News archive for 27th June 2017

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UCU response to report on government social mobility failings - UCU Tories quietly confirm they've shelved Theresa May's flagship plan for a wave of grammar schools - Mirror Hipster yurt school with no teachers and no rules aims to take pressure off kids - Express BERA response to the DfE consultation on primary assessment in England - BERA Being part of Multi-Academy Trusts may help schools in challenging areas to recruit and retain teachers - NFER Teacher retention and turnover research - Research update 2: Teacher dynamics in Multi-Academy Trusts - NFER Strike at Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College in row over job cuts - UCU Queen’s speech and school funding - NUT Mental health training for secondary teachers a welcome first step, says NAHT - NAHT Amanda Spielman recognises the pivotal role of Deputy and Assistant Heads - NAHT Widespread discrimination faced by disabled teachers - NASUWT PM: mental health training for teachers will "make a real difference to children's lives" - DfE Secondary school staff get mental health 'first aid' training - DfE London higher education group goes global - PIE News 'Pioneering' centre where children learn in a yurt may be 'illegal school' - Telegraph Daily roundup 27 June: Homophobia, child abuse, and probation inspection - CYPN | Children & Young People Now "We repealed, then forgot": the long shadow of Section 28 homophobia - New Statesman What’s in a name? Arriving at Graduate Outcomes - Wonkhe Ban on creating new grammar schools to remain in place - Mail Government unveils teacher mental health training plans - CYPN | Children & Young People Now A-level problem was a crime, not a cock-up | Letters - Guardian Parents furious at primary school's plan to finish lessons at lunchtime on Fridays due to budget cuts - Mirror Parents are furious as primary school announces plans to finish at lunchtime on Fridays 'because of funding cuts' - Mail London college staff to strike over job cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police arrests over stolen maths A-level exam papers - Schools Week Mental health funding blunder corrected by government - Schools Week Global: The world must invest in pre-primary education - Huffington Post Setting the record straight on the Edexcel A-level exam 'leaks' - Schools Week PM pledges `record level of funding´ for schools amid criticism over cash crisis - Mail The logos being considered for new teaching super union - Times Educational Supplement | TES Childminder details published in breach of privacy by HMRC - Nursery World UCU response to report on government social mobility failings - UCU TEF: striking the balance between teaching and research for students - Times Higher Education | THE Schools won't have budgets cut under funding formula, Greening confirms - Schools Week Engineering leaders seek new ways to boost the number of women in the sector - FE News Greening stands by manifesto pledge that no school will lose out under funding formula - Times Educational Supplement | TES Here come the girls! More action needed to shift perceptions of STEM careers for females - FE News Robert Goodwill named the new childcare minister - Nursery World Eleven sketches inspired by the university mental health crisis – in pictures - Guardian ESFA's Keith Smith chats about the new procurement process for non levy (video) - FE News Edinburgh Napier building ‘features same cladding as Grenfell’ - Scotsman West Midlands police under fire from parents after kids pictured brandishing replica guns on school trip - Huffington Post For too long, Pakistani schools have been a means to provide jobs, rather than education - Guardian Homophobic bullying in schools falls by a third in a decade, study finds - Independent Life through a lens - Putting women in engineering in focus - FE News Peter Lauener discusses the quality focus of the Institute for Apprenticeships (video) - FE News Government puts £200k behind plan for mental health first-aiders in every secondary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Global education competition selects three UK finalists - Schools Week School plans to finish early on Fridays to save money - Metro All secondary schools in London to be offered knife detectors - Guardian Spending on Scottish schools to rise this year - Scotsman Muslim parents group say school's headscarf 'not modest enough' - Independent Ex-teacher made No 10 head of policy by Theresa May - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rihanna's school plea - BBC Three-day-a-week, £1,250-a-term school where there are no rules and children sit in a yurt doing what they want - Mirror Collab Group unveils apprenticeship partnership with Amey - Times Educational Supplement | TES A cautionary tale for employer providers - FE News Teachers given special training to deal with mental health of pupils - Express Almost half of transgender teenagers have tried to kill themselves, Stonewall report reveals - Huffington Post We cannot compromise safety in schools. Asbestos must be removed| Lola Okolosie - Guardian May gives £67 per teacher for mental health training - Schools Week Research round-up 23 June 2017 - NAHT Gordon Marsden chats about his vision for FE (video) - FE News David Hughes, AoC discusses Skills plan and T Levels at the AELP conference (video) - FE News Keith Smith ESFA chats at AELP (video) - FE News ESFA concern: providers subcontracting to employers - FE Week I know what it's like to be a trans teen at school. Here's how to deal with the bullying | Aimee Challenor - Guardian Skills minister the fixer promises to listen and ‘make it work’ - FE Week USA: Universities look for upside of Trump and Brexit effect - University World News Government ‘reneging on promise to fund 10,000 extra nursing places’ - Guardian How do we explain to our children the ‘British values’ of the DUP? | Michael Rosen - Guardian TEF results – making sense of the London effect - Wonkhe Sing me to sleep: stressbusting for students - Wonkhe Scotland: New look for historic Edinburgh University student union - Scotsman MATs dodge recruitment challenges by parachuting teachers into needy schools - Schools Week 'Less homophobic bullying' in Britain's schools - BBC Almost half of trans pupils in UK have attempted suicide, survey finds - Guardian Car mechanics "spend longer being trained" than some teachers - Herald Scotland Scotland: Give free EU student places to Scots, says Aberdeen University chief - Times May turns to ex-teacher as policy head - Times Almost half of LGBT pupils are bullied in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES