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• Can you solve it? That’s numberwang!

  14-04-2025 08:10 via theguardian.com
  Three, two, one…UPDATE: read the solutions hereToday, we’re down with the digits. Here are three elegant number puzzles, each nudging your brain to think creatively in different ways.1. Well balanced Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Grit’ no substitute for better mental health funding for pupils in England, say experts

  16-05-2025 18:27 via theguardian.com
  As education secretary unveils £49m for school-based support and calls for ‘grit’, charity says many children have significant treatment needsMinisters’ efforts to promote “grit” among children are no substitute for better funded mental health support in England’s schools, according to school leaders and experts.Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, and Wes Streeting, the health secretary, claimed in an article for the Daily Telegraph that more me
  
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• Dover to Calais school trips

  16-05-2025 15:40 via gov.uk
  
  How school groups can reduce processing time when travelling by ferry from Dover to Calais.
  
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• Notice: Notice to improve: Broughton Jewish Cassel Fox Primary School

  16-05-2025 13:14 via gov.uk
  
  A notice to improve issued to Broughton Jewish Cassel Fox Primary School by the Department for Education.
  
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• Adult education and skills funding allocations

  16-05-2025 13:05 via gov.uk
  
  Information on how we allocate adult skills funding, loan facilities and bursaries, apprenticeships carry-in and non-levy extensions to providers.
  
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• School business professionals: training and development

  16-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Sources of training and development for school business professionals (SBPs) in schools and trusts.
  
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• Guidance: Early years teacher degree apprenticeship: guidance for employers

  16-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  How employers in the early years sector can effectively deliver the early years teacher degree apprenticeship (EYTDA).
  
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• ‘Much-needed grit’ to be fostered in England’s schoolchildren, say ministers

  16-05-2025 10:21 via theguardian.com
  Increased mental health support for young people will give them resilience, say education and health secretariesSchoolchildren will be helped to develop “much-needed grit” for life beyond school with increased mental health support, the education and health secretaries have said.Writing in the Telegraph, Bridget Phillipson and Wes Streeting said they would expand mental health support in schools to nearly 1 million extra children in England. Continue reading...
  
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• Almost million more pupils get access to mental health support

  16-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  School mental health support rollout to reach up to 900,000 more pupils this year, covering six in ten children across the country.
  
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• UK asking other countries to host ‘return hubs’ for refused asylum seekers, Starmer confirms – as it happened

  15-05-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  PM on trip to announce increased cooperation against people smugglers alongside Albania’s prime minister, Edi Rama. This live blog is closedAll Commons Speakers, at least for the past 30 years, have complained about the government making major announcements to the media first, and not to parliament first. But rarely have any of them sounded quite as furious about this as Lindsay Hoyle, who this morning delivered an extended reprimand to the government about this at the start of an urgent q
  
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• Why was VAT added to private school fees?

  15-05-2025 17:09 via bbc.com
  The government says "every single penny" raised by the policy will be spent on state schools.
  
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• Guidance: Apprenticeship funding rules, 2025 to 2026

  15-05-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  The rules employers and training providers must follow to get funding for training and assessing apprentices in England.
  
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• Guidance: Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant for maintained schools and academies with 16 to 19 provision

  15-05-2025 16:42 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for maintained schools and academies with 16 to 19 provision on the teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant.
  
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• Guidance: National Tutoring Programme (NTP) allocations for 2023 to 2024 academic year

  15-05-2025 14:21 via gov.uk
  
  Allocations and conditions of grant of the 2023 to 2024 National Tutoring Programme (NTP) funding for schools and local authorities.
  
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• Private schools say fees have gone up by 22% in last year

  15-05-2025 12:59 via bbc.com
  The Independent School Council says private school fees increased by 22.6% in January compared to a year ago.
  
