News archive for 31st October 2017

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Police urge parents to snoop on their children’s Snapchat profiles to prevent grooming - Telegraph Letters: Academy governors in derelection of duty - Guardian Minister tells small MATs: 'Team up to grow' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher asked girl about sexual experience via Facebook - Daily Mail Schools which gender discriminate should not be allowed to split in order to evade court ruling - Telegraph Sadiq Khan says Ofsted should judge schools on how effectively they root out knife crime - Evening Standard Ofsted to review approach to knife crime following pressure from Sadiq Khan - Schools Week Creationist state school ‘unfit to teach’, say secularists - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why fairy tales are horror stories we need to be more wary of in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three steps to keep pupils safe from harmful relationships online - Times Educational Supplement | TES £10m adult flexible learning fund launches - FE Week Best Evidence in Brief: the evidence on achievement gaps over time - contained but not closing - Institute for Effective Education Councils struggling to fulfil statutory duties to children, study finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Mum pulls four kids out of school after ‘teacher called her brain damaged son spazzy’ - The Sun Schools failing to discuss knife crime due to 'stigma' fears, says London mayor - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher struck off for ‘sexually motivated’ innuendo with pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Best Evidence in Brief: project-based learning - Institute for Effective Education Best Evidence in Brief: a review of the evidence on early language development - Institute for Effective Education APPG calls for Child Obesity Strategy rethink - Nursery World Spielman: 'Give Ofsted funding to monitor apprenticeship "cowboys"' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted boss worried about lack of subcontracting inspections - FE Week Study sheds light on power of old boy network - Sutton Trust Education reforms report only published after plans announced - Herald Scotland Scottish Government pays out £834m in financial support to students - Herald Scotland Best Evidence in Brief: new research on technology integration in the classroom - Institute for Effective Education Oxford academic claims Trump protest led to 'excommunication' - Guardian Wycombe High School Academies Trust to lead England’s first Mathematics and Physics SCITT - FE News UPP: Universities must strengthen links with local communities and businesses to stem graduate brain drain - HEPI Former pro vice-chancellor of Edge Hill University sentenced to five years for fraud - UCU Call for government to commit to early years strategy - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government to review higher-level technical education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted still not ready to scrap ‘outstanding’ grade - Schools Week Government to review higher-level technical education - FE Week Cuckoo Hall academy slammed for ‘stage, not age’ curriculum - Schools Week Ofsted wants legal power to inspect more alternative providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Level 4 & 5 technical education to be reviewed - FE News Year 4 maths homework: confusion over question aimed at eight-year-olds that doesn't have a simple answer - HuffPost Mother-of-four pulls her children out of school after 'teacher called her autistic and brain-damaged 10-year-old son 'spazzy'' - Mail Ofsted: serious incident notifications from local authority children’s services 2016 to 2017 - Ofsted Warning students about a lecture on assault does not make them snowflakes | Ian Burrows - Guardian Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET): January to June 2017 - Welsh Government Scrap student loan interest and extend payback time – UK 2020 Review - The Staffroom Councils don't have enough money to meet their statutory duties to children - Nursery World ‘No saving’ in closing famous Edinburgh music school - Scotsman The Post-16 Skills Plan may fall short of a coherent vision for education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chandeliers, cinema and 24/7 gym – student digs at up to £19k a year - Guardian Number of Scottish students studying medicine falls as lack of GPs - Scotsman University recreates face of one of Scotland’s most notorious witches - Scotsman Brexit witch-hunt against universities reveals the right’s paranoid thinking | Stefan Collini - Guardian Brexit witch-hunt against universities reveals the right’s paranoid thinking - Guardian The death of the conventional college - FE News Scotland's top universities urged to slash entry grades for poor students - Herald Scotland Letters: university graduates-only teaching ethos is academic snobbery - Herald Scotland Pupils from top public schools still dominate public life - Daily Mail Letters: university free speech society wants to vet guest's speech - Daily Mail University free speech society want to vet guest's speech - Mail Urgent rethink needed on NEETs and SEND learners - FE Week Don't make young people choose between academic and technical pathways, report tells government - Times Educational Supplement | TES Music school wins reprieve after ministers stave off cuts - Times Pearson says goodbye to English teaching business - Times Nine elite schools provide path to power - Times Independent advisory group report on skills challenges and post-16 education reform - Sector Response - FE News John Swinney sat on embarrassing schools report for months - Times Edge Hill University dean and secret lover jailed for fraud - Times