility for special educational needs and disabilities across the school. In many cases, they continue to teach classes, but in larger schools the role is increasingly…
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By Adi Imsirovic, Lecturer in Energy Systems, University of Oxford
The decision by the United Arab Emirates to leave the oil producers’ cartel Opec after 59 years is more than a symbolic break. It highlights a growing divide among major oil producers over how to respond to a changing energy landscape, and will weaken the group’s ability to manage global supply.
In the short term, the impact of the UAE’s exit will be limited. The world still needs every available barrel of oil, and the UAE accounts…
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By Melanie Denomme, PhD Student, Biological Sciences, Brock University
Captive reptiles such as beaded dragons will often scramble incessantly against the barriers of their enclosures. How can we get them to stop?
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By Ryan M. Katz-Rosene, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, with Cross-Appointment to Geography, Environment and Geomatics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
A high-speed rail line could operate without producing significant emissions. But this doesn’t mean it would substantially help Canada’s mitigation efforts.
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By Guest Contributor
By grounding AI in the right to life, equality, speech, essentials and privacy, we ensure it serves as a mirror of our highest values, rather than a magnifier of our oldest biases.
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By Lucy Bray, PhD Candidate and Public Health Registrar, University of Southern Denmark
Søren T. Skou, Professor in the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark
When we think about the causes of climate change, the usual suspects often come to mind: coal-fired power plants, traffic-choked roads, industrial agriculture. Rarely do we picture hospitals.
Yet if global healthcare were a country, it would be one of the world’s top five greenhouse gas emitters. With healthcare responsible for about 5% of…
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By Philip Murphy, Director of History & Policy at the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London
The king’s speech pushed in interesting ways at the boundaries of what a British monarch might be expected to have said in Trump’s America.
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By Marc Cohen, Professor of Gerontology, UMass Boston
Alison Barkoff, Hirsh Health Law & Policy Associate Professor, George Washington University
Jane Tavares, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer of Gerontology, UMass Boston
Sara Rosenbaum, Professor Emerita of Health Law and Policy, George Washington University
Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, is ordering all states to step up their efforts to crack down on Medicaid fraud.
His April 21, 2026, announcement expanded on the Trump administration’s related enforcement actions, such as withholding Medicaid funds from Minnesota…
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By Carey S. Cadieux, Associate Professor of Nursing, Binghamton University, State University of New York
This change frees researchers to study cannabis products that most consumers encounter when buying medical marijuana – which could accelerate its treatment potential.
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By Emily J. Whitted, Ph.D. Candidate in Early American History, UMass Amherst
At the time of his death in 1831, Stephen Girard – a Philadelphia merchant, banker and philanthropist – was the wealthiest man in the United States. In his will, he left the city of Philadelphia an extraordinary gift of roughly US$6 million, which is almost $227 million today.
Girard also left instructions to use a portion of this gift to found a boarding school for…
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