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| David Cameron was forced to deny accusations the Government is considering plans which would allow wealthy students to “buy” university places. The Prime Minister insisted access to higher education will continue to be about ability to learn rather than ability to pay. His comments were echoed by Universities Minister David Willetts who told the Commons there was “no question” of rich students being able to buy their way into University. | |
| Education | The Sentinel May 11 2011 |
| More than one in 10 head teachers has been attacked by a parent of a pupil at their school, according to figures released today. School leaders have been punched, kicked, spat on, head-butted, bitten, attacked with chairs and tables and sexually assaulted, the National Association of Head Teachers said. In a survey, almost 75 per cent of those quizzed said they had suffered verbal abuse or threats from a parent in the last five years. Some 20 percent have been victimised on internet sites. | |
| Education | The Sentinel April 30, 2011 |
| Pupils who have sexually assaulted teachers, threatened other children with knives, and attacked police officers have been allowed back into the classroom, a shocking dossier reveals. In most cases, exclusion orders were lifted by their head teachers, school governing bodies or independent appeals panels. In a handful of schools, the child was not even removed in the first place. The dossier on the 16 'unteachable' youngsters was compiled by teachers who warned that their authority is being undermined by allowing such children to return to school. In all the cases, ballots for industrial action were launched last year by members of the NASUWT and the National Union of Teachers in an effort to force schools to protect staff from troublemakers. | |
| Education | The Mail April 16th 2011 |
| Pupils are being taught about euthanasia with a video featuring a notorious assisted suicide campaigner nicknamed Dr Death. Dr Philip Nitschke is shown demonstrating his machine that delivers lethal injections in the film, which is already being shown to pupils as young as 14 across the country. There is also footage of him giving workshops on assisted suicide methods, which church leaders have criticised as an 'invitation to commit suicide'. | |
| Education | The Mail April 16th 2011 |
| The average tuition fees charged by universities will be “significantly below” the top rate of £9,000, a Government minister has claimed. Universities Minister David Willetts said further education colleges were “itching” to provide courses at much lower rates than the headline figure. He said it was not the job of the Office For Fair Access (OFFA) to act as a “price regulator” but to ensure universities attracted students from a broad range of backgrounds. | |
| Education | The Sentinel, April 4, 2011 |
| Religious Studies has been excluded from a list of recommended A-level subjects for students hoping to win places at top British universities. In what critics see as a further blow to the status of religious education in the UK, the Russell Group – which represents 20 leading British universities – has omitted the subject from a list of eight ‘facilitating’ A levels which it says applicants should choose to gain access to the widest range of degree courses. | |
| Education | Salvationist, 2 April 2011 |
| Strong support for Religious Education has been revealed by a public opinion poll commissioned by Premier Christian Radio. Almost two thirds (63%) of the British public believe that if children are taught Religious Education at school, they are more likely to be tolerant towards people of other faiths and cultures when they grow up. | |
| Education | Salvationist, 2 April 2011 |
| A £180 million bursary scheme to help the poorest teenagers will replace the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) which was controversially scrapped last year. The initiative will be made up of two parts – a guaranteed payment of £1,200 per year for a small group of the “most vulnerable” teenagers, and a “discretionary fund” for schools and colleges to hand out. The announcement comes months after the coalition scrapped the EMA, a weekly payment of between £10 and £30 to help teenagers stay in education. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - March 29 2011 |
| Exam grades have been artificially inflated and billions of pounds in increased spending on education wasted, according to a damning international report. The report, from the highly respected Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, concludes that pupils' actual performance remains 'static' and 'uneven’. The share of A-levels awarded at grade A has risen continuously over the past 18 years and trebled since 1980, it says, but independent surveys of students' cognitive skills 'do not support this development'. Most damagingly, the report concludes that despite Labour's doubling of spending on education since 2000, children's success remains 'strongly related to parents' income and background'. | |
| Education | Daily Mail March 17th 2011 |
| More than 100 state schools failed to enter a single candidate for GCSE history last year, an official report has revealed. It says the subject is becoming 'margin¬alised' and many pupils have no chronological knowledge of historical events. The schools inspectorate Ofsted also found that England is the only country in Europe where children may stop studying history at the age of 13. Its conclusions will add weight to calls for reform to the national curriculum, which is being reviewed by Education Secretary Michael Gove and historian Simon Schama. The report, History for All, was based on inspections of 83 primary and 83 secondary schools. | |
| Education | Daily Mail March 14th 2011 |
| Explicit cartoons, films and books have been cleared for use to teach sex education to school¬children as young as five. A disturbing dossier exposes a wide range of graphic resources recom¬mended for primary school lessons. The shocking material - promoted by local councils and even the BBC - teaches youngsters about adult language and sexual intercourse. 'The Primary School Sex and Relationships Education Pack' by HIT UK, includes material to allow children aged five to 11 to learn about different sexual positions and prostitution. The dossier, compiled by the Christian Institute, also pinpoints a book called Let's Talk About Sex, by Robie H Harris, which includes a chapter on hetero-sexuality called 'Straight and Gay'. | |
| Education | Daily Mail March 8th 2011 |
| School children could be taught about homosexual issues in maths, science and geography lessons under controversial new plans funded by a taxpayer-backed quango during LGBT History Month in March. The lesson plans, which are optional, include considering why homosexuals move from the countryside to cities and using same-sex characters in maths problems. Younger children could be reading books such as And Tango Makes Three, a book about a pair of male penguins who were treated as sexual mates in a New York Zoo. | |
| Education | Evangelicals Now, March 2011 |
| UCAS have reported a 5.1% increase in applications this year. With just over 400,000 places for undergraduate study, many will be disappointed. Applicants are likely trying to avoid the increase in fees expected in 2012, when universities will be able to charge up to £9,000 a year. David Willetts, the universities minister said, ‘We are opening up other routes into a successful career. Our reforms will make part-time university study more accessible and we are also investing in new apprenticeship places, with an additional 75,00 being created by 2014.’ | |
| Education | Youthwork, March 2011 |
| Top universities such as Oxford and Cambridge will be barred from charging the maximum £9,000 tuition fee unless they accept “dramatically” poorer students, Nick Clegg has said. The Deputy Prime Minister said institutions would not be allowed to “merrily” levy the highest charge without making improvements in access. Anybody wanting to charge more than £6,000 a year will be obliged to strike an agreement with the Office of Fair Access. | |
| Education | The Sentinel, February 10, 2011 |
| The race to succeed in life is over for many children in the UK by the day they first arrive in primary school. By the age of just five, huge class differences already exist between the abilities of pupils from comfortable and disadvantaged backgrounds, condemning many poor children to grow up to be poor adults, according to a report by MP Field. The “poverty tsar” has now called on the Government to give more support to parents and children in the first five years of life. | |
| Education | The Sentinel December 3, 2010 |
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