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• ‘Whatever it takes’: students at 50 US high schools launch climate initiative

  25-09-2023 19:00
  
  Green New Deal for Schools demands districts teach climate justice, update buildings and plan for extreme weather Students at more than 50 high schools across the US are proposing a Green New Deal for Schools, demanding that their districts teach climate justice, create pathways to green jobs after graduation and plan for climate disasters, among other policies.The campaign, coordinated by the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate justice collective, is a reaction to rightwing efforts to ban or
  
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• Families should be informed if students struggling with mental health at university | Letter

  25-09-2023 18:46
  
  One reader says they had no idea their son was at rock-bottom and had been withdrawn from his courseThank you for your article highlighting the challenges to mental health that many students may face and outlining potential self-help measures (Self-care to support: how to look after your mental health at university, 15 September). Sadly, it came a little too late for my son, who attempted suicide in June. He was supposedly at the end of his second year of a physics degree, but, unbeknown to me,
  
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• Not even bankers wear ties and blazers any more. So why should schoolchildren? | André Spicer

  25-09-2023 18:30
  
  Suspended for wearing the wrong socks: there’s no way this is ‘preparing children for the world of work’André Spicer is professor of organisational behaviour at the Bayes Business School at City, University of LondonRecently I dropped off my daughter at school. Dressed up in a tie and blazer, she squirmed with discomfort in the late summer heat. After she disappeared through the gate, I headed to my office in the City of London. Walking from the tube station to my buildi
  
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• Unions ask Sunak for extra £4.4bn a year to fix crumbling schools in England

  25-09-2023 17:45
  
  Eight unions and school governors’ body write to PM saying Raac crisis highlights chronic underfundingUK politics live – latest updatesEight unions representing teachers and school workers, as well the body for governors, have written to Rishi Sunak demanding an extra £4.4bn annually to ensure buildings are safe for children in England.They say the crisis involving reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac), which has cast a shadow over the start of the term and has been fou
  
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• University staff strike disrupts freshers' week

  25-09-2023 14:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The strikes are part of a long-running dispute by union members over pay and conditions.
  
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• The big idea: how do we make future generations smarter?

  25-09-2023 13:30
  
  Our education system needs a radical rethink for the digital ageWhat are some of the things humans can do that other animals can’t? Humans can count, humans can read, humans can reason. These advanced abilities are often attributed to the human brain as a piece of hardware. However, just as the usefulness of Excel, Google, or ChatGPT are not found in computer circuits but in the software that runs on them, most of our cognitive abilities are not the result of anatomical evolution either. T
  
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• Guidance: Apply to join the social work early career framework

  25-09-2023 13:00 via gov.uk
  
  How organisations can get involved with the early adopter programme to help develop a new early career framework for child and family social workers.
  
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• School strikes: No new pay offer despite weekend talks

  25-09-2023 11:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Unison members will strike across 24 council areas for three days from Tuesday in a dispute over pay.
  
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