News archive for 16th April 2017

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Teachers union demands action over ‘attacks’ on the profession - Scotsman The furious attack on devolving teachers' pay from Wales - Wales Online Cheating students are using tiny listening devices during exams - Mail The unlikely grammar school champion: 27-year-old from Bradford takes on teaching union - Telegraph Teachers given 'crackers', impossible to meet, performance targets - Times Educational Supplement | TES Letters: close the grammar, free and faith schools - Guardian Ofsted should judge schools on teacher workload, union demands - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fear of pushy parents means teachers spend hours pointlessly 'triple marking' work, education union warns - Telegraph 'Sats make children feel like failures' - BBC Teachers threaten to boycott primary school tests - Mail Teacher defies NUT - backing grammar schools at union conference - Mail University World News: Africa edition - week ending 15th April 2017 - University World News Teacher Kato Harris cleared of raping teenage girl at London school warns men to avoid profession - Evening Standard Teachers back moves towards primary Sats boycott - BBC University World News: Global edition - week ending 15th April 2017 - University World News Sats boycott moves closer after NUT motion calls for ballots - Guardian NUT delegates denounce Sats, as union paves way for boycott - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vote on boycott of primary tests postponed - Schools Week 'If only Michael Gove had considered pizza before breaking up the education system' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers doing unnecessary marking to appease 'moaning' parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Justine Greening should ignore the bigots and give working people the grammar schools they want - Telegraph One in six 15-year-old pupils 'unhappy' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrapped free schools 'wasted' nearly £140m, says NUT - BBC Government 'wasted millions on free schools which have now closed' - Mail Peter Hitchens: why do our sleek elite hate Grammars? - Mail The inbetweeners: The new role of internships in the graduate labour market - IPPR NDNA urges 30 hours rethink in wake of survey - Nursery World Editor’s view - Our survey says... - Nursery World Confusion as settings ‘hounded’ to pay for music licences - Nursery World Labour says free school programme 'neglecting' deprived areas - PoliticsHome Tens of millions wasted on free schools that closed or never opened amid 'unprecedented' funding crisis - Independent Extremism fears as illegal schools teach 6,000 pupils - Times Scottish schools need a new breed of leader - Times Ireland: teacher supply and demand fails to add up - Times One in six pupils unhappy at age 15 - Times