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Boys to be sent on courses to tackle misogyny in schools
[ad_1] Sima Kotecha,Senior UK correspondentand Hazel Shearing,Education correspondent PA Media Teachers will be given training to spot and tackle misogyny in the classroom, while high-risk pupils could be sent on behavioural courses as part of the government’s long-awaited strategy to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the next…
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Thrillers should be on UK school curriculum to boost reading, says Lee Child | Schools
[ad_1] Too much of the literature taught in UK schools is putting children off reading and thrillers should become part of the curriculum, one of the world’s biggest selling authors has argued. Lee Child, the British writer of Jack Reacher novels, which have sold more than 100m copies worldwide, said:…
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Why do we stop singing when we reach secondary school?
[ad_1] Kate McGoughEducation reporter Dan Nelson / BBC Many children find themselves singing at school in the run up to Christmas – at a nativity play or carol concert, often with parents watching proudly on. But new data suggests singing is a much less common occurrence throughout the rest of…
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Gaza PhD student and family evacuated to UK after Foreign Office U-turn | Gaza
[ad_1] The UK government has finally evacuated Manar al-Houbi, the Gaza student who won a fully funded scholarship to pursue her PhD at the University of Glasgow, along with her family from the war-ravaged territory this week. In October, the Guardian highlighted Houbi’s desperate battle to get her family evacuated…
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Head teacher serving school dinners due to ‘catering failings’
[ad_1] Jeremy Sternand Ben Marvell,Wiltshire BBC Head teacher Brett Jouny said G4S had not been able to regularly provide hot food at his school, which had forced him into its kitchens A head teacher said he was forced into his school’s kitchen due to ongoing problems with a hot meal…
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Regulator ‘asleep at the wheel’ over University of Greater Manchester investigation, MP says | Office for Students
[ad_1] England’s universities regulator has been attacked for being “asleep at the wheel” over its delays in investigating suspected fraud, bullying and mismanagement at the University of Greater Manchester. Phil Brickell, the MP for Bolton West whose constituency adjoins the campus, has accused the Office for Students (OfS) of failing…
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University threatened with legal action after protest at event
[ad_1] A leading academic who led a recent government review into sex and gender data collection has threatened legal action against the University of Bristol, claiming it failed to protect her freedom of speech. Prof Alice Sullivan has also written to the university regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), after…
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New York school board investigates wooden ‘timeout’ box allegations | New York
[ad_1] A school district board in upstate New York is investigating school officials amid accusations that the district may have confined elementary school students inside wooden “timeout” boxes. Images of the boxes, which resemble tiny padded cells, first spread on social media last week, after a former member of the…