The Latest Breaking News from Katharine Birbalsingh

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 Independent UK · Jun 10, 2022

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’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2022

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'

Daily Mirror · Jun 10, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2022

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

Wales Online · May 24, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2022

UK’s ‘strictest headmistress’ fears schools will stop teaching Shakespeare

Katharine Birbalsingh says move to decolonise English curriculum could mean Shakespeare replaced with black and female authors

The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2022

‘It’s not too difficult’: Children’s Commissioner encourages girls to get into maths

Girls are giving up the subject because they are not encouraged, Dame Rachel de Souza says

Evening Standard · May 18, 2022

There are reasons girls don't study physics – and they don't include not liking maths

“From my own knowledge of these things, physics is not something that girls tend to fancy. They don’t want to do it … There’s a lot of hard maths in there that I think that they would rather not do,” Katharine Birbalsingh, chair of the UK government’s Social Mobility Commission…

The Conversation · May 9, 2022

Digested week: Teslas strip BMW drivers of proud title of worst on road

Also this week: Macron deploys his Gadget umbrella and wine-drinking nun becomes world’s oldest person

The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2022