Teaching pupils about their ‘white privilege’ could be against the law, MPs’ report says White working-class pupils are one of the worst-achieving groups in the country Report done by MPs found that those students ‘feel anything but privileged’ It found they are behind many peers of other ethnicities aged five, 16 and 18 By Eleanor … Read more
Parents who sent their children to a specialist school where disabled pupils were given infected blood products were not given details of the treatment their sons were receiving, an inquiry has heard. Several pupils who attended the Lord Mayor Treloar College, a special education boarding school in Hampshire, in the 1970s and 1980s were given … Read more
Number of pupils securing their first choice secondary school place falls compared to last year as a FIFTH miss out Nearly a fifth of children have missed out on their top choice secondary school But this rose to more than two in five pupils in some areas of England, data said The number of applications … Read more
£38,000-a-year The Oratory Catholic School appoints first female captain for 162 years to be the ‘voice’ of pupils – after allowing girls to join last year By Antony Thrower For Mailonline Published: 18:22 BST, 7 June 2021 | Updated: 18:22 BST, 7 June 2021 A school believed to have been set up as the Roman … Read more
It’s in your eyes! People with large pupils are more INTELLIGENT, study finds Researchers tracked pupil size in volunteers taking a range of intelligence tests These covered areas like intelligence, memory retention and the ability to focus They created a baseline measurement while volunteers looked at a blank screen They found that those with larger … Read more
Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman tells schools not to give pupils extended summer break with up to 100 days holiday, warning they will be ill-prepared for exams Ms Spielman said she is keen for schools to explain how they use summer term GCSEs and A-levels are cancelled this year in favour of teacher assessments But schools … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Racism and the scandal of the black pupils written off as ‘slow’ By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 00:56 BST, 21 May 2021 | Updated: 00:56 BST, 21 May 2021 Subnormal: A British Scandal Rating: Taskmaster Rating: Something strange was happening on BBC1 at primetime. Here was … Read more
A record proportion of pupils from state schools and deprived areas gained entry to Oxford University last year, figures showed yesterday. Almost seven in ten – 68.6 per cent – were state-educated compared to 62.3 per cent the previous year. It means under a third are now from private schools – which only 7 per … Read more
A cartoon of Prophet Muhammad that sparked furious protests at a Yorkshire school was shown to pupils a ‘week before row by another member of staff’, a parent has claimed. The picture, believed to be one from French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, was, according to The Times, shown by another teacher a week before the … Read more
Protesting pupils’ list of demands presented to the head – and what he has already agreed to A statement purporting to be from the pupil protesters breaks down their ‘demands’. An extract from this document is shown below, with changes that headteacher Daniel Smith has agreed to marked by an asterisk and italics. DISCRIMINATION We … Read more