News archive for 24th September 2017

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Headmistress stops calling pupils ‘girls’ in bid to improve gender inclusivity - Express Ban mobile internet to keep children off smartphones at school, leading headmistress says - Telegraph Teachers told to stop stressing about split infinitives, as study finds they are now part of everyday language - Telegraph Angela Rayner: I want to change the way grammar schools work - Schools Week GCSE student's furious rant about schools win a standing ovation at Labour conference - Mirror When it comes to transparency over academies, the DfE just doesn't get it - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gown monopoly sees students pay more for graduation outfits - Mail The day nine young students shattered racial segregation in US schools - Guardian John McDonnell says Labour will work with Tories to slash tuition fees – and vows to wipe off £10bn of student debt - The Sun Head of London girls' school does not call pupils 'girls' - Mail University World News - Africa edition: week ending 24 September 2017 - University World News University World News - Global edition: week ending 24 September 2017 - University World News Why teaching classic literature too early is a 'recipe for ruining great books' for children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Girls as young as four being 'forced' into wearing hijabs at state-funded Islamic schools - Mail Labour offer to join forces with the Tories to deal with student debt - Mirror Why job satisfaction matters - JohnTomsett TES: we're putting education at the heart of the political party conferences - Times Educational Supplement | TES Andrew Otty: 'mocksted' consultants sell a message of fear and play on insecurities - Times Educational Supplement | TES INVESTIGATION: Did schools reinvest their money from playing field sales? - Schools Week Why are so many college mergers falling apart? - FE Week Private school in rare move to re-brand as ‘grammar school’ - Schools Week Independence row dogs Edinburgh Uni’s incoming principal - Scotsman Glasgow University sets up study to chart any links to slavery - Scotsman Thousands of St Paul’s alumni quizzed on sex abuse - Mail What next for England’s troubled universities? - Guardian Good University Guide 2018: St Andrews walks tall among peers in uni awards - Times Letters: folly to neglect funding for creative degrees - Times Good University Guide 2018: graduates targeted for donations by alma mater - Times Good University Guide 2018: Dyson aims to sweep up brightest young engineers - Times Good University Guide: University of the Year 2018 - Times Ireland: Scientologists target schoolchildren - Times Good University Guide 2018: Jo Johnson on why the private sector will be expanding - Times Amanda Foreman: public schools shun classic novels - Times Results of the 2017 Nursery World Awards - Nursery World 20 years of the Good University Guide - Times Good University Guide 2018: methodology - Times Scotland: six-year-olds taught about knife crime dangers - Express