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11 MAY 2017

“Shorter school week should be considered”

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: shorter schools week UK education government

The recent National Association of Head Teachers conference has sparked debate between headteachers, with some saying that government ministers are not listening to them.

 

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24 APR 2017

Corbyn: Labour to halt rise of 'super-sized' school classes

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: education government manifesto general election

Jeremy Corbyn has claimed that children are being “crammed in classrooms like sardines” and pledged to keep class sizes down if he wins the general election, in the latest of a series of high-profile interventions on education issues.

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31 MAR 2017

Key stage one SATs to be scrapped

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: key stage one examination reforms education

Controversial national curriculum tests taken by six and seven-year-olds in England are to be scrapped under radical new government proposals. Justine Greening, the education secretary, first announced she would seek views on changes to primary testing last year.

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22 MAR 2017

Canadian teacher wins $1M global prize

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: global teacher prize school education

A school teacher working in an indigenous community in the remote Canadian Arctic has been awarded a US $1million (£803,000) global teaching prize for her work helping to reduce teenage suicide rates.

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02 MAR 2017

Sex education to be compulsory in all schools

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: sex education schools government policy UK

Sex and relationships education (RSE) is to be made compulsory in all schools in England, the government has announced. The Education Secretary, Justine Greening, says that all children from the age of four will be taught about safe and healthy relationships and children in secondary schools will be given age-appropriate lessons about sex.

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“Shorter school week should be considered”
11 May, 2017
Corbyn: Labour to halt rise of 'super-sized' school classes
24 April, 2017
Key stage one SATs to be scrapped
31 March, 2017
Canadian teacher wins $1M global prize
22 March, 2017
Sex education to be compulsory in all schools
02 March, 2017
The National School Exercise Scheme
20 February, 2017
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