Eleanor Harding
Education Editor at Daily Mail
Education Editor at the Daily Mail. Views my own. Retweets are not endorsements. Contact me on [email protected]
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1 week ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding
Climate change is making it harder for pupils to learn as they wilt in the heat, Department for Education research says. An official briefing says learning can be ‘very difficult’ due to the ‘one or two days’ per year when indoor temperatures reach 35°C. And even on just averagely warm days, the heat could be causing pupils to currently lose seven days of learning per year, it said. However, critics yesterday said hot days should not mean whole sessions of learning written off as ‘lost’.
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1 week ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding
Oxford, Cambridge and more than 50 other UK universities have tumbled down the global rankings amid funding and free speech crises. The respected Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings demoted the majority of our institutions, saying they are not improving as fast as those in other countries. It comes as a poll found a fifth of academics around the country said they did not feel 'free' to discuss controversial topics such as gender.
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1 week ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding
One in five teachers say their pupils use cannabis at school including some who are still primary-aged, a poll has found. A survey of almost 4,000 teachers found many pupils are abusing drugs and alcohol on school grounds – with ketamine and cocaine also rife. The NASUWT union, which conducted the study, said substance abuse is contributing to ‘violent and abusive’ behaviour in class. It called on the Government to take more action to stop pupils accessing drugs as schools ‘cannot solve it alone’.
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1 week ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding
Giving children smartphones is the same as giving them cigarettes, shadow education secretary Laura Trott has said. Renewing her call for ministers to ban phones in schools, she said they were just as inappropriate for pupils as tobacco. And she also criticised the Government over plans to have screen-based testing for Reception children, saying it ‘normalises’ tablets.
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2 weeks ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding
Private school families lost their challenge to Labour’s tax on fees yesterday – but judges still branded the measure ‘discriminatory’. The judgment by the High Court said the 20 per cent VAT would have a ‘disproportionately prejudicial effect’ on pupils with special needs. However, it also ruled Parliament still had the right to impose such a decision.
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