News archive for 30th August 2017

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Radley College emerges as fourth public school caught up in exam 'cheating' scandal - Telegraph New 'buddy' system for Oxford University's working class students - Telegraph Young people need skills for life, says Olly Newton - Edge Foundation The real impact of praising children - The Staffroom SET launches live webchat service - Education & Training Foundation | ETF ETF launches free Prevent Duty online resources for learners - Education & Training Foundation | ETF The rise in personalised story books and what it means for children’s privac - The Conversation Analysis: Is Theresa May telling the truth on foreign students? Well, it's complicated - PoliticsHome Former Conservative minister says private schools should lose charitable status - PoliticsHome Theresa May: I did not exaggerate problem of foreign student 'overstayers' - PoliticsHome Study reveals cost benefits of Finnish anti-bullying programme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New tool identifies eight ways for local areas to prevent mental ill health - London School of Economics | LSE STEM would be 'hardest hit' by Australian cuts - Times Higher Education | THE The exam cheating controversy shows the system is fraught with danger - but teachers must still set papers - Telegraph ESFA update: August 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency DfE grant funding agreement: terms and conditions - DfE Using the register of apprentice assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Put the workforce at the heart of education reform says the NASUWT - NASUWT Exam malpractice ‘unacceptable but rare’ - GSA Cuts show a reckless disregard for quality education - NASUWT Schools around England ejecting 'underperforming' sixth-formers - Guardian HMC statement: protecting teachers and ensuring probity in the setting and teaching of examinations - Independent Schools Council | ISC New Insights on WP: Scotland the Brave? - HEPI More higher ed summer reading - Wonkhe There’s a difference between ‘good’ and ‘good value’ - Wonkhe UCAS daily Clearing updates - 30 August 2017 - UCAS Leading private school forces pupils to hand in mobile phones in effort to wean them off 'addiction' - Telegraph Headteacher who confined primary pupils to 'solitary confinement’ almost every day, can continue teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eton pupils' marks disallowed over second exam paper leak - Guardian Schools are ‘ideal places’ to provide holiday meals for poorer pupils - Schools Week Don't talk about diets in front of your daughters, deputy head at top London school warns parents - Evening Standard ‘Massive’ student poverty commission launched by NUS - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ban experts from teaching exams they set - BBC 9 things only year 11 students will understand - Huffington Post MPs attack ejection of 'underperforming' sixth-formers - Guardian 'Because he's worth it,' Harris founder defends Sir Dan Moynihan's £420k salary - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney: Almost 700 teaching vacancies in Scotland 'an unwelcome figure' - Herald Scotland Teachers rate soft skills as more important than good grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gaelic ‘bear hunting’ kids are internet sensations - Scotsman Make PSHE lessons compulsory to reduce ‘worrying’ levels of self-harm among pupils, urge researchers - Independent Universities must fight 'unfair' claims of elitism - University World News Student with Oxford place 'does not know what to do if deported' - Guardian Number of adult learners on benefits falls to five-year low - Times Educational Supplement | TES The lesson from St Olave’s: pushing out pupils to boost results must stop | Laura McInerney - Guardian Non-levy apprenticeship funding tender deadline extended - FE Week The placement predicament - Huffington Post School sued for ‘not letting sixth formers with low grades take A-levels - Metro Today’s students aren’t snowflakes. It’s the right that needs to grow up | Josh Salisbury - Guardian John Swinney: 700 teaching vacancies ‘an unwelcome figure’ - Scotsman St Olave's Grammar school 'unlawfully threw out' students who failed to get top grades - Independent Countries divide over purpose of school - BBC ETF launches free Prevent Duty online resources for learners - FE News Grammar facing legal challenge for forcing lower achievers off A-level courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can teachers encourage more girls to study mathematics? - Guardian Expensive academic conferences give us old ideas and no new faces - Guardian Wales takes bite out of children’s holiday hunger | Sarah Marsh - Guardian High-profile Tories back Labour bill on free meals in school holidays - Guardian HOT or NOT – How to develop critical thinking - Learning Scientists Nearly a quarter of pupils failed controversial Sats semi-colon question - Times Educational Supplement | TES Awareness of degree apprenticeships is still unacceptably low – we need to fix this - FE News We're just scapegoats over pay and tuition fees, says university chief: Vice Chancellor's new boss said institutions are being unfairly labelled as elite - Mail MPs call for new law to tackle holiday hunger among pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES School fees for civil servants in jobs abroad cost taxpayers £100m - Times Teachers ‘must stop setting exams for own pupils’ - Times St Olave’s grammar school faces legal fight after kicking out its weaker pupils - Times Public school exam cheating row shows just how unlevel the playing field is - Times Scotland: Top heritage bodies call for rejection of Old Royal High School hotel plan - Times