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Education Secretary launches consultation on behaviour and discipline in schools

The use of mobile phones in schools is one of a number of areas being looked at by the Government as part of a review of behaviour in schools...

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 00:01

ASCL comment on school behaviour consultation

Commenting on the Education Secretary’s launch of a consultation on behaviour and discipline in schools, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said...

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 00:01

NEU comment on behaviour management in schools

Commenting on the launch of a consultation on behaviour management in schools, Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said...

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 00:01

Labour uses urgent question to call on Government to protect reopening by securing borders

Labour will use an urgent question in the House of Commons today (Tuesday) to demand the Government prevents further delay to reopening by introducing an international vaccine passport...

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 00:01

WHO guidance on Artificial Intelligence to improve healthcare, mitigate risks worldwide

Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds “enormous potential” for improving the health of millions around the world if ethics and human rights are at the heart of its design...

Monday, 28 June 2021 18:00

COVID-19 vaccines have prevented 7.2 million infections and 27,000 deaths

Latest modelling analysis from Public Health England (PHE) and the University of Cambridge’s MRC Biostatistics Unit suggests that...

Monday, 28 June 2021 17:55

Independent Review of Prevent launches online engagement events

The Independent Review of Prevent is reviewing the government’s strategy for supporting people vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism...

Monday, 28 June 2021 17:51

Mixed Oxford/Pfizer vaccine schedules generate robust immune response against COVID-19, finds Oxford-led study

Alternating doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines generate robust immune responses against COVID-19, according to researchers running the University of Oxford-led Com-COV study...

Monday, 28 June 2021 16:03

Ofsted: Inspections to look at how schools and colleges work to prevent sexual harassment, online sexual abuse and sexual violence

Ofsted has today published updated education inspection handbooks, clarifying how inspectors will assess how schools and colleges confront sexual harassment, abuse and violence among children and young people...

Monday, 28 June 2021 15:38

Defence select committee transcript: Defending Global Britain in a Competitive Age - June 23

The inquiry is exploring whether the document, “Global Britain in a Competitive Age”, provides clear strategic direction for the UK’s Armed Forces...

Monday, 28 June 2021 15:02