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Labour accuses UK government of ‘stifling children’s creativity’

25-06-2023 23:30

Shadow arts minister highlights stark drop in number of students taking arts GCSEs, which has fallen by 40% since 2010Labour has accused the government of “stifling children’s creativity and damaging the talent pipeline” for Britain’s creative industries by failing to provide proper arts and culture education.The party said the arts were being squeezed out of schools as a result of tightened budgets, teacher shortages and the decreasing importance of arts and culture subj

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Teenagers in Scotland campaign to improve education on consent

25-06-2023 14:47

Bold Girls Ken seek youth-led changes in curriculum to help children understand concept earlierEvery young person should know what consent looks and feels like, online and offline, according to a group of Perthshire teenagers who are pioneering a youth-led upgrade of sex education.Taking a bracingly honest approach to the deluge of “normalised” soft pornography they say most children are familiar with by the time they enter high school, Bold Girls Ken is the first campaign of its kin

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Newcastle teacher reveals to students she was child refugee

25-06-2023 13:06 via bbc.co.uk

Mia Suljic fled war-torn Bosnia as a toddler and is now a head of department at her former school.

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Don’t blame Tories for their useless policies. It’s all the fault of snobbery | Martha Gill

25-06-2023 10:31

The government is suddenly finding the invisible foe everywhere. Unfortunately for them, no one else can see itOnce you see it, you see it everywhere. In the BBC, in academia, in the arts and the civil service, in the minds of middle-class parents and on the opposition benches. It’s nebulous, shifting and insidious. For some years, this government has been at war with an invisible enemy, responsible for almost everything that is wrong with this country. Snobbery.Take snobbery about vocatio

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