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George Osborne: north-south divide in schools needs urgent attention

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Former chancellor’s Northern Powerhouse Partnership calls on ministers to take action to close England’s education gap Ministers need to pay “urgent attention” to the growing north-south divide in England’s schools, George Osborne has said, as he warned of an alarming brain drain of graduates from the north. In the first report by the Northern Powerhouse […]

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Every child should have the right to a nursery education | Letters

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Following the article by Sally Weale (What society gives their youngest less chance than their parents had?, 31 January), we were delighted to have the threat to maintained nursery schools (MNS) highlighted this week. Nursery schools’ greatest assets are their trained and dedicated staff, which includes qualified teachers (QTS), with expert knowledge of child development

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Katie Hopkins said I was brainwashing children. But they need to learn about protest | Jackie Teale

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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

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Public school defends role in alleged cover up of abuse at Christian camps

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Winchester College knew in 1982 about allegations of abuse at the camps but says it didn’t go to the police to save the victims further trauma One of Britain’s leading public schools has been forced to defend its role in an alleged cover up of serious physical abuse at Christian summer camps attended by its

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Nursing degree applications slump after NHS bursaries abolished

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Royal college says decline – part of drop in English applications across university courses – raise fears for future recruitment Applications by students in England to nursing and midwifery courses at British universities have fallen by 23% after the government abolished NHS bursaries, figures show. Nursing leaders said the sudden slump revealed by the latest

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My little children were detained because of a toy gun. Prevent has gone too far | Anonymous

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I bought my five- and seven-year-old sons a toy gun in a supermarket. What happened next has changed our feelings about our place in Britain On the penultimate day of spring term 2016, my children – aged five and seven – were detained in isolation after school for nearly two hours and questioned by police

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Glasgow School of Art's ashes turned into artworks to fund rebuild

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Artists including Grayson Perry and Anish Kapoor create pieces using debris from Mackintosh building gutted by fire in 2014 Some of the biggest names in art, from Grayson Perry to Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley, have created artworks from the ashes of Glasgow School of Art to help raise funds for the building’s restoration. The

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Term-time holiday ban would criminalise parents, supreme court told

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But government lawyers argue parents should not be allowed to take children from school ‘when the sun is out’ Parents will be criminalised on an unprecedented scale if judges reverse an earlier ruling that overturned a ban on term-time holidays, the supreme court has been told. Lawyers representing Jon Platt, who was fined after taking

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My child blossomed at a state nursery – we can't let these places close

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With 57% of maintained nursery schools rated ‘outstanding’, it seems madness for them to face cuts. If anything, their remit ought to be extended The prospect of state-maintained nurseries closing en masse sounds the lowest note of the austerity politics. Maintained nurseries have enjoyed a level of Ofsted success that the rest of the education

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