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• Universities accused of hiding student suicide attempts behind GDPR

  05-06-2023 20:53
  
  Litany of ‘appalling’ safeguarding failures related at debate over need for legal duty of care for studentsUniversities have been criticised for using data protection regulations as a reason for not informing parents that their child has attempted suicide, in a debate about whether there should be a legal duty of care for students in higher education.MPs taking part in the Westminster Hall debate were given a litany of examples of “appalling” behaviour by some universitie
  
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• Clarion call: recorder fans warn instrument heading for extinction

  05-06-2023 19:18
  
  Top UK music school says pandemic has hastened decline in pupils playing Marmite of woodwind worldDepending on your view, the recorder is an instrument of “incredible versatility” or a tool of torture that has terrorised primary schools for too many generations.But now, warn its champions, the Marmite of the woodwind world faces extinction, with one of the UK’s top music schools reporting an 80% decline in the number of young people playing the recorder in 10 years. Continue re
  
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• Case study: Using simple, clear behaviour expectations in school

  05-06-2023 17:58 via gov.uk
  
  How Forest Academy used the Behaviour Hubs programme to change perceptions of misbehaviour and respond to pupils' complex needs.
  
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• Case study: Celebrating positive behaviour in school

  05-06-2023 17:58 via gov.uk
  How St Benedict’s Catholic High School used the Behaviour Hubs programme to develop a consistent behaviour policy, standards and expectations.
  
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• Oxford University appoints UK’s first professor of LGBTQ+ history

  05-06-2023 17:40
  
  Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield CollegeThe renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Mansfield College, Oxford.Cook, who has written extensively on queer urban life, the Aids crisis and queer domesticity, will become the first Jonathan Cooper chair of the history of sexualities later this year. Continue reading...
  
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• Transparency data: DfE monthly workforce management information: 2023 to 2024

  05-06-2023 17:25 via gov.uk
  
  Staff numbers and costs for the Department for Education (DfE) group for the financial year 2023 to 2024.
  
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• Exam season makes everyone unhappy. Why do we put up with it? | Zoe Williams

  05-06-2023 17:07
  
  The intolerable pressure leads to terrible family rows. I thought I had escaped the worst of it with my children, but I now realise I was wrongIn September 2013, I thought I was the most intelligent person ever to exist. By some masterstroke of family planning, I’d managed to have two children, spaced almost two years apart, but because the first was born in September and the second August, they were in adjacent school years. By my calculations, I’d saved two whole years of childcare
  
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• Children’s enjoyment of writing has fallen to ‘crisis point’, research finds

  05-06-2023 16:19
  
  Only one in three UK children now enjoy writing in their free time – including text messages – with those on free school meals most likely to do soNew research from the National Literacy Trust shows that children’s interest in writing has reached a “crisis point”, with the charity saying an “alarmingly low” level of children and young people enjoy writing.In a survey conducted by the trust across the UK, just a third (34.6%) of young people aged eight to
  
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• Funding for NI special needs teachers cut in half

  05-06-2023 15:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The money schools get for special educational needs coordinators is going from £22m to £11m.
  
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• 'Instagram seller quoted me £500 for a GCSE paper'

  05-06-2023 12:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scams are becoming more common, with fraudsters charging up to £4,000 per paper, exam boards warn.
  
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• France: Paris Champs-Élysées hosts mass spelling contest

  05-06-2023 12:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  France's most famous avenue turns into an open-air classroom for a record-breaking dictation event.
  
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• I was overwhelmed by shame when I quit grad school. Now I’m a quitting guru | Julia Keller

  05-06-2023 09:00
  
  I thought that dropping out made me a failure, but it was the making of me as a journalist and writerFirst came the sobbing – a great gust of tears that successively overwhelmed my shirt sleeve, an entire box of tissues and an extra-large bath towel. Next came a prolonged period of sitting cross-legged on the floor and staring blankly into space while a single question – infused with equal parts sorrow and self-pity – tolled in my head: “What will become of me?” At
  
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• London-based charity gifts its one millionth book

  05-06-2023 07:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The charity, staffed by volunteers, has given books to primary schools in every borough of London.
  
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• Susannah Dale: I want to help keep mothers in the workplace

  05-06-2023 01:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Susannah Dale is urging firms to sign a "maternity pledge", to support pregnant staff and new mums.
  
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