News archive for 21st May 2017

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Labour pledges to abolish tuition fees as early as autumn 2017 - Guardian Classroom assistants doing teachers' jobs and giving lessons due to school staffing crisis - Mirror 10 questions to ask about work scrutiny and book looks - Teacherhead ‘The new GCSEs are setting the less able pupils up to fail – it's totally inappropriate’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dangerous playground craze is leaving school pupils with broken bones - Mirror Ten steps to surviving as a new head of department - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Make friends with your pupils' parents,' psychologist tells teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES What teachers need to know about intelligence – Part 1: Why IQ matters - The Learning Spy There is hope for universities in the Tory manifesto - Guardian 'Ofsted needs a new criteria for judging schools in poor areas – the playing field must be levelled' - Times Educational Supplement | TES University Word News: Africa Edition - week ending 21st May 2017 - University World News University World News: Global edition - week ending 21st May 2017 - University World News Grammar schools unpopular with the young, but older voters back them, survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jamie Oliver teams up with authors of School Food Plan to damn Tory proposals to scrap universal free school meals - Times Educational Supplement | TES False allegations destroying teachers’ lives - union - Scotsman You're doing it all wrong: context and complexity in education research and debate. - Teacherhead Caroline Wheeler: funding cuts in education punish our children - Express 900,000 children from ‘just about managing’ families hit by Tory free lunch cuts - PoliticsHome UTCs should be allowed to recruit at 11 - FE Week ICT qualifications still in chaos due to delays - Schools Week ‘Isolated’ poorer students more likely to drop out, study shows - Guardian Aberdeen University to launch investigation after report uncovers clinical trial failures - Herald Scotland New campaign to get Scottish children walking to school as obesity levels soar - Herald Scotland How one man used hip hop to help his son study for his physics exam - BBC Limerick University spent €450,000 on unapproved payoffs - Times Oxford set to expel knife-attack student - Times Jamie attacks axeing of school meals - Times University researchers key ‘in 40% of top inventions since 1950s’ - Times Higher Education | THE