News archive for 16th October 2016

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A-level art history should never have been given the brush-off | Letters - Guardian South African police arrest student protest leader - Mail A programme sending bright young graduates into deprived schools is battling for survival after funding cut - Wales Online The 16 best MBAs in the world according to The Economist - Independent Exam body accused of breaching living wage status - Herald Scotland Michael Wilshaw renews attack on 'socially divisive' grammar schools - PoliticsHome Former Durand Academy head 'tempted to give knighthood back' over decision to end funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wilshaw: forget grammar schools and focus on vocational education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plans to boost the numbers of black and Hispanic teachers are 'tremendously insulting' to minorities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Virtual lessons no ‘panacea’, says trust’s technology director - Schools Week Early Years Pay and Conditions Survey 2016 - Nursery World Finding the truth about our performance – and facing it. - Headguruteacher Scotland's exam board accused of paying invigilators less than living wage - Guardian How colleges can keep up with apprenticeship reforms - FE Week Sturgeon vows ‘childcare revolution’ - Times A prayer for art history - Times Theresa May must 'stop obsessing about grammar schools and address skills shortages that will worsen after Brexit' claims outgoing head of Ofsted - Mail Campaigners call for educational overhaul to save a 'generation from depression' - Express Labour 'rank hypocrisy' - two more MPs against grammars sent children to private schools - Express Warning to Swinney over powers for schools - Scotsman Leading scientific journal hails 'world-class' research in Wales - Wales Online Wales childcare pledge 'could cost £200m' - BBC Edinburgh: the most selective education system in the UK? - Herald Scotland Britain has a proud academic record. We must not let Brexit devalue it | David Willetts - Guardian Not double porn again! A school syllabus for blue movies - Guardian Government cuts short-change children with an aptitude for the arts | Letters - Guardian