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Jewish schools in London shut amid Hamas call for day of jihad
Move comes despite advice from Jewish security group that schools should remain open, while police have said there are no specific threats
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Four Jewish schools in London close over safety concerns amid Israel war
Torah Vodaas Primary, Ateres Beis Yaakov Primary, Menorah High School and an unnamed fourth school said they would not reopen until Monday
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Pupil absence 60pc higher than pre-pandemic levels
Official figures reveal one in 50 pupils in state schools in England was absent without permission in first month of new school term
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Teach rap and grunge in music lessons to diversify curriculum, schools told
Classrooms could soon reverberate to sounds of 2Pac, 50 Cent, Eminem, Nirvana and Pearl Jam under new recommendations
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Foreign students and workers who praise Hamas ‘could be expelled from UK’
Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, asks Home Office officials to look into how visas might be revoked
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How pushy parents are making teaching almost unbearable
Forget tight budgets and disruptive kids – it's the parents who are driving a crisis in schools
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Private schools group is ‘arrogant’, says Bridget Phillipson
Shadow education secretary described as 'very chippy' by Independent Schools Council, but she promises to press ahead with VAT raid
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Labour set to water down Rishi Sunak’s ‘maths to 18’ pledge
New focus on primary schools numeracy expected to be unveiled on Wednesday by shadow education secretary
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‘We can make Labour government follow radical agenda,’ John McDonnell tells activists
Corbyn-era shadow chancellor tells union to ‘maintain alliances’ until they can challenge the ‘neoliberal concept of education’
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Sunak’s elitist A-level tinkering is driving me mad
Even his splendid wife Akshata couldn’t save the Prime Minister's conference party piece – it’s time to overhaul learning at a younger age
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Seven-year-olds with poor reading skills double in number since pandemic
Cohort of 6,000 pupils tested by the National Foundation for Educational Research found disadvantaged children remain months behind peers
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Sunak scraps A-levels and pledges to end ‘rip-off degrees’
Advanced British Standard will create ‘parity between academic and technical’, says PM as he seeks education overhaul
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University offers a degree in magic
Exeter says postgraduate students are able to study dragons, witches and legend of King Arthur in latest course
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Teach children about successful working-class figures, says academic
Schools should hold up the likes of Stormzy and Marcus Rashford as role models instead of trying to turn pupils into ‘middle-class clones’
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Mobile phones to be banned in state school classrooms
Gillian Keegan is set to ban smartphones from classrooms both during lessons and in breaktimes
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Don’t let China take over our schools
American schools are wrong to enter into financial contracts with Chinese entities
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Labour’s tax plan ‘will mean private schools focus more on foreign pupils’
Britain’s ‘top headmaster’ accuses Starmer of trying to tax institutions like his out of existence
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Labour stoking ‘class war’ with private school VAT raid, warns Sunak
Fees could soar and punish aspirational parents, with head teachers warning that some may even be forced to close
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Rugby School housemistress suspended after ‘sexual banter’ with female student
Jocelyn D’Arcy was also accused of causing ‘distress and fear’ during a lunchtime when she threw a pupil's phone, a tribunal heard
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A-levels a gold standard? That’s nonsense, says top philanthropist
Sutton Trust’s Sir Peter Lampl backs Rishi Sunak’s baccalaureate plans and says current system is ‘incredibly narrow’
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There is more to school than education – just ask the teachers
A dire constellation of disruptions, from lockdowns to 'crumbling' concrete, has kept children out of the classroom for far too long
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Oxford college’s plan to rename itself after Vietnamese billionaire collapses
The proposed name change to Thao College has been dropped after a promised £155 million donation failed to materialise
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Tory donor’s company accused of ‘corporate greed’ over school closure
Parents criticise ‘scandalous’ decision by Alpha Plus, chaired by Sir John Ritblat, to close Falcons Pre-Preparatory School in Chiswick
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Crumbling concrete found in dozens more schools
Twenty-seven more schools added to list with 115,000 children now affected by the Raac crisis
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Gap year adventure firm which hosted Prince William bans mobile phones on expeditions
Raleigh International says the policy helps young people to socialise better and become more confident after impact of lockdown isolation
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Confront the ideologues
Even without legislative change, there is much more the Government can do to ensure that women’s and girls’ rights are not trampled
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Labour’s private schools tax raid ‘will make education more elitist’
Labour plans to add VAT to school fees if it wins power at the next election, claiming it could raise £1.6bn to improve state education
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Concern that over 100,000 children started school unvaccinated as disease begins to spread
Councils tell parents that if a pupil is infected, classmates who have not been vaccinated twice could be asked to self-isolate for 21 days
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Private schools want to scrap GCSEs to inflate pupils’ grades, claims Katharine Birbalsingh
Britain’s strictest head teacher says independents are creating their own exams because ‘they are not performing at the level they should’
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A third of Russell Group universities provide food banks for students
Cost of living crisis sees institutions also handing out food vouchers as students skip meals to make ends meet, research finds
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Give schools trans guidance now, says children’s commissioner
Dame Rachel de Souza says there is 'real confusion' over what teachers should do if pupils try to 'socially transition' to another gender
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British and Chinese academic research collaborations quadruple despite security fears
It follows Rishi Sunak’s meeting this week with China’s premier over ‘unacceptable’ interference in UK democracy
