My memory of early evening, Friday November 14, 2003, is hazy. My brain seems to think it was raining, and a Met Office report concurs. “Bands of heavy rain and showers were carried on gale-force south-westerly winds.” I’m pretty sure that a meeting I attended in the late afternoon took place after dark. A quick […]
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A culture of immoral behaviour is thriving at our universities. But these are publicly funded institutions – and must be held to account On the face of it, ethics in academia have transformed over the past few decades – most, if not all, universities now have ethics committees to oversee the quality of research. Yet
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/03/academies-should-made-take-excluded-children-officials-say2/
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/03/top-uk-school-opens-new-international-branch-dubai/
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Northern schools need urgent attention, says first Northern Powerhouse Partnership report.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38854271
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The author of Brooklyn said he would ‘use all my energy’ in the role, to help champion benefits of higher education Novelist Colm Tóibín has been appointed chancellor of the University of Liverpool. The author, who won the 2009 Costa novel of the year with Brooklyn, accepted the role because of the part universities play
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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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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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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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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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