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Sub-standard training putting children’s lives at risk, warns select committee for children, schools and families
Social work training is unfit for purpose, according to a damning report by MPs out today. The Commons select committee for children, schools and families warns that children’s lives are being put at risk because social workers are not being prepared [...]
Universities should reduce their emissions outputs at a faster rate than the rest of the country, funders say
Universities should exceed ambitious national targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the government’s higher education funding body said today.
Launching a new consultation on how the higher education sector can reduce its carbon footprint, the Higher Education Funding Council [...]
The backbench Liberal Democrat Phil Willis is looking a tad battered and bruised. He has been hauled over the coals for his expenses claims and will be leaving Parliament at the next election. But he has one more salvo to fire as chairman of the Commons innovation, universities, science and skills committee.
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Girls are racing ahead of boys in a whole range of skills, from reading and writing to showing the ability to concentrate before they even start their first day of school. An analysis of the basic assessments carried out on every four-year-old before they start compulsory schooling shows a 20 percentage point gap already emerging [...]
In his first big speech on higher education this week at Birkbeck College in London, Lord Mandelson, the Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills, endorsed Alan Milburn’s desire to see universities using more “contextual” information to admit students from poorer backgrounds. That is shorthand for universities, particularly top universities, admitting disadvantaged students on lower A-level [...]
Monday morning rituals don’t come much better. As their classmates are shepherded into assembly, a handful of pupils at Woodingdean Primary School are given leave to potter around the garden, dousing parched plants with water after one of the hottest weekends of the summer. In her blue dress and dainty shoes, Elizabeth Aloof, 10, resembles [...]
Most people, if asked about home education, would probably picture a child being tutored at home by his parents; perhaps working at the kitchen table rather than sitting in a classroom. This was indeed the case with my own daughter whom I have taught since she was a baby. Sadly, this image is very much [...]
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Children’s Minister Delyth Morgan today launched a new strategy outlining how Government will work with the third sector to improve the life chances of children, young people and their families at a visit to the … (2009/0145)
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