All news on the topic: Education

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Woman, 22, killed by police car on Xmas Eve was carer walking home from work
Rachael Louise Moore, 22, was hit by the marked police car in Merseyside, at around 8.10pm on Christmas Eve - a coroner today opened an inquest into her death
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Six-foot dog kicked out of puppy school for sitting on smaller pups in his class
Newfoundland Franklyn is only one-year-old but already weighs a massive nine stone. He thinks he is a 'small lap dog' and climbs all over of his owners and other dogs
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Six ways Rishi Sunak's vague plan to teach more maths doesn't add up
Rishi Sunak laid out his plans for all children in England to 'study some form of maths to 18' - we’ve broken down why his gushing speech is out of touch with the real issues the education system is facing
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Students slam £24k Greta Thunberg statue as "meaningless greenwashing"
The bronze effigy erected last year has now resulted in protests from environmentalists criticising the university for not delivering on 'real' sustainability commitments
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Police launch appeal for teenage girl 10 months after she vanished
Saidatu Jalloh who was 14 years old at the time and is now 15, was reported missing to Met Police by staff at her school in Lambeth on March 9, 2022
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Mum rages as daughter gets 'unfair' detention after accidentally burping in PE
A woman has taken to Mumsnet to share how her daughter was embarrassed for burping in the middle of her PE lesson, as she was sent out of class and ordered to change back into her school uniform
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Man praised for brilliant response to professor who keeps misspelling his name
The student was applauded online after he shared a screenshot of the email response he sent to one of his professors, calling out the academic's repeated mistakes
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Swedish kids jump into frozen lakes as adults look on - it could be life-saving
Alexandra Högborg is just one Swede who was taken down to a frozen lake at the age of 12 and encouraged to leap into the icy water with a rope tied around her waist
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'Impossible' maths question that stumps all parents as well as kids
As Rishi Sunak lays out plans to make maths compulsory until the age of 18, research from Save My Exams has revealed a GCSE question that hundreds of parents struggle to answer
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One in three teachers quit after just 5 years as schools face 'greatest crisis'
The Government is being urged to start negotiating with teaching unions to prevent a strike. Figures show 26,443 teachers who qualified in the last five years have already left the job
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Tories' 'breathtakingly complacency' after blaming Covid and flu for NHS chaos
Tories have been accused of repeatedly ignoring the problems that have left the NHS at breaking point after 13 years of shameful underfunding as they blamed Covid, Strep A and flu instead
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Every child to study maths until they're 18 under new plan by Rishi Sunak
The Prime Minister will say that learning more maths will help youngsters leave school 'better equipped for the jobs of the future' at a speech in London - as he finally breaks his silence amid the ongoing NHS crisis
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Kids can’t reach potential if they are hungry in class, warns Wales school chief
Welsh Education Minister Jeremy Miles said free school meals were vital when hard-pressed families were buckling under the pressure after austerity and the legacy of the Covid pandemic
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Mum baffled over five-year-old daughter's 'nonsense' homework on the letter 'O'
A mum has taken to Reddit to seek the answers to her five-year-old daughter's homework. She spent a good while trying to figure it out herself but ended up giving up on it
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Public urged to wear face masks and stay at home when ill as NHS battles crisis
Today the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued fresh advice as hospitals battle soaring rates of Covid, flu and Strep A, amid warnings hundreds are dying unnecessarily every day due to overcrowding and lack of resources
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'Hope for bespoke cancer treatment hope after lab grows bone marrow cells'
Dr Miriam Stoppard shares the groundbreaking work going on at the universities of Oxford and Birmingham which could help scientists study cancer directly using cells from patients
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Woman falls to death from 60ft-high flat window putting up Christmas decorations
Dina Khalil, who had been studying nursing in Amman, Jordan, died after falling from her fourth-floor apartment while putting up Christmas decorations
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University of Idaho murder suspect's parents speak out following son's arrest
Bryan Kohberger, 28, was arrested at his parents' home in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, where he was spending the Christmas holidays. He has been charged with the murder of the four University of Idaho studens
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UK's first non-binary priest says God guided them to come out after an epiphany
Bingo, who now works in Liverpool, visits schools across the area and hopes to inspire LGBTQ+ young people and show them they have a place in church
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Inside WW1 military hospital abandoned for decades before new lease of life
Ormskirk General Hospital served as a temporary site for injured World War One soldiers returning from the front in 1918 but after laying empty for 30 years it has been reborn as a bustling school