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Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Jonathan Ashworth: Boris Johnson cannot put his feet up this August
Jonathan Ashworth: Boris Johnson cannot put his feet up this August
The shadow health secretary has called for improved coronavirus testing and tracing this August in time for schools to reopen in September.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Minister insists schools will return in September despite warnings
Minister insists schools will return in September despite warnings
Simon Clarke said bringing all pupils back on a full time basis when term starts was a “total priority”, despite new second wave warnings.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Keir Starmer ‘needs to make up his mind’ on schools, says PM
Keir Starmer ‘needs to make up his mind’ on schools, says PM
The Labour leader said Boris Johnson must take responsibility "for his own failings" in a row over reopening the UK’s schools amid lockdown.
Friday, August 23, 2019
Friday, August 23, 2019
Four-year-old caught carrying knife at school
Four-year-old caught carrying knife at school
More than 1,000 children were caught carrying knives in schools last year - with the youngest aged just four, new figures show.
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Welsh schools to let boys wear skirts with gender-neutral uniform
Welsh schools to let boys wear skirts with gender-neutral uniform
School uniforms in Wales are to become gender-neutral from September, the Welsh government has announced.
Friday, July 5, 2019
Friday, July 5, 2019
MP leaves son on Downing Street steps in school funding protest
MP leaves son on Downing Street steps in school funding protest
Jess Phillips left her 10-year-old outside Number 10 as part of a demonstration against funding cuts forcing schools to close early.
Friday, June 28, 2019
Friday, June 28, 2019
Jess Phillips targeted by Birmingham anti-LGBT protesters
Jess Phillips targeted by Birmingham anti-LGBT protesters
Protesters against same-sex relationship lessons have put up posters called for a "vote of no confidence" in the Labour MP.
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Teachers strike at 'blue water' school over health concerns
Teachers strike at 'blue water' school over health concerns
Teachers are striking over health concerns at a school where blue water has been reported coming from taps.
Friday, June 7, 2019
Friday, June 7, 2019
Piers Morgan called a 'fascist pig' by school's Twitter account
Piers Morgan called a 'fascist pig' by school's Twitter account
A tweet posted from the Twitter account of a Swansea primary school called the television presenter a "fascist pig".
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
School claims Twitter account hacked after sharing porn video
School claims Twitter account hacked after sharing porn video
A secondary school has claimed it was hacked after a porn video featuring a woman performing a sex act on a man dressed as an Easter bunny was shared on its official Twitter account.
Over half of parents worry children lack essential life skills
Over half of parents worry children lack essential life skills
Six in 10 parents worry their teenage children lack essential life skills, a survey has found.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Schools to use ‘influencers’ to discourage drug use
Schools to use ‘influencers’ to discourage drug use
Teenagers are to be used as "influencers" in order to discourage their classmates from taking drugs in the UK's biggest trial of a school-based drug prevention programme.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Two thirds of headteachers cutting staff to save money
Two thirds of headteachers cutting staff to save money
Nearly 70 per cent of secondary school headteachers have made cuts to teaching staff to save money, a survey has found.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Jeremy Corbyn promises to abolish Sats
Jeremy Corbyn promises to abolish Sats
Jeremy Corbyn has announced plans to abolish primary school Sats.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
LGBT+ lessons should be compulsory in schools, says teaching union
LGBT+ lessons should be compulsory in schools, says teaching union
The National Education Union has called for lessons about LGBT+ relationships to be compulsory in all schools.
Primary schoolgirls to receive free sanitary products
Primary schoolgirls to receive free sanitary products
Girls in primary schools will receive free sanitary products from early next year, the government has announced.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Compulsory register of home-schooled children proposed
Compulsory register of home-schooled children proposed
A register of all children not attending school is being put forward by the education secretary.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
London schools cannot tackle knife crime alone, Ofsted says
London schools cannot tackle knife crime alone, Ofsted says
The education watchdog has called for "multi-agency partnerships" to help bring instances of knife crime down.
Friday, March 8, 2019
Friday, March 8, 2019
Letter from thousands of headteachers warns of ‘school funding crisis’
Letter from thousands of headteachers warns of ‘school funding crisis'
Thousands of headteachers are warning of a "school funding crisis" in a letter reportedly sent to millions of families in England.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Schools need more than ‘elastoplast funding’
Schools need more than ‘elastoplast funding’
The chair of the education select committee has called for a “long-term, ten-year plan” to help cash-strapped schools.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Shorten school week to help stressed teachers, says head
Shorten school week to help stressed teachers, says head
A north London school is letting children go home early on Friday to relieve stress on teachers.
