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• Strike by support staff closes hundreds of Scottish schools

  26-09-2023 19:44
  
  Three-day action over cuts begins amid confusion caused by split between unions on how to handle new offerThe Scottish government has been warned to anticipate more school strikes as thousands of pupils spent the first of three days at home on Tuesday.Last-minute talks over the weekend had failed to halt the strike action by school support staff, closing hundreds of schools in 24 of the country’s 32 local authorities. Continue reading...
  
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• UCU strike dates: Which universities are affected?

  26-09-2023 16:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Five days of strike action will fall in Freshers' Week for many students.
  
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• ‘It’s a lovely team’: two social workers explain how they found their dream jobs in Torbay

  26-09-2023 13:27
  
  Training, support and flexible working are just some of the attractions of working in children’s services on the English RivieraSome of us wait an eternity for our dream job, but Kerryn Nelson, who joined Torbay council as a social worker after graduating two years ago, has already found hers. Nelson, who is part of the fostering team, enjoys her role so much that she feels as if she hasn’t “woken up yet”.She says: “I love working with the foster carers I support, m
  
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• ‘This is not a Trump-y, conservative education’: Florida’s controversial new SAT alternative

  26-09-2023 13:00
  
  Will the Classic Learning Test bring ‘truth and beauty’ back into education – or is it fueling Ron DeSantis’s extremist agenda?From the “don’t say gay” law, which bans discussion of LGBTQ+ issues in the classroom, to laws helping parents challenge school library books they oppose, Ron DeSantis has turned Florida’s public schools into a culture war battleground – and the implementation of his laws has often veered into absurd territory.About 3
  
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• Open consultation: Further education initial teacher training reform

  26-09-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  We are seeking views on proposed reforms to initial teacher training (ITT) for the further education (FE) sector, including changes to public funding.
  
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• Oxford and Cambridge academics to give £20,000 book advance to charities

  26-09-2023 08:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prof Jason Arday and Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis will support neuro-divergent working-class families.
  
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• Raac in schools: Education minister to attend St Leonard's Durham

  26-09-2023 07:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Pupils at St Leonard's Catholic School have been learning from home or been moved to other schools.
  
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• UK schools should teach all four nations’ histories, says David Olusoga

  26-09-2023 06:00
  
  Historian says ignorance and indifference between UK nations could pose biggest threat to future of unionSchools in the UK need to teach the history of all four nations, the historian David Olusoga has said, warning that ambivalence and indifference risk pulling apart the union.The fact that A-level pupils in England do not learn much about the history of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and vice versa means that Britons struggle to understand key contemporary political issues in the other n
  
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