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School and Union leaders representing a million teachers and education specialists demand action on free school meals Teachers say worsening hunger crisis damaging children’s prospects. School and Union leaders representing more than a million teachers, support staff and others working with children have written to the chancellor Rishi Sunak and the...
In October last year we launched the Dorset Education Advice Line â€“ an advice line for parents and carers who are worried their child might not be making the progress they should be, or who may believe their child might have emerging special educational needs. To date, we’ve spoken with approximately 60...
Dorset Council are advising all schools to close tomorrow. The amber weather warning has been escalated to a red warning for the South West, where national advice is for all persons to stay at home in affected areas. Dorset school transport for both Home to School and SEND will...
Children’s Mental Health Week falls between 7 to 13th February this year. To mark this important event in the school calendar, Dorset Mind charity’s children and young people division, â€˜Dorset Mind Your Head’ (DMYH), is marking the week with a series of mental health workshops and activities focussing on building resilience at Dorchester Middle School. On Saturday, at the...
This was not supposed to be aspirational: Our IQ levels are falling, and no one knows exactly why. But scientists largely agree on this: It's due to something in the environment, not to the presence of more people with less-than-stellar genes. For much of the 20th century, human intelligence steadily rose. James Flynn,...
Bournemouth University will expect fewer European students on campus after this academic year following the closure of the Erasmus exchange program for the UK. While it is still unclear what this ending entails, the European influence will surely be missed. The UK left the European Union at the beginning of 2020,...
Racial injustice is "baked into our curriculum", a teacher who complained about a history textbook has said. Hannah Wilkinson, who mentors A-level pupils in Durham, objected to a question about Native Americans, which asked if their "treatment" had been "exaggerated". She stated it was "problematic" because the "starting premise" was an...
The Jewish Chronicle warns that the dismissal of Prof David Miller is ‘just the beginning’ The Israel lobby appears to be readying for a campaign to root out leftwing academics in the UK critical of Israel’s continuing oppression of the Palestinian people – echoing its efforts against the previous leader...
The University of Bristol as we know succumbed to a longstanding pro-Israel pressure campaign targeted at Professor David Miller, based on his important scholarship on Islamophobia. In 2019, Professor Miller gave a lecture on the ‘Five Pillars of Islamophobia’ as part of a module called ‘Harms of the Powerful’. Among...
We know what happened we were there. However, as soon as the corporate propagandists got their slimy claws on to it it became something distorted and ugly. Sadly it resembled many of the opinions of those who read their far right nonsense day in, day out. It is tragic but...