Education

Staff regularly fork out to feed pupils who don’t get enough to eat at home according to new survey Almost one in 10 school staff brings food in from home to feed kids who would otherwise go hungry, a shocking study has found. They surveyed thousands of classroom based school support staff up and down the country - 8 per cent of whom felt they have to spend their own money on food for hungry children. Staff report children coming to...

In an unusual move head teachers have protested against cuts from school budgets. They large group gathered in Parliament Square before converging on Downing Street, where a delegation delivered a letter to Phillip Hammond over what they say are "unsustainable" funding cuts. Figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies which show that funding per pupil fell by 8% between 2010 and 2018. Compared to last year, England's schools have 137,000 more pupils but 5,400 fewer teachers, and 2,800 fewer teaching...

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England's teachers have had the second biggest pay cut in the developed world. Pay has only fallen more for teachers in economically unstable Greece. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) today reported on education trends from around the world, revealing that teachers’ pay has fallen 10 per cent in England and Wales between 2005-2017. Despite a generally higher starting salary for teachers in Scotland compared to England, pay progression in Scotland appears worse, with Scotland behind England for...

A private school has withdrawn an advert and apologised after an advert for the elite school appeared to suggest that those who attended the school would one day be rich enough to “buy their dad a jag.” The advert for Vinehall School in East Sussex told the story of a boy arriving in his father's Volvo, but wishing he had the headmaster's Jaguar. After attending the school and being "very successful in business" he buys his father a Jaguar when...

International students should be able to access skilled jobs in the UK more easily after they graduate, the government’s chief migration advisers have said, but the committee has ruled out the suggestion from industry that students should be removed from immigration statistics. The independent migration advisory committee (MAC) recommended changes to immigration rules that would give certain types of students more time to stay in the UK to find employment. However, the committee did not recommend removing students from the net migration...

More than half of school support staff suffer shocking violence including stabbings and attempted strangulations, a shocking new study has revealed. In one horrifying case a pregnant teaching assistant suffered a miscarriage after being kicked in the stomach by pupil, GMB survey reveals More than half of school staff experience shocking violence at work – with more than 16 per cent suffering attacks every week. Appalling assaults include stabbings, attempted strangulation and pupils trying to chop off a teaching assistant’s...

Two thirds of parents think teachers should teach school children about the signs and symptoms of cancer, it has emerged. The study, which polled 1,000 parents of kids in secondary school, also suggests mums and dads would like the education process to this start at the age of 11. The same research revealed nearly a third of UK parents themselves feel uncomfortable talking about cancer with their children, and 61 per cent feel cancer should be taught in a PHSE...

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