WEDNESDAY, 19 JUNE 2019, 17:20
Chancellor unhappy with PM binding successor’s hands with big spending commitments
Philip Hammond is so frustrated by Theresa May’s plans to spend billions of pounds on projects to shore up her legacy that he considered resigning, according to government sources.
The chancellor is unhappy with the prime minister’s decision to set out plans to spend up to £27bn on education over three years,...
Tim Ramsey wants all LGBT children to feel free to be themselves – but says Birmingham shows we have a long way to go
The first mention Tim Ramsey ever heard at school of homosexuality was negative, he remembers. “I was in a year 5 lesson and we were looking at the life of a composer. And one of the boys on my table said, this guy is gay. He’s a faggot.”
Ramsey already knew that he was gay, and...
Ed Fidoe, co-founder of School 21, is launching the London Interdisciplinary School, mixing arts, science and business skills
Ed Fidoe, co-founder of School 21, an “outstanding” free school in east London, has spotted a problem. To solve it, he’s opening a university.
It all began in 2012 when he, together with Tony Blair’s former aide Peter Hyman, opened School 21 to give pupils “superpower”
Report calls for national bereavement policy as 41,000 children a year lose a parent
There is no government-led national bereavement policy for schools despite the equivalent of every classroom in the UK containing at least one child who has lost a parent or sibling, according to a report into the consequences of childhood bereavement in the British school system.
The report, by the Cambridge...
Even if A-level or GCSE students have lost a parent, their future depends on being poised to perform on a random day
I met a woman on a train last week who told me about her two sons currently sitting their GCSEs and A-levels. Stressed teens are difficult to live with, so I commiserated with her. But these teens have it worse than most, she explained: their father died last November....
[Guardian] The United States Mission in Nigeria Monday denied reports that the United States has placed a ban on student visa for Nigeria applicants.
A victim of the regime at a notorious children’s home has come forward to tell her story – one of hundreds of accounts of abuse heard by a national inquiry.
One in 10 children in Wales struggle with their speech and language, according to therapists.
Syria’s war is near an end but its universities are struggling to help the country’s recovery.
Scientists have found a muscle that allows dogs to make ‘puppy eyes’ and bond with humans.
With 17,000 children a year separated from jailed mothers in England and Wales, some MPs want change.
The solutions to today’s problems
Earlier today I set you the following puzzles:
1. In this word-sum, each letter stands for one of the digits 0–9, and stands for the same digit each time it appears. Different letters stand for different digits. No number starts with 0.
Author of The Notebook and school’s co-founder says emails to former headmaster are ‘not news’ ahead of trial in August
Bestselling romantic novelist Nicholas Sparks has rejected claims that he fostered an anti-LGBT environment at a school that he co-founded, after emails between him and a former headmaster were leaked to the Daily Beast.
The author of The Notebook and A Walk to Remember...
Families escaping domestic violence will be prioritised for school places, says education secretary.
[Monitor] Kampala -The State minister for Primary Education, Ms Rosemary Seninde, has asked Physical Education teachers in schools to learn Yoga and teach it to students for their physical and mental health benefit.
Education secretary says arguments and disengaged parents cost nine GCSE grades
Children’s home environments have a bigger effect on social mobility than being born into low-income backgrounds or attending underperforming schools, the education secretary has said.
Damian Hinds described the issue as “the last taboo in public policy”, and added that “what parents do is actually more...
Study compared the weights of children whose parents had broken up with those whose parents had not.
[This Day] Abuja -Zambia has introduced the consumption and production of ‘Garri,’ one of Nigeria’s major staple foods, into the country’s school feeding programme.
The test given to the UK’s maths prodigies
Today you are pitting yourselves against the best 13-year-old mathematicians in the UK.
The questions below are taken from last week’s Junior Mathematical Olympiad, a competition aimed at children up to Year 8 (in England) who score in roughly the top half per cent of mathematical ability.
Former universities minister warns that the lack of vocational alternatives is entrenching inequality
England’s education system is failing young people who don’t go to university because there are too few quality routes for vocational education, says David Lammy, a Labour MP.
“If you are academic, [England] is still one of the best countries in which to be born, particularly if you’re...
Tackling mental health problems needs ‘urgent attention’, says the prime minister.