News archive for 9th October 2017

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New questions about ADHD: Youngest children in school are being labelled with the disorder but expert warns about risk of misdiagnosis and claims they could just be immature - Mail Audit lays bare racial disparities in UK schools, courts and workplaces - Guardian Weekly Digest #80: Resources for teaching about racism and bias (part 2) - Learning Scientists Schools invited to bid for £50,000 University research fund - Leeds Beckett University To degree or not to degree? - Villiers Park Educational Trust Plans launched to drive social mobility in Opportunity Areas - The Staffroom Free online courses from UCAS to help students, parents, and teachers make big decisions - UCAS Education Secretary opens new high speed rail college - DfE North West top apprentices and apprentice employers announced - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework - DfE Plans launched to drive social mobility in Opportunity Areas - DfE 'Today, I attend my first lectures at Oxford': Inspirational Malala Yousafzai beats the Taliban who tried to kill her by starting university - Mail Schools must provide a ‘moral compass’ for young girls - GSA Degree apprenticeship revolution shouldn’t be frustrated by one size fits all approach - MillionPlus Universities, place and the industrial strategy - Universities UK NCTL Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (October 2017) - UCET Path to success – your future - Russell Group Bursaries not the answer to recruitment and retention in Scotland's schools - Voice Putting an end to period poverty - ATL How can digital library systems help teachers support children’s reading for pleasure? - IOE London Blog Less than one in four children received the mental health help they needed last year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ucas launches Moocs to boost careers advice in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tender delay with single awarding organisation plan for prisons - FE Week Anger as Oxford college bans Christian group from freshers' fair - Guardian Ex-learner guilty of rape at college criticised for safeguarding - FE Week Theresa May visited a school which will lose £359K and six teachers in Tory funding cuts - Mirror Academic gap between independent and state primaries narrows as fees rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Name change for England’s TEF reflects ‘student outcomes’ shift - Times Higher Education | THE Social-media 'evangelist' named school librarian of the year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching apprenticeship rumoured to launch this week - Schools Week How schools can help close the skills gap - Training Journal MPs to debate 30-hour funding - Nursery World DfE unveils 'opportunity area' plans - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily Roundup 9 October: Child-on-child abuse, unaccompanied children, and online hate crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Astrea and Outwood Grange in the running to take over Wakefield City Academies Trust schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is pushing the cadets really in pupils’ best interests? - Schools Week Universities must prioritise students over their research interests, new regulator says - Telegraph Colleges should embrace blended learning - FE Week Opportunity area plans – what do schools need to know? - Schools Week Student fees frozen and repayment threshold raised to £25K confirmed by government - Mirror Institute for Apprenticeships launches new website - FE News Theresa May is right to review tuition fees - but she must not cave to populist pressure  - Telegraph Education Secretary launches plans to raise education standards - FE News Scotland recruitment crisis: Cash offer to workers to become teachers - Express What prompts parents to get their child a maths tutor? - Telegraph How do I choose the right 11-plus tutor? - Telegraph Tutor of the future: Scientists develop algorithm to match pupils with tutors using artificial intelligence - Telegraph How to choose the right tutor for your child - Telegraph Huge rise in alleged sexual assaults by under-18s - Times Educational Supplement | TES University says ‘arrivederci’ to joint honours degrees in Italian - Herald Scotland Exclusions, early years, skills: Opportunity areas reveal their priorities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lewisham Southwark College’s Cinderella story - FE Week All aboard the ‘Skills Revolution’! (Even you, Mr Gibb) - Schools Week Global: Teachers are nation-builders. Developing countries must invest in them properly - Guardian Social mobility and opportunity areas - DfE The deep roots of University reputation - Wonkhe “Frugality” won’t solve systemic student finance problems - Wonkhe Leader comment: Cash incentive is just a start to fixing teacher crisis - Scotsman Scots workers to be offered £20,000 to retrain as STEM teachers - Scotsman Brexit brain drain is happening in Scotland now, says minister - Scotsman DfE tightens grip on curriculum with new policy jobs - Schools Week Schools open 3-year sixth forms to boost pupil numbers - Schools Week ‘Traineeships’ is jargon: talk about careers advice - FE Week Subjects other than English and Maths barely feature in Ofsted reports - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex offences by children in UK rise 71% in just four years - Mail Pornography to blame for child on child sex assault claims doubling, charity declares - Express Making waves: The urban schoolboy sailors - BBC Reported child-on-child sex offences 'tip of the iceberg' - BBC Greening reveals projects in first 6 ‘opportunity areas’ - Schools Week 'My daughter had to share a classroom with her rapist' - BBC Universities urged to block essay-mill sites in plagiarism crackdown - Guardian Headteacher board elections: What you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprentices profit from paid degree courses - Times Trainees’ levy used to fund top executives - Times Toughen up on essay cheats, universities told - Times Huge rise in sex abuse by children - Times The diary of a new teacher (aged 50ish) - Times Scotland: SNP Conference: £20,000 for graduates to train as teachers - Times Ofstedwatch: the latest Ofsted reports for FE and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Essay cheat firms face university ban - BBC