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Government opens £15m funding pot for primary schools to open nurseries
A £15 million funding pot has been launched, to help open up to 300 nurseries in primary schools in England.
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Smartphone ban ‘opportunity to build pressure on tech giants’, says Labour MP
Labour MP Josh MacAlister joined us from Westminster.
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Labour MP brings bill to legally ban mobile phones in schools
Research shows the average 12-year-old in the UK spends 21 hours a week on their smartphone, the equivalent to a part time job.
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Will an exodus of private school pupils ‘overwhelm’ the state sector when VAT is added to fees?
A VAT charge on private school fees is planned to be introduced from January 2025 – which will affect 6% of UK children who are currently in private education.
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Ruth Perry’s sister ‘relieved’ at scrapping of one-word school grades
Simple headline ratings for schools have been scrapped.
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Exam results gap widened during ‘setback’ of Covid says Ofqual Chief Regulator
We speak to Sir Ian Bauckham, who is the Chief Regulator of Ofqual, the government department that regulates qualifications in England. We began by asking about the overall picture of today’s results.
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GCSE pass rate returns to pre-Covid levels
GCSE results are out and the pass rate has fallen for the third year in a row, taking it back to around pre-pandemic levels.
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‘International student economy in UK worth 42 billion’, says vice-chancellor of Leeds Beckett University
We spoke to Professor Peter Slee, the vice-chancellor of Leeds Beckett University.
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25 UK universities make a third of income from overseas students
In just two days’ time, thousands of students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will get their A-level results – with many scrambling for places at university.
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The collapse in creative further education
New data given to us by the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC), funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council, has shown a collapse in uptake for creative courses in further education.
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‘Phones are not the problem’, says headteacher on school mobile phone ‘ban’
A crackdown on mobile phones in classrooms was announced today by the Department for Education. Guidance will be given to headteachers as part of an effort to ‘minimise disruption and improve behaviour’ and is intended to include break and lunch periods as well. We spoke to Pepe Dilasio, headteacher of a secondary school in Kiveton,…
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SEND struggle: years out of school waiting for education support
It’s a challenge many families have first-hand experience of, or they know someone who has.
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Exclusive: Scotland school used by Gillian Keegan to change RAAC guidance in England
Scotland’s Education Secretary has told Channel 4 News that a Ministry of Defence school in Perthshire was one of three cases used by Gillian Keegan, her counterpart in the UK government, to justify changing guidance on RAAC in England.
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Concrete crisis: Full list of schools in England affected published
The government has confirmed the names of 147 schools in England that have weak concrete in their buildings.
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Two schools in North Wales closed over concerns about concrete
Two schools in North Wales have been closed over concerns about concrete.
