Teachers are being forced to improvise with sign language to communicate with primary school pupils whose language skills have been severely impacted by lockdowns, according to a new report.
Children have been turned feral by lockdown and are leaving the rest of us living in fear, says Camilla Tominey, as she notes an alarming 16% rise in criminality amongst under-18s since 2020.
In another case of 'you couldn't make it up', there's a campaign underway to 'decolonise' exams by letting students sit their own personalised ones they could never fail. What could possibly go wrong, asks Steven Tucker.
The publisher of a schoolbook intended to promote diversity has apologised after portraying a typical Irish family as cabbage-chewing, potato-munching xenophobes.
Joanna Gray works with some of the countless children whose mental health was devastated by lockdown. No wonder the NHS is reporting anxiety referrals through the roof. When will children get their apology?
Church of England guidance for teachers has been slammed for pushing the anti-science idea that a person's sex is "assigned" at birth rather than a biological fact and telling teachers to challenge "outdated terms".
The British Empire should be taught to school pupils like Nazi Germany, curriculum guidelines from the "leading provider of support for schools and trusts” insist.
Labour's manifesto threatens us with an "expert-led" review to produce a "modern, inclusive and innovative" school curriculum. Former Government chief curriculum adviser Dr. Nicholas Tate looks at what this could mean.
Keir Starmer’s planned VAT raid on private schools is likely to breach human rights law because it singles out private education for the levy, a senior lawyer has said. The Left gets entangled in its own Blob.
Labour claims its Education Tax on private schools is to raise revenue for the state sector. But it's unlikely to do that – and no wonder when the policy's architect is clear that it wants private schools to disappear.
