News archive for 8th February 2017

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'New grammars by 2020' reveal heads after meeting ministers - BBC Teachers to wear body-worn cameras to record unruly pupils in classroom trial - Evening Standard Bristol University students accused of 'blacking up' after wearing cornrow braids for fancy dress party - Telegraph Technical college backed by Michael Gove to close as no pupils receive grade C or above in GCSEs - Telegraph Like Me: Free film puts spotlight on online safety - SecEd Research reveals England’s ‘entrenched literacy problems’ - SecEd Four or more pupil-employer contacts key in NEET battle - SecEd Does Progress 8 increase the incentives to ‘manage-out’ pupils? - SecEd Proportion of ‘red’ schools in Wales falls by two per cent - SecEd Somerset mental health project leads to publication of free student resources - SecEd Funding: Prime minister told of one headteacher running Great North Run to save school trips - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges referring students to A&E over mental health - SecEd School building £10m boost in Northern Ireland - SecEd Is coding more important than learning languages or English literature? - SecEd Inspectors praise London borough's support for children with SEND - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The more things change with the REF, the more they stay the same - HEFCE Quality of childcare put at risk by extending free hours of childcare - Coram Family & Childcare Inspiring Leadership 2017: speakers announced - Education Development Trust | EDT 'Test tourism' for grammar schools to be replaced by national exams, ministers hint - Telegraph University no longer ‘automatic choice’ - SecEd Drop in number of disadvantaged students at universities in Scotland - SecEd Grimsby Institute wins top AoC Beacon award - FE Week FE choices: employer satisfaction survey – sample size calculator - SFA FE Choices: information for providers - SFA Employer satisfaction survey: provider guidance - SFA Local authority interactive tool (LAIT) - DfE Alternative providers of higher education: enrolments and qualifications 2015 to 2016 - DfE University improves its approach to dealing with course changes - GOV.UK UCU comment on new data on alternative providers of higher education - UCU Selling off student loans makes next to no sense - Financial Times New Schools Network’s Ebacc report - NUT Support for mental health needed - AoC | Association of Colleges Monkey, Wise Owl, Dolphin: What kind of leader are you? - ASCL Bodycams in schools: Big Brother or protection for staff? (+poll) - Voice Use of body cameras in schools 'risks turning students into suspects' - Guardian Tommy Robinson talk on free speech at Oxford Brookes University cancelled over protest fears - Huffington Post Contextual information alone will not improve social mobility - Villiers Park Educational Trust Cameras won’t stop the chaos in classrooms - Times First new grammar schools could open in 2020, document reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending cuts indiscriminate, says UK watchdog - Financial Times Brand new £9m Manchester school to close after all of its pupils fail GCSEs - Independent Actor Liam Neeson calls for integration in Northern Irish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers consider new ‘national selection test’ to replace 11-plus - Schools Week Concern over 'poaching' as another regional schools commissioner quits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Young people in the UK have second-worst mental wellbeing, global survey shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Body cameras: the stats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Baverstock Academy head called for closure of 'broken' school - BBC Rotherham head teacher banned for falsifying students' progress records - BBC Student choice: the new proposals are all froth and no coffee - Guardian £9m Oldham 'poor performing' technical college to close - BBC Students, academics fight Duterte's death penalty bill - University World News What universities are doing to help Syria’s lost generation - The Conversation Body cameras on trial in English schools - BBC Greater Manchester University Technical College set to close after zero pupils pass English and Maths GCSEs - Huffington Post Two-thirds of teachers would feel safer wearing a bodycam, TES survey shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers trial bodycams used by police to combat unruly student behaviour - Huffington Post Teachers to start wearing body cameras to record pupils' bad behaviour - Independent First student union election in eight years expected - University World News Where do unicorns go to university? - BBC There are fears about the new curriculum being developed for Wales' schools - Wales Online Why you should care about the rise of fake journals and the bad science they publish - The Conversation Apple boss Tim Cook to be honoured by University of Glasgow - Herald Scotland Sexism in school: 57% of teachers admit to stereotyping girls and boys - Independent Councils uncertain about delivery of 30-hours free childcare pledge, survey finds - PoliticsHome Headteacher bans 'offensive and aggressive' parents from speaking to teachers as they pick their children up from a Glasgow primary school - Mail Devos vows to be 'tireless advocate for all students' - Mail SFA update: February 2017 - SFA Childcare provision under risk as councils funding runs out - Express Erasmus students struggle to make local friends – ESN survey - PIE News Toolkits to help support National Apprenticeship Week 2017 - SFA Research, teaching, and what universities have in common with the banks - Wonkhe '30 hours at risk of not living up to parents' expectations' - Nursery World Many councils unsure over extended childcare provision - Mail Army Cadet Force units ruled out at Scottish state schools - Herald Scotland Uncertainty over 30 hours free childcare, say councils - BBC Two UK schools trial use of police-style bodycams for teachers - Guardian Scottish teachers have ‘lost confidence’ in exam body - Herald Scotland Top maths and science talent wanted for Scots schools - Herald Scotland Ex-Rangers star calls for end to homophobia in Scots schools - Scotsman Teachers wearing body cameras to film unruly pupils - Times School bans parent and teacher chats - Times Children’s behavioural problems linked to deprivation - Times NUS survey boycott will only worsen students’ lives - Times EBacc has no negative impact on uptake of arts subjects at GCSE, report for free-school charity says - Times Educational Supplement | TES EBacc ‘increases arts subject entries’ but teacher numbers fall - Schools Week