News archive for 18th May 2017

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Theresa May raids free school dinners to feed grammar and free school plans - and buy off Tory revolt - Mirror Sayat.me app that allows cyberbullying at centre of police investigation after teenage suicide - Telegraph Jamie Oliver: Axing free school meals a disgrace - BBC Unauthorised term-time holidays soar in England after legal challenge - Guardian 'We have all had enough' Ruth Davidson roasts Sturgeon over 'teacher recruitment crisis' - Express Grammar schools fail to help 'just about managing' families, researchers conclude - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tories pledge school cash from cutting free infant meals - BBC Russell Hobby appointed Teach First chief executive - Times Educational Supplement | TES From bursaries to gender balance: what needs to change in nursing? - Guardian First Minister criticised over 'teacher recruitment crisis' - Herald Scotland Conservatives announce surprise pledge to let levy pay wages - FE Week Sector response to the Conservative Party FE manifesto - FE News Scrapping free school lunches is an attack on struggling families | Nick Clegg - Guardian Election 2017: Conservatives will use university tuition fees to plug free schools funding gap - Independent 'What a load of waffle!' Holyrood explodes as Davidson issues brilliant Sturgeon slap down - Express Russell Hobby announced as next Chief Executive - Teach First Conservative Party vows to make it even tougher for international students to come to Britain - Huffington Post Tories say at least 100 private schools must sponsor academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Conservatives pledge ‘forgiveness’ of teacher student loans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Conservatives pledge to let off teachers from student loan repayments, reveals election manifesto - Independent Schools get five extra years to hit EBacc target under Tory plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES The real importance of a silly-sounding GCSE question on Darwin | Jenny Rohn - Guardian Conservative manifesto: What does it say about further education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tories' promised cash boost could amount to 'shuffling money around', heads warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES New Tory pledges: school admissions review, lower EBacc target and student loan relief for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rosemary oil sales triple as students stock up on ‘memory-boosting’ herb ahead of exams - Huffington Post AQA chemistry exam leaves GCSE students thanking examiners for ‘blessing’ of a test - Huffington Post NHS apprentice quality includes involving unions - Unionlearn Wales has world-leading digital education, according to Microsoft experts - Wales Online Headteachers back plan to cut summer holidays in Cardiff to five weeks - Wales Online Conservative manifesto pledges for FE and skills published - FE Week Number of pupils on term-time holidays rises following High Court judgement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why these parents sent their children to a school with no exams - Wales Online USA: What would a voucher system mean for schools? - BBC Formal learning starts too young, say early years teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Formal learning starts too young, say early years teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dozens more colleges now approved for apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Baroness Wolf: 'Apprenticeships and degrees can never be equal' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Conservative manifesto: Infant lunches scrapped, but schools get £4bn - Schools Week 2VCs: How worried should universities be about the general election? - Guardian Universities UK response to Conservative manifesto - Universities UK NAHT response to the Conservative manifesto - NAHT UCU responds to Conservative manifesto immigration plans - UCU Conservative manifesto - NUT Response to the Conservative Party manifesto - Independent Schools Council | ISC General Election 2017: Conservative manifesto - AELP Conservative funding pledge is sleight of hand - ASCL Young people are taking fewer A-Levels as qualification reforms kick in and per-student spending falls - Education Datalab Conservatives to scrap universal free school meals - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Conservative Party announces education pledges - AoC | Association of Colleges Tories promise funding for schools to open nurseries - Nursery World Phonics screening check data collection 2017: guide - DfE Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term 2016 - DfE Phonics screening check data collection: guide to submitting data - DfE Move over universities: the Conservative manifesto dissected - Wonkhe Mission, strategy and development planning - Independent Head Why the Oxford stabbing student really is too talented for jail | Simon Jenkins - Guardian Statistics: pupil absence - DfE ESFA e-bulletin: 18 May 2017 (issue 173) - Education & Skills Funding Agency UCL Institute of Education launches world’s first comprehensibility scale - IOE London Blog 'Lunch snatcher' Theresa May pledges to axe free hot meals at infant schools - and replace them with breakfast - Mirror Breakfast club for all pupils and an end to controversial school funding cuts - Mail Report identifies 'wide disparity' over time student teachers spend on basic skills - Herald Scotland Social media abuse forcing teachers to leave profession - Herald Scotland USA: Elite degree is springboard to success - Times Trainee teachers ‘need literacy test’ - Times Stress of exams takes heavy toll on teenage girls - Times Tories to promise schools an extra £650m a year by scrapping free infant lunches - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why do you have to spend £19,000 to train to be a lawyer? - Times Will the new exam for training solicitors improve quality, value and diversity? - Times On the job: students fuel explosion in free advice - Times If you want a job in law, you’ve got to learn to code - Times