News archive for 14th April 2018

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Rates hike for private school nurseries ‘is discrimination’ - Scotsman Private schools' 'corporate greed' is pricing out middle-class families, former St Pauls' headmaster says  - Telegraph The Open University gave millions of Britons a second chance. Now it needs one itself | Will Hutton - Guardian Improving school partnership - UKEdChat Four in ten infants starting primary not ‘school ready’ in some areas - Teach First Year 5 class campaign against plastic straws reaches House of Commons - Schools Week The pace of change in the economy might be scary for our students, but if we get education right, there should be nothing to fear - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kenya: Nail artist to the stars helps children learn new skills - Evening Standard 'Teaching is a pastoral activity, and pastoral work is a function of teaching. They are indivisible' - Times Educational Supplement | TES CITB finds almost three quarters of Carillion apprentices new employers - FE Week Anne Longfield profile: ‘I would really love a dialogue with teachers about the issues they’re facing’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Arts can help children avoid a lifetime of gang crime, says $1m prize-winning teacher - Evening Standard Six ways to reduce exam stress for GCSE students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Long read: Is a 'simple' baseline test for four-year-olds about to bring the fight over primary assessment to a head? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How a spike in school exclusions could be fuelling knife crime in London - HuffPost Secret Teacher: my students know all about exams but little of the wider world - Guardian CEOs at tiny academy trusts paid more than big-chain bosses - Schools Week Schools can’t work miracles. But with a little help, parents can | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Scots colleges face £360m repair bill to lift campus standards - Scotsman Tories probe Chinese institutes in Scotland amid academic freedom fears - Herald Scotland Mind the gap: The best and worst gender-based pay at multi-academy trusts - Schools Week 3 ways in which government needs to help school governors - Schools Week Vice chancellor of the Open University quits after he accused lectures of getting away with 'not teaching' for decades - Mail Sathnam Sanghera: elitism, the Oxbridge access problem – and why I never felt I belonged at Cambridge - Times Cuts to music lessons may breach human rights, children’s commissioner for Scotland says - Times Lecturers end strike over pensions in time for finals - Times Peter Horrocks, head of Open University, quits amid anger at his plan for cuts to teaching - Times Funding council boss is paid £178,000 for defunct job - Times One in three reception children aren’t ‘school ready’, warns Teach First - Schools Week Scottish colleges need £360m for maintenance - Times