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This isn’t a case where two people doing exactly the same job are being paid differently, which would be a clear-cut offence under equal pay legislation.
A survey of 13,000 children has suggested that their career ambitions are massively influenced by how wealthy their parents are and whether they are girls or boys. Girls favoured becoming teachers, nurses and hairdressers, while boys talked of becoming pilots or mechanics. But the survey from the Education and Employers’ charity said girls did focus…
It’s an astonishing statistic . A child was referred to children’s services in England and Wales every 49 seconds last year. The Local Government Association is warning that councils need more resources to help social workers keep children safe, claiming services face a £2bn funding gap by 2020. The Department for Education said it was investing…
Newly-appointed Education Minister Nadhim Zahawi discusses the government reshuffle.
Gary Gibbon
One friend of Andrea Leadsom says the Leader of the House was purposely made to sweat all day yesterday waiting to be reappointed to her role. It doesn’t feel like Mrs May is ready to press the re-set button on that relationship. And there’s a flick of the tail in the treatment of Jo Johnson today…
Conservative MP and chair of the Commons education select committee, Robert Halfon, discusses the reshuffle and Toby Young’s appointment to the board of the Office for Students.
Schools in England could be raising around £150m a year from voluntary donations, research by Channel 4 News suggests. With tight budgets, some headteachers told us they are increasingly reliant on donations to plug the gaps. In November, a primary school in Theresa May’s constituency wrote to parents asking for donations to help pay for items…
Jeremy Hunt said that A&E departments are treating more people in under four hours than they were seven years ago. But he didn’t mention that the number of people waiting more than four hours has gone up too – by 600 per cent.
If education is one key factor affecting a child’s life chances, mental health is arguably just as important. Today the government announced plans to start offering young people in England mental health support in their school or college. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said early intervention would prevent problems becoming more serious, though some have questioned…
A national safeguarding report in Wales has called for all home-educated children to be registered and regularly assessed. There have been growing calls across the UK for the law on home education to be changed, amidst a sharp growth in the number of children thought to be schooled at home. But regulation remains hugely contentious among…
With me now are Dame Ann Leslie, veteran journalist, foreign correspondent and and columnist for The Daily Mail, Kat Banyard – feminist author and co-founder of the education pressure group, UK Feminista and Dr Joanna Williams, author of “Women versus Feminism”
“The truth is that when you look at those who voted to remain, most of them were the better educated people in our country” That’s what the Labour MP for Huddersfield, Barry Sheerman, told a BBC interviewer this week, prompting an angry response from some leave supporters on social media. FactCheck looks at whether he’s…
David Lammy, a former Labour minister for higher education, has published data from Freedom of Information requests showing that very low numbers of black students are going to Oxford and Cambridge. That in itself isn’t news – both the elite universities already publish data on the ethnicity of their students. But the MP has published…
Transcripts from the House of Commons can be quietly edited if politicians’ claims are proved wrong. But the public rarely hears an apology. Here are ten incorrect claims we discovered which were made by government ministers. They were all corrected afterwards – but often not for weeks.
One of the areas coming under the most scrutiny in the audit was education. Fatima Manji has been to meet students at a predominantly non-white school to ask them about race, inequality and how it affects them and their peers.