News archive for 11th December 2016

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Guidebook urges teachers that they should not call pupils 'boys and girls' at school - Express We are teaching children the wrong type of maths - Financial Times Schools told to stop calling pupils boys and girls in gender diversity drive - Evening Standard Special needs college first in the UK to receive Princess Royal Training Award - FE Week Trojan Horse issues could reappear in Birmingham schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Michael Gove: 'Too early to say if everything I did as education secretary was right' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trump's choice for education secretary raises fears in Detroit - Guardian New 'secure schools' aim to improve education and rehabilitation of young offenders - Times Educational Supplement | TES David Mitchell: Faiz Siddiqui says teaching at Oxford was ‘appallingly bad’. But does that mean he was treated unfairly? - Guardian Apprentices get IfA representation – but no place on the board - FE Week ‘Deep concern’ over local enterprise partnerships’ funding decisions - FE Week Daniel Glaser: the mental benefits of art history - why we must keep the A level - Guardian Estonia shows how a country even smaller than Wales can beat the world - Wales Online We spoke to Estonians about why their school system is the best in Europe - Wales Online SSAT 2015: We are in a new education age obsessed with identity, says Andy Hargreaves - Schools Week Child refugees: One school’s international solution for new arrivals - Schools Week Russell Group sticks by ‘preferred subjects’ list – but still has no evidence - Schools Week There’s a better way for private schools to help the state sector - Guardian Fears school inspection shake-up will give parents less information on educational standards - Herald Scotland