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• Texas education officials to vote on use of Bible in public school curriculum

  18-11-2024 22:54
  Supporters argue Bible verses contextualize art and literature as opponents say it is biased towards ChristianityTexas education officials are expected to hold a vote this week on the use of Bible readings in the public school curriculum for kindergarten through fifth grade English and language arts classes.The board listened to hours of testimonies from those for and against “Bluebonnet learning”, a new curriculum that will affect millions of the state’s elementary public scho
  
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• Edinburgh University warns staff to expect job cuts

  18-11-2024 17:29 via bbc.com
  
  The institution blamed "unsustainable" funding and a fall in student numbers for the decision.
  
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• Policy paper: Regional Care Co-operatives: pathfinder areas

  18-11-2024 16:54 via gov.uk
  
  Information on the pathfinder areas for Regional Care Cooperatives (RCCs).
  
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• Correspondence: Safeguarding children with disabilities in residential settings: progress report

  18-11-2024 16:53 via gov.uk
  
  Progress report for the review into safeguarding children with disabilities and complex health needs in residential settings by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.
  
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• Independent report: Children with complex needs who are deprived of liberty

  18-11-2024 16:52 via gov.uk
  
  Research commissioned by the Department for Education and NHS England, to better understand how to support children with complex needs.
  
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• Policy paper: Keeping children safe, helping families thrive

  18-11-2024 16:51 via gov.uk
  
  A policy statement setting out the government's commitment to whole system reform of the children’s social care system.
  
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• What are Donald Trump’s plans to overhaul US colleges and universities?

  18-11-2024 16:39
  Republican president-elect says he wants to dismantle the US education department and fire ‘radical left accreditors’Donald Trump hates the state of higher education in the US so much that he wants to start a new online university that will dole out bachelor’s degrees free of charge to challenge existing colleges.Trump has also vowed to “deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again”. He wants to dramatically alter the accreditatio
  
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• I can’t get divorced … because of my pension provider

  18-11-2024 10:00
  
  There’s been a delay in getting the valuation from Teachers’ Pensions that I need for our court proceedings. Now my husband thinks I’m prevaricating I am a teacher and I requested a cash equivalent transfer value (CETV) from Teachers’ Pensions in June. I needed to submit the value of my pot to the court as part of the divorce proceedings.I received a wordy letter from Teachers’ Pensions saying that there may be a delay due to changes to the ways pension valuations a
  
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• 'Exploitative' children's home profits to be curbed

  18-11-2024 09:02 via bbc.com
  
  The new measures aim to stop private care home providers benefiting excessively from a stretched system.
  
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• Schools and colleges in England accused of failing in legal duty to tackle racism

  18-11-2024 06:00
  
  Campaigners want anti-racist content to be embedded in curriculum and for Black history to be compulsory subjectSchools and colleges are failing in their legal duty to prevent and address racism, say campaigners who are calling for the national curriculum in England to include an explicit anti-racism focus with Black history as a compulsory subject.A coalition of organisations representing young people’s voices has written to the prime minister, warning that “racism is holding all yo
  
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• Press release: Biggest overhaul in a generation to children’s social care

  18-11-2024 01:00 via gov.uk
  
  New powers handed to Ofsted to crack down on exploitative children's care providers and transparency to be increased around their finances.
  
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