Assessment arrangements for students in 2021 will increase inequality and pressure on students and teachers in the UK, according to education unions. Both the National Education Union (NEU) and NASUWT-The Teachers’ Union have reacted negatively to the UK government deferring the 2021 second-level exams by three weeks. The announcement was made on 12 October by […]
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French unions lead mourning of assassinated teacher Samuel Paty
In gatherings all over France, tribute was paid to Samuel Paty, 47, a history, and geography teacher who was the victim of a terrorist attack near his school, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in the Paris suburbs. Paty was decapitated following an Internet campaign against the use in his class of a caricature of Mohammed. The apparent murderer, a […]