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Teachers were forced to do janitorial duties due to a lack of funds.

William Gibson / News / 7 May 2024 / Education, Opinion

Headteachers are being forced to mend desks and unblock toilets after sacking school caretakers in the wake of budget cuts. School leaders in England said they could not afford to employ caretakers and had to change lightbulbs and clear playgrounds of dead rats. Amanda Richards, the headteacher of Sytchampton primary in Worcestershire, said her school “literally […]

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Children’s education in money matters should start before high school, say teachers.

William Gibson / News / 22 February 2024 / Education, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

Most teachers believe children’s financial education should begin in primary school. More than three in four teachers say most pupils leave school without the critical financial skills needed for life, a survey showed. An overwhelming majority of teachers in the UK think children should be taught about money before they start secondary school, the poll for

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Top British Universities offer places to foreign students with lower grades.

William Gibson / News / 30 January 2024 / Education, England, Migration, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

Some leading universities are using recruitment agents to offer places to overseas students with significantly lower grades than UK applicants, it was reported on Saturday. An undercover investigation by The Sunday Times found that 15 Russell Group universities offered one-year “pathway” courses, or foundation programmes, which the newspaper said provided privileged access to competitive degree courses. It

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Blackophobia?

Paul Williams / News / 19 January 2024 / Discrimination, Education, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

In my previous article, I note that the “press latches onto any accusation of racism, no matter how transparently trivial or outright bizarre.” Here we have just another example of such a case, which takes its place amongst a sea of cases which have become as routine as they are tiring. Andrea Mairs, a black

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Phones exasperate bullying at schools.

Simon Crane / News / 17 December 2023 / Education, Opinion, Scotland

A mum whose daughter was beaten up at school has said that social media has helped fuel violence in schools. Vicky Donald stated that in the aftermath of her daughter Kaylynn’s attack, the youngster got so fed up with seeing it on social media she stopped using her phone. Mrs Donald went on to say

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A new OECD Education report shows SNP continuing to fail Scotland’s children.

William Gibson / News / 14 December 2023 / Education, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) rankings for 2022, which showed Scotland’s performance in maths, reading and science has declined since 2018. Scotland’s average reading score was 493 – higher than the OECD average but a fall of 11 points from the 2018 score of 504.

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Earliest black Briton – wasn’t

Dave Gardner / News / 28 October 2023 / Education, England, Migration, Opinion

A plaque in East Sussex claiming to be the location where Britain’s first black woman lived has been removed. Why? Well, DNA analysis suggests she wasn’t black. She was more likely of Cypriot origin. Surprised? I certainly wasn’t. This nonsense whereby we have to pretend that blacks have always lived in Britain is nothing new.

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Sunak likely to betray Parents

William Gibson / News / 9 September 2023 / Education

In another show of weakness in standing up for sense and opposing the Pro-Trans agenda, Sunak appears to be backing away from legislation to stop children from changing Gender at School. The Prime Minister had vowed to curb so-called social transitioning, where children who say they are trans demand to be referred to by a

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Britain’s first black history professor and the course leader faces redundancy.

Simon Crane / News / 5 September 2023 / Education, England

Thousand’s have backed a petition calling for a U-turn on a decision by The University of Chichester to pull the plug on its flagship African history course without consultation from its teaching staff or students. Whilst the petition has some legitimate concerns, namely Professor Adi and his staff not being consulted and the fact that

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Top Russell group universities favour foreign students over British teenagers

William Gibson / News / 14 August 2023 / Education, England

An Analysis of courses advertised by the University Colleges and Admissions Service (Ucas) shows that foreign students are being offered places on hundreds more undergraduate degrees in a clearing at Russell Group institutions than their British counterparts. It means that British teenagers who fail to achieve the A-level grades needed for their first-choice course when results

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