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• Opposition grows among teachers to 6.5% pay offer in England

  16-07-2023 18:48
  
  Union members are concerned about funding for the below-inflation increase and the lack of a long-term agreementConcerns over how the rise promised to teachers in England will be funded, and dismay at the lack of a long-term agreement on pay, has stirred opposition to the government’s offer among union members.The deal announced between the government and England’s four school teaching and leadership unions would mean an across-the-board 6.5% pay rise from September, with a slightly
  
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• Sarfraz Manzoor says he will use new role to make Luton ‘cool’

  16-07-2023 17:57
  
  Greetings from Bury Park author announces initiatives to ‘bang drum’ for town as he is named chancellor of the University of BedfordshireWhen he was growing up, Sarfraz Manzoor dreamed of leaving his home town of Luton. Now the author and journalist has become chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire and has one clear mission – to make people think of Luton as “cool rather than crap”.Luton is a town with a bad reputation, he said. But he hopes this new role will
  
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• ‘It’s not just the food we missed’: three writers remember beloved restaurants that closed down

  16-07-2023 16:00
  
  From student haunts to a first ‘proper’ meal out, why we mourn the places where we ate that are no longer with usOn the surface of it, the problem was straightforward. Somehow, we’d all made it to the sixth form, an elevation we thought so magnificent – oh, the grandness of being allowed to drink Nescafé in free periods! – it was surely only right now to mark it with a minor increase in sophistication come Friday night. But the question was: how? Clubbing was
  
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• Gender guidance: Parents should be in know - minister

  16-07-2023 15:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The equalities minister did not specify the content of gender guidance for schools, due this week.
  
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• Coram charity accused of ‘throttling by stealth’ nursery it helped create

  16-07-2023 13:46
  
  Pioneering early years centre in north London faces closure as landlord Coram plans to double rentThe UK’s oldest children’s charity has been accused of “throttling by stealth” a renowned state-maintained nursery it helped create with a shared mission to improve support for the early years.The Thomas Coram nursery school, a pioneering early years centre in Camden, north London, has said it is facing possible closure after its landlord announced plans to double the rent an
  
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• Children born in pandemic have poorer communication skills, study finds

  16-07-2023 10:00
  
  Researchers conclude lockdown babies are lagging behind after limited interaction during Covid restrictionsAt the age of two, babies born during the pandemic have similar behaviour and development compared with children who were born before Covid-19 arrived – with one exception. Their communication skills lag behind those of their predecessors.These are the intriguing findings of a study – carried out by researchers based at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) – whi
  
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