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• More than 1,000 US students punished over speech since 2020, report finds

  15-05-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Study paints picture of universities increasingly willing to penalize students over expression of their viewsParker Hovis was four courses away from getting his computer science degree from the University of Florida when he was arrested along with several other students at a pro-Palestinian protest on campus last spring. While the charges against him were dismissed and a school conduct committee recommended only minor punishment – a form of probation – the university administration s
  
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• Transparency data: Targeted retention incentive for FE teachers

  15-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Data for the targeted retention incentive for further education (FE) teachers as of 5 May 2025.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Children accommodated in secure children's homes: 31 March 2025

  15-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  Statistics on approved placements by type, sex, age, ethnicity and length of stay.
  
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• Russian scientist held in Ice jail charged with smuggling frog embryos into US

  15-05-2025 02:23 via theguardian.com
  Kseniia Petrova, Harvard researcher arrested in February, faces deportation as lawyer calls case ‘meritless’A Harvard scientist who has been held in US immigration detention for months was charged on Wednesday with smuggling frog embryos into the United States, and likely faces deportation.Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist and research associate working at Harvard University, was originally detained by immigration officials in February after attempting to enter the United States a
  
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• London dominates England’s social mobility league with top 20 places

  15-05-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Sutton Trust ‘opportunity index’ measured factors such as children on free school meals passing key GCSEsThe top 20 constituencies with the best social mobility in England are all in London, according to research from a leading education charity that underscores the stark regional divide in children’s life chances.In a report published on Thursday, the Sutton Trust has put together an “opportunity index” by analysing six measures of mobility. These include the share
  
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• Improved PE and sport for more than 240,000 pupils with SEND

  15-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Government launches Inclusion 2028 programme which will improve access to PE and school sports for pupils with SEND.
  
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• Correspondence: DfE Update: 14 May 2025

  14-05-2025 13:56 via gov.uk
  
  Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.
  
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• Transparency data: Funding allocations to training providers: 2024 to 2025

  14-05-2025 13:22 via gov.uk
  
  Funding values for colleges, training organisations and employers with an adult skills fund, apprenticeship or advanced learner loan contract for 2024 to 2025.
  
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• University of Greater Manchester suspends vice-chancellor amid investigation

  13-05-2025 19:25 via theguardian.com
  George Holmes and two other staff members suspended over allegations of financial irregularitiesThe vice-chancellor of the University of Greater Manchester and two other members of staff have been suspended as police confirmed an investigation was under way into “allegations of financial irregularities”.The university, which was known until recently as the University of Bolton, confirmed that Prof George Holmes, who has been its vice-chancellor for 20 years, the provost and a third s
  
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• University suspends vice chancellor after investigation

  13-05-2025 17:34 via bbc.com
  The University of Greater Manchester suspends George Holmes after 'serious allegations' are raised.
  
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• Teachers on strike over 'poor pupil behaviour'

  13-05-2025 14:25 via bbc.com
  Unions say some pupils are disruptive, leaving the teachers no choice.
  
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• Consistent financial reporting framework XML generator 2024 to 2025

  13-05-2025 11:43 via gov.uk
  Use the XML generator to prepare your data for uploading to COLLECT.
  
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• Consistent financial reporting framework 2024 to 2025

  13-05-2025 11:43 via gov.uk
  Guidance to help schools collect information about their income and expenditure.
  
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• We told young people that degrees were their ticket to a better life. It’s become a great betrayal | Gaby Hinsliff

  13-05-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  With the labour market declining and AI a threat to entry-level jobs, graduates have been sold a lie. It’s no wonder they’re angryIt’s boomerang season again. Or to put it another way, the time of year when adult children you imagined might be flying the nest come home instead to roost, a ritual that seems to happen earlier every year.Though the university year isn’t formally finished yet, so many institutions are dumping written exams in favour of dissertations or online
  
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• Teacher banned over sex with 'vulnerable' ex-pupil

  12-05-2025 17:03 via bbc.com
  A report says David Blight's conduct had fallen "significantly short of the standards expected".
  
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