A teacher who had sex with a student has been banned from the profession. Simon Bickford-Smith, 39, began a relationship with the girl when she was 17, while he was a teacher at Sixth Form College, Farnborough in Hampshire. A National College for Teaching & Leadership (NCTL) panel found he ... Read More »
A small but rising number of schools in England are diverting money meant for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts, says an education charity. Of 1,600 teachers polled for Sutton Trust in March, 6% said pupil premium money was used to offset budget cuts, compared with 2% the previous year. ... Read More »
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 »
Roche (ROG.S) is increasingly confident it will continue to lift sales and profit even as cut-rate copies of the Swiss drugmaker’s older cancer medicines start to grab business next year, its chief executive said on Wednesday. Big wins for three new drugs in recent months have helped to offset what ... Read More »
Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) plans to lay off 98 employees in New York between July and October, according to a filing by the bank with the state’s Department of Labor. The dismissals, which will happen between July 17 and Oct. 29, are part of a third round of layoffs ... Read More »
As he chatted with law clerks in his chambers, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas laughed so hard he looked as though he might tumble from his chair. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sorted through the cabinet of lacy collars she wears over her black robe for the one she dons ... Read More »
Nearly half of gay and lesbian couples living together in the United States are married a year after the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage across the country, according to a Gallup study released on Wednesday. The percentage of married cohabiting same-sex couples, as opposed to couples living ... Read More »
The Royal Bank of Scotland has received bids for its Greek ship finance business, banking and financial sources familiar with the matter said, following a leap in bad shipping debts at the lender over the past few months. They told Reuters that the operation was worth about $3 billion although ... Read More »
The death of Sanjay Valvani, a hedge fund manager at Visium Asset Management LP who had been charged last week in a major insider trading case, has been declared a suicide, the New York City medical examiner’s office said on Wednesday. Valvani died of stab wounds to his neck, and ... Read More »
