A drop in EU students and nursing candidates have driven the decline, figures show.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38827189
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/02/governments-new-institutes-technology-represent-great-opportunity/
Attainment is important for young people, but exams have to be seen in a wider context as part of an education that allows young people to flourish, says John Sentamu. Up and down the country, there are great examples of schools achieving fantastic results for some of the most disadvantaged pupils – results that give
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/02/mother-shares-image-crying-daughter-highlight-impact-teaching/
Extent of crisis becomes clear as children of women caught up in tik epidemic struggle with hyperactivity and aggression Justin Summers has a mop of curly brown hair and enjoys playing marbles. Aged seven, he is on the cusp of starting his 12-year journey through South Africa’s education system. But before he’s even started, the
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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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