Hazel Shearing
Education Correspondent at BBC
@BBCNews education correspondent. Ex @BuzzFeedUK + @TheSundayTimes 📩 [email protected]
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Hazel Shearing |Julia Bryson |Nathan Standley
Parents of children starting primary school in England, Wales and Scotland this September will soon be finding out which school has offered them a place. Offer day was 9 April in Northern Ireland, and is 16 April in England, Scotland and Wales. On the day you get the offer, your letter, email or notification should tell you what to do next. In England, a parent or carer has to formally accept the offer by the given deadline.
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1 week ago |
bbc.co.uk | Hazel Shearing
Each year, the independent School Teachers Review Body (STRB) hears submissions from each side and makes recommendations on teacher pay to the government, who ultimately decide on how much to award. Daniel Kebede, the NEU's general secretary, said Ms Phillipson had the STRB's report "on her desk". "We'd like to see that published at the earliest opportunity, with the funding settlement as well, so that we can come to a conclusion to avoid any further action," he told the BBC.
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Hazel Shearing
Hazel ShearingTeachers in England have said they would be willing to strike over the government's proposed 2.8% pay rise this year. The offer was rejected by 93.7% of members of the National Education Union (NEU), England's largest teaching union, who took part in an informal ballot. And 83.4% indicated they would be willing to strike in the vote, which aimed to gauge teachers' mood.
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2 weeks ago |
bbc.co.uk | Hazel Shearing
Image source, Getty ImagesBanning phones in schools should be a decision for head teachers and not "imposed nationally by the government", England's children's commissioner has said. Nine in ten secondary schools restrict the use of smartphones, according to a survey of 19,000 schools and colleges commissioned by Dame Rachel de Souza. Dame Rachel said children were racking up hours of screen time at home instead, and that parents needed more help managing their children's online habits.
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Dec 5, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Hazel Shearing
The “alarming” level of children missing school has become a “stubborn and damaging issue”, according to the chief inspector of Ofsted, England's schools regulator. Sir Martyn Oliver said he was also worried about a rise in "flexi-schooling", where parents educate their children at home for part of the week. It is not clear how many children are currently taught in this manner. The Department for Education (DfE) said the government was putting education "back at the forefront of national life ".
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NEW: Teachers in England have said they would be willing to strike over the government's proposed 2.8% pay rise this year https://t.co/VME8JUvY4n
Banning phones in schools should be up to head teachers and not "imposed nationally by the government", England's children's commissioner has said. 90% of secondaries restrict the use of phones, according to her survey of 19,000 schools and colleges https://t.co/ahDV7smjer
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