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Posts from ‘February, 2010’

Call to scrap school exclusions

Excluding badly behaved pupils from school should be abolished because it punishes vulnerable children, a think tank says.
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Fears over sexual images and children

Children are being increasingly exposed to sexual imagery, with parents finding it difficult to stop it, a report for the Home Office said today.
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Schools careers advice ‘patchy’

Careers advice in schools in England is “patchy and inconsistent”, according to the Institute of Career Guidance.
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Sats boycott vote date announced

A vote on whether to boycott this year’s Sats tests will be held on 15 March, two teaching unions announce.
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100,000 ‘will miss out on first-choice school’

Almost 100,000 children face heartache next week when they discover that they have not been given a place at their preferred choice of secondary school.

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Government ‘to miss Neet target’

The government is predicted to miss its target on reducing the number of teenagers out of education, work or training.
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UK student visa fraud exposed

An undercover investigation by BBC Newsnight has exposed fraud at the heart of the student visa system.
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Young ‘exposed to sexual imagery’

Children are being over-exposed to sexual imagery and tighter media controls are needed, a report for the Home Office says.
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Half of councils fail to report bad teachers

Councils are failing to refer incompetent teachers to General Teaching Council disciplinary hearings, figures disclosed yesterday.

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Exams in Mandarin ‘must be made easier’

The drive to improve the take-up of Mandarin in schools is in danger of collapsing unless exams are made easier, says a leading private school headteacher who pioneered teaching the subject.

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