Headteachers are demanding that the authorities pull a controversial take a look at that is because of be sat with the aid of half one million children in weeks’ time after it turned into by chance published on-line. The NAHT faculty leaders’ union has written to colleges minister Nick Gibb, urging him to allow primary schools to scrap this year’s assessments, and...

West Sussex’s Conservative-led county council has joined the chorus of opposition to the authorities’s plan to show all nation schools into academies, saying it could harm provision for inclined children and undermine the local financial system. In a letter to the schooling secretary, Nicky Morgan, West Sussex county council leader, Louise Goldsmith, stated the council...

Head Teachers had been accused by using mother and father of brainwashing their kids after disagreements approximately coaching on subjects consisting of homosexuality as part of private, social, fitness and monetary schooling (PSHE). The countrywide association of Head instructors (NAHT) is looking on the government to make PSHE a statutory a part of the curriculum to...

It’s miles rare that the election of a pupil union president merits the flurry of headlines that greeted Malia Bouattia. But her election, because the first black Muslim woman to preserve the workplace, has been one of the most divisive moments in the country wide Union of college students’ current records. Bouattia’s supporters hail it as a powerful victory...

The government’s hunt for a substitute for Sir Michael Wilshaw as Ofsted leader inspector of colleges in England has entered its final phase after the shortlisted candidates were interviewed this week. Amanda Spielman, the chair of examination regulator Ofqual and a senior figure at the Ark academy chain, is a frontrunner in a field that also consists of Toby Salt,...

Tory MPs are calling on the schooling secretary, Nicky Morgan, to make sure that plans to force all country colleges to end up academies aren’t included in subsequent month’s Queen’s speech, following warnings from Conservative whips that they face inevitable defeat within the house of Commons. With anger over the proposals growing in Tory ranks, Morgan has been...

Universities in England have been warned they want to improve their remedy of college students after new facts found out stark gaps in success for black college students and better drop-out charges for college kids with intellectual health difficulties or from disadvantaged backgrounds. The figures launched by way of the Office for Students, the better schooling regulator...

Today, the Thirteenth World Congress of Families will kick off in Verona, below the patronage of the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Marco Bussetti, the Italian education minister, could be among some of the high-level officers to talk on the event. That Bussetti can be rubbing shoulders with ultraconservative activists and politicians from Italy,...

The Texas Senate’s budget-writing committee on Thursday authorized including billions extra dollars for public schooling and assets tax reform to the higher chamber’s base spending plan, bringing the overall to $nine billion — the same amount the Texas House wants to spend on the ones gadgets. Senate and House leaders had prioritized public schooling and property...

My dad changed into a refrigeration guy. He knew the entirety there has been to understand approximately heating and cooling air with a system. And earlier than that, he changed into a diesel mechanic inside the Navy — a touch some thing he picked up all through World War II. At age 18, he wrote lower back domestic from boot camp in Idaho: “I took some test the other...