News archive for 3rd December 2017

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University World News - Global edition: week ending 03 December 2017 - University World News Nurseries 'to introduce LGBT-friendly books aimed at helping children question gender identity' - Evening Standard Social mobility tsar Alan Milburn quits with furious attack on Theresa May - PoliticsHome 'Despite best efforts, my school is not full and I'm worried sick about how it will survive' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Response to Milburn resignation - Sutton Trust Home Office putting UK's research reputation at risk, says Jeremy Corbyn - Guardian Government pledges £300m to provide mental health support in schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Social mobility board quits in protest at 'lack of government action' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now University World News - Africa edition: week ending 03 December 2017 - University World News The skills debate needs more oohs than AHSS - Wonkhe What is effective CPD? - The Staffroom Children as young as three given books featuring teddy bears encouraging them to question their gender - The Sun Mental health: 'I was offered help two years later' - BBC Vive la assessment revolution! Out of widespread confusion, might we find clarity? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children-aged 3-read-books-questioning-gender. - Mail Social Mobility Commission Board quits 'due to little hope of fairer Britain' - HuffPost Levy on independent schools 'should be set up to bring in more disadvantaged pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government's social mobility board members resign over 'unfair' Britain - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Zombie graphic novels can engage students scared off by the classics' - Times Educational Supplement | TES iGCSE loophole allows schools to teach one religion - Schools Week How to avoid school social media scandals - Schools Week Schools told not to pin up Christmas decorations in union asbestos guidance - Schools Week Fears grow over EU university funding as grants decline even before Brexit - Guardian Seven things schools can expect from the mental health green paper - Schools Week Sneering at miners reflects a deeper malaise in our universities | Meg Kneafsey - Guardian Sneering at miners reflects a deeper malaise in our universities - Guardian Government pledges £300m for mental health staff in schools - Schools Week School mental health support to be priority under new £300million plan - Express Record number of children left in day care - Express Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol still helping poverty-stricken pupils 180 years on - Express My week on a teen news diet: when you swap newspapers and Radio 4 for Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram - Times The great escape: how forest schools are helping cooped-up kids - Times The wired generation — how technology has changed childhood - Times Divested schools ‘will keep Catholic ethos without new teachers’ - Times Gather round, class. Thomas the teddy wants to be a girl - Times Private schools ‘must fund poor’ - Times Working relationships: Can you be friends and colleagues? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 40,000 children trapped in ‘zombie’ academy schools - Guardian