12 h. ago Shorter summer break could ease school fatigue for pupils and teachers – expert

Paper recommends four-term year with two-week break in October because current system does not ‘serve modern society’

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26 h. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was the most sinister pupil I've ever seen, says his teacher

Joanne Hodson worked at The Acorns School, in Ormskirk, where Axel Rudakubana was enrolled aged 13 after being expelled from mainstream education for taking a knife into classes.

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53 h. ago Teacher gets life ban for 'mocking' Muslim pupils and tells one girl 'she would have been killed' in Iran for what she was wearing in class

Alex Lloyd, 51, head of sixth form at The Bishop of Winchester Academy in Bournemouth, Dorset, made the remarks during a lesson on honour killings.

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54 h. ago Teacher banned from classroom after telling pupil ‘imagine this was your mum’ in lesson about honour killings

Mr Lloyd will be unable to teach in any school, sixth form or children’s home across England

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55 h. ago Teachers walk out in row over pupil behaviour and claims of bullying

There has been an ongoing strike by members of the NEU teaching union at Flint High School

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4 d. ago ‘A Cartier store is better protected’: Louvre heist puts spotlight on security

Securing historic public-facing buildings has never been easy, and is even less so in times of economic constraintTo break into the world’s most-visited museum in broad daylight, grab eight pieces of priceless Napoleonic jewellery and vanish into the Paris traffic on humble scooters may seem like the most audacious of crimes, carried out for international notoriety and ensuing Hollywood film treatments.Experts who observe trends in international art crime, however, see Sunday morning’s heist at the Louvre as something more prosaic: the latest in a series of smash-and-grab thefts focused more on the material value of precious stones or metals than the artifacts’ significance, continuing a pattern that has emerged over the last decade in Germany, Britain and the US. The location, they suggest, would have been of secondary concern to the criminals. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 'Don't ask pupils questions!' Schools are told teachers must avoid triggering anxiety in children under woke council guidance

Councils across the country are asking schools to make 'adjustments' for children with emotional issues to stop them skipping school.

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6 d. ago Teacher banned from profession after receiving lewd messages from pupil, 15

A teacher has been banned after failing to report indecent images sent to her by a 15-year-old boy who she had entered into an "inappropriate" relationship with

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6 d. ago School where teachers and pupil were stabbed put into lockdown after 'threatening message'

"Police enquiries are ongoing"

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6 d. ago Female teacher is banned from the classroom after swapping thousands of messages with boy pupil, 15, and meeting him outside of school

It was also revealed that the teenager had sent the teacher an explicit image of himself as well as a message containing pornography.

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7 d. ago English Catholic school teacher who groomed and sexually assaulted three female pupils told one 'I'm old enough to be your dad'

Predatory Leo Norman, 46, sexually assaulted three teenage students over a five year period, inappropriately touching and 'caressing' them at their school.

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7 d. ago Lockdown at Welsh school where teachers and pupil were stabbed

Parents were informed that all students and staff were safe

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8 d. ago Headteacher facing claims she 'allowed pupil to see her breasts on school trip'

A head teacher faces claims she allowed a pupil to see her breasts on a school trip and kissed him on the cheek at a Halloween disco.

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9 d. ago Teacher struck off after ‘explicit’ sexual conversations with pupils

Newly qualified English teacher banned for two years after ‘extremely misjudged’ remarks to pupils

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9 d. ago Former teacher at Eton College found guilty of sexually abusing a pupil

Reading Crown Court heard how former Russian teacher Jacob Leland abused his relationship with pupils and members of staff

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9 d. ago Former Eton College teacher who performed sex act on pupil found guilty

Reading Crown Court heard Jacob Leland, a former Eton teacher, sexually abused a student while he worked there between September 2010 and August 2012

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1 week ago Teacher banned from classroom over 'conversations about sex toys' with pupils

Kathryn Matthews, who had been working at The Westleigh School in Wigan for two months, was suspended following the incident, which came to light following a conversation between pupils

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1 week ago Teacher struck off for talking about sex toys and orgasms with pupils

Kathryn Matthews was suspended following the incident, which came to light following a conversation between pupils

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1 week ago Teacher struck off after 'conversations about orgasms and sex toys' with pupils

Ms Kathryn Matthews has been banned from teaching

Society

1 week ago Two primary school pupils die within hours of each other as teachers left heartbroken

The two children, who attended Carr Lodge Academy in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, died within 24 hours of each other, with staff saying they will be supporting pupils in the coming days and weeks

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