News archive for 23rd May 2017

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UCU Congress: plans to 'name and shame colleges' revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES German schools get tough Prince Harry English exam changed - BBC Educational disparity in the playground | Brief letters - Guardian UEA course cut a blow for mental health work | Letters - Guardian Can free breakfasts for all primary pupils really be delivered for £60m? - Education Datalab How to talk to children about terrorist attacks - BBC General Election 2017: more than one million young people register to vote - Huffington Post University of Birmingham to open Dubai campus - PIE News Secondary schoolwork 'confuses' parents - Herald Scotland Benchmark for terms and conditions is long overdue - Voice Half day briefings: Update your knowledge on assessment and school funding - NAHT Young people are taking fewer A Levels following qualification reforms and decreases in funding - NAHT A decade is a very long time in university administration (and blogging) - Wonkhe Audio interview: David Willett and Jane Daly on Apprenticeships - Training Journal Groundbreaking TNE classification framework released - British Council REF Equality and Diversity Advisory Panel announced - HEFCE Daily roundup 23 May: Term-time holidays, Manchester attack, and homeless families - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Manchester attack: GCSE and A-level exams could be cancelled in wake of suicide bombing at Ariana Grande concert - Evening Standard Conservatives’ free breakfast pledge ‘costed at just 7p per meal’ - Schools Week New Holex chair: Adult education needs to be more "innovative" in face of funding constraints - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rosemary: the mind-bending herb of choice for today’s students - Guardian How to overcome the pressures of GCSE exam season - Huffington Post This year's Sats paper 'more readable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES College student named as Manchester bombing victim - FE Week Schools to decide on going ahead with exams after attack - BBC Number of university dropouts due to mental health problems trebles - Guardian Manchester attack: Schools given permission to cancel GCSE exams in wake of arena suicide bombing - Independent Article 50 and travel within Europe - what do UK students think? - Huffington Post How to discuss the Manchester attack with your pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Annual accountability return requirements: Financial forecasts submission - HEFCE Manchester schools given power to cancel GCSE and A Level exams following suicide bombing - Huffington Post Manchester attack: Ofqual says heads 'best placed' to decide if exams should go ahead - Times Educational Supplement | TES NFU Scotland calls for expansion of school milk scheme - Scotsman Schools should contact exam boards after Manchester terrorist attack - Schools Week For young people, Labour’s tuition fees pledge is a real game-changer | Eli Aldridge - Guardian Dubai: A gateway to global education success - FE News Manchester incident: advice for schools and students - Ofqual How do international students shape UK towns and cities? - Guardian Homeless teachers: ‘I wouldn’t talk about it, I was so ashamed’ - Guardian Dear Justine Greening, how are you going to clean up Michael Gove’s little messes? | Michael Rosen - Guardian To all our friends and colleagues in schools and colleges in and around Manchester - ASCL A message from NAHT regarding last night’s events in Manchester - NAHT Ofqual statement on Manchester incident: advice for schools and students - NAHT Strikes suspended at Manchester Metropolitan University - UCU Reframing the debate: It’s not what you do, it’s why you do it - The Learning Spy It’s time to give London students more money | Nick Hillman - Guardian Can a college chair of governors job share? - FE Week Schools spend thousands of pounds on ‘question banks’ to improve GCSEs and SATs scores - Schools Week Soaring numbers of parents are taking children out of school in term time because the £60 fine is 'no deterrent' - Mail The dark side of an elite Oxbridge education - Times Peer review of science is a deeply tainted system - Times Pure phallacy: authors wrote hoax gender paper ‘to show up academics’ - Times