4 Reasons to Wear a Mask, Even if You Hate It
I don’t like wearing face masks. They fog up my sunglasses and make my beard itch. It’s hard to talk
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Coronavirus: New insight into COVID-19 to be gained from expansion to national testing study
The ONS COVID-19 Infection Survey will be expanded from regularly testing 28,000 people per fortnight in England to 150,000 by
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Kids in Crisis: Barnardo’s Launch New Initiative in Partnership with The Department of Education
More than a million parents1 believe their child could benefit from professional help in the wake of the coronavirus lockdown, according
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Public encouraged to register for Covid-19 vaccine trials
Over 100,000 people have volunteered to take part in Covid-19 vaccine trials, helping to speed up efforts to discover a
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Coronavirus: Government campaign launches to get children ‘back to school safely’
The government has launched its #backtoschoolsafely campaign to reassure parents and students that schools and colleges are ready for their
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Barnardo’s warns of missed opportunity if Government does not change education system when schools reopen
The Government could miss a once in a generation opportunity to put mental health and wellbeing at the heart of
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More than half of BAME teachers face racism in schools
More than half of teachers from minority-ethnic groups have experienced racism in schools in the past year, according to a new poll. A
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Parent school donations ‘exacerbating inequality’
Pupils in some of the poorest regions of England are losing out because parents cannot afford to fill a funding
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Primary schools give free food to hungry families
The biggest primary school academy trust in England is to give food to parents to prevent “family hunger”. The Reach2
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Number of schools flouting Religious Education laws rises
Half of academies without a religious character and 40 per cent of community schools are still failing to meet their
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Religious Studies GCSE entries fall despite popularity among pupils
The number of pupils in England and Wales taking GCSE Religious Studies full course has fallen for the third year
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Oxfordshire parents’ taking Church Of England to court over Christian assemblies
A couple are taking the Church of England to court over Christian school assemblies which they say are “indoctrinating” their
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Why America lost so many of its black teachers
Before 1964 nearly half of college-educated African-Americans in the South were teachers. JULY MARKS the 55th anniversary of the Civil
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Black and Asian parents are more ambitious in applying for good schools, study finds
Black and Asian parents are more ambitious in their attempts to get their children into good schools, a Cambridge University
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Black pupils’ schooling ‘dumbed down over special needs’
Many black pupils in England are having their education dumbed down after being wrongly identified as having one of a
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