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The year 3 pupils at Park End Primary School in Middlesbrough are a bit of a rowdy bunch. Headteacher Julia Rodwell describes them as “a complex and difficult group”. Put them in front of a chess set though, and silence descends. “The first time I saw them playing...
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June 26, 2017 Loknath Das
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The blood stains on the classroom walls couldn’t be washed away following the Taliban attack on the middle school in Postak Bazaar village in Afghanistan. ‘We had to chip it away from the wall with an axe,’ a school official told Human Rights Watch. But the blood...
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June 20, 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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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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