News archive for 28th August 2017

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250,000 children in Scotland lack mental health support - Scotsman Crisis for children's mental health care in Scotland - Express A further blow to the Open University | Letters - Guardian The many benefits of a good-quality school uniform | Letters - Guardian Just speaking English won’t get us very far in the world | Letters - Guardian Eton advantages and exams in economics | Brief letters - Guardian May's scaremongering deters foreign students, says Melvyn Bragg - Guardian Foreign students bring so much to Britain | Letters - Guardian Our education system may be far from perfect, but criticism should at least be based on solid research... - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ireland: universities should guide all learners towards a better future - Times Cardiff Sixth Form College keeps its place as the UK’s top private school for A-levels - Wales Online As teachers recover from GCSE results, now is the right time to remind ourselves why we teach - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford University professor resigns in Donald Trump protest - Guardian Third top private school under investigation following exams 'cheating' scandal - Independent Winchester college suspends teacher over exam cheating claims - Guardian How one Tes tweet inspired 'the best advert for teaching in a long time' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Record numbers of women going on to university this year - Independent Worried teachers flag terror fears three times a day - Mail Washington: the debate over computers effects on the work of teachers - Mail YouGov poll reveals disregard for apprenticeships according to YouGov survey findings - feCompare Driving apprenticeships a question of integrity - feCompare When sound, vision and motor skills do not come together literacy is like an impossible to grasp hologram - The Staffroom More top public schools dragged into exam cheating scandal - Metro Green transport scheme helps schools to cut rush-hour car journeys - Times Educational Supplement | TES Record proportion of women on university courses in UK - BBC Winchester and Charterhouse dragged into exam cheating scandal - Mail University of Miami shuns links with Cuba under local pressure - Times Higher Education | THE Academics push South Africa to open apartheid-era archives - Times Higher Education | THE 80,000 parents set to miss out on nursery places - Mail Ireland: the ingredients for a successful school - Times Girls a third more likely to go to university than boys - Herald Scotland Let’s stop this ritual procession to university - Times Thousands of parents may miss out on free nursery places - Times Childcare cost to soar as government review puts nurseries under pressure - Express University gender gap at record high as 30,000 more women accepted - Guardian