News archive for 26th September 2017

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Grenfell community rage over college sell-off - FE Week PFI discredited by cost, complexity and inflexibility - Financial Times Bristol University spends £1 million on 'well-being advisers' amid raft of measures to tackle students' mental health issues - Telegraph 'I was banned from teaching for helping my pupils cheat' - BBC 15-year-old Salford boy arrested on suspicion of attempted murder - Daily Mail Teacher who had sexual activity with former pupil at school banned for life - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fake exam certificate website shut down - BBC No ban for teacher who used school IT equipment for sex chat - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rhys Ifans made a passionate plea for more literature in Welsh schools - Wales Online Headteacher accused of grabbing pupil by the scruff of the neck and pushing him up some stairs - Wales Online Labour will pay teachers 'properly' says Angela Rayner - Schools Week Cardiff primary school has been put in special measures - Wales Online DfE placed on UK Statistics Authority watch list - Schools Week School run parking fears as man jailed for driving at a teacher - BBC Labour promises £500m to reverse Sure Start cuts - Nursery World Catch up with webinar on Skills Reviews - Unionlearn Angela Rayner: Full text of Labour Conference 2017 speech - Schools Week Rayner pledges £1bn for FE to deliver T-levels - FE Week Labour pledges £1 billion investment in FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Draft charter outlines 'principles' of Labour's National Education Service - Schools Week Angela Rayner outlines 10-point charter for National Education Service - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher training: the gap between school-led and university-led partnerships, and four other findings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour would reverse £500m of Sure Start cuts, says Angela Rayner - Guardian ‘Sugar daddy’ website targeting Belgian students faces legal fight - Guardian 10-year-old boy with rare disease to send robot to his classes - Scotsman Gay and Northern Irish: ‘Teachers called me sissy and compared me to a plague’ - Guardian University conferences at risk as academic speakers refused UK visas - Guardian Labour to unveil 'cradle-to-grave' education system - Mail Dear Ms Greening, why are you slavering over Chinese schools’ results? - Guardian Scientists push government to ban tackling and scrums in school rugby - Mail Call for schools to ban ‘harmful contact’ in rugby games - Scotsman Research schools: what are they and why do they exist? - Schools Week What do employers really want from an apprenticeship provider? - FE Week New academy trust pledges not to hire unqualified teachers - Schools Week Radical proposal considers £8,100 ‘living wage’ for all Scottish students - Herald Scotland The government must practice what they preach - it's time to educate school kids about apprenticeships - FE News Lewes student accused of rape is banned from classes - Mail Scotland: John Swinney ‘hushed up’ expert panel education summit - Times Chinese pupils too unfit and fat to set sporting records - Times Pupils sit two maths GCSEs to cheat tables - Times A third of schools are in the red - Times Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner: being pregnant at 16 ‘made me prove myself’ - Times Academics call for tackles and scrums to be banned from school rugby games - Independent A new date has been set for the introduction of Wales' radical new school curriculum - Wales Online