News archive for 22nd September 2017

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Schools should not be afraid to promote British values, says Ofsted head - Guardian Revealed: how to get the DfE Institutes of Technology kite-mark - FE Week An Oxford student's advice how to get into the prestigious university - Wales Online Letters: less well-off students gain by applying to university after A-level results - Guardian British headmistress killed in the Amazon - Daily Mail Travellers pitch up at University of Cambridge - Mail Top civil servant announced as new apprenticeships boss - FE Week Over half of parents fear the rising cost of state school education - Mail New RoATP window opens on Monday - FE Week 'Episode four of Educating Greater Manchester reminded us that school staff are vital beacons of consistency' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Educating Greater Manchester school can’t convert to academy status due to historic £3m debt - Schools Week Cardiff teacher faces being banned from the classroom - Mail Ofsted to put 'more emphasis' on leadership to avoid punishing toughest schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney: New national assessments 'will not lead to league tables' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental Health training for reps across the South West - Unionlearn Plymouth CAST given financial notice to improve - Times Educational Supplement | TES You are your looks: that’s what society tells girls. No wonder they’re depressed - Guardian 15-year-old Lancing schoolgirl sent home for wearing too much make-up - Mail Developmental Language Disorder: the most common childhood condition you've never heard of - Guardian Most teachers pay for school resources themselves - Nursery World Four in 10 parents 'asked to give to school funds' - BBC UNICEF urges governments to invest in early childhood - Nursery World 10-year-old Dromore girl dies after collapsing at school - Mail Richmond school bans London trips after terror attacks - Mail USA: 'junk science' - experts cast doubt on widely cited college free speech survey - Guardian Francine Prose: shame on Harvard for welcoming Sean Spicer – but spurning Chelsea Manning - Guardian Glasgow named Scottish university of the year - Scotsman DfE won't answer on massaged transfer figures - Schools Week Opening ceremony held at Bath College to celebrate new Somer Construction Centre - FE News ESFA breaks its promise to audit untested providers - FE Week Ofqual considers special treatment for new AOs - FE Week Researchers hit out at controversial Laker and Hill headteacher study - Schools Week New DfE 'delivery managers' to visit schools and identify problems - Schools Week Massive £1bn FE loans underspend revealed - FE Week Can a school legally send a child home for wearing the wrong uniform? - Wales Online FE loans are broken - so what’s the fix? - FE Week Australian MP's fury over school 'do it in a dress' fundraiser helps raise $200,000 - Guardian Vice-chancellors may be winning big from tuition fees – but academics aren't - Guardian How my school takes the stress off teachers - Guardian 10 key findings from today's governors survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are spending hundreds of pounds a year on classroom supplies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Now schools are asking parents to pay for toilet paper - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students in Wales taking out loans to afford 'luxury' flats - BBC Executive heads can vote multiple times in headteacher board election loophole - Schools Week Top Newham sixth form kicks pupils out half-way through A-levels - Schools Week Dangerous acts and dogs’ breakfasts - Wonkhe Governor survey reveals how funding squeeze is hitting education in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers threaten councils with boycott over "blanket" testing plans - Herald Scotland John Swinney rules out national collection of detailed pupil test data - Herald Scotland School league table fears quashed as Swinney rules out collecting exam data - Herald Scotland Teachers threaten councils with boycott over 'blanket' testing plans - Herald Scotland Literacy strongest predictor of science grades - Schools Week Super-strict Great Yarmouth Charter Academy loses 20 pupils in two weeks - Times Lancashire schools serving non-stunned halal meat pupils - Times Scotland: Pupils switch to private schools over subject limits - Times Dyson’s new IoT designed to hoover up young engineers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hidden disorder hinders speech of 860,000 children - Times