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MPs and peers demand review of Prevent duty

A committee of MPs and peers has called for an independent review of the Prevent duty after witnesses warned some...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Government trebles fund to help schools tackle homophobic bullying

Government funding to help train teachers how to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying has been trebled to...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

The education of Muslim students in turbulent times

What have you been researching? I am looking at the education of Muslim students and in particular, Muslims’ expectations...

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
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Will Young calls for buddy system for LGBT pupils

Singer Will Young has called for schools to adopt a “buddy system” to change the language used around homosexuality....

John Dickens
John Dickens
Opinion

How to make EAL pupils feel safer post-EU referendum

“Bye bye, you’re going home”: playground ‘banter’. “Leave the EU/No more Polish vermin”: anonymous leaflets left outside a primary...

Diane Leedham
Diane Leedham
Opinion

How my school helped Traveller children

There are simple, practical methods for integrating Traveller children into the education system, as my school has shown, yet...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Forget the local school model, we need to break the housing price influence

The evidence is clear: local schools favour well-off parents, while more enrolment in publicly-funded private schools increases equity. The...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Segregation is holding our children back

Next month a report on segregation will be published for the prime minister. Hopefully it will mark the point...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

‘Why a campaign group was wrong to complain about my school’s racial intake’

Religious schools have been accused of racial segregation – but is the picture accurate? Headteacher Paul Halliewell says his...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney