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• Transparency data: British schools overseas: inspection reports for non-accredited schools

  22-05-2018 17:30 via gov.uk
  A list of schools that have been inspected against, and not met, the British schools overseas standards.The list includes:school inspection reportsthe most recent inspection dates
  The schools have met all of the standards, except for 1 or more of the standards below, because these would bring the schools into conflict with the laws of their host country.British overseas schools standardsThe school’s curriculum policy and plans:do not undermine the fundamental British values of democracy, t
  
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• News story: Prime Minister and Education Secretary host teachers at Number 10

  22-05-2018 13:39 via gov.uk
  One hundred teachers were welcomed to Downing Street for a reception to celebrate their hard work, talent and commitment to giving every child an excellent education.Teachers from schools across the country attended an evening reception yesterday, which was hosted by the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Education.Both paid tribute to the hard work and dedication of the profession which, alongside the government’s bold reforms, have helped to raise standards – with 1.9 millio
  
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• How can 2,000 schools be protected from Britain’s toxic air?

  22-05-2018 08:15 via theguardian.com
  A London prep school has spent tens of thousands on filters to combat pollution – but not all heads can pay for clean airIt is a bright spring morning in west London. There’s a light wind, the sky is blue, studded with puffed white clouds, and the air seems – for the capital at least – clear and fresh. It is not. Overhead heavy traffic snakes along the raised carriageway of the A40 Westway while at ground level a stream of buses, cars and lorries passes by ceaselessly.Not
  
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• Dear Damian Hinds, your academy policy is whim and dogma | Michael Rosen

  22-05-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Even your chief wallah has no proof it is value for money or improves failing schoolsI was riffling through some news reports on education the other day and came across something that must have shocked you to your core. Your permanent secretary at the Department for Education, Jonathan Slater, was up before the Commons public accounts committee. I can well imagine you were keen to know what was said, and even keener to know if your own permanent secretary was on-side with what you Tories have be
  
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• Schools: how to raise £1m a year

  22-05-2018 07:45 via theguardian.com
  A London academy is recruiting a fundraiser to boost its budget by at least £500,000. Is it a model that could keep others afloat?Last week the website Education Uncovered revealed that the Harris Westminster Sixth Form, part of the Harris Federation of schools, had advertised for a “major gifts fundraiser” to bring in between £500,000 to £1m a year. Should other cash-strapped schools take fundraising this seriously now that many find their budgets in deficit? Conti
  
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• Ethnically mixed schools lessen hostility

  22-05-2018 02:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Teenagers at more racially diverse schools are less likely to have negative views of other groups, says study.
  
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• Six times as many new medical students from London as from north-east

  22-05-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Only 245 students from north-east England started medicine and dentistry degrees last yearThere were more than six times as many students from London taking up places to study medicine and dentistry last year as there were from north-east England, analysis shows.The figures come as the government and the profession push to expand the workforce, through measures such as opening new medical schools. Continue reading...
  
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• Sex education given LGBT-inclusive overhaul in Wales

  22-05-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Supporters of planned changes say country can be a global leader in teaching the subjectWales could soon be “leading the way” in relationship and sex education (SRE) in schools after announcing an overhaul of its curriculum. The changes, which include the subject being renamed relationships and sexuality education, were announced by Wales’s education secretary, Kirsty Williams, who said the days of traditional sex education were “long gone”. Continue reading...
  
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