News archive for 29th October 2017

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Weekly Digest: memory and emotion - Learning Scientists Careers education must be about more than work experience, says former UCAS head - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: jazz star Tommy Smith furious over plans to close music school Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/jazz-star-tommy-smith-furious-over-plans-to-close-music-school-1-4599673 - Scotsman Be wary of dropping grade boundaries in new maths GCSEs warns NCETM - Schools Week University World News - Africa edition: week ending 29 October 2017 - University World News University World News - Global edition: week ending 29 October 2017 - University World News Dig is directed at Sarwar over private schools and family firm - Herald Scotland One in five students doesn’t progress straight to year two - Times Higher Education | THE How universities can cultivate creativity in their students - Times Higher Education | THE The big issue: Oxbridge only has itself to blame for its lack of diversity - Guardian Nish Kumar: so it’s Shakespeare out and Shaggy in at Cambridge? - Guardian Letters: we must inspire the next generation of engineers - Times Scotland: historian Sir Tom Devine urges Scots to cherish teachers - Times Ruth Davidson: Brexit or not, university education has no borders - Times Chris Bickerton: my fellow dons tolerated us leavers - until we won - Times Michael Morpurgo on the importance of teachers and the Pearson Teaching Awards - Times