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Charity watchdog opens statutory inquiry into City & Guilds’ sale of business arm

09 January at 16:53 PM, via The Guardian

Bosses at body that trained chef Jamie Oliver were awarded million-pound bonuses after sale to private firm

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The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into City & Guilds’ sale of its qualification awards business to a private company last year.

The announcement has been made after the Guardian revealed last month how City & Guilds bosses were handed...

The Many Lives of a Radical Founder

09 January at 12:01 PM, via New York Times

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago this week, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of his strange and winding story.

‘Immoral’: Cambridge college urged to drop private school recruitment drive

08 January at 22:21 PM, via The Guardian

Alastair Campbell joins graduates and social mobility charities in criticism of Trinity Hall’s new policy

Trinity Hall graduates and leading social mobility charities have called on the University of Cambridge college to scrap its controversial efforts to actively recruit students from elite private schools, describing the new policy as damaging, offensive and a “step backwards” for...

Teachers strike at two Greater Manchester primary schools over ‘culture of violence’

08 January at 19:42 PM, via The Guardian

NASUWT members at Ravensfield and Lily Lane primary schools are staging nine-day walkout over ‘almost daily’ attacks by pupils

Teachers at two primary schools in Greater Manchester say they have been driven to strike because of “almost daily” attacks by pupils, leaving parents bewildered by the industrial action.

Members of the NASUWT teaching union at Ravensfield and Lily Lane primary schools...

Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment

07 January at 20:58 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students

A Cambridge college is to target the recruitment of students from elite private schools, interrupting decades of efforts to boost access for state-educated and disadvantaged pupils, the Guardian has learned.

Fellows at Trinity Hall college last month approved a policy to approach a small group of...

‘For a moment, only that story matters’: my plan to reignite the all-consuming love of books

07 January at 19:06 PM, via The Guardian

Reading for pleasure rates are shockingly low in young people. So we should all get behind a new drive to turn them into avid readers. Why not start with books about art?

A girl on the cusp of adolescence gazes down at a book. Her left hand rests against her flushed pink cheeks, while her right clutches the pages, ready to turn to find out what happens next. She has porcelain-like skin and...

Top union accuses Texas of targeting teachers over Charlie Kirk posts

06 January at 22:54 PM, via The Guardian

American Federation of Teachers sues over what it says are unconstitutional investigations into social media comments

A major Texas teachers’ union filed a federal lawsuit against the state on Tuesday challenging what it describes as unconstitutional investigations into hundreds of educators who posted comments on social media following the September killing of conservative activist Charlie...

The Guardian view on universities: Labour needs a clearer plan | Editorial

06 January at 21:24 PM, via The Guardian

Ministers promised a ‘change of approach’, but their new tax could tip weaker institutions over the edge

Education opens doors, and the expansion of higher education begun under New Labour means that millions of young people who would not previously have gone from school to university have now done so. From 336,000 places accepted in 1997, the total rose by 68% to 563,000 in 2022. In last...

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