Deaf students to be granted equal apprenticeship opportunities for the first time
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Schools should teach all pupils ‘digital citizenship’, says children’s commissioner
January 4, 2017 at 08:15AM Schools should teach ‘digital citizenship’ to all pupils aged four to 14 to help keep them safe online, the children’s commissioner Anne Longfield has said. In a report from her Growing up Digital taskforce, Longfield warns that children are “left to learn about the internet on their own”, and that
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Plans to fast-track higher education startups into universities 'a risk too far'
January 4, 2017 at 08:09AM Government plans to fast-track degree-awarding powers to new startup institutions as part of its controversial higher education proposals are “a risk too far”, experts in the sector are warning. Ministers say the legislation, which returns to parliament for further scrutiny next week, will increase competition and choice in the higher
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Ofsted’s position on LGBT programmes in schools | Letters
January 4, 2017 at 03:21AM With reference to your article (LGBT author hits back at attacks over book for schoolchildren on gender diversity, 3 January), I would like to take the opportunity to clarify for your readers that Ofsted does not formally recognise any specific programmes to support LGBTQ inclusion in schools. As an independent
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Gagging clauses should have no place in British universities | Letters
January 4, 2017 at 03:21AM As former lecturers at London Metropolitan University, and the former negotiators for the University and College Union there, we are not remotely surprised to see that our old institution makes greater use of compromise agreements in order to gag former staff than any other university (Universities under fire over ‘gag
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Did you hear the one about a father-in-law? | Brief letters
January 4, 2017 at 03:15AM Guardian leaders used to find it impossible to mention Michael Gove without referring to his courtesy. Then came his laughably self-important implosion after the referendum, and it seemed we’d heard the last of this invisible trait. But now here’s Anne McElvoy, describing Gove as “intellectually respected” (Opinion, 3 January). The
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Alarm at move to reveal identity of whistleblowers who exposed Trojan Horse scandal
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Christian schools claim Ofsted used them as ‘soft target’ after ‘inadequate’ judgments
January 4, 2017 at 02:44AM A network of independent Christian schools which teach creationism claim they were used as a “soft target” by Ofsted after nine of their schools were inspected and downgraded. Ten of the 24 schools which follow the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) programme in England were inspected by Ofsted at the request of
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Short skirts row: Headmistress hits out at parents who send daughters to school 'flashing lots of thigh'
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