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• The Guardian view on the special needs crisis: children don’t deserve this chaos | Editorial

  19-02-2024 19:52
  
  By failing to adequately fund their own policy, ministers have created a destructive standoff between families, councils and schoolsA decade after David Cameron’s coalition government overhauled provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) in England, it has never been clearer that the system is in crisis. A raft of measures designed to appeal to parents, by promising them greater influence over their children’s education, has resulted in a destructiv
  
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• Do half of schools ban mobile phones?

  19-02-2024 18:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Education Secretary Gillian Keegan made claims about mobile phones in schools and education funding.
  
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• The devastating impact Covid and austerity had on children in England

  19-02-2024 18:02
  
  As children’s services leaders call for a national plan of action, we look at four key affected areas of policyChildren’s services leaders in England call for national ‘plan for childhood’A wide-ranging national plan for childhood is needed in England to address the profound impacts on young people of austerity, poverty and the legacy of the pandemic, says the Association of Directors of Children’s Services.Investment and reform across several overlapping services,
  
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• Did you solve it? The magical maths that keeps your data safe

  19-02-2024 18:01
  
  The solutions to today’s problemsEarlier today I set these two puzzles, which were given to me by a computer scientist at Microsoft. They are an analogy for how companies protect data centres from the random failures of hard drives. Here they are again with solutions and workings.The disappearing boxes Continue reading...
  
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• Children’s services leaders in England call for national ‘plan for childhood’

  19-02-2024 18:00
  
  Failure to tackle post-pandemic needs was ‘massive missed opportunity’, say council directorsExplained: the devestating impact of Covid and austerity on children in EnglandChildren’s services leaders have called for a national “plan for childhood” to transform the health, emotional wellbeing and life chances of a generation of youngsters scarred by austerity and the pandemic.In a withering assessment of the government’s record over the past few years, they sai
  
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• How to get away with AI-generated essays | Letters

  19-02-2024 17:54
  
  Prof Paul Kleiman on putting ChatGPT to the test on his work. Plus letters from Michael Bulley and Dr Paul FlewersNo wonder Robert Topinka found himself in a quandary (The software says my student cheated using AI. They say they’re innocent. Who do I believe?, 13 February). To test ChatGPT’s abilities and weaknesses, I asked it to write a short essay on a particular topic that I specialised in. Before looking at what it produced, I wrote my own 100% original short essay on the same t
  
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• Schools given new guidance on stopping phone use

  19-02-2024 17:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government says it will help 'minimise disruption and improve behaviour in classrooms' in England.
  
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• Nifty shades of grey: the fashion college where students inject the colour

  19-02-2024 17:19
  
  It is a love letter to the wonders of needlework, a multi-storey mill for the 21st century. Our writer enters an orange peel lobby and ascends some Harry Potter stairs at the new London College of FashionIt must be the ironing board with the best view in the capital. On the top floor of the new London College of Fashion, in a prime corner of the kind usually reserved for a boardroom, a student is busy pressing their garments in front of a rolling panorama of the Olympic Park and the towers of th
  
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• Correspondence: Closed financial notice to improve: Hull College

  19-02-2024 16:34 via gov.uk
  
  A revised financial health notice to improve issued to Hull College by the Education and Skills Funding Agency.
  
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• Banning phones in England’s schools will not address online safety, say campaigners

  19-02-2024 15:14
  
  Call made for more ambitious legislation to protect children from harmful content on tech platformsBanning mobile phones in England’s schools will not address the harms caused by tech platforms to children, according to leading internet safety campaigners.Ian Russell, the father of Molly Russell, and Beeban Kidron, an influential figure in online regulation, said limiting phone use in schools would do nothing to make social media services safer. Continue reading...
  
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• Transparency data: List of family hub sites

  19-02-2024 12:46 via gov.uk
  
  A list of each family hub location in England funded by government.
  
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• Policy paper: Education for 11 to 16 year olds committee: government response

  19-02-2024 10:53 via gov.uk
  
  The government’s response to the House of Lords Education for 11 to 16 Year Olds Committee’s report.
  
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• Press release: Government launches crackdown on mobile phones in schools

  19-02-2024 10:43 via gov.uk
  
  Schools will receive new guidance on prohibiting mobile phone use during the school day.
  
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• Ministers confirm plan to ban use of mobile phones in schools in England

  19-02-2024 10:03
  
  Teaching unions say guidance includes practices already adopted and most schools already have policies in placeMinisters have confirmed plans to ban the use of mobile phones in English schools, releasing guidance for headteachers that some unions said included practices that had already been widely adopted.However, one headteacher welcomed the Department for Education (DfE) plan, saying it would help give schools the confidence to make a change that would benefit pupils but could meet resistance
  
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• Africa is the world’s youngest continent – education is key to unlocking its potential | Nana Akufo-Addo and Jakaya Kikwete

  19-02-2024 09:00
  
  With 40% of all Africans aged under 15, smarter funding for schools can help young Africans fuel a colossal powerhouseThe African Union (AU) is marking 2024 as its first Year of Education. This could not have come at a better time. Commitment to education has marked the continent’s progress since the 1960s era of independence. Now more than ever, this resolve must transform Africa into the world’s powerhouse for the 21st century.In 60 years Africa has made considerable progress in ed
  
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• Guidance: Mobile phones in schools

  19-02-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  How schools can prohibit the use of mobile phones throughout the school day.
  
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