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SCHOOLS TOLD TO BAN PACKED LUNCHES A new government report by food chain Leon calls for fewer pupils to take packed lunches to school in a bid to up the number eating healthier school meals. The study by the founders of the healthy food restaurants, John Vincent and Henry Dimbleby, says urgent action is needed to break the ‘terrible cycle’ in which children gorge on cheap, ‘crowd-pleasing’ food, then fall ill with diabetes or heart disease when they’re older. Only one per cent of packed lunches actually meet nutritional standards, despite parents spending £1bn on them (or an average of £2 a day) and, according to scientific studies, school meals are the healthier option.
Budding physicists from Bedford Academy, Bedford, headed off to the CERN laboratory in Geneva on the school trip of a lifetime, courtesy of their school’s ICT provider, Viglen. The group of six A-level physics students spent a day at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, which is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. Assistant principal Dr Andrea BenBrahim said the trip demonstrated “that what they learn in their A-level lessons is only the tip of a very large iceberg in terms of understanding the origins of the universe”.
What we learned this month
Investing in education boosts GDP. A new report claims there’s a clear business case for investing in education, with returns for those who invest in the sector and a positive effect on gross domestic product. The study by Ecclesiastical Investment Management (EIM) says education fosters a ‘middle-class’ economy able to take part in consumption. Countries that invest in education are better able to provide the educated workforces businesses require.
STATS & FACTS
Almost three-quarters of parents think a child wearing a badged school
uniform goes to a better school than their non-badged counterparts, according to a One Poll survey
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SCHOOL TERMS ON SCHOOLS’ TERMS The Department for Education is giving all schools the ability to set their own term dates from September 2015, as part of the Deregulation Bill. Academies already have this option, but it will now extend to all state-maintained schools.
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25 September ACCOUNTABILITY REFORM IN SCHOOLS CONFERENCE London
CapitaConferences.co.uk 10 October
EDUKENT EXPO & CONFERENCE Kent Event Centre
EduKentExpo.co.uk
6 November
EDEXEC LIVE: ICT MATTERS Business Design Centre, London
ict.EdExecLive.co.uk
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