News archive for 12th May 2017

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Put nice smelling soap in changing rooms to encourage girls into sport, woman's FA chief says - Telegraph It's time we educated children for the future, rather than limiting them to subjects of the past - Telegraph School leadership in 12 slides. - Teacherhead NASUWT comments on industrial action letter - NASUWT Teachers from across Scotland gather for the NASUWT conference - NASUWT In the news: 12 May 2017 - UCU Make Brexit a new start for UK international education - AoC | Association of Colleges Lib Dems to legalise cannabis 'to protect young people' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 12 May: Early years pledge, eating disorders, and weapons - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'School is our revenge on Isis’: Children fight extremism with education in Iraq - Independent School capital funding allocations: 2015 to 2018 - DfE Cloud software services: how schools should protect data - DfE 2019 performance tables: technical and vocational qualifications - DfE 'The classroom fads that illustrate education’s often unhealthy relationship with the evidence' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What you need to know before your child starts university - Wales Online DfE behaviour tsar: 'Dyslexia and ADHD are over-diagnosed crypto-pathologies' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Willenhall E-Act Academy handed worst Ofsted report possible after pupils ‘pelt inspectors with food’ - Huffington Post Labour’s tuition fee pledge has given every student a reason to vote - Huffington Post Wilshaw to publish book on his career as 'the Dirty Harry of education' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five classroom crazes teachers don't miss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted watch: Three colleges slide to grade three - FE Week Costs in question after Labour apprentice pledge - FE Week How gaming in the classroom prepares children for life in a surveillance state - The Conversation Long-distance merger cleared despite council concerns - FE Week GCSEs and A-levels: how are young people coping with exam stress? - Guardian NCG and Lewisham Southwark College agree merger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Willenhall school pupils threw food at Ofsted inspectors - BBC Diary of Sats Week: It all started with a Special Sats Breakfast served with a slice of fear and a mug of uncertainty... - Times Educational Supplement | TES A pause for thought or a rewind? - FE News Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 12 May 2017 - Pearson Presentation: potentially a powerful proxy for progress - Teacherhead DfE reprimands parents for tweeting Sats test questions - BBC Priorities for a new government: advice from our academics part 2 - IOE London Blog Context is king - Teacherhead Graduate jobs: top 12 degree subjects for getting a job - Telegraph USA: Physics prodigy Carson Huey-You to graduate from university aged 14 - Huffington Post ESFA need to fess up to their ‘mistake’ - FE Week Hundreds of school pupils will miss out on work experience because of health and safety fears - Wales Online Labour launches National Education Service - FE News Allocations shock: ESFA ‘mistake’ sees massive firms listed as small - FE Week What difference does a year make? (part 3) - Education Datalab Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’ - Nursery World Can peer-led teaching help improve sex education in schools? - Guardian Campus politics get dirty: a security guard reveals all - Guardian Universitas 21 ranks US as best HE system - PIE News The Global Search for Education: Meet the Ministers – from Scotland – John Swinney - Edmodo From ivory tower to good neighbour - Wonkhe Wilshaw blames 'charlatan' comp heads for the return of grammars - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary moderns have dramatically improved their Ofsted grades - Schools Week Tory areas worst hit by National Funding Formula - Schools Week Pregnant pupils are being moved to PRUs as cuts close services - Schools Week No way back: How a MAT disbanded a school governing body because it asked to leave - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of schoolchildren are turning to counselling to cope with overwhelming exam stress - Wales Online Samurai swords and axes among thousands of weapons seized from schools - Telegraph Striking a chord - BBC Reimagine Education - Why education colleges should think vertically not horizontally - FE News More than 2,000 weapons seized from schools - BBC Exam stress is causing thousands of UK children to require counselling, says Childline - Huffington Post Samurai swords, axes and air guns brought to school: Children as young as five caught with weapons - Mail The 'bus stop' for children who feel lonely (video) - BBC Samurai swords and axes among thousands of weapons confiscated from British schoolchildren - Independent Hundreds of knives seized in 18 months at UK schools, figures show - Guardian Teachers attack "last minute" changes to qualifications - Herald Scotland Urgent call for more school librarians to halt slide in literacy standards - Herald Scotland 'Benign racism' is blighting the profession, Scottish teachers warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Samurai swords and axes among thousands of weapons seized from schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rising numbers of pupils calling helpline with exam stress - Times Educational Supplement | TES Samurai swords and axes among thousands of weapons seized from schools - Express Kids as young as five take knives to school in worrying trend - Mirror