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• West Lothian school ‘devastated’ after death of 14-year-old boy

  07-06-2023 18:10
  
  Pupil from St Kentigern’s academy in Blackburn taken to hospital where he died short time laterA 14-year-old boy has died after an incident at a West Lothian school that has left staff and pupils “devastated”.Emergency services were called to St Kentigern’s academy in Blackburn on Tuesday afternoon. The school said the incident, which is understood to have involved two 14-year-old boys, took place within the grounds on Tuesday lunchtime. A pupil was taken to hospital but
  
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• Guidance: Connect the classroom

  07-06-2023 16:48 via gov.uk
  
  Find out about the programme to upgrade wifi networks in schools and who can take part.
  
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• Transparency data: Post-16 capacity fund: successful projects

  07-06-2023 15:55 via gov.uk
  
  List of successful post-16 providers funded from the post-16 capacity fund.
  
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• One in three primary schools has no male teachers, report says

  07-06-2023 15:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The report says the proportion of schools without a male classroom teacher has increased.
  
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• Press release: Major funding boost to support rollout of quality skills training

  07-06-2023 14:01 via gov.uk
  
  £48 million to boost rollout of Higher Technical Qualifications and £140 million for schools and colleges to transform their facilities.
  
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• Guidance: Access your school attendance data

  07-06-2023 13:30 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance on how to use the view your education data service to access the monitor your school attendance tool.
  
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• Guidance: Higher technical education skills injection fund 2

  07-06-2023 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for providers on applying for the second round of the higher technical education (HTE) skills injection fund.
  
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• Children’s attention span ‘shorter than ever’ since Covid crisis, say teachers in England

  07-06-2023 10:38
  
  Poll of primary teachers finds pupils more likely to complain about being bored and provoke others in classMost primary schoolteachers think children’s attention spans are getting shorter and classroom behaviour has deteriorated since before the Covid pandemic, a survey has found.More than two in three (70%) teachers questioned said pupils’ behaviour in class had declined. Children were more likely to move around the room, complain about being bored and annoy or provoke others in the
  
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• Pupils face 'lost decade' in education after Covid, MPs warn

  07-06-2023 09:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A report urges ministers to improve uptake to a tutoring scheme designed to help students in England catch up.
  
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• Bereaved mum hopeful after student welfare debate

  07-06-2023 07:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 100,000-strong petition leads MPs to debate what a university's legal duty of care should be.
  
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• Open University marks first graduation ceremony in 1973

  07-06-2023 07:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The OU, which pioneered long-distance studying, releases images to celebrate the half century.
  
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• MPs call for action on pandemic-widened gap between England’s poor and rich pupils

  07-06-2023 01:01
  
  Public accounts committee warns that without more intervention, attainment gap could take decade to return to pre-Covid levelsIt could take a decade for the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers to return to pre-pandemic levels in England without faster and more effective intervention, MPs have warned.The estimate was made during evidence given to parliament’s influential public accounts committee (PAC) as part of its inquiry into education recovery after th
  
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