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• Third of UK medical students get no sexual misconduct training, study finds

  12-09-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Research also finds there is no standardisation of training on subject across medical universities‘No way I could speak up’: two female medics describe sexual assaults by surgeonsMore than a third of UK medical students do not receive sexual misconduct training, research has found.The study by researchers at the University of Cambridge, published by JRSM Open, found that almost half of medical schools offered no training or only generalised harassment training that was not specific t
  
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• Adopted children also need help breaking the ‘care ceiling’ | Letters

  12-09-2023 18:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Adopted children experience many of the same issues in education as children in care, notes Kimberly ClarkeTen cheers for Floella Benjamin, Civitas and the cross-party group of peers behind the report Breaking the Care Ceiling (Young people leave care, then are hung out to dry. Why don’t we help them get to university instead?, 11 September). However, I would urge them – and anyone who is considering the issues involved – to expand their work to explicitly include adopted child
  
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• Tories put children at risk by pursuing their free schools obsession – and I have the figures to prove it | Warwick Mansell

  12-09-2023 13:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Scrutiny of spending shows how money was diverted into building free schools rather than the upkeep of existing onesCould a small-scale political project, close to the heart of successive Conservative prime ministers, really have been put ahead of such a fundamental aim as keeping children safe at school?This troubling question was provoked by an interview on Radio 4’s Today programme last week, in which Jonathan Slater, the Department for Education’s permanent secretary from 2016 to
  
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• National Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment: 2023

  12-09-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Provisional results for the 2023 national curriculum assessments at key stage 2.
  
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• Picnics to potluck suppers: building friendships through food at university

  12-09-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Cooking for coursemates might seem daunting, but it’s one of the cheapest and easiest ways to expand your social circle.The 2024 league table
  In my second year at university, three of my pals turned up unexpectedly at the doorstep late one evening, having just pilfered a biblical quantity of mackerel from the murky depths of the North Sea. They were looking for somewhere to gut and fillet everything in one go, so we cut a deal: in return for temporarily turning our flat into a fish factory
  
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• Only half of required number of trainee secondary teachers in England recruited

  12-09-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Figures show government is well short of 26,360 target amid crisis in teacher recruitment and retentionOnly half of the required number of trainee secondary school teachers in England have been recruited as the academic year gets under way, analysis shows.The figures, obtained by the National Education Union (NEU) and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), show ministers are on course to miss their recruitment targets by 48%. Continue reading...
  
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• The concrete crisis: is Britain falling apart? - podcast

  12-09-2023 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Last-minute safety worries about the structural soundness of school buildings threw the new term into chaos for many children and their parents. Could the episode spell disaster for Rishi Sunak’s government?After the conclusion of a protracted battle with teaching unions that meant school days were regularly lost to strikes, Rishi Sunak must have thought the new term would be something of a fresh start for his government with regards to education. Instead, more than 100 schools were issued
  
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• Third of medical students plan to quit NHS within two years of graduating

  12-09-2023 00:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Research will prompt further alarm among medical leaders trying to tackle the spiralling workforce crisisOne in three medical students plan to quit the NHS within two years of graduating, either to practise abroad or abandon medicine altogether, according to the largest survey of its kind.Poor pay, work-life balance and working conditions of doctors in the UK were the main factors cited by those intending to emigrate to continue their medical career. Continue reading...
  
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