Friday, February 15, 2019
Friday, February 15, 2019
Exclusive: Tory Deputy Chair demands "misleading" school cuts site be taken down
Tory Deputy Chair demands "misleading" school cuts site be taken down
James Cleverly has written to the people behind a website detailing cuts to school funding, calling their calculations 'misleading' and demanding the website is taken down
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
One in three children live among ‘toxic levels of air pollution’, says Unicef UK boss
One in three children live among ‘toxic levels of air pollution’, says Unicef UK
Alastair Harper, Head of Advocacy at Unicef UK has said that one in three children are living in areas that would be classed as having “toxic levels of air pollution”.
Friday, February 1, 2019
Friday, February 1, 2019
Khalid Mahmood on Al-Hijrah school: I'm 'astonished' gender segregation is happening 'in the name of religion'
Khalid Mahmood: Young women 'should not be oppressed' at school
The Labour MP said he was "astonished" that a Birmingham-based Muslim school was not allowing girls to eat lunch until after boys had finished.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Member of staff found dead at Warwickshire school
Member of staff found dead at Warwickshire school
A member of staff was found dead at Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College in Rugby, Warwickshire, the school has said.
Friday, January 18, 2019
Friday, January 18, 2019
Brampton Manor: State school where 41 pupils offered Oxbridge places
Brampton Manor: State school where 41 pupils offered Oxbridge places
A state school in east London has had 41 students offered places at Oxford or Cambridge University.
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
RE lessons should be mandatory to stop ‘vacuum of stupidity’, says Channel 4’s former Head of Religion
RE lessons stop ‘vacuum of stupidity’, says Channel 4’s former Head of Religion
Channel 4’s former Head of Religion Aaqil Ahmed has said Religious Education lessons are important to stop the “vacuum of stupidity”, after it was revealed that parents are removing their children from the lessons.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
More than 130,000 children will be without a home at Christmas, says homeless charity Shelter
More than 130,000 children will be without a home at Christmas, says Shelter
More than 130,000 children will not have a “permanent home” on Christmas Day, the homeless charity Shelter has found.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Grammar schools create ‘educational apartheid', says campaigner
Grammar schools create ‘educational apartheid', says campaigner
The government has announced a new £50m fund for 16 grammar schools in a bid to create 3,000 more grammar school places, but the chair of Comprehensive Future described it as a “scandal”.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Medics call for Primary schools to teach the meaning of words such as lesbian and gay
Medics call for primary schools to teach the meaning of words such as gay
Children should be taught the meaning of terms such as gay, lesbian and bisexual in primary schools, leading medics have said.
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Children most at risk of being stabbed on their way home from school
Children most at risk of being stabbed on their way home from school
Children may be more vulnerable to becoming a victim of a stabbing on their way home from school, a new study suggests.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Friday, November 2, 2018
More money is spent on poorer pupils because they are now staying in school, says headteacher
More money is spent on poorer pupils as they stay in school, says headteacher
Headteacher Chris Dunne has said more money is being spent on poorer students, "simply because they are staying involved" in education.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Children excluded from school at 'serious risk' of knife crime, says children charity Barnardo’s
Children excluded from school at 'serious risk' of knife crime, says charity
Children who have been excluded from school may at ‘serious risk’ of being involved in knife crime and youth violence, according to Barnardo’s and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on knife crime.
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Pedals under desks would work better in offices than classrooms, says psychologist
Pedals under desks may work better in offices than classrooms, says psychologist
Psychologist Bradley Busch has said that pedals under desks would work better for “adults in office” rather than in a school, after a Primary school in Suffolk installed pedals under desks to encourage “an active lifestyle”.
Friday, September 28, 2018
Friday, September 28, 2018
Headteacher to Julia Hartley-Brewer: ‘Children ought to have the funding the last generation did eight years ago’
Children should have the funding the last generation did, says Headteacher
Headteacher Geoff Barton has said that headteachers are protesting in Parliament Square on Friday because “children ought to have the funding that the last generation had eight years go”.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Professor to Matthew Wright: ‘Do we really want to tell children it is okay to hit out at other people?’
Professor to Matthew Wright: ‘Do we want to tell children it is okay to hit?'
