News archive for 17th May 2017

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Exam season prompts a boost in rosemary sales as research suggests herb could help revision - Mail Calls for reading and basic maths tests for new teachers - Scotsman Ruth Davidson calls for trainee teachers to pass tough literacy and numeracy tests - Express Lib Dem manifesto steers largely clear of universities - Wonkhe What’s that coming over the hill? Is it a metric monster? - Wonkhe Rosemary sales double during exam season after study suggests it boosts brain power - Telegraph Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: May 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Key stage 1 assessments data collection: guide to submitting data - DfE Key stage 1 assessments data collection 2017: guide - DfE Ban schools from hatching chicks as it leads to surge in abandoned roosters, campaigners say - Telegraph Rosemary sales jump after research shows memory boost in students - Herald Scotland Colleges need to 'look outside the sector' for ideas, says entrepreneur - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK’s first national Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools launched in Leeds - Leeds Beckett University Paul Whiteman confirmed as next NAHT general secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Finding a place for PSHE in schools - Huffington Post Paul Whiteman confirmed as new NAHT general secretary - Schools Week Lib Dems pledge £5.8bn for England's school budgets - BBC Did a university student really submit a top-mark essay from a nightclub dancefloor? - Independent Confusion over new GCSEs causing widespread anxiety, say teachers - Guardian Rosemary sales surge during exam season - BBC Updated register of apprenticeship training providers published - FE Week Tips from Bill Gates as richest man in the world tells A-level students exactly what they should study - Mirror Research round-up 15 May 2017 - NAHT University president is Macron's new minister for HE - University World News Governor ‘strike’ over school funding set to go ahead - Schools Week Call for regulation on securing children’s data in personalised reading - IOE London Blog Providers finally successful in apprentice register applications - FE Week Governors stage 'strike' over funding - BBC Liberal Democrats would allow new council maintained schools - Schools Week Liberal Democrat manifesto: The full list of schools policies - Schools Week How can schools engage young people in democracy? - Guardian Ten ways the Lib Dems want to improve schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Just three new recruits for chartered status in six months - FE Week Chartered Institution for Further Education welcomes two new members - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don't follow Zuckerberg, research warns – university dropouts don't usually succeed - Times Educational Supplement | TES I went to a grammar school – that doesn’t mean I have to support them | Michael Rosen - Guardian Concerns over scrapping of ‘disturbing’ literacy and numeracy survey - SecEd Could the smell of rosemary make a difference to pupils’ exam performance? - SecEd Teachers in Wales urged to stay positive in face of disappointing PISA outcomes - SecEd SecEd launches Eighth National Pupil Premium and Ofsted Conference - SecEd Wellbeing advice offered as the exam season gets going - SecEd Parliamentary hopefuls targeted over funding - SecEd High teacher leaving rates hitting key EBacc subjects - SecEd Deficit letter angers union - SecEd Two thirds of Scottish students think staff need to improve their digital skills to keep up - Jisc Here's what the argument about tuition fees is missing - New Statesman Labour’s childcare proposals: Transforming formal care - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Lib Dems would extend free childcare and triple EYPP - Nursery World John Swinney: ‘students may fail degrees because of strikes’ - Scotsman How do we show international students they're still welcome in the UK? - Guardian Liberal Democrats’ Manifesto - NUT NAHT response to the Liberal Democrat manifesto - NAHT Supporting school leaders' top priorities for education - NAHT ASCL: Chairman of the Management Side’s letter to all teachers in Northern Ireland - ASCL Liberal Democrats and Labour recognise the importance of education funding - ASCL ATL comment on the Liberal Democrats’ education plans - ATL General Election 2017: Labour Manifesto - AELP Playing the Trump card: UK universities set to gain in the race to attract international students - HEPI Scottish teaching degrees scrutinised over standards of literacy and numeracy - Herald Scotland College strike escalates as unions refuse John Swinney's plea to suspend action - Herald Scotland Apple's Italian job for finding top talent - BBC Students fill teacher gaps as class behaviour worsens - Times Scotland ‘needs own Ofsted’, Conservatives say - Times