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Ukraine conflict: African students fleeing war ‘facing racial discrimination’
Hundreds of thousands of desperate people are fleeing Ukraine – among them many African students, who have had their dreams of an education dashed by the violence.
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Birmingham City’s Troy Deeney calls for mandatory teaching of black, Asian and minority ethnic history
The footballer Troy Deeney has launched a campaign to make the teaching of Black, Asian and ethnic minority history mandatory in schools – saying the current education system is failing children from minority backgrounds.
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GCSEs and A-Level exams in 2022 to be graded more generously
Exams across Britain will be graded more generously this year to take account of the disruption to education caused by the pandemic.
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‘New Oliver Twist generation’ in danger of being created, Tory MP says
We spoke to Robert Halfon MP, who’s chair of the Commons Education committee, and began by asking him how, given it was known throughout lockdown children were disappearing from school, the problem has been allowed to get worse.
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‘Ghost children’: Thousands largely absent from school over pandemic, report says
Tens of thousands of children are likely to have been largely absent from school in England since the start of the pandemic, according to a new report.
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Exclusive: ‘Red wall’ voters turn against Tories, poll suggests
Labour is in the lead by 11 points in “red wall” seats, according to an exclusive poll commissioned by Channel 4 News.
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Covid: Nadhim Zahawi says cutting self-isolation to five days would ‘help’ staffing pressures
The Education Secretary, wrestling with teacher shortages because of covid, hinted that reducing the isolation period after a positive covid test could help. That would aid struggling businesses too.
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Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: National review into death of six-year-old
The whole nation is “distraught” at the tragic death of 6-year-old Arthur Labinjo Hughes, the Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has told MPs.
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China Winter Olympics: Human rights groups call for boycott over Uyghur suppression
A cross-party group of MPs has called for their pension fund to divest from companies linked to Xinjiang, the Chinese province where hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uyghur people have been sent to re-education camps and prisons.
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FactCheck: Boris Johnson’s conference speech
Let’s give it the FactCheck treatment.
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‘I think the UK remains incredibly big hearted and welcoming’ – Nadhim Zahawi on migrant crossings
We spoke to the Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi
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Anti-vaccine campaigners targeting secondary schools after jabs go-ahead for 12-15s
New figures show that one in 20 young people at secondary school in England are estimated to have had coronavirus last week.
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Universities reopen their doors after Covid causes worst disruption since WW2
Over the next two weeks in Leeds, more than 70,000 students will arrive at the city’s five separate universities.
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Lib Dem ‘policies will appeal to disgruntled Tory voters’, says Ed Davey
Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has given his keynote speech at the party’s annual conference today, pledging to smash down the Tory’s blue wall.
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Boris Johnson reshuffles cabinet as Williamson sacked and Raab replaced by Truss
A wide-ranging reshuffle has been long promised in government, and today it finally arrived. Boris Johnson promoted Liz Truss to be foreign secretary in place of Dominic Raab. His consolation prize is to be deputy prime minister. There are at least three new faces in the cabinet, including Nadine Dorries, who becomes culture secretary. But…