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• ‘He lashed out. He was scared’: the fight to save vulnerable UK children from being kicked out of school

  19-10-2024 17:00
  
  Two hundred lawyers have come together to challenge a wave of discriminatory exclusionsWhen he started secondary school in Hackney, east London, at the age of 11, Sam* had high attainment levels and loved learning. At the end of the introductory week, he was given an award for being a “star”. Less than two weeks later, a courier delivered a letter to his home saying that he had been ­permanently excluded.Government data released this summer showed there were a record 9,400 perman
  
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• Rent, wage slips and interest rates may feature in new AQA maths test for pupils

  19-10-2024 14:58
  
  Exam board in England, Wales and Northern Ireland pilots tests that aim to show we ‘use maths all the time every day’Secondary school children could be made to take maths tests that look at their ability to work out phone bills and rent to prepare them for life, an exam board has said.The plans to help teenagers understand real-life situations would not make numeracy tests easier, said Colin Hughes, the chief executive of the AQA, an awarding body in England, Wales and Northern Irela
  
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• Private school campaigners liken education secretary to Nazi over VAT plan

  19-10-2024 14:33
  
  Bridget Phillipson has been targeted with personal abuse on Facebook by campaigners opposed to Labour’s tax policyMembers of a campaign group ­opposing plans to apply VAT to ­private school fees have targeted Bridget Phillipson, the ­education ­secretary, with ­personal abuse, accusing her of aping the ­tactics of Nazi Germany and labelling her a “vile hag”.A bitter row has emerged over the government’s proposed policy, amid claims from ­oppone
  
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