Tag: schools
Plan to ban smart phones in schools watered down by MP
Hope RhodesEducation producerGetty ImagesThe MP behind a bill campaigners hoped would ban smart phones in schools has admitted to watering down his pr [...]
First 750 schools named for free breakfast clubs in England
The government has announced the first 750 schools to provide free daily breakfast clubs as part of a pilot scheme ahead of a planned England-wide rol [...]
Education Dept. Gives Schools Two Weeks to Eliminate Race-Based Programs
The department’s Office for Civil Rights warned that it would penalize schools that consider race in scholarships, hiring and an array of other activi [...]
Phillipson says new Ofsted report cards will help ‘stuck’ schools
Judith Burns & Nathan StandleyBBC NewsGetty ImagesThe government will step in more quickly to help struggling schools based on the findings of new [...]
Schools bill is an act of vandalism, says Kemi Badenoch
Kate WhannelPolitical reporterHenry Zeffman and Vanessa ClarkeBBC chief political correspondent and education correspondentKemi Badenoch calls Labour' [...]
Rising costs force ‘difficult choices’ on schools
Hope Rhodes / BBCHead teacher Dan Crossman says he faces choosing between meeting the needs of the children, or balancing the booksHead teachers say t [...]
Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England
Getty ImagesThe government has announced plans to make it illegal to smoke in children's playgrounds and outside schools and hospitals in England, wit [...]
Private schools proceed with legal action over VAT plans
BBC/BRIJESH PATELA group representing 1,400 private schools will press ahead with plans for a legal challenge against the government’s introduction of [...]
Biden to Apologize for Indian Boarding Schools Where Hundreds of Children Died
President Biden’s trip to the battleground state of Arizona will be the first time an American president has apologized for the abuses that happened a [...]
The next big career track at business schools: Family offices
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.Courtesy: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.A version of this article first appear [...]
Perth primary schools close as strikes target Swinney constituency
All of the primary schools in Perth and Kinross are closed after non-teaching school staff began strike action in First Minister John Swinney's consti [...]
Fight begins to make mobile-free schools law
Getty ImagesCalls are growing to ban smartphones in schools in England by law, as education experts and unions back an MP’s attempt to push a new law [...]
‘Argument won’ on smartphones in schools, minister says
Getty ImagesThe argument over smartphones in schools has been "won", the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC, saying schools are voluntar [...]
Campus Protest Investigations Hang Over Schools as New Academic Year Begins
Dozens of discrimination complaints brought by conservative and pro-Jewish groups after the Oct. 7 attacks last year have spawned lengthy federal inqu [...]
Campus Protest Investigations Hang Over Schools as New Academic Year Begins
Dozens of discrimination complaints brought by conservative and pro-Jewish groups after the Oct. 7 attacks last year have spawned lengthy federal inqu [...]