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Education

Oxford historian faces deportation from UK after doing research on India … in India

16 March at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Home Office told Manikarnika Dutta to quit Britain for spending too many days abroad for study

A high-achieving academic has been threatened with deportation from the UK because the Home Office says she has spent too many days conducting her research requiring access to historic Indian archives stored in India.

Manikarnika Dutta, 37, a historian, conducted the research as part of her academic...

Hundreds of English academy heads paid over £150k, as number ‘on gravy train’ doubles in five years

16 March at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

School leaders attacked as ‘an unaccountable elite’ after years of below-inflation pay rises for teachers

A record 775 heads of school academies in England were given pay packages worth more than £150,000 in 2022-23, sparking allegations of an unaccountable “gravy train”.

Figures published last week by the Department for Education (DfE) reveal that nearly a third of academy trusts (30.8%)...

Primary Sats ‘working well’ but Gove’s Ebacc needs scrutiny, review chief says

15 March at 16:45 PM, via The Guardian

Curriculum chair satisfied with tests in year 6 and year 2 and says system performing well despite Covid setbacks

National tests for primary school pupils will be backed by the government’s curriculum review but it is likely to call for an end to a policy introduced by Michael Gove for students taking GCSEs, the head of the review has suggested.

Prof Becky Francis, the chair of the curriculum...

British Council accused of forcing gig economy teachers into ‘feeding frenzy’ for work

15 March at 13:09 PM, via The Guardian

With regular teaching hours unavailable, agency tutors must compete for lessons

The British Council has been accused of exploiting hundreds of agency teachers on zero-hour contracts forced to compete for lessons in a “feeding frenzy” every week.

An open letter from teaching staff reveals the prestigious government-funded public body does not offer regular hours to tutors on its popular English...

From profiteroles to moles: project uncovers gulls’ surprising diet

15 March at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Salford University findings show gulls are predators – not just opportunists snatching people’s snacks

In pictures: Octopus? Ice cream? Is there anything gulls don’t eat?

Gulls are renowned for snatching chips from tourists’ hands, but a scientific project has revealed the greedy birds also like to tuck into moles and quench their thirst with seal milk.

The discovery was among several...

‘He nails it on the first take’: how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice

15 March at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

After John Harris’s son was diagnosed, conversation always seemed focused on the things he would struggle with. But a shared passion for playing music grew into something James could do – brilliantly

I start playing songs to my son James from the moment he is born. If I’m given the job of rocking him back to sleep, I usually put on reggae: Junior Murvin’s Police and Thieves and Dawn...

Calls to close RAF Wethersfield asylum centre after high court rules vulnerable migrants put there unlawfully – as it happened

14 March at 19:23 PM, via The Guardian

Campaigners welcome decision saying Home Office acted unlawfully

Downing Street has declined to comment on claims that half the cabinet would like Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, to rethink the proposed cuts to disability benefits. (See 9.23am.)

Asked about the report at the Downing Street lobby briefing, the No 10 spokesperson would not comment on what happened at cabinet this week – which is...

Would Schools Close in a Future Pandemic?

13 March at 11:00 AM, via New York Times

Five years after the global Covid pandemic was declared, there is widespread agreement that closing classrooms was devastating for children. Here is what leaders say they may do next time.

Teacher vacancy rates at record high in England, report finds

13 March at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

NFER says pupil behaviour, stagnant pay and inflexible working practices contributing to exodus from workforce

Teachers in England are abandoning the classroom over worsening pupil behaviour, stagnant pay and inflexible working practices, leaving vacancies at their highest rate on record, according to a report.

It warned that this month’s spending review was the government’s “last...

MP calls for inquiry into labelling of black pupils as ‘educationally subnormal’

13 March at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Kim Johnson tells parliament lessons must be learnt from poor treatment of children at institutions in 1960s and 70s

The historic injustice of a scandal in which black children were incorrectly labelled “educationally subnormal” and sent to schools for physically and mentally disabled pupils must be addressed with a public inquiry, an MP has said.

Kim Johnson, the Labour MP for Liverpool...

Use it or lose it: how to sharpen your brain as you age – podcast

13 March at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Many of us believe that cognitive decline is an inevitable part of ageing, but a new study looking at how our skills change with age challenges that idea. Ian Sample talks to Ludger Woessmann, a professor of economics at the university of Munich and one of the study’s authors, to find out how the team delved into the data to come to their conclusions, and what they discovered about how we can...

Education department slashed in half after Trump administration mass firings

12 March at 17:39 PM, via The Guardian

More than 1,300 dismissals seem first step toward quashing US agency entirely as education secretary touts ‘efficiency’

The Trump administration has decimated the US Department of Education, firing more than 1,300 employees in a single day in what looks to be the first step toward abolishing the agency entirely.

The mass dismissal – delivered by email after most staff had left for the day on...

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