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• How to enter - is your university a beacon of hope?

  18-11-2019 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Everything you need to know about entering the awards and how each submission will be assessedWe invite entries from UK universities and university professionals across 14 categories, which are shortlisted and evaluated by an expert panel. An ideas bank of all winning and shortlisted entries will be published on the Guardian website after the ceremony.Click here to enter nowJudges will assess each entry for: Continue reading...
  
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• What if you don't get the primary school you want?

  16-04-2024 02:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Parents in England and Wales are finding out which primary school their children will be going to.
  
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• Offer-specific criteria for adult offers

  15-04-2024 17:17 via gov.uk
  
  Funding approval criteria that qualifications need to meet for the adult offers alongside the common approval and qualification-type criteria.
  
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• Transparency data: iQTS providers: inspection reports

  15-04-2024 13:05 via gov.uk
  
  Inspection reports on providers of international qualified teacher status (iQTS).
  
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• Can you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

  15-04-2024 08:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Don’t make this a comedy of errorsToday’s puzzles come from the quill of Rob Eastaway, the bard of brainteasers, whose latest book Much Ado About Numbers is a journey into Shakespeare’s mathematical life and times.1. Hours and hours Continue reading...
  
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• Childcare in England failing and falling behind much of world, charity says

  15-04-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Fawcett Society warns sector is lacking in ambition and delivery and calls for free ‘universal’ hoursLabour in a bind over much-needed childcare reformEngland’s childcare system is failing and falling behind those of much of the rest of the world, a UK charity for gender equality and women’s rights has said.The Fawcett Society said childcare in England was failing on several fronts: affordability, quality and levels of public spending. Continue reading...
  
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• 'We are operating as a charity' says head teacher

  14-04-2024 19:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chris Currie from Killinchy Primary School says it is "impossible" to work within his school budget.
  
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• Who has been treated most unfairly by history?

  14-04-2024 15:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhich individual has been treated most unfairly by history? Alex Middleton, RutlandPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to [email protected]. A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Schools in England and Wales using ‘gender toolkit’ risk being sued by parents

  13-04-2024 17:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Leading barrister warns that the kit – used to support gender-questioning children – is likely to be in breach of equality laws and could violate pupils’ rightsSchools in England and Wales have been warned by one of the country’s leading equality and human rights barristers that the “toolkit” many of them use to support gender-questioning children is unlawful.The toolkit, introduced by Brighton and Hove council in 2021 and subsequently replicated by a number o
  
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• Fears pupils prefer processed food to school meals

  12-04-2024 14:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Reasons for children not wanting school meals include portion sizes and noisy canteens.
  
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• Nine-year-olds added to malicious WhatsApp groups

  12-04-2024 11:53 via bbc.com
  
  Schools warn thousands of parents on Tyneside about malicious group chats on the messaging app.
  
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• Teen's joy as skateboarding added to GCSE sports

  12-04-2024 07:08 via bbc.com
  
  Skateboarding is one of 13 new sports which will be allowed as part of GCSE PE from September 2026.
  
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• Call to continue free period products in schools

  12-04-2024 07:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government's scheme which offers free period products in schools is due to end in July.
  
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• Improved pay offer for further education lecturers

  11-04-2024 17:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The offer includes an improved £30,000 starting salary as well as an 8.4% pay rise for lecturers.
  
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• He got a college degree in prison. Now he’s off to a prestigious law school

  11-04-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In a historic achievement, Benard McKinley, 39, was accepted to Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in ChicagoSince leaving prison in December 2023, Benard McKinley, 39, has been busy preparing for huge next steps.Between working and visits from friends and family, McKinley is getting ready for his first year of study at the prestigious Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, a historic achievement. Continue reading...
  
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• The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral

  11-04-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the canary in the coalmine?It is a couple of days before Easter, and the students who have been holding a sit-in in the Professor Stuart Hall building in Goldsmiths, University of London are packing up. The large basement smells of duvets and camping mats and solidarity and liveliness, and deodorant spr
  
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• Official Statistics: Apprenticeships: April 2024

  11-04-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Statistics on apprenticeships in England from August 2023 to January 2024.
  
