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Times Education Commission: our education system needs radical reform to avoid falling behind
Education
By Rachel Sylvester
Times Education Commission: our education system needs radical reform to avoid falling behind
The world is changing at an astonishing rate. The way we shop, work, travel and bank has been transformed in the last decade but our schools have hardly changed in a hundred years. Instead of adapting to the 21st century, education remains stuck in the 20th, and in some ways the 19th, century. At the very moment when artificial intelligence is taking over many routine tasks, learning has become more robotic.
Spoken language support for children is crucial to tackle educational inequality
Education
By Andy Carter MP
Spoken language support for children is crucial to tackle educational inequality
The pandemic has shone a spotlight on the educational inequalities children face depending on where they live and the circumstances in which they grow up.
Poor provision of relationships and sex education in schools is failing young people
Education
By Sarah Champion MP and Maria Miller MP
Poor provision of relationships and sex education in schools is failing young people
In March 2017, Parliament made it law for all secondary schools in England to teach relationships and sex education, and relationships education in primary schools.
Afro hair discrimination should be legally recognised as a form of racism
Home affairs
By Kim Johnson MP
Afro hair discrimination should be legally recognised as a form of racism
This week, Marcial Boo from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) responded to a letter signed by myself and other representatives, campaigners and organisations, calling for action to end afro hair discrimination. Unfortunately, the response from the EHRC was lacklustre.
Championing dairy milk for British children on World School Milk Day
Health
By Daniel Zeichner MP
Championing dairy milk for British children on World School Milk Day
It is no coincidence that as milk schemes are squeezed, levels of child malnutrition increase and obesity soars.
JCVI Says Covid-19 Vaccines For 12-15 Year Olds Not Recommended, But Sajid Javid Disagrees
Coronavirus
JCVI Says Covid-19 Vaccines For 12-15 Year Olds Not Recommended, But Sajid Javid Disagrees
The UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has confirmed it will not recommend healthy children aged 12-15 receive a Covid-19 vaccine, but health secretary Sajid Javid appears to think otherwise.
It’s time we had a national education initiative for Black African and Caribbean students
Education
By Diane Abbott MP
It’s time we had a national education initiative for Black African and Caribbean students
We are calling on the Department for Education to tackle anti-Black racism at its core. This goes beyond what students are being taught in the classroom to the way the institution functions.
The most vulnerable children are being set up to fail
Education
By Steve Rotheram
The most vulnerable children are being set up to fail
A two-tier system exists in our country, with many children’s fates decided before they ever set foot in a classroom; their futures decided by the wealth of their parents and their postcode.
Partner content
Education
By Institution of Engineering and Technology
IET comments on GCSE results