News archive for 20th August 2017

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Two-year-olds should learn to code, says computing pioneer - Guardian How can we stop teenagers turning into terrorists? - Huffington Post More than 20,000 pupils in Wales took maths and English GCSE early and it may affect their grades - Wales Online Sprint finish to mark reformatted GCSEs, say examiners - Guardian Labour urges college principals to get students on electoral register - Guardian Students defend Learndirect after damning Ofsted report - Financial Times Girls lose risk-taking confidence by the time they reach adulthood while male confidence grows, study shows - Independent Oxford University employee and US academic brought to Chicago to face murder charges - Telegraph Bernard Trafford: Pupil Voice is fine if you’re into it. Just don’t make it mandatory for all teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES On GCSE results day, teachers now need the top marks as much as the pupils do - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Super-sized’ Scottish primary school classes soar by third - Scotsman Westminster teacher banned from profession after being found with indecent images of schoolboys - Evening Standard Oxford University employee charged with murder - Evening Standard Exclusion from school can lead to long-term mental-health problems, study shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES It's not too late for those let down by school careers advice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of pupils to receive 'incorrect' grades on GCSE results day - Independent Camilla Tominey: university of life gets top marks - Express Getting to grips with a £32,220 student debt - Guardian Thousands of students set to receive wrong GCSE mark under new system, experts warn - Telegraph Cambridge University Press censorship 'exposes Xi Jinping's authoritarian shift' - Guardian Pupils at an Islamic girls’ school in Blackburn make the most academic progress in England - Times Number of 'super-sized' Scottish primary school with classes of more than 30 children on the rise - Herald Scotland Clearing special: why degree apprenticeships are on the rise - Times Vicky Allan: please sirs, can we have some more male primary teachers? - Herald Scotland Frenzied battle to snare students as universities fight for survival - Guardian Row over teaching Fanny Hill highlights threat to freedom of expression - Guardian University World News - Africa edition: week ending 20 August 2017 - University World News University World News - Global edition: week ending 20 August 2017 - University World News Lawrence Dallaglio throws exercise book at Ofsted - Times A-level meltdown: a guide for parents in clearing limbo - Times Care home + maths course = place at Oxford - Times Eight great gap year ideas - Times Flaws in the system mean graduates can end up overpaying their student loans - Times Scotland: super-size classes rising, say Lib Dems - Times Pupils shun A-level maths because of 'harder content and uncertainty about marking' - Express