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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Bridget Phillipson |Nick Gutteridge
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that there are more than 35,000 vacancies in the construction industry. Building firms report that more than half of those cannot be filled because of a lack of skilled labour available - the highest rate for any sector. Almost half of the £600million programme will be used to set up 10 new technical excellence colleges and to boost construction courses at existing institutions.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Patrick Sawer |Bridget Phillipson
Climate change can be used to teach children about race, a national curriculum review has been told. Global warming should be used to allow teachers and pupils to "explore conversations about race", according to the Runnymede Trust. The race equality think tank told a review into the curriculum commissioned by Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, that such discussions would allow pupils to discuss more openly the impact of race on them and its relationship to "wider society".
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Bridget Phillipson |Poppy Wood
She said the review, which is being overseen by Prof Becky Francis, would "revitalise" the national curriculum in England and "equip the next generation with the tools they need to succeed in an ever-changing workplace".
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Daniel Martin |Bridget Phillipson
Michael Gove has spearheaded a challenge against Bridget Phillipson 's school reforms, saying that they will "blight the prospects of children and hold our economy back". He is one of three former education secretaries to warn that the changes to academy schools and a review of the curriculum will have a devastating effect on the most disadvantaged children.
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Poppy Wood |Genevieve Holl-Allen |Bridget Phillipson
The Southport inquiry should consider changing the law so that teenage murderers like Axel Rudakubana can be given whole-life sentences, the Children’s Commissioner has said. Rudakubana was sentenced to a minimum of 52 years in prison for murdering three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last summer in an outrage that led to riots across the country.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Poppy Wood |Bridget Phillipson
Shadow cabinet member questions whether Bridget Philipson ‘understands’ her own ‘floor, but no ceiling’ Bill The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill would end academies’ right to set their own pay and conditions for staff Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Poppy Wood Education Editor 15 January 2025 5:06pm GMT Bridget Phillipson has been accused of U-turning over academies’ freedom to pay good teachers more. The Education Secretary said on Wednesday that “all schools will have the full flexibility...
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Poppy Wood |Bridget Phillipson
The Government’s plan for all state schools to follow the same pay and curriculum is an act of “educational vandalism” that will water down standards, the shadow education secretary has warned. Laura Trott accused Labour of “tearing up everything that has driven up school standards” through its Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which MPs will debate in its second reading in Parliament on Wednesday.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
ft.com | Bridget Phillipson
The writer is the UK’s secretary of state for education Dallam Primary School lies on the northern edge of Warrington, a side of town...
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
glamourmagazine.co.uk | Bridget Phillipson
As educators, it’s vital to recognise the signs of these dangerous ideas as early as possible, and challenge them before they take hold. The free guide is aimed towards teachers of key stage 4 and older students and is available on our Educate Against Hate website. Alice Hodgson/No 10 Downing Street/FlickrThe best way to protect our young people from such harmful content is to equip them with the skills they need to recognise and reject it.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Ben Wright |Bridget Phillipson
It is often said that the separation of Korea at the end of the Second World War created a real-world control experiment on the relative merits of communism and capitalist democracy. Nighttime pictures taken by satellite today show the result: a few pinpricks of light in the north compared to the dazzling wealth south of the 38th parallel, where income is now 30 times higher.
