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05 JUN 2018

Teachers ‘spend a million hours a year’ teaching primary pupils toilet hygiene

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: teachers academic research time UK pupils

Primary school teachers lose more than a million hours of lesson time each year toilet-training children and teaching them basic hygiene, according to new research.

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04 MAY 2018

Teachers to be offered year’s paid sabbatical to improve retention

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: teaching teachers government scheme education

Teachers are to be offered up to a year’s paid sabbatical, in a bid to improve retention rates in the profession. In an address to more than 350 school leaders in Liverpool, education secretary Damian Hinds will announce the £5m scheme.

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19 APR 2018

Grammar school replaces head boy and girl positions with gender-neutral roles

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: education gender-neutral students grammar school

A grammar school has abolished the positions of head boy and girl in favour of gender-neutral roles in order to appoint the "best people for the job". Pupils at Guernsey Grammar School will no longer be shortlisted based on their gender but instead purely on merit.

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20 MAR 2018

University place demand to grow by 300,000 by 2030

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: university places higher education England UK

Hundreds of thousands more university places will be needed by 2030 in order to keep up with demand for degrees, according to a study.

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02 FEB 2018

PM unveils education deal at start of China visit

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: UK China Education Initiative Government

Theresa May has unveiled a new China-UK education deal as she arrived in Wuhan for her first state visit to the country. The education initiative will see the extension of a “pioneering” maths teacher exchange programme, according to the British government.

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Teachers ‘spend a million hours a year’ teaching primary pupils toilet hygiene
05 June, 2018
Teachers to be offered year’s paid sabbatical to improve retention
04 May, 2018
Grammar school replaces head boy and girl positions with gender-neutral roles
19 April, 2018
University place demand to grow by 300,000 by 2030
20 March, 2018
PM unveils education deal at start of China visit
02 February, 2018
Education secretary Justine Greening replaced in cabinet reshuffle
09 January, 2018
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