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• Prospect of more teachers’ strikes in England as union ‘insulted’ by pay offer

  27-03-2023 23:18
  
  National Education Union to recommend members reject offer of 4.3% rise and £1,000 one-off paymentA major teaching union has criticised ministers’ “insulting” new pay offer, raising the prospect of further walkouts in schools this spring.The National Education Union said the offer of a 4.3% rise for most teachers plus a £1,000 one-off payment for the 2023-24 year was not enough and it will recommend that its members reject the deal. Continue reading...
  
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• BBC accused of ‘hiding’ Oxbridge bias on University Challenge in deepening elitism row

  27-03-2023 18:17
  
  Corporation rejects freedom of information request from campaigner who claims show is ‘rigged’ The BBC has been accused of “hiding” the extent of its Oxbridge bias on University Challenge in a deepening row about alleged elitism on the show.The Guardian revealed that Frank Coffield, a Durham-based emeritus professor of education at University College London, is campaigning for fairer entry rules for the show for what he says is a rigged contest. Continue reading...
  
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• Open consultation: Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS): transitional protection remedy

  27-03-2023 18:00 via gov.uk
  
  We're seeking views on the proposed changes to the TPS regulations to remedy the discrimination identified when the scheme was reformed in 2015.
  
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• Speech: German Industry UK Panel Discussion on Apprenticeships and Skills

  27-03-2023 16:53 via gov.uk
  
  Minister Robert Halfon spoke about the UK government skills agenda and Germany's technical education system at a German Industry UK event in London on 27 March 2023
  
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• The big idea: how can England’s universities survive?

  27-03-2023 13:30
  
  The government’s laissez-faire approach has imperilled the whole system. It’s time for a radical rethinkIf you listened to ministers, you’d think that there’s a crisis of “wokeness” on campus. Every young person is apparently simultaneously an overvulnerable snowflake terrified of opinions and a yowling fighter in the culture wars. But although there might well be a problem with the diversity and range of ideas in the academy, choosing to focus on it amounts t
  
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• Breaking down barriers: how Sheffield Hallam empowers students to challenge stereotypes

  27-03-2023 13:04
  
  From mature students to women on tech courses, an inclusive culture at the university is helping everyone achieve their potentialShahina Hanif always wanted to be a physiotherapist, but for a long time it seemed her ambition would remain unfulfilled. Brought up in a conservative Muslim community in Sheffield, she wasn’t encouraged to go on to higher education.Instead, Hanif married young, started a family and became a fitness instructor. Even that involved overcoming barriers. “Musli
  
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• ‘Reuniting a refugee family is amazing’: how hands-on experience brings law alive for students

  27-03-2023 13:03
  
  At Sheffield Hallam University, undergraduates get to work on real legal cases, guided by a team at the Refugee Rights Hub that is passionate about helping people in desperate circumstancesFew, if any, professional law practices allow university students on placement to take on live cases. Yet that’s the opportunity offered to law undergraduates and postgraduate interns by Sheffield Hallam University’s Refugee Rights Hub.Launched in September 2018, the hub exists to reunite refugees
  
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• From exercise habits to recycling more: how psychologists are helping us make positive changes

  27-03-2023 13:02
  
  By understanding what influences people’s thoughts and actions, experts at Sheffield Hallam University are researching ways to encourage us to alter our behaviourFrom encouraging vaccine uptake to supporting people to walk or cycle to work, health psychologist Prof Maddy Arden’s research has shown that understanding why we do certain things, or don’t do them, could be crucial in driving positive change within our society.“Behaviour is relevant to so many different challen
  
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• ‘Trading is an incredibly exciting career’: how Sheffield Hallam is giving students a shot at top jobs in finance

  27-03-2023 13:01
  
  Lecturer Damion Taylor says the financial industry is beginning to open up and recruit from a wider group of graduates. His groundbreaking trading course aims to show companies the flair and aptitude of those from less traditional backgroundsFinancial trading is a high risk, high reward profession where the successful can earn multimillion-pound salaries, but which is traditionally a hard field to break into. To give a wider pool of talent a shot at this exciting and lucrative career, Sheffield
  
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• Police strip-searched children as young as eight

  27-03-2023 12:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some children were strip-searched in the back of police vans, schools and fast-food outlets.
  
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• Guidance: Register to offer T Levels

  27-03-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Information for post-16 providers on how to register to offer T Levels for the first time in the 2025 to 2026 academic year.
  
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• Somerset woman forcibly adopted calls for government apology

  27-03-2023 07:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Vicki Fielder is campaigning on behalf of an estimated 250,000 women affected in Britain.
  
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• Afghanistan girls' education: 'When I see the boys going to school, it hurts'

  27-03-2023 07:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Afghan teenage girls describe feeling "broken" at being barred from attending school under Taliban rule.
  
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