News archive for 30th May 2017

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David Didau: Swearing - The Learning Spy School census: notepad entries for COLLECT queries - DfE Manchester Metropolitan University staff to strike over jobs row - UCU Middle leadership can unlock your school's success - NAHT Exciting science workshops now available to book at the Royal Institution - NAHT FPA and Brook call for examples of innovative RSE in schools - NAHT Advice for your middle leaders: ten top tips on managing a tricky team member - NAHT ECU’s Ellen Pugh joins national equality advisory panel - ECU NCTL case discontinued - NASUWT Applications open for the Getting Ahead London Programme - NAHT John Tomsett:a step-by-step guide to the writing question on the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2 - JohnTomsett 'Britain's worst school' is accused of trying to silence students by threatening them with punishment if they comment about problems at the academy - Mail Five teachers accused in Trojan horse affair free to return to classroom - Guardian Labour has started a welcome debate on higher education funding | Letters - Guardian Campaigners hit back at claims that sex education is counterproductive - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mindfulness and wellbeing lessons can make school pupils even less happy, experts claim - Independent T-levels are great, but can government make them as prestigious as A-levels? - FE Week Labour say free childcare proposals would benefit 1.3 million children - PoliticsHome Hungary: ‘We will not close’: CEU to remain open in Budapest in 2017/18 - PIE News SNP manifesto: party commits to introduction of 30 hours - Nursery World Labour sets out universal childcare plans - Nursery World Don't prioritise vocational over academic routes - FE Week Conservatives used 'false' data to justify grammar school plans, leading academic claims - Independent It's a dangerous fiction that one exam will decolonise Oxford’s history degrees | Kehinde Andrews - Guardian Manchester attack brings renewed prominence to debate around Britain’s counter-radicalisation strategy, Prevent - Policy Exchange Daily roundup 30 May: Grammar schools, child maintenance, and piggy banks - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'Trojan Horse': Cases against teachers dropped - BBC Labour childcare plans 'to benefit 1.3m additional children' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New York talks in Hungarian university stand-off - BBC Oxford University's history changes 'do not go far enough' - BBC Cskills joins NOCN from CITB - FE News Professors take same ‘smart drugs’ as students to keep up with workloads, claims academic - Independent School crossing patrols 'still valid' in community (video) - BBC John Tomsett: a step-by-step guide to the writing question on the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 1 - JohnTomsett Sixth form college principal resigns with immediate effect - FE Week Growing use of smart drugs by students could be a recipe for disaster - The Conversation Disciplinary cases against five 'Trojan Horse' teachers thrown out - Times Educational Supplement | TES Global: Number of mobile students out of, and into, China soars - University World News Are you an academic who has taken drugs to keep up with work? | Rachel Obordo - Guardian Why do privately educated people in Britain earn more? - IOE London Blog Most people oppose letting faith schools select all pupils by religion, survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trojan Horse: NCTL drops disciplinary case against 5 teachers - Schools Week Corbyn unable to give cost of childcare pledge in interview - Guardian The Baker Amendment - FE News New software helps students get further education funding by tackling one of their least favourite subjects - FE News Four in five reject Tory plan to lift faith admissions cap - Schools Week Theresa May is channelling Basil Fawlty with her education policy | Lola Okolosie - Guardian Universities and #GE2017 – Bath - Wonkhe TEF: big upsets expected in official UK university rankings - Guardian Number of school crossing patrols falls by 23% in Wales - BBC Dutch business school rocked by criticism of its links to Shell - Times Higher Education | THE Our politicians have given up trying to improve our schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Laura McInerney: the real schools issues are welfare and housing. No party offers to help - Guardian MAT for excluded pupils allowed to expand despite worst Ofsted - Schools Week Scaled-up literacy scheme fails to produce positive results - Schools Week Tory plan to ban school expansions is ‘not feasible’, experts warn - Schools Week Help to engineer the future - FE News Pre-apprenticeship schemes - FE News Scotland: teachers call for ban on blanket introduction of controversial new exams - Herald Scotland Scotland: Tories focus on the basics of education - Times UTCs can still play an important role in a new system of technical education - Times Anxious parents ‘creating moral panic’ over social media - Times Teenage pregnancies decline as funding for sex education is cut - Times