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• UK teachers defy minister to back pro-Palestine motion

  04-04-2024 20:43
  
  NEU members at conference vote in favour of motion criticised by Gillian Keegan as inappropriateTeachers at the National Education Union conference have voted in favour of a motion calling for solidarity with Palestine and criticising the Israeli government as racist, and declared they would “take no lectures” from the education secretary.Gillian Keegan said the motion was “wholly inappropriate” and would cause significant hurt to members of the Jewish community and thous
  
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• Creative arts courses at English universities face funding cut

  04-04-2024 19:44
  
  Education secretary Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher educationMinisters will cut funding for performing and creative arts courses at English universities next year, which sector leaders say will further damage the country’s cultural industries.The cuts, outlined by the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, in guidance to the universities regulator, will also reduce funding for Uni-Connect, which runs programmes aimed at widening access to hig
  
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• Universities are a vital public asset. We must save them | Letters

  04-04-2024 19:11
  
  Prof Des Freedman, Michael Bassey, John Sommer and Sally Bates respond to an article about the dire state of Britain’s higher education institutionsGaby Hinsliff (Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding, 29 March) says “the story [of decline] starts with the freezing of tuition fees in 2017”.However, this was the outcome, not the cause, of a crisis that began with the decision by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition governm
  
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• Primary school places 2024: When do parents find out offers?

  04-04-2024 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Parents will soon be finding out which primary school their children will be going to.
  
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• Alan Duncan facing Tory disciplinary inquiry over comments accusing senior party figures of being too ‘pro-Israel’ – as it happened

  04-04-2024 17:45
  
  Former Foreign Office minister had suggested some in government were prepared to overlook human rights violationsMembers of the National Education Union have voted to delay moving to a formal strike ballot until they know the detail of the government’s pay offer for 2024/5.Delegates attending the NEU’s annual conference agreed the offer - when it comes - should be put to members in a snap poll and if rejected with a convincing turnout, move to a formal ballot for industrial action.Af
  
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• Teachers' strikes: Will there be more?

  04-04-2024 17:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The National Education Union has been considering whether to go on strike again in 2024.
  
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• Cropped out, banned, airbrushed: the school photos that show the ugly face of Britain today | Frances Ryan

  04-04-2024 09:00
  
  Behind the erasure of disabled children lies the frightening belief that they don’t belong in ‘perfect’ pictures – or public spaces There is a difference between being shocked and being surprised. I thought of that as I read the news that disabled children had been “erased” from their class photo in a primary school in Aberdeenshire.A photographer is said to have taken separate pictures: one with the children with “additional needs” and one without
  
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• The woman who wants to teach the North East to read

  04-04-2024 07:17 via bbc.com
  
  Former teacher Kerry Clegg says low literacy levels mean people cannot read medical notes.
  
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• New journalism school in London sets out to improve Black representation

  04-04-2024 07:00
  
  Founder of Cocoa Girl magazine says children will also be taught creative writing, music and illustrationThe founder of the first major Black children’s magazine in the UK is to open a journalism school to combat representation problems in the creative industries.Serlina Boyd, who founded Cocoa Girl magazine with her daughter Faith, then aged six, during lockdown in 2020, will open the Cocoa School of Journalism and Creative Arts on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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• One in three teachers have no behaviour support for pupils with additional needs, poll finds

  04-04-2024 01:01
  
  Long waiting lists and insufficient resources part of system that is ‘failing’ children, according to NEU members in England and WalesOne in three teachers say they have no behaviour support team for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), while one in four have no educational psychologist or speech and language therapist to help them, according to a union survey.The online poll, which attracted responses from 8,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU)
  
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