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May avoids defeat, rebels get climbdown
The bluff worked and the government folded. It desperately wanted to avoid a defeat.
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More than a quarter of children in England begin primary school unable to speak in full sentences or read simple words. The Education Secretary pledged to cut that number in half over the next ten years. Damian Hinds said if children were “behind from the start” they were rarely able to catch up.
Traditionally, exclusion from school has been the last resort for pupils who were so disruptive it made teaching others impossible. But according to an MPs’ report out today, rising numbers of young people are being banished from mainstream education for a host of other reasons. They’re concerned the trend is affecting children living in poverty,…
The bluff worked and the government folded. It desperately wanted to avoid a defeat.
A cache of emails, obtained by Channel 4 News, reveals how Kensington and Chelsea council struggled to cope with the crisis in the days following Grenfell fire.
A black applicant to Oxford has a better chance of getting an offer than the average student applying for the same course with the same predicted grades.
Liberal Democrat education spokesperson, Layla Moran, used to work as a maths and physics teacher in Brussels and London.
According to previously unseen documents obtained by Channel 4 News, Cambridge Analytica was pitching its “unique” social media data and “psychographic profiling” to multiple Republican election campaigns in the US after harvesting the profiles of up to 87 million mostly American Facebook users.
Over the last decade the number of students in higher education has risen fast. But the number taking their own lives has risen faster. It’s nearly doubled in ten years, in England and Wales. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt wants universities to offer students more support. But what can they do?
Not so much a gap – more of a chasm: the difference in gender pay across the public sector is worse than those revealed so far by private firms, according to new figures. Today is the final deadline for public bodies to reveal pay levels for men and women – and it reveals a startling…
Catalonia’s former President has been detained in Germany on an international warrant as he tried to enter the country from Denmark. Carles Puigdemont fled Spain after a failed bid by his regional government to declare independence in October. He faces up to 25 years in prison in Spain on charges of rebellion for organising October’s…
In the race to capitalise on the secrets of the human genome, scientists at Cambridge University, the European Bioinformatics Institute, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, have now mapped the genomes of 50,000 individual people. Half way to their target of 100,000 genomes.
The average UK vice chancellor gets paid six times as much as a lecturer. And there’s no evidence that senior pay is linked to university performance.
Theresa May has announced a sweeping review of higher education in England, admitting the system of university tuition is amongst the most expensive in the world. The Prime Minister said the review would look at the whole system of student funding, but she also made clear that she did not favour scrapping tuition fees in…
Despite what Labour’s claim appears to suggest, this is not a case of the government taking free school meals from a million children who are currently receiving them.
You might remember him as “the man who broke the Bank of England”, but George Soros is also at the centre of dozens of conspiracy theories. Here’s why they don’t stack up.