More than 16,000 new secondary school spaces are needed within seven years to accommodate new pupils starting primary education, official figures reveal. Data analysed by BBC News shows the scale of the challenge to meet rising demand by the time current four-year-olds move schools. Surrey County Council and Birmingham City ... Read More »
Mexico’s National Security Commission originally said in a statement that the police officers involved in the operation near the town of Nochixtlan were not carrying guns, But federal police chief Enrique Galindo later said that an armed unit was deployed after shots were fired at the police and the protesters ... Read More »
The Northern Ireland Science Park intends to develop another 1m sq ft of office space over the next 10 years as part of a major expansion plan. The organisation, which is changing its name to Catalyst Inc, is also aiming to support 5,000 additional jobs. It was founded in 1999 ... Read More »
A second teaching union is to ballot its members on taking industrial action over their workload. The Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association (SSTA) said an indicative ballot showed the majority of its 8,000 members supported taking action. Last week, Scotland’s largest teaching union, the EIS, said its secondary school members would ... Read More »
Welsh universities have nailed their colours firmly to the mast in the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union. They have received millions from the EU for research and new buildings. The representative body Universities Wales says this funding ultimately has huge benefits for the Welsh economy. But ... Read More »
More than 100 child rapes with online links took place in England and Wales in the last year, police figures obtained by the NSPCC show. Data from 38 out of 43 police forces suggested the internet was used in 3,186 sexual offences against children in the year to 31 March, ... Read More »
More than half (53%) of UK teaching assistants (TAs) have experienced physical violence at school in the past year, a poll by Unison has found. The survey of more than 8,000 TAs found three-quarters (76%) had witnessed some form of physical violence. More than half (53%) had experienced, and 73% ... Read More »
Hello and welcome to the Blame Game, where parents blame teachers and teachers blame parents for low grades, mischievous behavior, and everything under the sun. I’m your host, and today we have two contestants who will … Wait! What? Stop! While this game show doesn’t exist, and may exaggerate what ... Read More »
During an unusually cold and rainy winter in Phoenix, Arizona, Carlos, a senior at Phoenix Union High School, stopped going to school. Not because he was struggling academically or because he’d lost interest in his education. He didn’t have discipline or behavioral problems either. Carlos stopped going because the only ... Read More »
In examining the Title I education funding program, U.S. News combined data points from several different datasets and sources. Poverty and Child Population Estimates We used the Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates for school districts to get an estimate of the number of children and the number of children ... Read More »
within the landmark 1982 selection in Plyler v Doe, the U.S. ideally suited court dominated allyoungsters are entitled to a public education, no matter citizenship or immigration popularity. The fact thatthis is set up regulation hasn’t stopped some faculty districts from implementing limitations to preventsome of the approximately 770,000 undocumented ... Read More »
What do you do once you brought your birthday party’s manage of government to a dramatic quit? Youcome to be an global scold and blowhard, blaming the world’s issues on anyone else—who’ve nocapacity to remedy any of them. In reality, has-beens and as soon as-weres regularly are brought in as ... Read More »
