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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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Four unions urge every candidate in general election to promise extra funding for schools The NUT, ATL, NAHT and GMB unions have asked every candidate running in the general election in England and Wales to promise to address “the largest school cuts for a generation”. The four unions’...
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May 14, 2017 Loknath Das
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To ease fears, U.S. Muslim schools reach out to neighbors left right 13/13 left right At a Roman Catholic high school in New York’s Long Island suburbs, two dozen visiting Muslim students knelt and prayed while teens in uniform blazers from the host school looked on. The trip’s...
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May 12, 2017 Loknath Das
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Labour has pledged to invest more than £20bn in schools in England by 2022 by significantly raising business taxes. It said it would protect real-terms schools funding and cut class sizes for five, six and seven-year olds by hiking corporation tax from 19% to 26%. The Lib Dems...
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May 11, 2017 Loknath Das
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The Government’s system for funding new free schools is “incoherent” and offers poor value for taxpayers’ money, an influential parliament committee has found. The Department for Education is spending “well over the odds” in its bid to create 500 more free schools, while local authority buildings crumble, the...
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May 6, 2017 Loknath Das
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For the love of football: (From left) Joint director secondary education, KK Gupta; director, UP secondary education, Aman Nath Verma; education department official, PC Yadav; athlete Gulab Chand and FIFA U-17 WC project director, local organising committee, Joy Bhattacharya, at a seminar in Lucknow to chalk out plans...
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May 5, 2017 Loknath Das
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