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English teachers finally get research journal access similar to Scots

January 4, 2017 at 01:16PM Teachers in England will finally be able to dodge hefty paywalls to use education research journals when the Chartered College of Teaching opens to members later this month. For two years Schools Week has highlighted how teachers in England have been forced to shell out for research journals, despite teachers

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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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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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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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