News archive for 2nd September 2017

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Exam cheating scandal: how a lovestruck pupil's boast sparked investigation - Telegraph Bernard Trafford: the thirst for top league table positions has more to do with heads' egos than the best interest of schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers ‘£5,000 a year worse off under Tories’ - Guardian More than a million schoolchildren in Britain don't speak English as their first language - Express Year 11 exam results 2017: Rise in entries getting A/7 or higher - Independent Schools Council | ISC A-level places dispute pupils to return to their school - BBC Are girls under-represented in the boardroom for precisely the same reasons that they perform so well at school? - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 20,000 sixth-formers leave school before finishing A-levels - Guardian St Olave's u-turn on pupil exclusions - Schools Week Private special schools ‘threatened’ by business rates proposal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Joe Nutt: school leaders don’t have the skill or the budget to effectively performance manage teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secret Teacher: I loved my last class. Will this year's students step up? - Guardian Suicide is at record level among students at UK universities, study finds - Guardian Top independent schools for GCSE results: How did your school rank? - Telegraph Media studies exam specification delays leave schools in the dark - Schools Week Schools could use policy loophole to sell off playing fields to make way for nurseries - Mail Guy Evans: how many teachers at top schools are cheating their way to better exam results? - Mail Academics face big rise in their pension payments - Financial Times Equal pay for teachers ‘still not affordable’ - Times Music school headmaster urges hotel group to drop rival scheme - Times Q&A re offer to help working payments with nursery fees - Times Tweets on academic papers ‘mechanical and devoid of original thought’ - Times Higher Education | THE Pension contributions set to rise as USS deficit hits £5 billion - Times Higher Education | THE Scots language 'helps pupils in English exams' - Herald Scotland