ISC Daily News Summary

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Widespread coverage of yesterday's High Court victory of Sikh schoolgirl Sarika Watkins-Singh, who was excluded from her school for refusing to remove a religious bangle. The judge decided that the school's actions were unlawful under Britain's race and equality laws.

High Court backs girl barred from wearing bangle (Independent)
The lessons all schools need to learn from this judgment (Independent)
'Proud to be Welsh and a Sikh'. Schoolgirl wins court battle to wear religious bangle (Guardian)
Full marks to British tolerance (Guardian)
Sikh teenager Sarika Watkins-Singh wins right to wear bangle (Times)
Huge case over small item bodes ill for further battles (Times)
Sikh teenager wins bangle discrimination case (Daily Telegraph)
Sikh teenager's bangle discrimination win will impact rules on uniforms (Daily
Telegraph)
Religious tolerance upheld in Sarika Singh case (Daily Telegraph)
Sikh wins her battle to wear religious bangle at school (Daily Mail)
Girl defeats school ban on wearing Sikh bangle (Daily Express)
School's £100k bangle bungle (Sun)
Keep the faith (Daily Mirror)
Kids can now defy heads to wear burkha (Daily Star)
School and religious symbol cases (BBC News Online)

Daily Telegraph, Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, BBC News Online

A dyslexic medical student is taking legal action to end the use of multiple choice exams in her training because she claims the system discriminates against people with dyslexia.

Multiple choice tests 'are unfair on dyslexic students' (Daily Telegraph)
Dyslexic student to fight multiple choice questions in court (Times)
Dyslexic student fights exam system (Guardian)
Medical student with dyslexia takes court action to be exempted from multiple choice tests (Daily Mail)
Tests 'unfair to dyslexics' (Daily Mirror)
Why can't people with dyslexia do multiple choice? (BBC News Online)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a TV recruitment advert by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) for being likely to mislead people into thinking that a newly qualified teacher could be paid £34,000 per year.

‘Misleading' advert for teachers banned (Guardian)
Teaching ad banned (Times)
Teachers advert 'misled on pay' (Independent not online)
Teacher pay advert withdrawn (Financial Times)
£34k teacher ad is banned (Daily Mirror)
Teacher recruitment advert banned (BBC News Online)

Schools Minister Lord Adonis yesterday called on police forces to permanently draft officers into schools to cut violent crime. He said this would enable constables to frisk pupils for weapons, drink and drugs and generally keep children safe.

Police to be drafted into schools to cut violence, minister says (Guardian)
Schools should have dedicated police officer says minister (Times)
Police in the playground to tackle knife crime (Daily Telegraph not online)
Minister: Every school can have a police officer (Independent)
A police officer for every school to beat teenage knife crime (Daily Mail)
Minister calls for every school to have a police officer (Daily Mirror)
Let's police all schools (Daily Star not online)
Schools 'should have own police' (BBC News Online)

Immigration minister Liam Byrne will today announce that foreign students are to be allowed to stay in the UK for an extra year. The time limit under which they are able to remain in Britain to work once their studies have finished will be extended from one year to two, while bogus colleges will also face a new clampdown.

Hundreds of thousands of foreign students allowed to stay in UK an extra year (Daily Telegraph)

The Tories have launched a five-point plan to smash the 'glass walls' that keep young children from disadvantaged backgrounds in poverty, in the first of a series of speeches on social issues this summer by members of the shadow cabinet. A feature in today's Independent analyses the Conservative Party's approach to public services, including education.

Tory plan to smash 'glass walls' around impoverished children (Guardian)
Schools and hospitals still test the 'nasty party' (Independent)

A survey by the Travelodge hotel group suggests that one in ten British children have never taken a bucket and spade to a beach in the UK, while 78% of five to 12-year-olds have been abroad.

Children who haven't been to a UK beach (Daily Mail)
Costa kids' snub for British beaches (Daily Mirror)