News archive for 9th February 2017

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Applications for accreditation to deliver the new National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) now open - NAHT Free school talks and workshops from volunteers who have taken a vocational route into their career - NAHT UCU members to lobby governors over future of Manchester Metropolitan University Crewe campus - UCU Grammar schools - NUT You've asked a great question, but what about the answer? The importance of active listening as a leader - ASCL Sutton Trust - Global Gaps report - Russell Group Technical education: parity, parity, parity - Voice Mental health services and schools link pilot: evaluation - DfE SFA: course directory - SFA Apprenticeships: become a training provider - DfE Higher education statistics for the United Kingdom: 2015 to 2016 - DfE New research reveals a three year attainment gap between poor pupils and their better-off peers - IOE London Blog Lack of SLC training for early years and school staff - Nursery World Research is all about impact - HEFCE Children's workforce lacks training on speech and language problems - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Nicky Morgan: U-turn White Paper was my proudest achievement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads 'furious' at grammar cash promise - BBC Damning report attacks firms which built fault-ridden Scottish schools - Guardian Star Wars philosophy course to launch at Glasgow University - Scotsman Iranian scholar faces threat of death sentence - University World News Schools will have to take GCSE and A-level drama pupils on theatre trips, following DfE intervention - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL general secretary election results: Geoff Barton vs Chris Kirk - Schools Week Free school to open above Lidl store after 3 years ‘in portacabins’ - Schools Week Transgender 11-year-old shot at school, as mother says teachers are failing to combat bullying - Telegraph Edinburgh school wall collapse report highlights 'lack of scrutiny' - BBC Plan to ban officials' children from studying abroad - University World News 'Careers leaders' needed to boost advice in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES British millennials 'have second worst mental wellbeing in world' - Independent I would never wear a body camera while teaching in school. Here’s why | Lola Okolosie - Guardian Sturgeon humiliated and left squirming at FMQs – 'you've failed a whole generation' - Express Why I taught myself to code – and why you should too - Guardian Edinburgh school closures: ‘Luck’ that no children were killed - Scotsman Government considers PISA tests for 5 year olds - Schools Week Expert group recommends overhaul of research funding - University World News Ten-year-old applies to be Cambridge professor of Lego - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bright but poor pupils ‘lag behind richer peers’ in Scotland - Scotsman First-time international graduate enrolments rise 5% - University World News Grammar schools could admit just the cleverest 10% of pupils under new plans - Independent Private schools rule the roost - Times What does spaghetti, recruitment and the Levy have in common? - FE News Three year attainment gap between poor pupils and their better-off classmates separates Britain’s brightest teenage girls - Sutton Trust First new grammar schools 'could open by 2020' - PoliticsHome Publication of report - Evidence check: Grammar schools - UK Parliament Comic strip presents - Sutton Trust New guidance to help universities prevent extremism while protecting equality, human rights and good relations - ECU Government appears to row back on grammar school plans - Guardian Attainment gap: bright but poor teenage girls lag three years behind wealthy peers, Sutton Trust reveals - Huffington Post Scottish maths teachers to work across primary and secondary under groundbreaking scheme - Herald Scotland 'Waste of talent' as poor pupils lag behind richer peers - BBC 'Bright but poor' pupils years behind better-off peers, study claims - Guardian Super‑selective grammars to take brightest 10 per cent - Times ‘I want to help students who don’t have experience’ - Times New report warns Scotland's brightest pupils are being left behind - Herald Scotland Poor, bright pupils lag behind richer classmates by almost three years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Training places hold up well north of border - Times Would-be teachers ‘not motivated by money’ - Times Shock academic age gap between richest and poorest Scottish pupils - Express