All news on the topic: Education
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Should mobile phones be banned from our schools? Have your say in our poll
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan will shortly unveil plans to outlaw smartphones during the school day as she believes devices distract children and can be used to bully others
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Boy, 12, still hasn't been to school after transport crisis leaves him stranded
Autistic Alfie Stevens has a place at Bluebell School and needs council transport to get him to and from lessons but it has failed to turn up for the start of term
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Mobile phones will be banned during school day in England under Tory crackdown
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan will unveil plans to outlaw smartphones during the school day as she believes devices distract children and can be used to bully others
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Pupil hurt in M53 coach crash that killed two recalls seeing 'blood everywhere'
The fatal crash of a school coach on the M53 on Friday has left a large school community in mourning. And now one boy has spoken out on the terrible and traumatic ordeal
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Major update as vid shows female student hurl chair at teacher and knock her out
A 15-year-old student who was filmed throwing a metal chair at her teacher and knocking her out in the classroom on Thursday has been arrested and faces felony charges
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'Free school meals for every primary pupil is a campaign worth fighting for'
Ending child hunger, guaranteeing a mid-day meal for every primary school pupil in England – to level it up with Wales and Scotland – is a no-brainer as well as only fair.
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Kate Winslet and Olivia Colman join calls for free school meals for primary kids
A host of well known faces today throw their weight behind the Mirror's push for Free School Meals for All to end child hunger and boost children's life chances
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Family pay tribute to 'talented' Jessica Baker killed in coach crash on M53
Heart-rending tributes have poured in after the death of 15-year-old Jessica Baker in a major coach collision on Friday. The driver, dad-of-two Stephen Shrimpton, also tragically didn’t make it
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'My identical twin sister is now a man - and we have never been closer'
Suchita and Savita Naidu grew up together and, as twins, had an 'intrinsic connection' - but the pair became even closer when Savita decided to come out as a trans man
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Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian B ‘spotted running from rape scene'
A new witness has come forward to say they saw Christian Brueckner, who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann's 2007 disappearance in Portugal, running away from the flat of an alleged victim
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'I'm a teacher and my students make me cry - they're rude and disrespectful'
'I suspect you gained some respect from many of them.'
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Stab victim's heartbreaking tribute - 'hope God likes your TikTok dancing'
Elianne Andam's cousin visited a shrine set up by the girl's pals at the scene of her senseless killing - and described her as a 'highly intelligent and a lovely, lovely girl'
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Elianne Andam's sister claims she 'died saving her friend' in emotional tribute
15-year-old Elianne Andam, an aspiring lawyer, was stabbed in Croydon after intervening in a row between her pal and an ex-boyfriend on the No 60 double-decker bus
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Schools pay parents $300 a month to drive kids to class amid bus driver shortage
Parents in Philadelphia are being offered a cash incentive to drive their children to school as states across the US face crippling bus driver shortages putting a massive strain on the network
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Three women sue Jeremy Clarkson's ex school over sex abuse after teacher jailed
The school attended by Jeremy Clarkson is being sued by three women who were sexually assaulted as teens. Shamed maths teacher and hockey coach Simon Clague was jailed last month
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Horror moment teacher knocked out cold as metal chair hurled at her in classroom
The teacher at Southwestern Classical Academy in Flint, Michigan, was attempting to calm an argument between two students when one picked up a metal chair and threw it across the classroom
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Children forced to jump from smashed windows as two victims of M53 crash named
As more details emerge of the horror on the M53 that left a schoolgirl and the coach driver dead and two others seriously ill, witnesses tell of the devastating scene
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School uniforms can harbour 12,000 percent more germs than a toilet seat
Tests on individual items showed school dresses had 1,700% more bacteria than a toilet hand dryer, while cardigans contained 900% more than a loo door handle
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'I had to sit outside class for being veggie and swapped meat for cabbage'
Sunday is World Vegetarian Day, an annual fixture since 1977, so we marked the occasion by speaking to lifelong veggies who quit eating meat as young children in the 60s and 70s
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Greg James is on a mission to locate Millie Bobby Brown's long-lost tortoises
BBC Radio 1's breakfast host Greg James is trying to trace the tortoises who the Stranger Things star had given to a school
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High school students spell n-word on shirts while posing behind mixed-race girl
A high school student at Salmon High School in Idaho posted the now-deleted image to social media showing six teens spelling out the racial slur as a mixed-race girl lay on the floor in front, all with their middle fingers up
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Teachers must learn how to tackle racism as part of their training, experts warn
The Runnymede Trust warned 'urgent action must be taken to boost racial literacy and address discrimination in our schools' in a manifesto with recommendations for politicians
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Police drones to follow clubbers on nights out after rise in sexual assaults
Sussex police plan to crack down on sexual assaults with the deployment of high-tech heat-censored drones in Brighton - officers said it will provide them with a larger area of visibility
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Devastated mum sobs at bus stop where daughter was stabbed 'protecting friend'
The mother of Elianne Andam, 15, broke down in tears as the family paid tribute to the 'bright and funny' student after she was fatally stabbed on her way to school in South London
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It's about time we rethought what causes early menopause
Study of genetic data by two UK universities debunks previous thinking about menopause before the age of 40, says Dr Miriam Stoppard
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