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• English schools could lose £1bn by 2030 as pupil numbers fall

  11-04-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  School rolls swelled because of fertility surge in 2000s but birthrate and migration patterns have brought declineSchools in England could lose up to £1bn in funding by 2030, researchers warn, with exceptional falls in pupil numbers prompting a wave of closures as some establishments cease to be financially viable.Mergers and closures are already under way in parts of London, where pupil numbers have been falling for some time. According to the Education Policy Institute (EPI), a thinktank
  
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• How the dung queen of Dublin was swept from history

  10-04-2024 19:45 via theguardian.com
  
  AI to be used by researchers to scour documents for information on women omitted from chronicles written by men about menFour centuries ago Dublin had an official city “scavenger” who was tasked with running sanitation teams to clear streets of human and animal waste. In return, the scavenger earned tolls from shopkeepers and traders.It could have worked well, except the contractor decided to cut costs and maximise profits by deploying just two carts rather than six. Dung piled up an
  
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• ‘Gift of hope and confidence’: parents recall how Sure Start was a lifeline

  10-04-2024 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  As calls grow for Labour to reinstate the centres for early years support, we hear from some of those who saw its benefitsBaby massage classes, breastfeeding support, early intervention for children with special needs and advice on hair clips for nervous dads were just some of the multiple benefits of Sure Start, according to parents who used the service.“My Sure Start centre had wings and a halo,” is how one grateful parent puts it. “I would have been lost to postnatal depress
  
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• Bernardine Evaristo joins calls to save Goldsmiths’ Black British literature MA

  10-04-2024 18:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Booker-winning author says course ‘shouldn’t be seen as dispensable’ as university seeks to cut 130 academic jobsThe Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the “amputation” of Black British literature and queer history courses at Goldsmiths University in London, as part of a cost-cutting programme in which 130 academic jobs are to go.Evaristo, along with former students and writers, issued a plea to Goldsmiths to reconsider the removal of &ld
  
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• German university rescinds Jewish American’s job offer over pro-Palestinian letter

  10-04-2024 17:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Nancy Fraser, professor of philosophy at the New School, condemned killings in Gaza carried out by the Israeli militaryA leading Jewish American philosopher has been disinvited from taking up a prestigious professorship at the University of Cologne after signing a letter expressing solidarity with Palestinians and condemning the killings in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces.Nancy Fraser, professor of philosophy and politics at the New School for Social Research in New York, said she had been ca
  
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• Weak evidence and toxic debate letting down gender care children, report says

  10-04-2024 16:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A landmark report says "toxicity" of debate is hampering medical research into gender services.
  
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• Open call for evidence: Non-medical support for disabled students in higher education

  10-04-2024 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  Call for evidence to help improve non-medical help provision for disabled students in higher education.
  
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• Guidance: Termination of ESFA funding agreements: providers

  09-04-2024 11:25 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance on the termination of ESFA funding agreements for providers.
  
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• Tall tales but no dessert: the storyteller of Karachi and his ice-cream cart library

  09-04-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In a country where 77% of 10-year-olds are illiterate, a reading scheme in Pakistan is reaching thousands of children in slumsPedalling down a narrow alleyway in Karachi’s crowded Lyari Town, Saira Bano slows as she passes a group of children sitting on the ground, listening to a man reading aloud from a book. The eight-year-old gets off her bike, slips off her sandals, and sits on the mat at the back.She has already heard the story from Mohammad Noman, who is entertaining more than a doze
  
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• Living near Sure Start centre boosted GCSEs, study suggests

  09-04-2024 10:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Children who grew up close to a centre achieved better GCSE grades than their peers, research suggests.
  
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• Living near Sure Start boosted GCSEs - study

  09-04-2024 10:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Children who grew up close to a centre achieved better GCSE grades than their peers, research suggests.
  
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• Parents want TikTok star to encourage kids outdoors

  09-04-2024 07:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Social media posts of the two-year-old exploring the natural world are watched by millions.
  
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