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/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/02/attempting-solve-current-recruitment-teachers-abroad-helps-no/
Attempting to solve the current recruitment with teachers from abroad helps no one Read More »
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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