Birmingham: DCLG tried to stop Clarke appointment
The DCLG objected to Michael Gove’s plan to pull in a former head of police counter terrorism operations to oversee an investigation into schools in Birmingham.
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She was an inspirational teacher who never gave up on her pupils. As Corpus Christi College in Leeds mourns Ann Maguire, her death raises many questions – not least about security in schools.
Police identify 11 new potential suspects connected to historic claims of child sex abuse at a children’s care home in Rochdale linked to the late Sir Cyril Smith.
Students watched in horror as much-loved teacher Ann Maguire was stabbed to death at a college in Leeds. A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the incident.
In a fiery Channel 4 News debate on an alleged Muslim “plot” to take over Birmingham schools, Labour MP Khalid Mahmood says “you have got to keep education secular” – but what do you think?
The jihadist group’s escalating campaign of terror has claimed 4,000 civilian lives in just four years, and Boko Haram is now linked to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls. But who are they?
Foreign Secretary William Hague offers help in the hunt for more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls as ex-PM Gordon Brown, now UN education envoy, tells Channel 4 News the world must wake up.
The FBI is asking potential victims of an American paedophile who taught at a private school in London to come forward.
More than just pasties: there has been a Cornish king, a flag, and a language. No wonder Cornish people have just won “minority rights” in the UK.
Last week’s kidnapping of 230 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria, which is being blamed on the Islamist group Boko Haram, has plunged the region into chaos. Will the victims ever be seen again?
The DCLG objected to Michael Gove’s plan to pull in a former head of police counter terrorism operations to oversee an investigation into schools in Birmingham.
A “boys’ club” culture, sexual bullying in schools and austerity endangering women’s protection are findings of the UN’s special rapporteur on women and violence. Now she’s been barred from Yarlswood.
With most schools in the UK having finished for the Easter holidays, there will no doubt be lots of parents wondering what this week and the forthcoming bank holiday will deliver.
Schools watchdog Ofsted investigates 25 Birmingham schools over claims they’re at the centre of an Islamist plot. Council leader Sir Albert Bore says the letter the claims are based on may be fake.
“Sir Isaac Newton would be turning in his grave”: physicists are appalled at the gravity of equation errors in the government’s new GCSE combined science syllabus.
The big tobacco firms are on the warpaths as the government says it wants Australian-style plain packaging. What does the evidence say?