Highlights of the week ending 26 February 2021
It’s been a significant week with exams, return to class, and catch up taking centre stage.
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It’s been a significant week with exams, return to class, and catch up taking centre stage.
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This week the Government proposed “tougher legal measures” to strengthen free speech and academic freedom at England’s universities. As part of the proposals, the Education Secretary set out his desire to appoint a new Free Speech and Academic Freedom Champion who would sit on the board of the OfS.
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The Prime Minister reiterated, on Thursday, that he still considered 8 March to be the earliest and “most prudent date to set” for schools in England to start to reopen.
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