A teaching assistant has died after being stabbed by a student outside a school in Nogent, north-east France, officials say. The 31-year-old teaching assistant was stabbed on Tuesday morning outside Françoise Dolto middle school as pupils’ bags were being checked by police, the Haute-Marne prefecture said. French media reported a suspect had been taken into...
Hayley Clarke Education reporter Alice Cole Mum Alice returned to her job as a teacher part-time in April, after her son Oliver was born last May “I really loved my job, and I loved working full-time. I couldn’t have seen that changing before I had a family.” After eight years in teaching, primary school teacher...
This year, Pride Month arrives at an especially dire moment for the LGBTQ+ community. Under the second Trump administration, homophobic vitriol and violence are on the rise. On Elon Musk’s X platform, a “deepfake” video of Donald Trump canceling Pride Month has gone viral. And even as Pride celebrations continue as planned (in many places...
A school leaders’ union says it is taking legal action against Ofsted over proposed changes to the way it inspects schools in England. The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has asked for a judge to review plans for new school report cards, which are due to be introduced in the autumn after Ofsted got...
A row has erupted between Nigel Farage and Britain’s biggest teaching union after it branded Reform UK a “racist and far-right” party. National Education Union (NEU) members at their annual conference called for funds to be used to help campaign against Reform UK candidates. The NEU’s general secretary, Daniel Kebede, claimed there were “an awful...
BBC Stuart Youens Lucy Adams Education correspondent, BBC Scotland Stuart Youens says that when he became a secondary school teacher 20 years ago he loved the job. But gradually the effect of budget cuts, the reduction in classroom assistants, the increase in additional support needs, and a rise in bureaucracy took its toll. Two years...
