News archive for 10th November 2017

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Sensitive girls should be taught 'banter' at school to toughen them up for the workplace, leading headmistress says - Telegraph Cambridge University's Pitt Club votes to allow female members  - Telegraph Oxford college to launch scholarship in attempt to address slavery legacy - Guardian DfE swerves new Scottish safeguarding policy - Schools Week Schools Week visits the World Innovation Summit for Education 2017 - Schools Week Ofsted watch – impressive week for FE colleges - FE Week Boys perform better at school when surrounded by girls - Daily Mail Government can’t keep starving us of funding' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learn on location: how to to a postgrad for free in Europe - Guardian The £6,848 question for postgraduate students - Guardian Study abroad: ‘I like being part of an international community’ - Guardian A faculty for freedom: criminology students could help reform policy - Guardian 'We saw an opportunity': postgrads who turned study into startup success - Guardian Is enough being done to improve access for postgrad students with disabilities? - Guardian What more can be done to engage girls in school sports? - Guardian Private network of academy bosses plans new group to represent CEOs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Study biomedical science: ‘We’re trying to find answers to the big diseases’ - Guardian Isle of Wight to consult on shorter summer holidays - Schools Week Parents' fury as primary school toughens up pupils with play in the rain - Telegraph The fall of WCAT: whose money is it anyway? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted returns to Learndirect as the provider fights for survival - FE Week Universities under investigation by advertising watchdog for misleading students - Telegraph Challenges and Issues for Computing Education in UK Schools - The Staffroom Universities can help drive change on sexual harassment - University World News Sunderland stepdad explains Islam homework complaint - Daily Mail Will T-levels falter through a lack of work placements? - FE Week Wales' schools and college buildings to get £2.3bn upgrade - Wales Online Three problems the academies must resolve: accountability, salaries & an escape route for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Carol Dweck: the three biggest misconceptions about growth mindset - Times Educational Supplement | TES T-level work placement travel costs must be covered - FE Week Don’t ‘punish’ young people with mandatory T-level work placements, AoC pleads - FE Week Essex student left paralysed after weight fell on her - Daily Mail Universities warned not to bend the truth in their advertising - Times Edinburgh University head criticised for saying free speech 'not absolute' - Guardian Old Boroughmuir school sale gets go-ahead despite price fall of almost £3m - Scotsman Let's draw blue skies research out of our universities and into the economy | Ruth McKernan - Guardian Bumper £2.3bn building fund for schools and colleges - Welsh Government A national audit of school budgets is urgently needed in Wales - Wales Online It's not fair to judge lecturers on National Student Survey scores - Guardian Research every teacher should know: setting expectations - Guardian Flipped learning leads to ‘small’ progress - Times Educational Supplement | TES We want to give pupils free dinners,' says academy boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universal credit: an impending ‘disaster’ for FSM pupils - Schools Week New GCSE remark rules cause headache for heads - Schools Week Experts warning over ‘patchy and fragile’ school computing science - Herald Scotland Universities to be warned over misleading adverts - BBC Government urged to act over computer science GCSEs - BBC Boys learn better when 'outnumbered' by girls - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers to strike over pay and conditions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers at three Glasgow schools to strike over pay - Guardian £60 million 'needed to train teachers in GCSE computer science' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities expand into technical provision as FE income doubles - Times Educational Supplement | TES New research casts doubt on impact of teacher peer observations - Schools Week A love of languages stops them becoming lost in translation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Taking ‘no man’s land’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government responds to Committees' report on Apprenticeships - Commons Select Committee Holyrood tax on private schools ‘will only make them more elitist’ - Times In turbulent times trust is crucial for universities - University World News Private pupils better placed to get help for special needs - Times Schools face strike action as teachers escalate pay dispute - Times Universities chief rejects call for vice-chancellor pay cuts - Times Apprenticeships: Government Response to the Second Joint Report of Session 2016–17 - UK Parliament Boys perform better in co-edducational schools - Daily Mail