Plans for the first “strike” of school governors have prompted a warning about the morale of volunteers who are being forced to make school staff redundant as budgets tighten. Governors in West Sussex have written to MPs threatening to stop signing off budgets and carrying out supervisory work in protest over a growing school funding […]
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After a long flight, I’ve finally finished rereading War and Peace and, if you were in any doubt, it is a masterpiece. I found so much I’d either entirely forgotten or hadn’t understood from my first reading over 20 years ago. What particularly struck me was the final chapter from the Second Epilogue. Throughout the book,
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The mother of the 16-year-old claims her son was made to feel like a "freak".http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-38827731
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There are calls for a level-playing field in access to work placements and employer links.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38842481
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The country’s best-paid academy boss has been handed another pay rise – boosting his salary to at least £420,000. It marks another salary increase for Sir Dan Moynihan, chief executive of the Harris Federation, who was paid at least £395,000 in 2015. New annual accounts published by the trust, which runs 40 schools, show another
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When Enana al-Assaf was bombed during an exam, she made herself carry on writing. Now doing a PhD in the UK, she worries every day about her family in Syria Enana al-Assaf was just five minutes into a pharmacy exam at Aleppo University when a bomb exploded next door. The then 22-year-old student says she’d
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New phonics retakes for year three pupils caused an increase in workload for more than three fifths of teachers, government figures have revealed. The government has announced today that 51 per cent of year three pupils reached the government’s ‘expected standard’ in a pilot of the check carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research in
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