News archive for 20th May 2017

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May’s plan to end free school lunches ‘to hit 900,000 struggling families’ - Guardian 'Adolescence now lasts longer than ever before – in schools, we would do well to remember it' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'As teachers we complain about parents – but most are doing the best they can in a difficult world' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Old archives reveal life at a specialist college 50 years ago - FE Week Jamie Oliver: 'Theresa May will regret scrapping free school lunches' (video) - Guardian What now for colleges that tried and failed to merge? - FE Week Police hunt Vauxhall driver who ploughed into students outside Havering College - Evening Standard Green party proposes scrapping all existing student debt - Guardian Secret Teacher: we're not reading – so why do we assume children will? - Guardian Tory plan to scrap free school lunches 'to affect 900,000 poor chidren' - Mail Ruth Silver: too much flexibility, not enough foresight - FE Week Struggling UTC opens its own 11-14 feeder school to boost numbers - Schools Week Schools told to develop ‘hack plan’ to avoid NHS cyber attack - Schools Week Cambridge students axe play after complaints about a lack of black actors - Mail Free school dinners: why they may be scrapped - BBC Middle class pupils ‘benefit’ from home assessments warn teachers - Herald Scotland Alarm raised over modern language cuts at Manchester University - Guardian Angela Rayner: free school meals are being scrapped to plug a hole in the education budget - Times Teaching was like going into battle, says high‑flyer who traded corporate life for the profession - Times Private schools suffer from north‑south divide - Times German universities reject competitive teaching funding - Times Higher Education | THE May says education is Scotland’s scandal - Times Union claims victory as strike action at colleges is called off - Times