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I saw on a tweet this morning the Safer Practice with Technology from the Kent Safeguarding Children Board.  The paper takes a brief look at issues such as social networking, photographs, mobile phones and more – it may be a useful document to tag and come back to at some point for those who work [...]

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Headlines from the world of education and schools work: Councils merge education departments: Westminster, and Hammersmith and Fulham councils’ attempt to slash budgets by pooling resources is first such move in UK Street talk is ‘breeding illiteracy’: Teachers failing to correct pupils due to misplaced fear of interfering with self-expression, says a pamphlet backed by [...]

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Headlines from the world of education and schools work: Sex education is a mess, so can a TV series help teenagers?: The Sex Education Show is important and useful but young people need compulsory school lessons. Gove sets limit on headteacher pay: Headteachers are facing a limit on their salaries to the £142,500-a-year pay of [...]

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Headlines from the world of education and schools work: University clearing places ‘to be cut’: Thousands of students face being left without degree courses as universities are forced to slash the number of places available through the traditional clearing system. Government to introduce ‘school Olympics’: The coalition Government is pledging to create an annual school [...]

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Some headlines from the world of education and schoolswork: Headteachers could have pay docked if they boycott tests: Primary school governors told they can punish principals who refuse to fulfil ‘professional and moral duty’. Watching TV ‘makes toddlers less intelligent’: Parents, beware CBeebies: watching television makes toddlers fatter and stupider at primary school, according to [...]

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A round up of headlines from the world of education and schools work: Labour has failed to reduce ‘Neets’, say MPs: The number of school-leavers without a job or education place has failed to drop under Labour, despite a raft of high-profile reforms, according to MPs. Video game and cartoons used to shock school children [...]

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More headlines from the world of education and schools work: Pupils humiliating teachers in interviews: Union considers industrial action to stop pupils’ questions that include: ‘if you could be on Britain’s Got Talent, what would your talent be?’ Headteachers to vote on Sats boycott: Ministers are heading for a collision with headteachers over a threatened [...]

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I’ve been disappointed with the action that’s come from the Copenhagen summit.  To finish such a big event with an agreement which isn’t even legally binding and lacks detail (for example it doesn’t spell out the levels of CO2 reductions required to make the 2 degree change happen). It seems that the biggest issue with [...]

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Some links from the world of education and schools work (also posted at schoolswork.co.uk – a great network and resource for those doing shcools work, go check it out): Bursaries leave poorer students out of pocket: Poorer students will have to find £384 to cover grant shortfall – yet universities must only subsidise £329 Interference [...]

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As I’ve been reflecting on the environment, creation, and climate-change so I’ve been keeping a close eye on enviromental news.  A couple of headlines that have interested me, that might be worth reading include: Cambridge research could lead to real-time pollution maps: A chance encounter in the coffee lounge of the Cambridge chemistry department could [...]

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