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• Judge in Sara Sharif case warns of ‘dangers’ of automatic right to home school children December 17, 2024
  Judge says killers home schooled Sara as a ‘ruse’ to hide evidence of 10-year-old’s repeated beatings A senior judge who jailed the killers of Sara Sharif has said the 10-year-old’s murder “starkly illustrates the dangers” of parents automatically being able to homeschool their children.Sara had twice been pulled out of school by her father, Urfan […]
  Emine Sinmaz
• Amazon-hosted AI tool for UK military recruitment ‘carries risk of data breach’ December 17, 2024
  Ministry of Defence says risk with Textio tool is low and ‘robust safeguards’ have been put in place by suppliersAn artificial intelligence tool hosted by Amazon and designed to boost UK Ministry of Defence recruitment puts defence personnel at risk of being identified publicly, according to a government assessment.Data used in the automated Textio system […]
  Robert Booth UK technology editor
• Home schooling laws to be tightened up after murder of Sara Sharif December 17, 2024
  Ten-year-old was murdered by her father and stepmother after being taken out of school to be educated at homeMeasures to tighten up home schooling in England in the wake of 10-year-old Sara Sharif’s murder at the hands of her father and stepmother are to be unveiled in a bill before parliament on Tuesday.The children’s wellbeing […]
  Sally Weale Education correspondent
• The Guardian view on reforming special needs education: a demanding test for ministers | Editorial December 15, 2024
  The system has been stretched to breaking point. The government needs to come up with a planThe urgent need for reform of the special educational needs and disabilities (Send) system in England is arguably the greatest challenge facing the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson. A crisis that built up over the past decade, and whose full […]
  Editorial
• What kind of society would willingly traumatise its children in the name of education? | John Harris December 15, 2024
  As claims about practices in two flagship London schools are investigated, it’s time to stop and think about what schools are really forAsk the average Westminster politician about schools policy and the response will focus on issues that never seem to go away: funding, teacher shortages, and the drive to somehow uncouple unequal educational outcomes […]
  John Harris
• Top English academy trust faces safeguarding review over ‘emotional abuse’ of pupils December 15, 2024
  Observer investigation into London school has sparked an inquiry into allegations that teachers harmed mental wellbeing of childrenA school in one of England’s leading academy trusts is to face an independent safeguarding review after an Observer investigation exposed allegations of emotional abuse of children over two decades.After an emergency multi-agency meeting on Tuesday, Jim Gamble, […]
  Anna Fazackerley
• ‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis December 15, 2024
  More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken systemThe email arrived out of the blue: it was the university code of conduct team. Albert, a 19-year-old […]
  Will Coldwell
• Ho-ho-no! Children in tears after vicar tells them Santa is not real December 14, 2024
  Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain apologises for talk at Hampshire school after angry parents say he ‘ruined Christmas’Telling young children whether Santa is or is not real is a parental ritual usually handled with painstaking care.For students at a primary school in Hampshire, however, their childhood wonder was torn to shreds after a vicar told pupils […]
  Sammy Gecsoyler