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  • 1 Feb 2019

    Hazardous ice and more snow flurries are on the way tonight, with much of the country still in the grip of freezing weather.

  • 31 Jan 2019

    A severe weather warning is in force across parts of the UK. Meanwhile, in some areas of the USA, at least eight people have been killed as temperatures hit record lows – even colder than the South Pole.

  • 30 Jan 2019

    With temperatures plummeting again tonight, forecasters have warned that the freezing weather conditions across large parts of the country could block roads, disrupt trains and flights and knock out power supplies, while more than a hundred schools across England and Wales were shut too.

  • 4 Dec 2018

    According to Ofsted’s annual report, 19 thousand pupils vanished from the school roll between 2016 and 2017. Around half of them disappeared without trace.

  • 19 Nov 2018

    Ten thousand homes were destroyed, a third of the schools, and dozens of people died, amid the most destructive wildfires in California’s history.

  • 31 Oct 2018

    Laura Bates founded the Everyday Sexism project in 2012, long before the Me Too movement gained traction. It was a space where women could share their stories of sexual assault and highlight how normalised it had become. She talks to me about where the feminist movement is post-Me Too, why she reluctantly thinks gender quotas…

  • 30 Oct 2018

    The small amount handed out to schools shows just how tight the government finances remain.

  • 25 Oct 2018

    The Government should reverse some of the tax cuts for the rich and big businesses, the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has declared. McDonnell is also calling on the Conservatives to admit their anti-austerity measures ‘had failed’.

  • 23 Oct 2018

    Around 8,000 council workers didn’t turn up to work in Glasgow today, in a strike over equal pay. Dozens of primary schools and nurseries were shut and services from home care to cleaning were disrupted. The action, involving workers from the GMB and Unison unions, folllowed what they called a “lack of progress” on equal pay claims…

  • 11 Oct 2018

    Ofsted inspectors in England could stop using exam results as the key indicator of success – as the chief inspector of schools outlined new plans which she said should reward “real education” instead. Amanda Spielman said the changes didn’t mean going “soft and wishy-washy” – but focussing too narrowly on test results often left little…

  • 10 Oct 2018

    At least nine people are believed to have died in torrential rainstorms on the island of Majorca.

  • 10 Oct 2018
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    Schools rated “outstanding” are not routinely re-inspected, which means that some schools have gone for many years without having their status challenged.

  • 3 Oct 2018

    The debate around Judge Kavanaugh’s alleged behaviour has sparked a wider discussion in schools across the United States and beyond: when should adults be held accountable for actions when they were younger?

  • 28 Sep 2018

    They’re normally the strictest observers of the rules, but today hundreds of headteachers put down their red pens and marched to Downing Street to protest about what they say is a lack of funding for schools. They claim funding in real terms in England has fallen by eight percent since 2010. The government says school…

  • 25 Jul 2018

    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,…

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