News archive for 9th September 2017

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Theresa May 'looking to ease student debt burden' - Guardian Government faces pressure to reduce 'outrageous' 6% interest rate on student loans - Mail Ofsted boss "tears her hair out" over schools that still grade individual lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers who resist teaching phonics are failing students, minister warns - Telegraph Ofsted's Spielman examines book scrutiny in inspections - Schools Week Cambridge University set to scrap written exams because students' handwriting is so bad - Independent Soaring numbers of students are seeking help from mental health services at Welsh universities - Wales Online Why, more surely than ever, I think it is essential for school leaders to teach - JohnTomsett Teaching basics: checking for recall and understanding.  - Teacherhead Thinktank calls for retention rewards for new teachers to end "bursary tourism" - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nick Gibb: Arts are excluded from EBacc so pupils can "specialise in different things" - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister slams academics who won’t engage with researchED - Schools Week Cambridge considers typed exams as handwriting worsens - Guardian Nuneaton pupil 'seconds away' from Columbine-style massacre after taking shotgun and cartridges into school - Mail IfA chair: ‘We need to make sure that everybody is benefiting from apprenticeships’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge academic: let students sit exams with iPads and laptops - Mail Failing Wakefield City Academies Trust to pull out of 21 schools - Guardian Secret Teacher: becoming a parent has changed me as an educator - Guardian Cambridge University Press headed for showdown with China over censorship - Guardian Scotland: leader comment - schools report card; must do better - Scotsman All schools should make cash out of their land, says former 'superhead' in funding row - Evening Standard USA: Obama surprises students with visit to DC school - Mail Thousands of Texas students displaced as schools assess storm damage - Mail Europe’s academies ask: are we in a ‘post-truth’ world? - Times Higher Education | THE Call for clarity over Student Loans Company problems - BBC Sharp rise in exclusions from classes - Times Take away our schools, says failing Wakefield Cities Academies trust - Times Call for pupils to have full access to counselling services - Herald Scotland