A primary school dinner lady who was sacked after telling a couple their seven-year-old daughter was tied to a fence and whipped with a skipping rope won her claim for unfair dismissal yesterday.
The employment tribunal which announced her victory will consider whether she should be compensated and reinstated at another hearing on Feb 2. Carol Hill, 61, dragged four boys away after finding Chloe David tied to a chainlink fence in the playground at Great Tey Primary School in Essex in June 2009.
She lost the job she held for almost …

A father told yesterday how he was threatened with arrest if he took pictures of his young daughter at her school nativity play.

http://www.familiesagainstfees.co.uk/ a site to support anyone involved in the university fee issues take a look .

Times
Sarah Ebner, editor of the School Gate blog,
John O’Leary (Editor of The Times Good University Guide and of Policy Review magazine)
Michael Gove is in so much of a hurry to reform the education system that his ultra-ambitious Schools White Paper inevitably ranges from the sublime to the ridiculous. He has waded in where even previous Tory ministers feared to tread – notably on teacher training and aspects of the curriculum. It remains to be seen how many measures come to pass.
Some of the ideas are confused – a baccalaureate …

More than 8,000 were convicted last year over their child’s truancy – a five-fold rise in eight years.
Since tougher sanctions were introduced in 2001, nearly 41,000 parent

“Noise from TV and lack of conversation from parents can affect speech according to report
Sunday November 14,2010
By Hilary Douglas
CHILDREN beginning nursery school are unable to speak and listen properly because they are continually bombarded by noise from the TV at home and suffer from a lack of conversation with their parents.

As a grandparent I have serious concerns about one of my grandchildren’s speech development. at 46 months. He has loving, caring parents but, and a big but, the tv is always on and the volume is loud. Nursery have identified the problem and he has been referred for help. I have tried tellling them and, as an ex teacher I fully realise the value of communication, but to no avail. Help!

Forty children have died after a routine vaccination such as MMR and 2,100 more have suffered a serious reaction, UK health authorities have been forced to disclose this week – and these figures are just the tip of the iceberg. Two of the vaccinated children have been left with permanent brain damage, and 1500 others have suffered neurological reactions, including 11 cases of brain inflammation and 13 cases of epilepsy and coma. Overall, there have been more than 2,100 adverse reactions to a childhood vaccine in the UK in …

By Richard Garner Independent
Despite all the attention, the gap between male and female achievement is still growing. Boys will perform just as you expect them to, it seems. If you tell them they aren’t as intelligent as girls and are less likely to do well in tests, that is exactly what will happen. So says the latest salvo in the battle of the sexes that has preoccupied educationalists for decades. A study published at the British Educational Research Association conference tested two classes of youngsters. One (mixed) class was told …

Jack Doyle Mail
School children will be given lessons about rape and drunken sex in an effort to cut violent crime, it was revealed tonight. Teachers have been told to spell out to boys that it is a crime to have sex with a girl unless she agrees. They will also be warned they should not take advantage of women who are drunk. The measures are part of efforts by Mayor of London Boris Johnson to cut violent crime in London.But critics said children were already bombarded with messages about sex …