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The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid a wreath in Poland at a memorial to the thousands of Jewish people who died fighting German forces in the Warsw ghetto uprising in 1943. Elsewhere, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it was a “disgrace” that Jewish schools and synagogues had to be protected by security guards.…
A spending watchdog has warned that paying for schools and hospitals through the Private Finance Initiative will cost hundreds of billions of pounds. The National Audit Office said taxpayers will have to foot a 199 billion pound bill for projects outsourced to private companies over the next three decades under PFI. The report was compiled…
There are talks going on now with the members of the COBRA crisis committee, but this is not a crisis meeting, insists No 10 tonight. Carillion had government contracts worth £1.7 billion, from the rail network to hospitals and schools. But amid a series of profit warnings and mounting debts, the construction giant has collapsed, putting thousands of jobs at…
Children in theory are still too young to be allowed on most social media, yet we know that most children that age are regularly using platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Today, the Children’s Commissioner has warned that children leaving primary school are “ill-equipped” for the “emotional risks” of social media as they head into…
The Conservatives can’t explain how they’ve calculated the claim that the economy has grown 15.8 per cent since 2010. FactCheck investigates.
Renowned as one of the last Caribbean pristine islands. Now the bulldozers are at work. World renowned seabird colonies and coral reefs. But the land is being flattened for an international airport. “We need our brothers and sisters to stand up and defend your birthright. This is our birthright. And it’s being taken away from us by a…
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…
Four months after the Grenfell Tower disaster, all five members of one family – both parents and three children – were laid to rest today following funeral prayers at East London Mosque. Among them, an amazing 12-year-old girl named Firdaws Hashim, who weeks earlier in the year had won a celebrated schools debating competition. Bill…
In his speech to the Labour Party conference in Brighton, the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell announced a radical change in the way that a Labour government would pay for building new schools, hospitals and prisons. Huge public building projects would no longer be funded by private finance, and even existing PFI contracts would be “brought…
The research that Mr McDonnell cites actually estimates that it could cost £20bn to write off student debt by 2050.
One in four 14-year-old girls has experienced some sort of depression, according to government-funded research into 10,000 children. Jessica People, who experienced depression in her teens, and Natasha Devon, the government’s mental health champion for schools until the position was axed in May 2016, discuss the findings.
The former chief inspector of schools for England, Sir Michael Wilshaw, says the government needs to ensure that academy sponsors have the capacity to improve schools. It follows the news that Wakefield City Academies Trust has pulled out of running all of its 21 schools.
Earlier we spoke to the schools minister Nick Gibb. I began by asking him what grades he got for his GCSE’s.
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Award-winning Channel 4 News journalist and presenter Jon Snow delivers the prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at Edinburgh International Television Festival.
White students are twice as likely to get into Oxbridge as black applicants. And what about the school you went to? FactCheck looks at which types of applicant are most successful at the UK’s most famous universities.