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• Oregon: Portland teachers strike over class sizes, pay and lack of resources

  01-11-2023 18:02
  
  Schools closed for 45,000 students in strike union says is first ever walkout in Portland school districtTeachers in Portland walked off the job on Wednesday for the first day of a strike that will shutter schools for some 45,000 students in Oregon’s largest city.Concerns over large class sizes, salaries that have not kept up with inflation and a lack of resources prompted the strike, one of the latest signs of a growing organized labor movement in the US that has seen thousands of workers
  
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• Bereaved families welcome move to block suicide forum

  01-11-2023 15:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bereaved families had asked internet providers to block the forum, following a BBC investigation.
  
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• ‘We are laying the path for these children’: why early years education should never be undervalued

  01-11-2023 11:59
  
  The prominence Liverpool Hope University places on its early years education training and research reflects its commitment to help children and society“We need to raise the standing of the [early years] sector, make it part of the education system so that it is regarded with the same parity as our schools,” shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson told the Guardian in July. “What you achieve in the early years makes such a big difference.”Phillipson’s words ech
  
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• ‘Teaching is in our DNA’: the Liverpool university that’s creating leaders in education

  01-11-2023 11:58
  
  From being among the first English universities to admit women, Catholics and Jewish people, to making a difference in its local community, Liverpool Hope’s story is one of widening access and challenging orthodoxyAs a professional tutor at Liverpool Hope University, Mike Taylor has interviewed numerous prospective students over the years. A running theme is that they are excited to train at Liverpool Hope because they know a teacher who trained there, who has recommended that they follow
  
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• From Mersey to the world: how Liverpool Hope University is changing communities at home and abroad with education

  01-11-2023 11:57
  
  Graduate teachers are taking their university training to different communities, countries and even continentsTeaching is about empowering communities as much as it is about developing the individual student. Schools are the bedrock of society, influencing the development of whole generations of young people in a particular community.Liverpool Hope University instils that sense of responsibility in trainee teachers, with scores of graduates continuing to positively affect young lives in the nort
  
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• ‘Children make you laugh so much’: three teachers on the joys (and challenges!) of teaching

  01-11-2023 11:56
  
  There’s no hiding from the fact that teaching is tough. But for these educators, that can be part of the vocation’s beautyToday’s novice teachers are joining the profession at a time when it’s facing huge challenges, from controversy – and negative depictions of teachers – around pay and conditions, to the pressures of Ofsted inspections, and how political and cultural events play out in the classroom.“At Liverpool Hope it’s about focusing on how w
  
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• St Ives teachers to strike over 'heavy handed' policies

  01-11-2023 07:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Union reps say "draconian" behaviour rules undermine teachers' authority.
  
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• Deaf scholar promoted to full professor in deaf studies in UK first

  01-11-2023 01:01
  
  Until the appointment of Annelies Kusters, UK had only hearing people as full professors in the fieldTrains in the Indian megacity of Mumbai are famously among the most crowded in the world, but they have also become “deaf meeting spots” where deaf people meet and socialise on their daily commute.These unexpected gatherings in carriages reserved for disabled passengers have been documented by Annelies Kusters, who has just become the first deaf scholar to be made a full professor in
  
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