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The Department for Education has published new statutory guidance for schools, which will come into effect in August, to help boost attendance. Headteachers ‘should not authorise pupil absences ...
Personal details are linked to pupils' attainment and exam results over a lifetime school attendance. In October 2018 the database contained over 21 million individual named pupil records. [ citation needed ] It is deemed by the Department to be “one of the richest education datasets in the world". [ 1 ]
DfE is responsible for education, children's services, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships, and wider skills in England, and equalities. The predecessor department employed the equivalent of 2,695 staff as of April 2008 and as at June 2016, DfE had reduced its workforce to the equivalent of 2,301 staff. [8]
The Education Act 1944 stated that parents are responsible for the education of their children, "by regular attendance at school or otherwise", which allows children to be educated at home. [38] Officially referred to as "Elective Home Education", teaching ranges from structured homeschooling (using a school-style curriculum) to less-structured ...
School biometrics, typically electronic fingerprinting systems, have raised privacy concerns because of the creation of databases that would progressively include the entire population. The UK introduced legal duties on schools if they wish to use biometric information about pupils, in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 .
She was one of 11 special needs students who were turned away from dine-in service at the Cracker Barrel restaurant in Waldorf, Maryland during a field trip on Dec. 3, parents and school officials ...
The School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised (SRAS-R), developed by Christopher Kearney and Wendy Silverman, is a psychological assessment tool designed to evaluate school refusal disorder symptoms in children and identify their reasons for avoiding school. [1]
Researchers at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine say that individuals experiencing accelerated aging may benefit from earlier screenings.