Seven charts on the £73,000 co...
The amount spent on schools is a source of frequent controversy. So, where does all the money for educating the country’s...
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Migrant workers send home £8bn...
Migrant workers in the UK, many in low-paid jobs, are sending £8bn a year to support families in their home countries, says a report...
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Julie becomes tearful when she starts talking about her autistic son’s struggle to stay in school. “He has been taught...
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Students in England are being promised the option of “accelerated” two-year degree courses, saving 20% on tuition fees...
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A students’ union officer who leaked photos showing students wearing “offensive” T-shirts says what was written on...
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Pupils in schools where smartphones are banned like being free of the associated pressures, says England’s Children’s...
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School isolation rooms: ‘The shelves, the windows, the bare walls… every single day’ “The windows, the bare...
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Academics who are frightened to explore controversial topics, in case it provokes a backlash, will soon have a safer route to publish...
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If teachers want to have high status they should work in classrooms in China, Malaysia or Taiwan, because an international survey...
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Children want adults to show each other more respect, with four out of 10 (41%) seeing grown-ups bullying each other in the past six...
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Overseas student numbers are “flatlining” and the government must “press reset” to tempt them back, says a...
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Too many graduates in England are being left with big debts for too little payback, MPs are warning. Nearly half of recent graduates...
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Children with learning disabilities are being let down by society, according to a report by a leading health inequality expert. Prof...
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Parents have alleged a pupil attending Stoke High School is an adult possibly aged in his 30s A secondary school pupil is being...
read moreTuition fees cut to £6,500 but...
Tuition fees in England’s universities could be cut to £6,500 – but with much higher fees, up to £13,500, proposed for...
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By Leo Kelion – University classes are set to be given a futuristic spin by letting lecturers appear as hologram-like...
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Teachers at a school in Edinburgh have been sent home without pay after refusing to teach pupils they claim are violent and abusive....
read moreChancellor pledges £400m for &...
Schools in England are to receive a one-off £400m to buy “that extra bit of kit”, the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has...
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The number of students seeking mental health support while studying at university has increased by more than 50% in five years,...
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The Central European University (CEU) in Budapest has threatened to move most of its teaching to Vienna if Hungary’s government...
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UPTON SINCLAIR AWARD WINNERS 2017
Dr. Martin Haberman 1932 – 2012
