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• Pop-up pool scheme aims to boost low UK swimming attainment rates

  26-04-2023 19:08
  
  Temporary pools will be placed at schools in areas where a large proportion of children are unable to swimOlympic swimmers including Adam Peaty, Ellie Simmonds and Matt Richards have launched a new pop-up pool programme at UK schools aimed at boosting low swimming attainment rates.Fully functioning temporary pools will be placed at schools in areas where a large proportion of children are unable to swim, starting in the Black Country in the West Midlands, one of the worst-affected areas in the c
  
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• Teacher strikes: Most NI schools close as five unions take action over pay

  26-04-2023 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Large crowds hold major rally in Belfast on a full-day strike by NI's five teaching unions over pay.
  
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• Transparency data: Schools block national funding formula: split sites funding

  26-04-2023 13:45 via gov.uk
  
  Schools eligible for split sites funding and numbers of additional sites qualifying for the 'basic' and 'distance' elements of the funding.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Implementing the direct national funding formula

  26-04-2023 13:45 via gov.uk
  
  We are seeking views on our approach to implementing the direct national funding formula (NFF) for mainstream schools.
  
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• Press release: Schools in England to benefit from major funding boost

  26-04-2023 12:35 via gov.uk
  
  State schools to receive extra cash in May following additional £2 billion investment
  
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• Guidance: Using CO₂ monitors and air cleaning units in education and care settings

  26-04-2023 12:17 via gov.uk
  
  How to use and maintain CO₂ monitors and air cleaning units to manage ventilation and improve air quality.
  
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• Open consultation: Chinese and Japanese AS and A levels: proposed subject content

  26-04-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  We’re seeking your views on changes to the current subject content of Chinese and Japanese AS and A levels to allow the use of English where it is reasonable.
  
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• US high schooler earns ‘incredible’ $9m in scholarship offers

  26-04-2023 07:00
  
  Dennis Barnes’s offers from 125 colleges and universities approach a national recordA high school student in Louisiana has received more than $9m in scholarship offers, an amount that leaves him at least close to clinching what is believed to be a US record.Dennis Barnes has been offered aid from 125 colleges and universities, after maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 4.98, among other academic accomplishments, at International high school in New Orleans. Continue reading...
  
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• Cuts in school trips in England hitting children in poorer areas hardest, shows poll

  26-04-2023 01:01
  
  Survey shows large cuts to outings, teaching assistants and GCSE and A-level choices, reflecting ‘decades of government underfunding’Half of school leaders in England say they are having to cut school trips and outings, with children in disadvantaged areas more likely to lose out, according to polling.Almost two-thirds (63%) of senior leaders who took part in the survey are having to cut teaching assistants, while a quarter are reducing sports, extracurricular activities and the numb
  
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