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• Antisemitic incidents in UK schools soared in 2023, charity reports

  15-02-2024 19:18
  
  Community Security Trust records rise of 232%, almost three-quarters of which took place after Hamas’s 7 October attackThe anonymous letter that landed on the desk of a headteacher of a Jewish school in Hertfordshire in November did not pull its punches.“Beware,” it began. “Jihadi is being fought and you are going to have your throat slit by us.” Among the reasons it listed were “we see you like music which is unIslamic”; “you wear a tie and are we
  
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• Five of the best campus novels

  15-02-2024 13:00
  
  Donna Tartt’s cult tale of toxic friendship, John Williams’s anti-campus must-read and Zadie Smith’s superb third novel – here are the books that ace academiaThe beauty of the traditional campus novel is that it’s rarely reflective of most students’ actual experience – at least not in the UK. High stakes interpersonal drama, soft-serve Marxism and ivy-covered stone are less the modern student experience than terrible housing, dating-app ghosting and a st
  
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• Overseas student applications rise again in UK

  15-02-2024 12:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  But the new data excludes postgraduates - and universities remain worried overall numbers will fall.
  
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• Pupils tell of daily abuse as antisemitism reports surge

  15-02-2024 12:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Reports to a Jewish security charity say incidents were almost double the previous record set in 2021.
  
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• Indiana teachers call attorney general’s ‘Eyes on Education’ portal dangerous

  15-02-2024 12:00
  
  Site launched by Republican to report ‘indoctrination’ a nest of outdated and inaccurate information, educators sayTeachers in Indiana: share your views on the Eyes on Education siteA website launched by Indiana Republicans as a reporting tool for perceived indoctrination of public school students has instead become a nest of outdated and inaccurate information, educators say, driving a wedge between parents and teachers.State attorney general Todd Rokita’s “Eyes on Educa
  
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• Official Statistics: Apprenticeships: February 2024

  15-02-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Monthly apprenticeship starts in England from August to November 2023.
  
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• Correspondence: Request for regulators to publish an update on their strategic approach to AI: Secretary of State letters

  15-02-2024 08:52 via gov.uk
  
  Letters requesting a set of regulators to update their strategic approach to AI, with the intention of increasing the transparency around how they are implementing the AI Regulation White Paper proposals.
  
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• School uniforms may be barrier to physical activity among younger girls

  15-02-2024 01:01
  
  Fewer pupils of primary-school age meet WHO minimum in countries where uniforms are the norm, Cambridge study findsRestrictive uniforms could be preventing primary school pupils, especially girls, from being physically active, research suggests.In countries where most schools require students to wear uniforms, fewer young people reach the World Health Organization’s minimum recommendation of 60 minutes of physical activity a day across a whole week, according to a study by University of Ca
  
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