News archive for 6th June 2017

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Children are being taught in 'crumbling classrooms' as Tories ignore repair pleas from 3,000 primary schools - Mirror On Facebook, even Harvard students can’t be too paranoid | Tim Dowling - Guardian Amber Rudd admits on Woman’s Hour per-pupil funding in England will not go up - NUT Friday 16th June: The Great Get Together assembly - NAHT Birmingham schools set to lose nearly £95m - NUT Create a Healthy Lunchbox competition - NAHT Re-launch of the School Cuts website - NAHT What you don't find out about England's educational performance in the PISA league table - NFER School funding - summary of evidence - NFER How were the standards set for this year's KS1 SATs? - ATL What should be the first decision of a new Universities Minister? - HEPI Evidence of intent - Conor's Commentary Just a minute: the lost art of minute-writing - Wonkhe Setting standards on student security and wellbeing - Wonkhe Should universities raise school attainment? Yes, and here’s why - Wonkhe Schools cancel trips in the wake of London and Manchester terror attacks - Guardian UK child abuse inquiry: three Catholic schools 'should form case study' - Guardian City Academy Hackney secondary school forced to reduce lessons by 30 minutes every day to cope with Tory cuts - Huffington Post Death of 4-year-old boy prompts calls for review of schools’ absence approach - Schools Week Free Financial Times offer is for FE students too - FE Week USA: DeVos hedges on banning discrimination against LGBT students - Mail Transgender pupils are choosing to stay at single-sex schools after transitioning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tories 'set to review childcare ratios', expert claims - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Labour to scrap government's SEN reforms - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 6 June: School fine; abuse allegation; and accident inquiry - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Teachers describe fatal wall collapse at Liberton High School - BBC Universities and schools to offer maths-rich primary teacher training courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Africa: AAU celebrates 50 years as voice of higher education - University World News Desperate college seeks university take-over before merger consultation even begins - FE Week Free further education for all is not a realistic aim - FE Week Nursery cooks hot meals for homeless - Nursery World Further education and adult learning should be free - FE Week USA: Harvard withdraws students’ offers over memes posted in private Facebook group - Metro East London colleges partner with university to form new federation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election countdown: Tories admit school per-pupil funding will not rise under their plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge: 'Scrapping tuition fees is attractive ... if it can be costed' - Guardian Priorities for a new Government: advice from our academics part 5 – Muslims, education and citizenship; teacher retention - IOE London Blog Keane Wallis-Bennett FAI: Teachers describe moment after wall collapse - Scotsman Theresa May’s forgotten pledge: how does the UK get more white working class boys into university? - Huffington Post Duns teacher stole £12k from local festival to fund gambling - Scotsman Poorer students aren’t applying to university because of fears of high debts - The Conversation Global: Knowledge and education should be unbounded and it’s the world’s citizens’ responsibility to ensure this - Huffington Post USA: Harvard bars students for posting 'obscene memes' - BBC Teacher sought for single-pupil school on Foula - BBC Art students: share your end-of-year artwork - Guardian Drawn from experience: art inspires poorer students into medicine - Guardian From next generation research environments to digital apprenticeships – our five new priority areas as chosen by you - Jisc Has your child's school trip been cancelled because of terror attacks? - Guardian Purchasing power - we unveil initiatives to make digital collections affordable - Jisc 2017 scaled scores for key stage 1 tests published - Schools Week Have you received a letter from your school about budget cuts? - Guardian Why we can't trust academic journals to tell the scientific truth - Guardian Sats tests: why cheating and cramming mean the numbers don’t add up - Guardian ‘I’m teaching – and I’m cheating’: confessions of a primary Sats teacher - Guardian Voters should be enraged by higher education profiteering | Stefan Collini - Guardian ‘We’re fighting for bikes’: school politics lessons confront voter apathy - Guardian Playing video games can help young people succeed at university - Scotsman FAI hear how pupils warned staff about ‘wobbly’ school wall - Scotsman What lessons can the FE sector learn from the success of a UK-based online educational training provider for medical professionals? - FE News Boys do cry: Third admit they shed tears over the pressure of sitting exams and getting good grades - Mail Majority of teenagers have cried due to exam stress, poll finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election countdown: Billboard to alert motorway drivers to school funding cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inquiry into death of girl, 12, crushed by collapsing wall - Times Fear of exam failure leaves boys in tears - Times