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January 5, 2017 at 04:30AMI have a little game for you to play today, and you must do as I tell you. Read each of the following sentences and, at the end of each one, either shrug your shoulders and say “this isn’t really a problem” or throw your arms in the air and say […]

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January 5, 2017 at 12:18AM Tens of thousands of homes are to be built in new self-sufficient “garden villages” and towns across England, but the announcement has prompted questions about school places. The government has given its backing to 17 projects for almost 100,000 new homes and associated infrastructure in areas of need throughout the

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January 4, 2017 at 09:21PM My grandmother Amber Lloyd, who has died aged 95, was a founder member of the National Childbirth Trust and the creator of the charity Relaxation for Living. Amber and her brother, Aubrey, were born and brought up in London, the children of Sylvia and Sunny Wallace Barr. Her father, a

January 4, 2017 at 07:47PM Teachers would be discouraged from coming forward to blow the whistle on wrongdoing in schools if the government breaks a promise to give Trojan Horse witnesses anonymity, a union has warned. The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) has asked the government to release the names of whistleblowers who

January 4, 2017 at 07:17PM A university-backed academy trust has been criticised by Ofsted for failing in its school improvement strategies and “below average” standards in some of its schools. Ofsted has warned that pupil progress is “not good enough”, particularly for disadvantaged pupils, and is also “weak” among the most able after inspecting three

January 4, 2017 at 06:39PM The National Student Survey (NSS) goes out annually to final-year undergraduate students – in 2016, 431,000 students were invited to take part in it – providing feedback on their courses and the university as a whole. Seems harmless? Well, it isn’t. The NSS represents big money in terms of university

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