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Government adviser grew up in poverty and wants to 'shift dial' on social mobility

Alun Francis who grew up in poverty criticised successive governments for failing for decades to grasp the vital role geography plays in social mobility

Daily Mirror

Headteacher brands Jess Phillips’ social media posts ‘racist and bullying’

Labour’s Jess Phillips has been accused of ‘racist and bullying behaviour’, after getting into a row on social media with Katharine Birbalsingh.

The Independent UK

‘Child identifying as cat’ controversy: from TikTok video to media frenzy

Tory calls for urgent investigation raise eyebrows as Rye college says no pupil identifies ‘as a cat or any other animal’

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'Ghost of Thatcher' and 'Trump tribute act' - inside 'mad hatters' party with top Tories

The much-mocked National Conservatism Conference was held for the first time in the UK, with conspiracy theorists, culture warriors, Donald Trump fanatics and right-wing Tories ranting about all the things they hate

Daily Mirror

UK's strictest headteacher tells Tory parents to take kids out of 'woke' schools

Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference, Katharine Birbalsingh warned her audience that they will "lose our country" if they don't stand up to "extreme leftist views" which she claims dominates the education system

Daily Mirror

Tory parents should pull children out of ‘woke’ schools, says headmistress

Katherine Birbalsingh quoted Gladiator as she attacked private schools for being more ‘woke’ than the state sector.

The Independent UK

The face of cruel Britannia: who is the real Suella Braverman?

As the daughter of immigrants, the home secretary’s hostility to migrants can seem not only cruel but unfathomable. So what do those who know her best think makes her tick?

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Samsung UK boss says he didn't let his daughter have a mobile phone

Experts say children having phones too young can damage their health, mental health, growth and education

Wales Online

Controversial social mobility chief quits saying she's doing 'more harm than good'

Katharine Birbalsingh, Britain’s so-called 'strictest headteacher' said some of her 'controversial' statements had put the Social Mobility Commission in 'jeopardy'

Daily Mirror

Katharine Birbalsingh quits as UK government’s social mobility chair

Britain’s strictest headteacher admitted her outspoken views meant she was ‘doing more harm than good’

The Guardian - UK

Katharine Birbalsingh quits social mobility role citing ‘too much baggage’

Ms Birbalsingh was appointed chair of the Social Mobility Commission in 2021.

The Independent UK

Katharine Birbalsingh quits government role as she's doing 'more harm than good'

A UK Government social mobility tsar has quit her role, citing the fact that she comes with “too much baggage” and was doing “more harm than…

The National (Scotland)

Social mobility tsar casts doubt over grammar school revival in England

Katharine Birbalsingh says disadvantaged pupils with few resources struggle to win places

The Guardian - UK

Britain's strictest school - timed loo breaks, silent corridors and strict phone rule

Dubbed Britain's strictest headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh, 49, is the founder of the Michaela Community School in Wembley

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Michaela Community School: Prank callers target London school over false claims in TikTok video

Prank and abusive callers are targeting a London school after a TikTok video falsely claimed it makes students cook for teachers and gives out five hour detentions.

The Guardian - UK

Diane Abbott and Katharine Birbalsingh dine across the divide: ‘Kids thanking teachers for detention? That’s a bit extreme!’

In our celebrity Dining across the divide special, the Labour MP and the headteacher debate education, discipline and their shared Jamaican heritage

Daily Mirror

Britain's strictest headteacher shares tip to get your kids up and moving this summer

Getting your child to behave over summer can feel like it's almost impossible, but if you take the advice of Britain's strictest headteacher it can be made a lot easier

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Social Mobility Commission: a string of broken promises

Editorial: Under Katharine Birbalsingh, the body has moved as far as possible away from its initial remit of child poverty

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The Independent UK

Social mobility must be at ‘the heart’ of levelling up, Government tsar says

A new framework has been developed to understand ‘the reasons why social mobility happens, when it happens and why some people buck the trend’.

The Guardian - UK

Girls do like hard maths, says children’s commissioner for England

Rachel de Souza says lack of female role models a bigger issue, after social mobility head said girls would ‘rather not’ do hard maths

The Independent UK

Girls do like hard maths, says children’s commissioner

Dame Rachel de Souza appears to criticise fellow government tsar in comments about girls taking physics

The Independent UK

Michelle Donelan decries long ‘obsession’ with pupils going to university

Ms Donelan says UK has seen university as the goal for all pupils for too long.

Daily Mirror

'Katharine Birbalsingh is a Tory's dream teacher, telling kids to stay in their lane'

There's some confusing advice coming from the the Government’s Social Mobility Commission, says Darren Lewis, but it sits well the elite who don't want the great unwashed polluting their space

Daily Mirror

Downing Street declines to say Boris Johnson is a good role model for children

The PM's spokesman was asked if he was a good role model after Katharine Birbalsingh, the new social mobility tsar, said his 'personal life' and 'hair' let the whole class down

The Independent UK

Minister defends Johnson after Government tsar says he is not a good role model

Schools minister Robin Walker has disagreed with the social mobility tsar’s comment that Boris Johnson is not a good role model for children.

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