Professor Ray Jones has said that we should not be teaching our children “it is okay to hit out at other people” by smacking them as psychologists call for smacking of children in the family home to be outlawed due to the effect it can have on their mental health.
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Schoolchildren 'more likely to write a text than a story', poll shows
Schoolchildren 'more likely to write a text than a story', poll shows
A survey of over 47,000 school-age children showed they preferred writing texts to stories or diaries, and less than half enjoy writing
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018
20 million school days missed by pupils last autumn, figures reveals
20 million school days missed by pupils last autumn, figures reveals
New statistics show a slight rise in children skipping lessons without permission while the number of youngsters who are "persistently absent" also increased.
Monday, April 23, 2018
Monday, April 23, 2018
Apple scheme to encourage UK kids to get into engineering
Apple scheme to encourage UK kids to get into engineering
Apple has announced its support for the Government's Year of Engineering scheme, designed to get more school children to enter the profession
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Julia Hartley-Brewer: 'Child poverty suggests failure in parenting, not Government'
Julia Hartley-Brewer: 'Child poverty suggests failure in parenting'
Julia Hartley-Brewer discussed child poverty with author and former teacher Francis Gilbert
Monday, April 2, 2018
Monday, April 2, 2018
'Children are malnourished, grey and in dirty clothes', headteachers warn
'Children are malnourished, grey and in dirty clothes', headteachers warn
Headteachers claim some children put food from the school in their pockets to take home
Friday, March 30, 2018
Friday, March 30, 2018
Students forcing teachers off social media by filming staged classroom incidents
Students forcing teachers off social media by filming staged classroom incidents
A union leader has warned students are attempting to embarrass and humiliate
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
'Children should be allowed to play with fire to make them more risk-averse'
'Children should be allowed to play with fire to make them more risk-averse'
A school is encouraging children to play with fire, bricks, hammers and tools
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Thursday, March 8, 2018
'Ice boy' told to leave private school after less than two weeks
'Ice boy' told to leave private school after less than two weeks
The child had been offered a free place at a private school after a photo of him went viral online
Monday, March 5, 2018
Monday, March 5, 2018
Teacher suspended in Florida over 'hosting white supremacist podcast'
Teacher suspended in Florida over 'hosting white supremacist podcast'
Social studies teacher Dayanna Voltich has been 'removed from the classroom' over white supremacy allegations
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018
'Students achieve more by receiving comments rather than grades', says headteacher
'Students achieve more by receiving comments rather than grades'
Putney High School is giving comments rather than grades to years seven, eight and nine
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
US student took gun to school 'for defence in potential mass shooting'
US student took gun to school 'for defence in potential mass shooting'
Alwin Chen has been arrested for allegedly taking a Glock semi-automatic handgun to school in Maryland
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Think arming teachers is dumb? Here are some other gun control ideas
Think arming teachers is dumb? Here are some other gun control ideas
The Florida school shooting has sparked a debate on gun control, but it seems many have already come up with some weird ideas
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Hundreds of students leave school to march against gun violence
Hundreds of US students leave school to march against gun violence
Pupils left West Boca High School and continued on a 12 mile walk to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Florida shooting: The worst US school massacres in recent history
Florida shooting: The worst US school massacres in recent history
At least 17 people have been killed in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
LGBT groups slam transgender guide as 'intentionally provocative' and 'deeply misleading'
LGBT groups slam transgender guide as 'intentionally provocative'
Transgender Trend released a guide for schools which claims activists teach 'anti-science' concepts to children
Florida school shooting: Police release mugshot of suspect Nikolas Cruz
Police release mugshot of Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz
At least 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland
Monday, February 5, 2018
Monday, February 5, 2018
'Children grow up thinking cannabis is OK and it ruins their lives', says National Drug Prevention Alliance
'Children grow up thinking cannabis is OK and it ruins their lives'
A primary school has had to ask parents to stop smoking cannabis at the gates
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Faith schools: 'Parents have no right to demand state provides religious upbringing', says campaigner
'Parents have no right to demand state provides religious upbringing in schools'
Jay Harman from the Humanists UK charity says policies around faith schools are not racist, but have that effect
Monday, January 29, 2018
Monday, January 29, 2018
Would-be school shooter 'had rifle, revolver, machetes and crossbow in his bedroom'
Teenager 'who threatened attack had six firearms, ammunition and knives'
A 14-year-old boy is in a juvenile detention centre after being accused of threatening to start a school shooting
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