News archive for 10th October 2016

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Boarding school principal gave go-ahead on exam cheating - Telegraph How much teacher autonomy is healthy? - Headguruteacher University Challenge Viewers Can't Get Enough Of Contestant Christopher Ducklin's Amazing Style - Huffington Post New targets set to expand internationalisation of HE - University World News Here's how school inspections in Wales are changing - Wales Online Rank schools by pupil wellbeing to tackle mental health says former leading head - Telegraph To Stop Child Marriage We Need To Stop Failing Girls At School - Huffington Post School tables 'should show mental health' - BBC New online learning passport a one-stop shop for teachers in Wales - Wales Online Research roundup 10 October 2016 - NAHT Teaching assistants on strike: ‘If I don’t fight the pay cuts, I can’t look my daughter in the eye’ - Guardian New Minister “inspired” by College Apprentices - FE News Mathew and Rachel join sixth form team - FE News Open dialogue in schools is the first step in fighting violent extremism - Guardian Birth data drive 'risks turning schools into immigration offices' - Herald Scotland Many teachers 'working 60-hour week' - BBC Derby College’s new course in hedgehog care - FE Week Apprenticeship funding cuts exposed by FE Week raised in education questions - FE Week FE Week campaign against apprenticeship funding cuts raised in Commons - FE Week Half Of Young People Suffering Mental Health Stigma Are Bullied By Their Own Friends - Huffington Post Sharp differences between Clinton and Trump on education - Mail In Lebanon, getting Syrian children in school a huge task - Mail 'Hell broke out:' South African police, students clash - Mail Teachers in England work longer hours than most other countries, warns report - Training Journal Early recruitment of higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies for 2017 - SFA Universities ‘should help with overseas students’ living costs' - Times Higher Education | THE The national pupil database puts children at risk of racial profiling | Lola Okolosie - Guardian Youth prison becomes first in the world to become dyslexia-friendly - FE Week Former primary teacher joins Labour's shadow education team - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar school expansion a 'waste of money', Labour claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES Give headteachers sabbaticals 'before they burn out', schools are warned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers website mocked for telling top pupils to become chimney sweeps - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prime minister's ambiguity over apprenticeship adviser 'raises questions', Labour says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rank schools by pupil wellbeing, ministers are told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Marsden to remain as shadow skills minister following Labour reshuffle - Times Educational Supplement | TES Shortage of educational psychologists means service could be taken out of council hands - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour reshuffle: Rayner stays, Mike Kane becomes shadow schools minister - Schools Week Shadow early years minister named in Labour reshuffle - Nursery World Greening’s first education questions: Green paper ‘will help’ SEN pupils, and four other things we learned - Schools Week FE Week campaign against apprenticeship funding cuts raised in Commons - FE News Former leading headmaster calls for schools to be ranked according to pupils' wellbeing to push teachers to tackle bullying - Mail Teachers spend 'eight days off sick a year with the common cold' - Express ​South African students disrupt lectures as row over fees continues - Guardian My $200,000 college debt is like a growing cancer | Jennifer Billock - Guardian Pivoting postgrads: how to change direction to win that dream job - Guardian Shami Chakrabarti has undermined the education system she argues for | Frances Ryan - Guardian Schools "putting too much focus" on celebrating academic success - Herald Scotland Let’s take full advantage of what devolution can offer - FE Week Government careers site suggested a gifted teen become a chimney sweep. What will it tell you? - Telegraph It's Time For Universities To Face Up To Our Student Mental Health Crisis - Huffington Post Maths Workout Week ensures unions add up - Unionlearn Children’s mental wellbeing and ill-health: not two sides of the same coin - IOE London Blog Teachers in England work longer hours than almost anywhere else in the world - Independent How will the new apprenticeship standards be quality assured? - FE Week Glasgow Caledonian's New York 'campus' project in turmoil over US-based objections - Herald Scotland Allow students into universities with lower grades if they have been 'held back by poverty', says official review - Telegraph Live and learn - BBC Swinney asked to step in after school Mass row - Scotsman Universities urged to work harder to recruit disadvantaged students - Guardian The Future of Apprenticeships in England - AELP