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BIZARRE: 4 - What They Never Told You

Boris Johnson isn’t good role model for children, government’s social mobility tsar says

‘I wish he could be, but he isn’t,’ Katharine Birbalsingh says

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson a bad role model for children, says social mobility tsar

Katharine Birbalsingh questions PM’s private life and says he does not look ‘professional enough’

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s social mobility tsar says he's a bad role model for younger generation

Based on the PM's personal life, Katharine Birbalsingh, chair of the social mobility commission, said 'I certainly would never be able to put him up and say, be like him'

Daily Mirror

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Bristol weatherman Alex Beresford hits out at 'working class kids shouldn't aim for Oxbridge' claim

Bristol born Alex hit out at government advisor who said aspirations need to move beyond a 'rags to riches' narrative

Bristol Post

Meet the UK Government tsar who wants working-class kids to aim lower

The new chair of the UK Government’s independent Social Mobility Commission (SMC), headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh, will call for working-class…

The National (Scotland)

Don’t fixate on getting working class children to Oxbridge, social mobility tsar to say

Small steps up the ladder of success should be celebrated, the government’s social mobility tsar will say

The Independent UK

Working class people should take ‘small steps’ rather than aiming for Oxbridge, education adviser says

Small steps up the ladder of success should be just as celebrated, social mobility czar will say

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UK social mobility tsar wants focus on ‘small steps’ not giant leaps

Katharine Birbalsingh says aim is to move away from fixation on small minority of rags to riches tales

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s strictest headteacher makes pupils walk to lessons in silence to help them learn better

Katharine Birbalsingh appeared on ITV's Lorraine following her recent documentary

Wales Online

State schools are not the wild west and ‘Britain’s strictest headmistress’ is not Clint Eastwood

The right wing press believes Katharine Birbalsingh has done something magical by creating a safe learning environment in a state school. But that just betrays their ignorance, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

UK’s ‘strictest headmistress’ fears schools will stop teaching Shakespeare

Katharine Birbalsingh says move to decolonise English curriculum could mean Shakespeare replaced with black and female authors

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not too difficult’: Children’s Commissioner encourages girls to get into maths

Girls are giving up the subject because they are not encouraged, Dame Rachel de Souza says

Evening Standard

There are reasons girls don't study physics – and they don't include not liking maths

“From my own knowledge of these things, physics is not something that girls tend to fancy. They don’t want to do it … There’s a lot of hard maths in there that I think that they would rather not do,” Katharine Birbalsingh, chair of the UK government’s Social Mobility Commission…

The Conversation

Digested week: Teslas strip BMW drivers of proud title of worst on road

Also this week: Macron deploys his Gadget umbrella and wine-drinking nun becomes world’s oldest person

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Good Morning Britain's Charlotte Hawkins calls time on 'patronising' school debate as alarms go off

Good Morning Britain host Charlotte Hawkins brought a debate on school subjects to a swift end on Friday's show

The Guardian - UK

No, girls are not put off by ‘hard maths’, Katharine Birbalsingh

Letters: In response to the social mobility commissioner’s claim that girls are shunning physics because of its difficulty, Matthew Belmonte says we must make Stem classrooms welcoming places for all. Plus letters from Ruth Rising and Rachel Clark

The Independent UK

Girls don’t choose A-level physics because they dislike ‘hard maths’, claims social mobility tsar

Britain’s ‘strictest headteacher’ urged to apologise after comments science and technology committee

The Independent UK

Social mobility tsar urged to apologise for saying girls dislike ‘hard maths’

Katharine Birbalsingh was addressing MPs discussing diversity in Stem subjects.

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The Guardian - UK

Girls shun physics A-level as they dislike ‘hard maths’, says social mobility head

Female physicists question ‘terrifying’ claims made by government commissioner Katharine Birbalsingh to MPs

The Guardian - UK

How to turn a school around with love: ‘People are so very grateful that we care’

Chris Dyson, head of a highly successful Leeds primary, says you can threaten children into behaving in the short term, but change won’t last once they are outside the gate

Wales Online

Kids lock phones away for months in bid to improve grades, says UK's 'strictest headteacher'

Katharine Birbalsingh believes students should be encouraged to have regular 'digital detox' periods

The Guardian - UK

Restrict phones to improve child social mobility in UK, says commission chair

Katharine Birbalsingh tells school leaders’ conference ‘all the problems start on smartphones’

The Independent UK

Ignore Ofsted, says social mobility commissioner

Katharine Birbalsingh says school leaders must show bravery and not fear being disliked.

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