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Katharine Birbalsingh quits social mobility role citing ‘too much baggage’

Ms Birbalsingh was appointed chair of the Social Mobility Commission in 2021.

The Independent UK

Katharine Birbalsingh quits government role as she's doing 'more harm than good'

A UK Government social mobility tsar has quit her role, citing the fact that she comes with “too much baggage” and was doing “more harm than…

The National (Scotland)

Social mobility tsar casts doubt over grammar school revival in England

Katharine Birbalsingh says disadvantaged pupils with few resources struggle to win places

The Guardian - UK

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Britain's strictest school - timed loo breaks, silent corridors and strict phone rule

Dubbed Britain's strictest headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh, 49, is the founder of the Michaela Community School in Wembley

Daily Mirror

Michaela Community School: Prank callers target London school over false claims in TikTok video

Prank and abusive callers are targeting a London school after a TikTok video falsely claimed it makes students cook for teachers and gives out five hour detentions.

Evening Standard

Diane Abbott and Katharine Birbalsingh dine across the divide: ‘Kids thanking teachers for detention? That’s a bit extreme!’

In our celebrity Dining across the divide special, the Labour MP and the headteacher debate education, discipline and their shared Jamaican heritage

The Guardian - UK

Britain's strictest headteacher shares tip to get your kids up and moving this summer

Getting your child to behave over summer can feel like it's almost impossible, but if you take the advice of Britain's strictest headteacher it can be made a lot easier

Daily Mirror

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The Guardian view on the Social Mobility Commission: a string of broken promises

Editorial: Under Katharine Birbalsingh, the body has moved as far as possible away from its initial remit of child poverty

The Guardian - UK

Social mobility must be at ‘the heart’ of levelling up, Government tsar says

A new framework has been developed to understand ‘the reasons why social mobility happens, when it happens and why some people buck the trend’.

The Independent UK

Girls do like hard maths, says children’s commissioner for England

Rachel de Souza says lack of female role models a bigger issue, after social mobility head said girls would ‘rather not’ do hard maths

The Guardian - UK

Girls do like hard maths, says children’s commissioner

Dame Rachel de Souza appears to criticise fellow government tsar in comments about girls taking physics

The Independent UK

Michelle Donelan decries long ‘obsession’ with pupils going to university

Ms Donelan says UK has seen university as the goal for all pupils for too long.

The Independent UK

'Katharine Birbalsingh is a Tory's dream teacher, telling kids to stay in their lane'

There's some confusing advice coming from the the Government’s Social Mobility Commission, says Darren Lewis, but it sits well the elite who don't want the great unwashed polluting their space

Daily Mirror

Downing Street declines to say Boris Johnson is a good role model for children

The PM's spokesman was asked if he was a good role model after Katharine Birbalsingh, the new social mobility tsar, said his 'personal life' and 'hair' let the whole class down

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The Independent UK

Minister defends Johnson after Government tsar says he is not a good role model

Schools minister Robin Walker has disagreed with the social mobility tsar’s comment that Boris Johnson is not a good role model for children.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson isn’t good role model for children, government’s social mobility tsar says

‘I wish he could be, but he isn’t,’ Katharine Birbalsingh says

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson a bad role model for children, says social mobility tsar

Katharine Birbalsingh questions PM’s private life and says he does not look ‘professional enough’

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson’s social mobility tsar says he's a bad role model for younger generation

Based on the PM's personal life, Katharine Birbalsingh, chair of the social mobility commission, said 'I certainly would never be able to put him up and say, be like him'

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Bristol Post

Bristol weatherman Alex Beresford hits out at 'working class kids shouldn't aim for Oxbridge' claim

Bristol born Alex hit out at government advisor who said aspirations need to move beyond a 'rags to riches' narrative

The National (Scotland)

Meet the UK Government tsar who wants working-class kids to aim lower

The new chair of the UK Government’s independent Social Mobility Commission (SMC), headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh, will call for working-class…

The Independent UK

Don’t fixate on getting working class children to Oxbridge, social mobility tsar to say

Small steps up the ladder of success should be celebrated, the government’s social mobility tsar will say

The Independent UK

Working class people should take ‘small steps’ rather than aiming for Oxbridge, education adviser says

Small steps up the ladder of success should be just as celebrated, social mobility czar will say

The Guardian - UK

UK social mobility tsar wants focus on ‘small steps’ not giant leaps

Katharine Birbalsingh says aim is to move away from fixation on small minority of rags to riches tales

Wales Online

Britain’s strictest headteacher makes pupils walk to lessons in silence to help them learn better

Katharine Birbalsingh appeared on ITV's Lorraine following her recent documentary

The Guardian - UK

State schools are not the wild west and ‘Britain’s strictest headmistress’ is not Clint Eastwood

The right wing press believes Katharine Birbalsingh has done something magical by creating a safe learning environment in a state school. But that just betrays their ignorance, writes Zoe Williams

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