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Boris Johnson reshuffled his cabinet based on two criteria – and not the ones you think newstatesman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newstatesman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Shorter holidays and longer work day under UK government’s school catch-up plan Ahead of the reopening of schools begun March 8 in England, with Scotland and Wales returned earlier, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced the government is considering a five-term year, a longer school day and shorter holidays in the summer. The six-week summer break could lose two weeks. Boris Johnson during his televised speech from Downing Street on Tuesday evening (Credit: Downing Street gov.uk) The proposals will increase the risk of pupils and educators catching and spreading the coronavirus. Dressed up as an “education recovery package for children and young people” to catch-up on lost learning during the pandemic, it will intensify the exploitation of education workers already exhausted by the government’s schools policies since the pandemic began. ....
UNDER the leadership of one of Tony Blair’s education secretaries, Estelle Morris, Labour’s Bright Future Taskforce is charged with developing “a national strategy to ensure all children recover the learning and social development lost during the pandemic.” The taskforce includes a secondary head teacher, an NUS vice-president and a number of education sector worthies most of whom have extensive experience based in big cities. It prompted this comment from a comrade “…good people, but no-one who you would describe as being on the left.” Which raises the question, what is leftist education? Education is, arguably, the most politically charged of Britain’s social enterprises. ....
Letters: A substantial pay rise for NHS staff is simply unaffordable at this time telegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The former Conservative education secretary Justine Greening has poured cold water on government proposals designed to strengthen freedom of speech protections on university campuses in England. The plans, which were unveiled on Tuesday by one of her successors, Gavin Williamson, include the appointment of a “free speech and academic freedom champion” to investigate potential infringements, as well as new legislation to help aggrieved academics,. ....