News archive for 5th December 2016

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My lesson observation feedback - Headguruteacher What are PISA results? - BBC Plea for mandatory sex and relationships education to help tackle abuse - Herald Scotland PE teaching 'has not changed since the 1940s' – Floella Benjamin - Times Educational Supplement | TES The wrong bill at the wrong time for our universities and colleges - Telegraph Lords must fix flaws in higher education and research bill | Letters - Guardian Judge allows Oxford graduate's £1m high court battle to proceed - Guardian Treat the Pisa results with caution, says an education expert - Wales Online How would you do in the Pisa science and maths tests for 15 year olds? - Wales Online May must abandon her faith in faith schools - Times Want to help your northern child? Become a pushy southern parent - Guardian London and south-east children far more likely to go to top universities - Guardian Glasgow University backs down on student debt policy - Scotsman University of Aberdeen staff to strike in dispute over job losses - Herald Scotland EFA funding falls by over 20% for three colleges - FE Week Casey Review: Influential report warns more funding needed for community-based English language classes - FE Week Segregation at 'worrying levels' in parts of Britain, Dame Louise Casey warns - BBC Disadvantaged children less likely to go to university than richer peers with similar grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extra funding needed for Esol, argues Casey Review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents in north of England should be more pushy, says children's tsar - BBC Pupils should be taught 'British values' of tolerance, democracy and respect, says government adviser - Times Educational Supplement | TES PISA results: How can the UK go from 'must try harder' to world class in education? - Telegraph Manufacturing apprentices needed to plug skills gap - Financial Times Cabinet splits on foreign students re-emerge as Amber Rudd admits there are 'differing views' - PoliticsHome Poor children held back despite getting same grades as peers - report - PoliticsHome Early Years National Funding Formula - Early Education International students praise Canada’s openness and affordable fees - PIE News Many BME teachers face endemic racism - NASUWT Five lessons we should learn from PISA - ASCL Staff at Aberdeen University to walk out in dispute over job losses - UCU Research and teaching – joined at the hip or driven apart? - HEPI OFFA publishes new tools to evaluate the impact of financial support - OFFA National finalists announced - SFA Open academies and academy projects in development - DfE Education Secretary visits Blackpool on opportunity areas tour - DfE Lords debates Higher Education and Research Bill - UK Parliament Promote British values and register home-schooled pupils, Casey review recommends - Schools Week Removing adult literacy and numeracy criteria - Ofqual LRS: monthly headline report - SFA SFA: course directory - SFA System used to improve access to universities for poorer students 'flawed' - Herald Scotland Pupils ‘must be taught British values’ claims Westminster review - Scotsman Pupils must be taught British values to help bind communities - review - Mail Robots beware, kids are in training for the jobs of tomorrow - Guardian Racial segregation 'growing in UK', Dame Louise Casey warns - BBC Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a Singaporean 10-year-old? - Guardian 'A teacher is an actor, writer, doctor, lawyer, politician, painter and director - who wouldn't want that?': Teachers around the world share their stories - Telegraph Flagship policy to educate pupils with learning disabilities in mainstream schools is 'not working' - Herald Scotland Let's keep pushing to make TFE bill better - FE Week Maths and science teachers in England among the world’s unhappiest - Times Educational Supplement | TES EuroSkills 2016: Celebrating Team UK's success - souvenir supplement - FE Week Pro-life students banned at Scottish university - Herald Scotland Poorer white pupils underperform in later academic choices – study - Guardian Northern mothers must learn to be pushy, says children’s tsar - Times Bad advice means poor teenagers miss out on top university places - Times