Plans for the first “strike” of school governors have prompted a warning about the morale of volunteers who are being forced to make school staff redundant as budgets tighten. Governors in West Sussex have written to MPs threatening to stop signing off budgets and carrying out supervisory work in protest over a growing school funding […]
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The education watchdog Ofsted has apologised after publishing an unapproved inspection report into Durand Academy that placed the beleagured south London school into special measures. Ofsted criticised the school’s leadership and management, teaching quality and pupil welfare and outcomes in the report published late last night. But it has since been removed and is not longer
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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
US teacher Barry White Jnr has created a different handshake for each pupil in his class at Ashley Park PreK-8 School in Charlotte, North Carolina.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38840506
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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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Is it possible to design a better spoon? Gastrophysicists want to improve the way we eat, starting with this humble utensil.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38840456
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/02/academies-should-made-take-excluded-children-officials-say/
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/02/transgender-teenager-sues-former-school-discrimination-refused/
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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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/02/government-must-realise-education-not-charity-first-priority/