News archive for 17th April 2017

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NUT urges parents not to give details of children’s nationality and birthplace - Guardian The Guardian view on apprenticeships: an invitation for employers to cheat | Editorial - Guardian NUT vote threatens national strike over teachers' pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary pupils parroting Trump comment condoning sexual assault - Times Educational Supplement | TES NUT threatens strike over teacher pay - Schools Week School budgets: Unions boosted by parents' concerns - BBC Call for 'urgent clarification' of new GCSE grades as teachers warn of pupils being entered for wrong exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES New 9-1 GCSE grades 'creating uncertainty for schools' - BBC Overseas branch campus staff ‘less motivated and more likely to leave’ - Times Higher Education | THE 'Why every state school should teach the Classics' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Older teachers’ careers destroyed “for the sake of saving a few bucks” - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers share stories of school bigotry - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teach toddlers about transgender issues, National Union of Teachers say - Telegraph Poor children returning to school 'malnourished' following increase in 'school holiday hunger' - Independent Non-profit supply teacher agency 'needed to stop money being leached out of the system' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers could boycott key primary school tests amid concerns over pupil pressure - Express Dr Fraud and the strange case of the online science journals - Financial Times Teachers: cut our workload so we can help more pupils - Herald Scotland USA: absences, fitness, atmosphere - new ways to track schools - Mail Chetham's new head says music school is in 'exceptional health' - Guardian UK: 74% of public value international students when economic worth revealed - PIE News GCSE gradings reforms will increase the pressure on pupils and schools - NASUWT State pension age increase rejected - NASUWT National regulation needed for supply teacher agencies - NASUWT 'Snowflake' generation rely on teachers to bail them out with extra exam tuition - Mail Proof that poorer pupils do need more grammars - Mail Poor pupils 'less likely to be at outstanding primary' - BBC Scottish Government failing to support teachers, union complains - Herald Scotland Poorer children half as likely to get into best schools, research shows - Guardian Having cleverer peers ‘harms student achievement’ - Times Higher Education | THE Teacher stress 'causing relationships to break down' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poorer parents half as likely to get children into outstanding primaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extraordinary study proves richest children are in a class of their own - Times Students caught sneaking tiny earpieces into exams - Times Girls with low IQs at greater risk of dementia, Scottish study finds - Times Schools told to offer mental health classes - Times Primary test could face new boycott - Times Spoon-fed pupils too lazy to revise - Times Children are turning up to school 'malnourished' teachers warn - Express One in ten teachers taking antidepressants to cope with work stresses - Independent Schools already select by wealth with poor children twice as likely to attend substandard schools, study finds - Telegraph Three in four unable to access mental health support for pupils - Schools Week Teachers want school asbestos removed by 2028 - Schools Week