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“Some children are coming to school with cold chips or just a packet of biscuits in their lunchbox, experts say. A survey of 250 school, youth and health staff working with children suggests many go without enough to eat during the school day. The Children’s Food Trust’s poll found 68.1 percent had seen a rise in the proportion of families struggling to feed their children in the past two years. Lunchboxes contain less fruit and more junk food. Of the staff working in schools, 47.5 percent said they had seen a change in the food in children’s lunchboxes as household budgets got tighter. One staff member said they had seen ‘poorer quality sandwich fillings, sometimes just margarine’. Another said there were ‘fewer processed items – more leftovers or store-cupboard items’.
Education	The Sentinel – 26th February 2013



More than one in three young people in the UK are put off post-secondary training or education because of the perceived cost, a report has found. Young people in this country were far more likely to say that they were not interested in further education than respondents from other countries, according to an international report by Mckinsey and Company.
Education	Youthwork, February 2013



There is widespread support in England for teaching Christianity in schools, a You Gov poll revealed in November. Almost two-thirds (64%) of just over 1,800 people questioned in May 2012 said that children need to learn about Christianity to understand English history, while more than half (57%) said it was important if pupils are to understand the English culture and way of life.
Education	Evangelicals Now, January 2013



A recent survey by Kellogg’s found that four out of five teachers see children going to school without having eaten any breakfast. Thought to be caused primarily by parental apathy and a lack of money, it had led to concern from teachers that this could cause wavering concentration and bad behaviour. Some teachers have even taken to bringing in their own food to give to hungry children.
Education	Childrenswork, December 2012/January 2013



A school which gave out iPads to every pupil in hope of improving their education has admitted that just a year later half the costly devices have been broken. Honywood Community Science School dished out iPad2 tablets to its 1,200 pupils a year ago, at vast cost to the taxpayer. Despite warnings that children would not be able to look after the fragile computer tablet, the school in Goggeshall, Essex, allowed children to take the device outside the classroom, playground and street and home at evenings and weekends. It was hoped that the iPads would be a useful learning tool, as well as keep the school up to pace with inter¬national competitors embracing the technology in the classroom. But after just one year, more than four in ten of the iPads had been sent off for repair, after being knocked, dropped or scratched. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal 489 had to be replaced after being found to be beyond repair.
Education	Daily Mail Jan 1 2013



Winston Churchill, Admiral Lord Nelson and Oliver Cromwell are to be returned to the history curriculum to ensure children have a solid grasp of Britain's past. Schools will also be required to teach more facts and events to ensure children develop what Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, has called a "connected narrative" of history. The key figures were among those dropped from the history curriculum by Labour in 2007, which wanted to give schools more flexibility about what to teach….Labour's history curriculum has been attacked from the Right for being driven by political correctness while some teaching it have also criticised its emphasis on teaching skills, saying it has failed to give children the bare bones of a historical education.
Education	The Daily Telegraph Dec 31 2012



More than 100 independent faith schools may be radicalising students, the Department for Education has warned in a secret memo which admits that officials are struggling to tackle extremism in state and private schools. Behind closed doors there are concerns about 118 "socially conservative" independent faith schools - the vast majority of them Muslim - where pupils may be encouraged to cut themselves off from mainstream society. Ministers have been told they do not have "detailed information" about the religious orientation of the groups behind all independent faith schools. Officials have also privately admitted that they also have no system to identify institutional extremism in state schools, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
Education	The Daily Telegraph Dec 31 2012



Thousands of student places were left empty at elite Russell Group universities this year because of the Government's higher education reforms, a vice-chancellor has admitted. Leading institutions started the academic year with about 11,500 vacancies following an overhaul of admissions rules. Prof Sir Howard Newby, the vice-chancellor of Liverpool University, said the unfilled places were an "unintended consequence" of the changes and warned that the same situation could arise in 2013. It has already been disclosed that universities suffered a dip in admissions rates this year, but Sir Howard's comments are believed to be the first acknowledgement of the serious problems faced by some of the country's most sought-after universities.
Education	The Daily Telegraph November 23 2012



