“Although we’re a not-for-profit organisation, we need to cover the costs involved in helping students to progress to their next phase and we’re investing substantial resources in IT systems, delivering assessment materials and guidance, in online training sessions, and in running quality-assurance checks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57470281
She said: “When I was younger at school I received 50 or 60 on Instagram, Facebook Snapchat, images of privates that I didn’t want to see. I think the first port of call is to go to your mum…you feel like ‘I don’t want to see that, I don’t know what to do with that […]
“If the college put up a notice explaining who Cecil Rhodes was that would be fine, if the college put a placard round his neck at lunchtime today saying ‘sorry’ that would also be fine. Anthony Gormley has suggested that the statue simply be turned the other way and face the wall and that would […]
One member, whose name was withheld in the minutes, said “effectively ‘cancelling’ the Queen” sent out a “dire message that is sure to enrage”, while another said: “We are not capable of cancelling the Queen. This is about our communal space and making people feel welcome.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-57409743
“Rather than reforming the SQA I think they should be talking about axing it, scrapping it and starting from the beginning again, asking what kind of qualifications body do we want in Scotland, not shifting existing people around, and tinkering around the edges. The SQA has let young people down,” he said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57405037
Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said: “Free school meals are a vital support to thousands of children and young people across the country – ensuring that children have access to a free, healthy and nutritious meal every day they are in school and are ready to engage in learning. “ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57359072
Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: “This research provides further stark evidence of the very severe extent of learning loss among pupils as a result of the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and the particularly severe impact on disadvantaged children. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57357663
Apart from the wider stresses of the pandemic on their families, in school they’ve faced a constant drip-feed of uncertainty about exams, they’ve been in and out of school, masks on, masks off, they’ve been cut off from friends and seen big milestones like proms cancelled. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57246697
“With all beliefs including controversial beliefs there is a right to express those beliefs publicly and where they’re harmful or damaging – whether it’s anti-Semitic beliefs, gender critical beliefs, beliefs about disability – we have legal systems that are put in place for people who are harmed by that.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57281448
“It was during the summertime and we were practising for PE, and then I’m sitting there with my friends and then there’s this group of boys next to us. And then I just feel a hand on my back, forcing me onto the floor and then this boy starts grinding on me, and I think […]
Students have said it is unfair their £7,500-a-year university course has been mostly taught online because of the pandemic. In-person activities for their masters degrees in screen performance and communications techniques at the University of Bedfordshire have not yet resumed. Niamh Ray said: “We’re paying for something that we’re not getting. It’s affecting our ambitions, […]
Its chief executive David Morris said in a statement: “Despite continuing with stringent cleaning procedures, the extended use of facemasks for both students and staff, regardless of national guidance, and ongoing education regarding hygiene, we have been unable to control the rapid spread of the virus.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57194285