Oxford rowers embroiled in dispute with houseboat owners amid claims of egg and tomato throwing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/02/oxford-rowers-embroiled-dispute-houseboat-owners-amid-claims/
Oxford University bucks national trend and accepts fewer state school students, figures show
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/02/oxford-university-bucks-national-trend-accepts-fewer-state-school/
Public school defends role in alleged cover up of abuse at Christian camps
Winchester College knew in 1982 about allegations of abuse at the camps but says it didn’t go to the police to save the victims further trauma One of Britain’s leading public schools has been forced to defend its role in an alleged cover up of serious physical abuse at Christian summer camps attended by its
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Cambridge intake no longer most privately educated
Cambridge University now has fewer privately educated students than universities such as Bristol, Durham and St Andrews.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38842482
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Termly safeguarding audits would help heads ‘sleep at night’
A specialist body of safeguarding officers should be set up within or separately from Ofsted because inspections are “too short” to cover the issue properly, a multi-academy (MAT) trust executive has said. Stephen Tierney, chief executive of the Blessed Edward Bamber Catholic MAT in Blackpool, said that safeguarding pupils was “too important” to be assessed as
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Attempting to solve the current recruitment with teachers from abroad helps no one
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/02/attempting-solve-current-recruitment-teachers-abroad-helps-no/
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Sponsored academies lose more pupils after takeovers
More pupils leave schools when they become sponsored academies than when they are under local authority control, a new report has shown. Researchers at Education Datalab analysed up to three years of data for 149 schools. Among those that became sponsored academies in 2010-11, the rate of pupils leaving – to other schools, alternative provision,
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Academies should be made to take in excluded children, officials say
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/02/academies-should-made-take-excluded-children-officials-say/
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Ex-Bourne End teacher banned over 'ball scratching' jibe
Academy teacher also called pupils "fat", "ugly" and "gay".http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-38841897
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Katie Hopkins said I was brainwashing children. But they need to learn about protest | Jackie Teale
I took a banner made by my students to a protest against the UK’s links with Trump because history tells them that the struggle for rights is never over As a teacher, I regularly have to remind students of the perils of using social media, but earlier this week it was me who came under