News archive for 1st March 2017

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Sex education to be made compulsory in secondary schools - Guardian Church backs sex education, as senior bishop says sexualisation of children means they can no longer be 'shielded' - Telegraph The poorest struggle most to get an SEN diagnosis | Letters - Guardian Oxford University launches summer school aimed at white working-class British boys - Telegraph Teachers are increasingly unwilling to move to Welsh schools according to a recruitment agency - Wales Online Sex education to be made compulsory in all secondary schools in England - Express Cash-strapped schools asking for parental contributions of up to £600 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex education to be compulsory in all schools with children taught about relationships from age 4 - Mirror Tens of thousands of pupils fail to get into first choice secondary school - Guardian Teacher told to watch American sitcom to know Asperger’s - Scotsman Bristol University criticised after 'disadvantaged pupils' scheme offers third of places to private school students - Telegraph My manifesto for education: Scrap the current curriculum & bring in the industry innovators - FE News Vote for higher education’s most inspiring leader 2017 - Guardian Government scraps longer school day pledge - Schools Week World Book Day: What’s your favourite children’s book? Here are ours - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex education to be compulsory in England's schools - BBC Teaching computing? Try switching off your screens - Guardian Free school recovers from fraud and teacher stabbing to win 'outstanding' rating - Times Educational Supplement | TES Record 28,000 London pupils miss out on first choice of secondary school - Evening Standard Government is making dangerous errors on apprenticeship assessment - FE Week Edinburgh college lecturers to go on strike - Scotsman Theresa May: 'All colleges should be reaching towards TES FE Awards standards' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Film industry education boss lands ‘hand grenade’ assessment job at Institute for Apprenticeships - FE Week Unprofessional misjudgement - The Learning Spy While the papers whine about Oxbridge debauchery, student altruism gets ignored  - Telegraph Minister tells schools to emulate business and stop giving under-performing staff 'benefit of the doubt' - Times Educational Supplement | TES STIs and crisp-packet contraception: what I learned from talking about sex in schools - Guardian Ministers announce grants for London universities to develop 'revolutionary' projects - Evening Standard Drawing the line between free speech and hate speech - Huffington Post Sex and relationships education to be compulsory for all schools in England - Huffington Post Sex education will be compulsory in all schools to combat 'sexting' and cyber bullying, Education Secretary announces - Telegraph Are two-year university courses the way forward? - Huffington Post Comps aren’t helping social mobility. So why not bring back selection? | Mary Dejevsky - Guardian New sex education curriculum will address 21st-century risks, government says - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK National Offer Day: what are your experiences? - Guardian Universities must find a way to challenge populism - University World News What’s good and bad about Wales’ schools - according to the man behind the Pisa tests - Wales Online Sex education to be compulsory in all secondary schools - Schools Week Why teaching children about porn and sexting is a step in the right direction - The Conversation Why do we have such contradictory messages about school? - Guardian Sex education to be made compulsory in all schools in England, government confirms - Independent Integrated local planning of school places vital, say NAHT - NAHT NAHT respond to Teach First report on social mobility - NAHT Schools making decisions in the dark on academy conversion - NAHT School leaders welcome SRE and PSHE announcements - NAHT Have your say on post results services and appeals - NAHT How real terms cuts to education funding will affect schools in Manchester - NAHT DfE publishes latest data on teachers’ working hours - NAHT Russia to simplify visas, boost international student quota to 200,000 - PIE News Race in the workplace review - NUT Sex and relationship education in schools - NUT Union responds to Hull College chief executive's decision to step down - UCU NASUWT comments on PSHE and SRE announcement - NASUWT Secondary school place allocation - NUT 85% of top comprehensives with best GCSEs are socially selective, but schools where pupils make most progress are much less so - Sutton Trust Admitting the problem - Sutton Trust AELP collects evidence ahead of lobbying on funding for maths and English - AELP ATL comment on Ministers announcement for compulsory relationship and sex education lessons in secondary schools - ATL Brexit: challenges and opportunities - Universities UK A new way to teach children about eating disorders - The Conversation School places – some progress made, but the challenge continues - SecEd No let up in long working hours and heavy workloads - SecEd Funding crisis: Last-ditch bid to influence Spring Budget - SecEd University applications poverty link - SecEd Growth of Multi-Academy Trusts: do we need to put the brakes on? - IOE London Blog RSC programme aims to inspire poorer students to consider careers in the arts - SecEd Pupils feeling ‘constantly tired’ due to checking social media during the night - SecEd Wales launches £1m fund to give disadvantaged students music opportunities - SecEd Asbestos management: Government survey reveals one fifth of schools not compliant with law - SecEd Government to make SRE compulsory from 2019 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Unions call for action to tackle four key drivers of teacher recruitment and retention crisis - SecEd Growing Pains: The challenges faced by multi-academy trusts of all shapes and sizes - ASCL ASCL supports introduction of statutory relationships and sex education - ASCL OTLA Technical Skills programme deadline extended to 10am 10 March 2017 - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Hull College Group chief executive departs after financial mess exposed - FE Week Promoting apprenticeship vacancies through the National Apprenticeship Service - SFA SFA update: March 2017 - SFA Academy conversion: important dates - DfE Credit transfer in higher education - DfE Accelerated degrees in higher education - DfE Relationships education, RSE and PSHE - DfE Statutory PSHE and SRE: Chair welcomes Secretary of State announcement - UK Parliament A joined-up approach is needed to tackle cheating - Wonkhe Sutton Trust report on school admissions - NUT Teach First - NUT National Offer Day: Government is creating school places lottery - ASCL National Offer Day 2017: We missed the deadline for secondary school applications, what are our options? - Telegraph Schools to teach 21st century relationships and sex education - DfE Love learning. Love earning. Loveapprenticeship.com - FE News Top state schools 'dominated by richest families' - BBC Families 'struggle to get first-place secondary school' - BBC Number of pupils failing to get first choice of school expected to rise - Guardian Scotland’s exam body records rise in cheating with smartphones - Herald Scotland Not enough support for additional needs, say teachers - Herald Scotland Top state schools are 'preserve of the rich', social mobility charity warns - Independent Young people 'fear stigma' if they ask for mental-health help - BBC UK 'to lose overseas students from Brexit' - BBC First sixth form college converts to academy status today - FE Week Poorer areas half as likely to have an ‘outstanding’ secondary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four in five top-performing comprehensive schools are 'socially selective' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of pupils offered preferred secondary school place falls in most areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools urged to allocate places using admission lotteries - Schools Week Hereford sixth form college first to become academy - Schools Week Children failed by ‘desperate state’ of special needs support - Times Poor children priced out of top state secondary schools as parents can’t afford houses - Express New ‘superhead’ role for Glasgow secondary schools - Herald Scotland National offer day: 90,000 children set to miss out on first choice school, experts say - Telegraph