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• Head Start avoids Trump’s cuts, but advocates are ready to defend it: ‘There’s too much good in this’

  07-05-2025 19:21
  At its most basic level, Head Start provides free childcare – but it also creates jobs and can even have generational benefitsTanya Stanton felt a sense of relief when she heard last week that the Trump administration seems to have reversed course on eliminating the Head Start early education program. She directs early learning programs at You Thrive, a Florida non-profit that provides Head Start services to approximately 1,100 children in the central part of the state.On Friday, the Trump
  
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• Correspondence: DfE Update: 7 May 2025

  07-05-2025 15:46 via gov.uk
  
  Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.
  
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• Guidance: Devolution of adult education functions: MoUs

  07-05-2025 14:24 via gov.uk
  
  Memoranda of understanding between DfE, mayoral combined authorities and the Mayor of London for the devolution or delegation of adult education functions.
  
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• Guidance: Post-16 budget grant

  07-05-2025 13:24 via gov.uk
  
  The post-16 budget grant will help institutions with their overall costs in the 2024 to 2025 financial year, following confirmation of the 2024 teacher pay award. 
  
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• Guidance: Local authorities planning calendar 2025 to 2026

  07-05-2025 12:35 via gov.uk
  
  Important dates for payments, publications, and local authority actions in the 2025 to 2026 financial year.
  
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• ‘I missed talking math with people’: why John Urschel left the NFL for MIT

  07-05-2025 11:00
  The former Baltimore Ravens guard had a lucrative career in professional football. But he chose to concentrate on his first love in academiaJohn Urschel lifts the blinds in his second-floor office in the mathematics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Outside is Cambridge in all of its springtime splendor on a mid-April afternoon. Everything about his office says “college professor” – the computer on one side of the desk, the stack of papers on the other, t
  
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• Guidance: College financial planning handbook and CFFR

  07-05-2025 10:33 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for sixth-form and further education colleges on preparing and submitting their College Financial Forecasting Return (CFFR) and supporting commentary.
  
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• I won’t be taking exam leave to support my teens – just hovering, worrying and driving them mad | Zoe Williams

  07-05-2025 08:00
  Exam pressures on both kids and parents are at an all-time high, but I’m glad that at least parents are more engaged these daysWhen I was doing GCSEs and my sister was doing A-levels, we were on our way to school for my physics and her maths exams when we had a huge fight at the bus stop. I can’t remember what it was about, but she definitely started it. I took a different route and was 20 minutes late for my exam while she took the original bus and spent the first quarter of her pap
  
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• ‘The crux of all evil’: what happened to the first city that tried to ban smartphones for under-14s?

  07-05-2025 06:00
  It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about their own ‘addiction’?At 3.12pm on a sunny spring afternoon in St Albans, Yasser Afghen reaches for the iPhone in his jeans pocket, hoping to use the three minutes before his son emerges from his year 1 primary class to scroll through his emails. As he lifts the phone to his face, M
  
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• US and China to hold tariff talks in Switzerland this weekend, treasury chief says – as it happened

  07-05-2025 03:59
  This blog has now closed. Read our latest story hereA group of US senators wants Congress’ watchdog agency to investigate whether controls on humanitarian aid deliveries by Israel and other foreign governments violate US law, according to a letter seen by Reuters.The six senators – Chris Van Hollen, Dick Durbin, Jeff Merkley, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Peter Welch – wrote to Gene Dodaro, the comptroller general, asking him to launch an investigation by the nonpartisan
  
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• Government brings exam records into 21st century

  07-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  New digital exam results pilot launched to help schools and colleges to save up to £30m a year and cut back bureaucracy
  
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