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This week, the Education Policy Institute publishes a detailed assessment of what the three largest parties say about education in England. School funding, and the budget pressures being faced by schools, was an issue already being felt in schools and Westminster alike. So it is not surprising to...
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May 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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School reassures parents following yesterday’s tougher maths exams The first “big, fat” maths exams have knocked the confidence of even able students as they prepare to sit two more papers, teachers have warned. Yesterday was the first time students have sat one of the government’s tougher, reformed maths exam papers. One...
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May 26, 2017 Loknath Das
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This article is part of the Big Shortcut, an eight-part series exploring the exponential rise in online learning for high school students who have failed traditional classes. An increasing number of states are getting serious about vetting the online education companies that are now responsible for instructing a...
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May 25, 2017 Loknath Das
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A transgender “bathroom bill” reminiscent of one in North Carolina that caused a national uproar now appears to be on a fast-track to becoming law in Texas, though it may only apply to public schools. A broader proposal mandating that virtually all transgender people in the country’s second-largest...
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May 22, 2017 Loknath Das
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Failing schools will be banned from expanding, under the Conservatives’ education proposals. The Tory manifesto states that ministers will bar councils from creating new places at schools that have been rated “inadequate” or “requires improvement” by Ofsted, the regulator. It also pledges to create online maps which will...
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May 18, 2017 Loknath Das
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Education alone cannot tackle eating disorders – it’s the whole of society who must shoulder that burden, writes the former government mental health champion In the UK, diagnosable eating disorders are said to affect 1.6 million of us. That’s before we even consider those with “disordered eating” patterns, compulsive...
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May 17, 2017 Loknath Das
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