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Years of Conservative government has caused NHS crisis, says Shadow Education Secretary
We spoke to Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson and asked her what she made of the Prime Minister’s promises today.
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Childrens’ education hampered by staff crisis, says Ofsted
The public sector wage squeeze that’s prompting mass strikes this winter also seems to be contributing to a workforce crisis in the education system.
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Lecturers have ‘considerable amount of government funding’, says education secretary
The NHS isn’t the only part of the public sector facing strike action. University lecturers are already staging walkouts and teaching unions are balloting for action. We spoke to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan following an announcement that the government is giving universities and colleges £490 million to invest in facilities – and asked her if…
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British public ‘should have a say’ in general election, says shadow education secretary
We were joined by Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson.
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People hadn’t ‘cottoned onto‘ scale of change PM was proposing, says education secretary
Krishnan Guru-Murthy is joined by the Education Secretary Kit Malthouse.
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Kabul: Suicide bomb blast kills at least 19 people at education centre
A suicide bomber has killed 19 people and injured dozens more at an education centre in Afghanistan where teenage girls were sitting an exam.
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Unions using ‘young people’ as bargaining chip by striking during exams, education minister says
Earlier Cathy spoke to the Government minister Michelle Donelan and began by asking her, how it is that pensioners deserve a ten per cent rise in their income and public sector workers don’t deserve anything like that?
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‘You have no humanity if you don’t feel something inside you, just hurt when you see that’ – education secretary on Ukraine war
The education secretary Nadhim Zahawi is an Iraqi Kurd who left his home country when he was just 11, his family fearing for their lives under Saddam Hussein.
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Government’s decision on exams is the right one, says education committee chair
We spoke to the chair of the education select committee, Conservative MP Robert Halfon.
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“Mad anti-vax people” talk “nonsense”, Education Secretary says
We spoke to Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi and began by asking him how confident he is that schools can avoid a return to online learning.
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Closing schools is ‘entirely wrong thing to do’, chair of education select committee says
At his press conference, the prime minister said 12 to 15-year-olds could book a second dose of the coronavirus vaccine from Monday, and urged parents to get their children jabbed before the new term begins next year.
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Afghanistan ‘is in crisis and nobody knows how to control it’, says girls’ education activist
It has been nearly a month since the Taliban effectively banned girls from secondary education by ordering schools to re-open only for boys. Millions of teenage girls across the country are now denied the opportunity to continue their education.
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‘Fertility education is not just for girls’, says Prof Geeta Nargund
With me now is Katherine O’Brien who is a spokesperson for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. And we’re also joined by Professor Geeta Nargund who is the founder of CREATE Fertility, which runs fertility clinics.
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Drive to tackle inequality ‘put off track a bit’ by pandemic, education minister says
We spoke to Education Minister Gillian Keegan and began by asking how much confidence there should be in today’s results.
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Tory MP hopes education spending plans are ‘starter and not the main course’
Before the news of Sir Kevan Collins’ resignation emerged, we spoke to the Conservative MP and chair of the Commons Education Committee, Robert Halfon, and 15-year-old Thea Roland, a school pupil who has just finished her GCSEs.