News archive for 11th May 2017

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Women earn between £8,000 and £9,000 less than men at Wales' top universities - Wales Online Parents slammed by Department for Education for tweeting answers from their children's SATs exams - Mirror Reality Check: What's been the impact of university tuition fees? (video) - BBC Parents told off by Department for Education after tweeting answers to SATs exams - Evening Standard How much would Jeremy Corbyn's draft Labour manifesto policies cost? 10 key plans under the microscope - Mirror Brexit has put foreign workers off UK tech jobs - City AM An act that Labour must repeal to save higher education | Letters - Guardian USA: Betsy DeVos is booed for a reason. Or two. Or three | Douglas Williams - Guardian Ministers urged to step in over college strikes - Herald Scotland Sats: Children left in tears after their final maths test - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vivienne Durham named as Girls' School Association chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can parents help students survive the exam season? - Guardian Can you pass a SATs exam for 11-year-olds? - Independent Can we improve school interviews? Part 3: The interview lesson - The Learning Spy No man 'in their right mind' would go into teaching, says geography teacher cleared of rape - Times Educational Supplement | TES Every school should have a therapist, says happiness expert - Times Educational Supplement | TES First Minister 'determined' to carry on with educational reforms - Herald Scotland Marijuana use linked to poorer school performance, major new research reveals - Independent Labour student activist Tayyib Nawaz forced to resign over anti-Semitic and homophobic tweets - Huffington Post Supporting LGBTI pupils: 'It's important a school is ready for anyone' - Guardian There is much to be optimistic about in Wales' schools, writes a leading expert - Wales Online Children need to be in the right mental state to learn effectively | Tony Draper - Guardian How well do schools prepare children for their future? - FE News Draft Labour Party manifesto FE section in full - FE Week Full list of schools policies in leaked Labour manifesto - Schools Week ‘Surviving or Thriving’ in apprenticeships - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Daily roundup 11 May: Care applications, SRE, and GCSE results - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Leaked Labour manifesto pledges free childcare for two-year-olds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How schools are dealing with the crisis in children’s mental health - Guardian Digital learning: how to keep your students switched on - Guardian The post-Brexit lessons from Switzerland for UK HE and science - Wonkhe The costs of Labour’s pledge to abolish tuition fees - Wonkhe Young votes matter - Sutton Trust Labour proposes greater early years investment and 30 hours extension - Nursery World USA: DeVos booed speaking at historically black university - Mail Teachers lack skills to teach basic maths and literacy - Scotsman Can corporation tax pay for Labour's education pledge? (video) - BBC Scots primary school bans fidget spinners over injury fears - Scotsman USA: Betsy DeVos booed while giving college graduation speech (video) - Mail DfE believes more than a quarter of schools spend too much money - Times Educational Supplement | TES There’s no such thing as a VAT-free lunch, or is there…? - FE News An education system for everyone - FE News What could brave and honest educators do for our learners’ mental well-being? - FE News Schools in the eye of a political storm as results falter - Herald Scotland Apprentices require organisational support to succeed - FE News Campaign launched to protect vulnerable learners from Brexit cuts - FE Week Teaching assistants at a school struggling with budget cuts have been threatened with redundancy - Wales Online Teachers call for an immediate freeze on new school reforms - Herald Scotland New teachers unable to teach maths to 11-year-olds - Times Pupils should ditch devices and read for pleasure, schools told - Times Grammar protects children against the snobbish critics - Times False claims ‘have made teaching a lottery for men’ - Times 140 teaching posts axed by university - Times Protect our ESF funding, says FE sector alliance - Times Educational Supplement | TES