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• Ranganathan criticises council over school places

  19-04-2025 20:16 via bbc.com
  He says his son's allocated school is "on the other side of town" to the one his siblings attend.
  
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• Second teachers’ union vows to strike if pay award fails to fund schools in England

  19-04-2025 17:26
  
  NASUWT conference votes to launch strike ballot if spending review does not top up school budgets in fullA second teaching union in England has vowed to strike if the government fails to compensate schools in full for next year’s teachers’ pay award.The NASUWT union’s annual conference voted to reject any pay offer from the government that did not top up school budgets in June’s spending review, and to “move immediately to ballot members for industrial action”
  
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• Pledge to create thousands more nursery places has backfired, early years groups say

  19-04-2025 15:06
  
  Schools are pushing out established groups as funding for more places comes on streamA government pledge to create more nurseries has backfired, according to early years providers. More than a dozen schools are evicting ­existing preschool providers that operate in classrooms amid concerns they are doing so to access state funding to set up their own provision.It means that the pledge to create thousands of nursery places may be fulfilled by cannibalising some of the existing preschools, acc
  
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• The showdown between Harvard and the White House – day by day

  19-04-2025 15:00
  
  After months of pressure to defend itself, Harvard rejected demands from the Trump administrationIt took Harvard University less than 72 hours to reject a series of demands put forth by the Trump administration, setting up a high-stakes showdown between the US’s wealthiest and oldest university and the White House.The swift rebuke on Monday came after weeks of mounting pressure from Harvard faculty, students and alumni and the city of Cambridge, all urging the university to defend itself,
  
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• There are fewer children in England’s primary schools. That’s no reason to strip funding from them | Lola Okolosie

  19-04-2025 11:00
  
  Across the country, there’s a demographic shift. This is a chance to reinvest in our threadbare education systemPrimary school offer day has become a bittersweet moment in many communities. While anxious parents will breathe a sigh of relief upon securing their first-choice school, the chance of success has increased as reception applications have continued to fall. Falling birthrates and the cost-of-living crisis driving families out of more expensive cities, such as London, has led to sh
  
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• Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools

  19-04-2025 01:01
  
  Survey finds social media main cause of poor behaviour, with pupils mimicking Donald Trump and Andrew TateA rise in misogyny and racism is flooding UK schools as pupils ape the behaviour of figures such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate after exposure through social media and online gaming, teachers have warned.A survey by the NASUWT union found most teachers identified social media as “the number one cause” of pupil misbehaviour, with female staff bearing the brunt. Teachers also rais
  
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