News archive for 3rd April 2018

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Behaviour balance: Assertive teachers; supportive system - Teacherhead Early years children learn by playing | Letters - Guardian Ofqual pledges to do more to make exam grades reflect changes in pupil performance - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA marks its 1st birthday - Sector Response - FE News Labour asking for views on its National Education Service - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual to probe into malpractice among providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister admits the £26m ‘funding boost’ for breakfast clubs is not new money - Nursery World Teachers vote in favour of opposing the new Baseline - Nursery World Maintained schools and academies: inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2017 - Ofsted Kenya: Academic excellence in the face of adversity in Nairobi - Education Development Trust | EDT What will 5G mean for your campus? - Jisc British school group taken ill with 'gastro virus' on US trip - Guardian Daily roundup 3 April: Saturday jobs, school improvements, and shooting death - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Putting peer review to the test - Education Development Trust | EDT The gender pay gap in academy trusts - Education Datalab Further education's forgotten army - Education & Training Foundation | ETF National Apprenticeship Week: why more young women should consider a STEM apprenticeship - feCompare Grammar school entry test sat by thousands of pupils is 'unfair' on summer-born children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ability grouping in schools and equity - Montrose42 Students, sleep and disposable sheets - Wonkhe The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be - Wonkhe Union plans to scupper national tests for 4-year-olds - The Educator Paddy McGuinness tells parents of autistic children: 'Don't give up hope on holidays' - BBC The Portfolio - Under the bonnet of end-point assessment - FE News UK's highest paid university vice-chancellor claimed dozens of first class travel tickets on expenses - Independent NIck Gibb responds to question re the efficacy of the Now Teach training programme - Parliament University principal defends gender pay gap by claiming that women have a 'natural tendency' not to put themselves up for promotion - Telegraph Rural schools 'should have protected status' - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC to launch Brexit blueprint - Times Educational Supplement | TES Glasgow University principal given honorary membership of Inter Milan FC - Herald Scotland Parents will not forgive funding cuts, teaching union leader warns - Guardian Teachers prepare to strike in protest at 'immoral' exams for four-year-olds - Telegraph New evidence on effective maths teaching - Institute for Effective Education School funding campaign ‘is not over’, says defiant union leader - Schools Week The gender pay gap in academy trusts - Education Datalab Why do so few low and middle-income children attend a grammar school? - Institute for Effective Education Five ways digital tools can support family interactions - Institute for Effective Education Are growth mindsets important to academic achievement? - Institute for Effective Education US research: how ESSA supports social and emotional learning - Institute for Effective Education Dundee University removes Fixed Odds Betting Terminals - Scotsman Kevin Courtney speech to NUT conference – the full text - Schools Week Pay teachers more or face a recruitment 'catastrophe', ministers warned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Losing your first language? Here’s how to rediscover your voice | Monika Schmid - Guardian Government has broken its pledge on early years teaching, says charity - Times Educational Supplement | TES How teachers plan to 'smash' primary testing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huge drop in local authority spending on children's services - Nursery World Summer-born pupils disadvantaged by ‘unfair’ 11-plus test, adjudicator rules - Schools Week College branded ‘unsafe’ in damning Ofsted report - FE Week Academies: information for new openers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Inspecting registered early years providers: guidance for inspectors - Ofsted Inspecting learning and skills training for people in custody - Ofsted Introducing the university course that teaches you how to form your own record label - Wales Online Alternatives to attending college after high school - The Educator Ofsted raise health and safety concerns at 'inadequate' college - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rab Butler revolutionised education in 1944. Let’s do it again | Tim Brighouse - Guardian Bullied, bereaved and poor – would I have succeeded today? - Guardian How babies learn – and why robots can’t compete - Guardian Dear Damian Hinds, so employers value rote learning? Excuse my bitter laugh | Michael Rosen - Guardian Teachers have sounded the alarm – it’s time to listen | Dawn Foster - Guardian ‘Omerta’ code hides private school abuse in Scotland, says author - Scotsman Achieving then failing in primary school is a sign of future teenage depression - Independent Universities 'more concerned about reputation than racism' - BBC Need to know: Your essential Easter teaching conference catch-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Debate: Are we over-focusing on STEM at the expense of creative skills? - City AM Rushing plans to give headteachers more power "could be disastrous" - Herald Scotland Teachers attack plans to extend the official retirement age to 68 and say they should be getting their pensions at 60 - Mail India's 'cheating mafia' gets to work as school exam season hits - Guardian Children are so hooked on iPads and smartphones that they are trying to swipe when given books to read - Mail Labour launches National Education Service consultation - Schools Week Spending on children and young people's services down by £1 billion, says Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES It’s shameful how schools dismiss the arts, says best teacher in world Andria Zafirakou - Times Union demands boycott of tests for four-year-olds - Times Children guilty of headbutting and spitting - Times Infant pupils try to swipe left when they turn a page - Times Students who oversleep are not just lazy - Times Scotland: Widespread failures led to collapse of Edinburgh primary school wall - Times Ireland: Schools will teach pupils meaning of sex consent - Times Ireland: Teachers are ready to strike if new staff don’t get equal pay - Times Teachers ‘headbutted, spat at and have eyes gouged by kids as young as four’ - The Sun