All news on the topic: Schools
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'What has been offered to teachers so far is clearly nothing short of insulting'
Writing exclusively for The Mirror, joint General Secretary of the National Education Union Kevin Courtney says it is 'about time that the Westminster Government gets serious and gets back round the table to resolve this dispute'
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Girl, 17, with 'crippling pain' at boarding school was sick days before dying
Taylor Goodridge, 17, tragically died on December 20 after staff at Diamond Ranch Academy in Utah, US, failed to seek medical care for her - despite being sick in the lead up to her death
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Senior Tory MP issues warning over 'growing' funding gap for free school meals
A former minister will use a Westminster Hall hearing on Tuesday to air concerns about the cost to schools, as the Mirror ramps up our Free School Meals For All campaign
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Teachers' leaders call for urgent talks with Tories to avert next school strikes
The National Education Union said it would meet Education Secretary Gillian Keegan for crunch negotiations on Monday morning - if the Cabinet Minister was willing
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Ofsted boss says 'no reason to doubt' inspection after teacher took her own life
Amanda Spielman's remarks came after Ms Perry's sister said pausing inspections would be the 'empathetic, human, correct thing to do' while a review takes place
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Girl, 12, dies of asthma attack at school as she stopped breathing for 8 minutes
Pearl Unu-Arubi was taken to the hospital when she stopped breathing for eight minutes on March 20, 2023. After spending 10 days in critical condition, the 12-year-old sadly died
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Sting backs teachers' strike and brands Tories 'a disgrace' over pay dispute
The 71-year-old was a primary school teacher before he found stardom, and he says educating children is too important to skimp on
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Girl, 5, left screaming in pain after breaking shin in HALF at school club
Five-year-old Millie Rowe was left screaming in agony after slipping on a hula-hoop and breaking her shin bone at her school's after-school club in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
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Woman 'mum-shamed' for asking simple question in school parent WhatsApp group
The mum has just asked a simple question in a group chat to make sure she was not missing something important - but a cruel reply left her feeling pretty mortified
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'Time warp' three-bedroom bungalow where 1970s furnishings have been kept intact
A spacious property in North London has gone on the market for £925,000, but the new owners will need to spend extra money as the whole bungalow needs to be refurbished
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Schools warned 'virtually impossible' to tell if kids use ChatGPT in coursework
Education think tank EDSK warned that teachers face the 'virtually impossible task' of determining whether pupils have done their own coursework or relied on AI models to help them cheat
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School kids forced to hide under tables as masked intruders storm classrooms
Youngsters at Kineton High School, near Warwick, were placed in an emergency lockdown and hid under their desks when three intruders wearing balaclavas stormed the site
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Teacher shares snack she hates kids having - as it's a nightmare to deal with
A school teacher has said there is one lunchtime snack that kids bring that she hates dealing with - and vowed to never give it to her own kids to spare other teachers
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Scared kids cower under desks as school goes into lockdown over masked intruders
Parents say their children were left 'fearing for their lives' after the three youths wearing balaclavas were seen on the grounds of Kineton High School near Warwick.
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Parents horrified as kids forced to play 'vile' licking game with school staff
Disturbing video shows students at Desert Hills Middle School in Kennewick, Washington, US, licking marshmallow cream off a plexiglass. Disgusted pupils were heard shouting "that's so gross"
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Rampaging bull shot dead by police after 'charging at people' near UK school
A bull was seen charging at people on Wells Avenue in Haslington, Cheshire, yesterday morning, and pupils in a nearby primary school were put into lockdown before the animal was shot dead by police
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School leaders to hold national strike ballot over autumn walkouts
The ASCL union, which represents heads and school leaders, said it would formally ballot its members nationally over pay and conditions for the first time in its history
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British family's death certificate struggle after son dies in Nepal plane crash
Ruan Crighton from Brentwood, Essex, was one of 72 people on board the Yeti Airlines Flight 691 from Nepalese capital Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara when it crashed
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Evil shooter wrote 'LOL' in victims' blood on whiteboard after murdering 19 kids
The grim revelation about the actions of evil gunman Salvador Ramos came during the hearing of a bill that would raise the age to purchase certain semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21
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'Healthy' doctor, 32, dies after rare severe reaction to AstraZenenca Covid jab
Dr Stephen Wright from Sevenoaks, Kent, was among the earliest groups of people to be given the vaccine during the pandemic - he died 10 days later
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Dad narrowly escaped death when canoe was sucked into current where 2 drowned
Mark Chamberlain, 53, was pulled into the current at the weir on the River Great Ouse in Kempston when he was a schoolboy - and said it was sheer luck he survived
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Eerie photographs show inside abandoned 100-year-old synagogue left to rot
Gloomy light shines down on row after row of empty seats, left slowly to rot after the old temple in Memphis, Tennessee, was abandoned by its previous owners when they no longer needed it
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Eight members of same family including new baby killed in horror fireball crash
The family, all from Frankfort, Indiana, were travelling along an interstate near Matehuala in Mexico when their SUV collided with a semi-truck and burst into flames
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'Rishi Sunak's failed his own maths test – absolutely none of it adds up'
PM says being bad at maths is embarrassing, rather like his handling of his latest half-baked education idea, says Polly Hudson
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Boy, 12, dies in freak accident after being hit by football playing with friends
After being hit by the ball, the boy fell to the ground and started convulsing before sadly being confirmed dead at La Salle de Sestao School in Spain’s Basque Country at about 8.30pm
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