Private schools should not be expected to open up their facilities to pupils from local state schools, a leading headmistress said yesterday. Louise Robinson, president of the Girls' Schools Association, said it was 'beyond the pale' for the Government to insist that private schools share their 'unique selling points', such as facilities and resources, with the 'competition'. She said that middle class parents who manage to find the money for private school fees should not be expected to bankroll state pupils who want to use the same resources. Her comments are likely to spark fierce debate among private school heads, many of whom justify their schools' 'charitable' status by stressing the ways in which they share facilities with local state schools and the community. David Cameron and Education Secretary Michael Gove have praised this practice and urged independent schools to go further, pooling their 'DNA' with state schools by extending financial backing and lending their 'brands' to academies.
Education	Daily Mail November 20 2012



Students were offered 'bribes' of up to £1,000 for their university society if they attended a rally against the Coalition's spending cuts. Groups such as archaeologists and ballroom dancers were told they needed to send members to tomorrow's march in London to be eligible for extra funding. The demand - circulated by the Manchester University's Students' Union - was branded an unacceptable misuse of public money. It provoked a storm of protest across the campus before being withdrawn with a grovelling apology. But the move is likely to call into question the motivation of some of the 10,000 marchers who the National Union of Students claims will take part in tomorrow's rally. It will be the first time students have marched in London against funding cuts since a series of rallies in 2010.
Education	Daily Mail November 20 2012



Thousands of the brightest children in England are failing to achieve top grades at GCSE because of a growing trend towards entering pupils early. Sir Michael Wilshaw, Ofsted Chief Inspector, has warned that the education watchdog will be ‘critical’ of schools which use early entry for GCSE where they are not ‘absolutely confident’ that pupil’s will achieve their full potential. His message comes after Ofsted statistics showed an ‘explosion’ in early entries for Maths and English at GCSE over the past six years.
Education	The Sentinel – 20th September 2012



GCSE’s are to be replaced by a new English Baccalaureate Certificate in secondary schools in England, in the most radical shake-up of examinations for 16-year-olds for a generation. The new qualifications to be known as EBaccs, will do away with modules which allow GCSE students to retake parts of their course, cut back heavily on coursework and return to the emphasis on a traditional end-of-year exam, to end what Education Secretary Michael Gove called ‘grade inflation and dumbing down.”
Education	The Sentinel – 18th September 2012



Fear of debt and cost concerns could be deterring large numbers of young people from going to university, a survey has found. About 36% of students from single parent households say they are unlikely to go into higher education because their family could not afford the fees, compared with 13% of those in two-parent homes, an Ipsos Mori poll commissioned by education charity Sutton Trust has found. Older pupils are more likely to cite worries over getting into debt as a reason for saying they unlikely to continue into higher education.
Education	The Sentinel – 28th September 2012



Private school leaders yesterday raised the prospect of boycotting any university found to be systematically discriminating against their pupils in admissions. They are incensed that more than half of top universities have set targets for admitting more state school pupils after pressure from the Government to widen their social mix. Headmasters are demanding universities such as Cambridge are banned from setting targets which classify students according to the type of school they attended. They are concerned the approach means state pupils from privileged backgrounds could be given an unfair advantage over well-qualified privately educated pupils from modest homes. Sources at the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), which represents 250 leading private schools, warn that fee-paying pupils could be advised to shun any university felt to be operating biased admissions. There is no evidence any universities are currently doing so. In 2003, private schools boycotted Bristol until they were assured pupils would be treated fairly.
Education	Daily Mail October 2nd 2012



Ofsted today warned schools that from this term, "good" is the minimum standard that will be expected of them. As children head back to class for the start of the school year, new rules come into force revamping the system. From today, the "satisfactory" rating used by inspectors will be scrapped, and replaced with "requires improvement". Schools judged to require improvement at two consecutive inspections and which are still not providing a good education at the third, are likely to be placed in special measures.
Education	The Sentinel, September 3, 2012

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