Tag: United Kingdom
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United Kingdom: Healthy School Lunches Are Under Jeopardy Due To Scarcity Of Ingredients And Growing Costs
School food caterers’ organization Laca reports that some are using more processed foods, while others are switching from British beef to meat from foreign countries.
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Bullied In High School, A Man With Autism Went On To Aid Others Who Were Struggling At College
Benjamin Morgan-Jones and his wife, Lowri, described their experience at school as “hell.” Undiagnosed autism, bullying at school, and a lack of academic assistance plagued the 26-year-olds at the time.
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Increase Our Pay Or We Strike, UK’s Biggest Teacher Union Threatens To Protest If Demands Aren’t Met
Teaching unions in the United Kingdom have threatened to vote their members for strike action this fall unless the government provides a “inflation-plus” wage rise.
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United Kingdom: British Lawmakers Want To Ban China’s Confucius Institutes
British MPs are seeking new legislation to stop China’s Confucius Institutes from entering the United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom: Towards A Gender-Neutral Uniform Policy, Secondary School Bans Students From Wearing Skirts
Following “modifications” to the Tiverton High School uniform policy, all students will be obliged to wear pants beginning in September.
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United Kingdom: Department Of Education Caps Student Loan Interest Rate At 7.3% In Fall
Students will be protected from increasing inflation with a restriction on student loan interest rates beginning in September.
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United Kingdom: A Groundbreaking Research Offers Effective Teaching Methods For Improving Students’ Test Scores
University of Bristol-led research sheds light on an intriguing and difficult question: what makes an effective teacher? This is a groundbreaking study that shows for the first time in the United Kingdom which teaching approaches lead to higher test scores and which class activities are more effective depending on the subject matter.
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United Kingdom: Meet The Deafblind Student Studying To Be A Doctor
One student is beating the odds and shattering prejudices by becoming the first deaf-blind medical doctor in the United Kingdom.
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Following The Discovery Of $503,112 In A Wooden Box At A School, The Head Teacher And His Son Have Been Barred From Running Charities
An independent school’s head teacher and his son have been barred from establishing a charity after £400,000 ($503,112) in cash was discovered hidden inside a wooden box.
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United Kingdom: Teacher Blasts Education Minister “We May As Well Stack Shelves In Tesco”, Concerns Over Teacher Pay
“Look at the amount of teachers who are leaving the profession because supply teaching is no longer an option, we may as well go and stack shelves in Tesco for a tenner an hour,” she said.