News archive for 11th November 2017

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We can't cope with deadlines, moan 'snowflake' students - Daily Mail Teacher suspended for praising pupil using wrong gender - Daily Mail School ‘happy to explain’ to man furious his stepdaughter was asked to write about converting to Islam - Independent The decline of the gradable adverb: 'quite', 'rather' and 'fairly' are becoming a relic of the past - Telegraph Lib Dems back gender neutral uniforms in Scottish schools - Scotsman Government allows faith school to split in two to avoid gender segregation law - Independent Why Jessica quit teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES UTC makes impressive turnaround – then ditches the brand - FE Week The importance of music and singing in early development cannot be underestimated - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mum forced to keep daughter out of school 'as she can't be in two places at once' could now be prosecuted - Mirror Government has 68 days to stop universal credit roll-out ‘poisoning’ January school census - Schools Week News and views > Blogs 1 Ofsted's KS3 criticism misses the point - AoC | Association of Colleges Apprentice travel discounts yet to manifest - FE Week I Hated PE At School - Let's Change The Story For Girls - HuffPost Teachers should teach the great books, not just functional literacy' - Times Educational Supplement | TES A revolution is occurring in teaching methodology - The Spectator 'Open the doors and let these books in' - what would a truly diverse reading list look like? - Guardian Teachers need to end their bunkered solitude and collaborate' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secret Teacher: I don't have the equipment and resources to do my job - Guardian Eton College head: our young men need to be more gender-intelligent - Guardian ‘Hidden’ poverty means rural schools miss out on funding - Scotsman How teachers can help minority students get into Oxford - Schools Week Former education secretary launches programme for pupils in care - Schools Week State schools scrum down with rugby to tackle classroom rucks - Herald Scotland Adopted children twenty times more likely to be excluded - Times Educational Supplement | TES School exclusion 'the ultimate rejection' for adopted kids - BBC