Students protesting for free quality education have clashed with police in Santiago, Chile.

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VIDEO: Students clash with police in Chile

Education Secretary Michael Gove tells MPs there are “causes for concern” about children being X-rayed by the UK Border Agency to establish their age.

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Child X-rays ’cause for concern’

Fairfax County schools could become the first in the Washington region to create a virtual public high school that would allow students to take all their classes from a computer at home. No sports teams. No pep rallies. No lockers, no hall passes. Instead, assignments delivered on-screen and after-school clubs that meet online. Read full article > >

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Fairfax County considers creating virtual high school

I hope in the past few months of I Heart Iran, we have learned that no one is spared from the “forced” hijab . Iranian education system and religious authorities use any tactic to implement the hijab policies and mold young minds into accepting it as a garment designed for the well-being and protection of women. Though I personally have no opposition to the hijab , forcing it upon women (in the case of Iran) is what makes me come back to this concept over and over again. This week, I learned about a doll’s hijab contest that had taken place sometimes last year in the Holy city of Mashhad , a north eastern Iranian city known for being one of the main Shia cites where the 8th Imam, Reza is buried. As seen in the pictures here , grade school girls were asked to chose a hijab for their dolls and compete against one another for the best one. According to the news release some mothers joined their daughters too and before the awards were presented, the director of the competition talked about the psychological affects of such activities for young girls in accepting and respecting the hijab for later in life. Judges are viewing the participating dolls!

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Only in Iran: Hijab, Doll Style

The leader of the NASUWT teachers’ union strongly criticises Michael Gove – alongside a life-sized cut-out of the education secretary.

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Teachers’ union’s ‘cut out Gove’

Rowan Williams has warned against “downgrading” religious education in secondary schools in his last Easter sermon as Archbishop of Canterbury.

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VIDEO: Archbishop warns on status of RE

The Archbishop of Canterbury will call for peace in the Middle East and warn against “downgrading” religious education in secondary schools in his final Easter sermon.

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VIDEO: Archbishop’s final Easter message

Labour’s education spokesman gives a “cast-iron guarantee” that he would not allow companies to run schools for a profit – but he will not support teachers’ strike action.

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Twigg makes school profits pledge

Education Secretary Michael Gove has suggested a proposed new Catholic school in Twickenham should limit Catholic pupils to 50% of its intake.

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Gove calls for faith pupil limit

British children are losing contact with nature at a “dramatic” rate and their health and education are suffering, says a National Trust report.

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Nature deficit ‘harming children’

A report into a brutal attack on two boys by two young brothers in South Yorkshire fails to provide answers, the education secretary says.

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Torture attack probe ‘a failure’

Most universities in England are going to have fewer places to offer students this year, as the funding changes in higher education are implemented.

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Fewer places in most universities

After massive cheating scandal.

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SAT to Require Photo Uploads

The education secretary Michael Gove has told head teachers he plans to accelerate the pace of reform in England.

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Gove says more reforms are needed

Washington lobbyists are making a strange request: more regulation of lobbying. The main professional association for paid influencers, the American League of Lobbyists, is expected to call for tough new rules that would require more people to register as lobbyists with the House and Senate. Read full article > >

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Lobbying association responds to criticism by calling for more regulation, education