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A Sandwell MP, who last month was one of only 21 Members of Parliament to vote against LGBT inclusive education, has now come out in support of diversity lessons after meeting with protesters. The u-turn from John Spellar, MP for Warley, came following anger after he voted against plans to update the school curriculum to include…
A Birmingham teacher at the centre of a row over lessons on LGBT+ rights is up for a $1 million global teaching prize. Andrew Moffat, assistant headteacher of Parkfield community school in Saltley, is one of ten teachers from around the world to make the final shortlist for the $1m Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2019.
Christopher (Ivan Oyik), a young black Londoner, has reached day 28 of his detention at a psychiatric hospital and wants to go home. Problem is, he thinks oranges are blue and that Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is his father. It’s been 20 years since Joe Penhall’s Olivier award-winning play, ‘Blue/Orange’, was written and first staged,…