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Kevin Lister was sacked after 20 years as a teacher for standing up to gender ideology at his college. The new guidance "vindicates" him and is welcome, he says, but we must go further.
Children's rights advocates are finally waking up to the devastation lockdowns visited upon young people. But they still can't bring themselves to admit that schools closures were wrong and should never have happened.
Schools will be told to presume that a child cannot change gender and that social transitioning should be "extremely rare" in the Government’s first guidance for teachers on trans issues.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has admitted he wanted non-essential shops to open before schools in the first lockdown and it's emerged he pushed for schools to be closed before shops in the second lockdown.
Tony Blair's former Education Secretary Estelle Morris, who now sits in the Lords as a Labour peer, has backed Kemi Badenoch on trans rights by saying children should not be encouraged to change gender.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies is wrong to assume that Labour's school fees tax grab won't make private education unaffordable for many, an economist argues.
A secondary school has been told to remove its heat pumps after residents complained the system is so loud they are unable to open windows or go outside without being disturbed.
A primary school teacher sacked for refusing to take Covid tests and wear a face mask during the pandemic has lost her discrimination legal battle.
The terror attack which killed teacher Dominique Bernard last Friday occurred nearly three years after the very similar attack on Samuel Paty. But less well known is that a third such attack occurred last year.
Rishi Sunak is under pressure from almost 70 Conservative MPs to give schools a legal duty to publish materials used in sex education lessons after a judge ruled they did not have to for commercial reasons.
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