News archive for 1st April 2017

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Students abandoning degrees due to mental health crisis - Scotsman Schools offering teachers 'duvet days' to attract new staff - Mail More than half of schools forced to increase class sizes as a result of underfunding - Independent Premier League targets 10,000 schools - Times Teachers across Poland strike to protest education overhaul - Mail Labour accuse SNP of depriving schools of £1billion - Herald Scotland Scrapping SATs for 7-year-olds is good news but we should get rid of them for KS2 students too - Metro Michael McCarthy: a natural history GCSE? It might help get our children outdoors - Guardian Lord Lingfield: Chartered Institution for FE needs to 'stand on its own feet' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secret Teacher: a counselling course revolutionised my teaching - Guardian Has the time come to start replacing secondary teachers with para-teachers and the application of technology? - Independent Head Parents ‘must pay’ for sports teams at Kent school - Schools Week Bolton Wanderers Free School under fire over promises in DfE application forms - Schools Week U-turn after fears exam changes could leave pupils with no qualifications - Herald Scotland Universities in Scotland being turned into 'retail outlets’ - Herald Scotland Apprentices to receive welcome card to be used with an off-the-job training calculator - FE Week Third of grammars will change rules to favour poorer pupils - Times Alex Renton: the scandal of a very private education - Times Will.i.am Shakespeare? Pupils get in groove with rap revision - Times How juggling can improve pupils’ grades - Times