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Secondary school teacher paid damages after alleged harassment by pupils’ parents

16-02-2025 18:05

Kevin Flanagan, headteacher at Pensby High School, said Keith and Stephanie Critchley harassed him in person and onlineA secondary school headteacher has been paid damages in the settlement of a legal claim against abusive parents who he alleged launched a campaign of harassment against him, including turning up at his family home and verbally abusing him at the school gates.Kevin Flanagan, the headteacher of Pensby High School in Birkenhead, was successful in his claim against Keith and Stephan

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University leaders in England call for rethink over rising ‘regulatory burden’

16-02-2025 16:00

Exclusive: Vice-chancellors say Office for Students’ plans for next five years will financially harm smaller institutionsUniversity leaders have urged England’s higher education regulator to rethink its priorities, saying that smaller institutions will be financially harmed by increasing costs of its bureaucracy.The Office for Students (OfS) already charges smaller institutions such as the Royal College of Music up to 20 times more for each student in registration fees than it charge

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Parents working from home is affecting school attendance, says Ofsted chief

16-02-2025 14:05

Martyn Oliver says less office-going since pandemic has led to a shift in attitudes among pupils in EnglandSchool attendance rates are being affected by parents working from home after the pandemic, the head of Ofsted has said.The chief inspector of the schools watchdog in England, Martyn Oliver, told the Sunday Times that the widespread change in working habits after the pandemic had led to a shift in attitudes among pupils. Continue reading...

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‘DIY swab kits? It’s better than doing nothing’: the controversial scheme to tackle rape on campus

16-02-2025 08:00

We join volunteers in Bristol as they hand out DNA test kits they say can empower victims and deter perpetrators … and hear from critics who call the project recklessOn a bitingly cold Tuesday, ambassadors dressed in bright orange sweatshirts hand out self-swab rape kits and packets of chocolates from a paddling pool to fellow Bristol University students moving between lectures. “Can I take one for my daughter?” asks a middle-aged woman.The ambassadors are volunteers for Enoug

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Fall in overseas students fuels threat to English universities despite rise in fees

16-02-2025 07:00

Higher tuition costs have already been ‘wiped out’ by government tax hikes, critics claimA fall in international students applying for visas risks prolonging the existential threat facing some of England’s universities, sources in higher education say, amid warnings that an increase in tuition fees has already been “wiped out” by the government’s tax rises.Despite the decision by ministers to increase fees for UK students this year to £9,535 – the

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