4 d. ago Children’s services should come before Parliament over Sara Sharif failings – MP

Surrey County Council has apologised after a safeguarding review found a series of missed opportunities to protect the 10-year-old.

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4 d. ago Murdered Sara Sharif failed by system that missed opportunities to save her

The 10-year-old was found dead at her Surrey home in August 2023 after suffering ‘horrific abuse’ at the hands of her father and stepmother.

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4 d. ago Humans can no longer distinguish AI music from real music, study finds

New survey finds 97 per cent of people failed to distinguish AI-generated tracks

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5 d. ago Thousands of pupils in Scots schools face more time off in coming months as teachers urged to walk out of classrooms

THOUSANDS of youngsters across Scotland could end up out of the classroom amid a strike threat. Teachers have been urged to back industrial action after a union boss blasted Nats ministers over a botched promise on class times. The SNP promised to reduce contact time to 21 hours in their 2021 manifesto. But the Educational...

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5 d. ago Parents warned of major school changes with attendance targets

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will announce a roadmap for every school to ramp up efforts to support pupils back to class amid a third of schools are still failing to improve

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7 d. ago Teenager and parent join planned legal action calling for school phone ban

Flossie McShea, 17, and Katie Moore, 43, want to see a complete statutory ban on smartphones in schools.

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1 week ago Bridget Phillipson accused of 'sacrificing' the 3Rs for her 'political posturing' on climate change

The Education Secretary was savaged in the House of Commons today after announcing all primary school children will get 'citizenship' classes.

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1 week ago The Guardian view on the Francis curriculum review: raising the right questions in a world with few certain answers | Editorial

In an age of increasingly capable machines, it makes sense for schools to value creativity and life skills as part of a well-rounded educationSocieties evolve and schools are under pressure to adapt, but some features of education policy are perennial. For example, modernisation will always be denounced as a dilution of standards. Inevitably, Conservatives have leapt on recommendations by an independent review, commissioned by the government, as proof that Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, is “dumbing down” the curriculum.The basis of these charges is that the review, led by Becky Francis, professor of education at University College London, proposes reducing the burden of GCSE exams and scrapping the English baccalaureate – a cluster of subjects that, when taken together, constitute a metric of success recognised in school league tables. Conservatives are also unhappy about the notion that primary schoolchildren should learn about the climate crisis and be encouraged to ...

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1 week ago Phillipson: New year 8 reading test will sit alongside maths and writing tests

Bridget Phillipson told MPs a statutory reading test will run alongside ‘diagnostic’ maths and writing tests

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1 week ago 11 major school changes that parents need to know in curriculum shake

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has promised that her major shake-up of the school curriculum will prepare kids for a world that is 'changing more rapidly than ever'

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1 week ago Ed Sheeran welcomes school curriculum changes to boost study of music

The said the move diversifying the music genres taught in schools and removes ‘outdated systems that stop kids from studying music and the arts’.

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1 week ago Ed Sheeran praised by Keir Starmer as government announces changes to music education in UK schools

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson announces government plans to ‘revitalise arts education’ after Sheeran published an open letter backed by Harry Styles, Stormzy and Elton John

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1 week ago AI to be added to curriculum in English schools amid education shakeup

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced the biggest national curriculum review for a decade

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1 week ago Brexit and austerity still causing ‘major problems’ for economy – Phillipson

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson’s comments came after Chancellor Rachel Reeves prepared the ground for tax hikes in her November 26 Budget.

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1 week ago Minister doubles down on Reeves’ doom warning: ‘We will do what’s right for the future of our economy’

While the education secretary insisted the government takes its manifesto pledges seriously, she said there are ‘major problems’ plaguing the economy

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1 week ago Proposed year 8 tests should not be used to measure schools – review chief

The final report of the curriculum and assessment review has recommended introducing new English and maths tests in year 8.

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1 week ago Government announces plan to cut GCSE exam time by up to three hours

The final curriculum review report, commissioned by Labour last year, has recommended exam volume at key stage 4 be reduced by 10%.

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2 w. ago Union says Government plan for schools to teach sciences separately at GCSE will flop due to teacher shortage

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is set to announce that all children should be taught Biology, Physics and Chemistry and be examined on them separately again.

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2 w. ago No children in schools where there are concerns over building safety – DfE

Early indications from DfE research are showing there are no systematic issues across the education estate from system builds, MPs were told.

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2 w. ago BRIDGET PHILLIPSON: 'Every school will be free of dangerous concrete by end of this Parliament'

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says 'walls and ceilings made from dangerous concrete held up by steel props, shabby classrooms that tell children they simply don't matter'

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