News archive for 1st April 2018

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University World News - Global edition: week ending 01 April 2018 - University World News Migrant children allowed to 'opt out' of NAPLAN tests if their parents give them permission - Mail Education data shows the way - Guardian Vast majority of teachers considered quitting in past year – poll - Guardian How to study poorly - Learning Scientists Ofsted defends itself as teachers say attempts to ban hijab ‘racism dressed as liberalism' - Express Government to consider plans for ‘military schools’ - PoliticsHome Union calls for official limit on class size - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers accuse Ofsted boss Amanda Spielman of promoting Islamophobia over stance on hijabs in schools - Independent Hijab ban attempt is 'racism dressed up as liberalism', teachers' conference told - Guardian Teacher accuses academies of wasting public money on branded biscuits - Mail Academy trusts wasting money on 'astronomical salaries' and 'branded biscuits', conference told - Times Educational Supplement | TES University World News: Africa Edition - week ending 01 April 2018 - University World News Workload: damned if you do everything, damned if you try to manage your work-life balance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fix broken Apprenticeship Levy to deliver high-quality training - feCompare Business leaders give damning indictment of failing apprenticeship levy - feCompare SoS writes to Nicola Dandridge (OfS) delegating Prevent monitoring duty - DfE Induction for newly qualified teachers (NQTs) - DfE Thousands of special needs children paying for education funding crisis - Mail Impartiality is like parity of esteem, an unhelpful mirage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted meets Robocop in fully automated AI/VR Inspections. - Teacherhead The fat cat that got the educational cream - Guardian Teachers set to raise concerns over hijab comments by Ofsted chief - Mail Special needs cash shortfall 'leaves thousands of pupils unplaced' - BBC Thousands of children with special needs do not have school places amid crisis in education funding, union warns - Independent Don’t tell the class what you did at the weekend, children… because it might stigmatise poorer pupils - Mail Teaching workload `unsustainable´ as `eight in 10 teachers consider quitting' - Mail Defence contractors hand British universities £40m - Guardian Funding crisis leaves thousands of SEND children without school place, union claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEN teachers 'are headbutted, spat on and punched – sometimes every day' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Workload drives 81% of teachers to consider quitting, union survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Educationalist Lindsay Paterson says Scots university diversity plan ‘helps rich pupils’ - Times Teachers call for strike vote over pay - Times The Scheming Spires! Oxford tops its own record for the amount of students cheating - Mail Cuts blamed as number of SEND pupils without a school place soars by 137% - Schools Week