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Meet the Oxfluencers cashing in on their time at elite universities
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (18+ words) Meet the Oxfluencers cashing in on their time at elite universities'Daily Mail By OLIVIA DEAN, COMMISSIONING EDITOR, FEMAIL...
Labour's class-war plan to stop middle-class dominating top schools
15+ hour, 24+ min ago (884+ words) In what has been seen as another "class war" move, ministers want to break the link between house prices and access to the best schools. Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, suggested this morning that the School Admissions Code could be…...
Bake Off 's Nadiya Hussain QUITS teaching at a primary school
16+ hour, 4+ min ago (1633+ words) By NICK PISA, SENIOR REPORTER Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has had to give up her teaching job at a primary school' because it 'played havoc with her health', she has revealed. In a recent interview she revealed…...
£435m spent by just ten councils transporting SEND children to schools
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (401+ words) By SAM MERRIMAN, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT More than "430million was spent by just ten councils to transport children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to schools last year, new figures show. One local authority in England saw its spending on SEND…...
Families could save £1,400 if schools ease holiday rules
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (34+ words) Families could save "1,400 if schools ease holiday rules in 'common sense' row'Daily Mail Families could save "1,400 if schools ease holiday rules in 'common sense' row By JOWENA RILEY, TRAVEL WRITER...
QUENTIN LETTS: A terrifying thing happened, Bridget cracked a smile
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (595+ words) Bridget'Phillipson is bad enough when snarling class war at Middle England. She's even more unsettling when she tries to exude sweet positivity. Scary Bridget came to the Commons to present her expensive, complicated reforms to the mad world of special…...
Teacher who starred on Educating Cardiff to face misconduct hearing
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (727+ words) A former headteacher who starred on the Channel 4 show Educating Cardiff is set to face a misconduct hearing following her sudden retirement. Joy Ballard starred in the hit 2015 documentary at Willows High School, during a period where she oversaw a…...
Graduate jobs crash to record low as Labour prices young out of work
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (591+ words) By HUGO DUNCAN BUSINESS EDITOR Graduate job opportunities have crashed to a record low as Britain's youth unemployment crisis deepens. In a bleak report that fuelled fears that a "lost generation' of youngsters face a lifetime on out-of-work benefits, jobs…...
Labour's 'class war' on SEND: Ministers target private special schools
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (879+ words) Labour is vowing to strip funding from independent special schools today amid fears of a new 'class war' in education. Ministers are unveiling a major overhaul of support for SEND and disadvantaged pupils with panic mounting over spiralling costs. A…...
Fury at plan to means test funding based on parental income
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (431+ words) By SAM MERRIMAN, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT Labour has been accused of taking its class warfare into schools with plans to means test funding based on parental income, in a move that could penalise hard working families. Today Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson…...