News archive for 17th April 2018

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Emoji 'ruining people's grasp of English' because young rely on them to communicate - Telegraph Excluded children and parents should be protected by ‘bill of rights’, say experts - Independent A right to tuition fees compensation | Letters - Guardian Teacher who called herself ‘the slut’ and romped with teen pupil sobs as she is cleared by jury - The Sun Devastated mum secretly records teachers bullying her severely autistic boy, 12 - The Sun Teacher housing and private developers: Five things we learned about new school sites today - Times Educational Supplement | TES School workforce census 2018: business and technical specification - DfE Universities receive £480,000 to tackle religion-based hate crime and harassment - Office for Students PRUs closing and 'bursting at the seams' amid rising exclusion rates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar school axes head boy and head girl roles and replaces them with gender neutral positions - Telegraph 10 ways to help students with anxiety - Teacher Toolkit The comprehensive and free university - HEPI Iran: Treatment of trade unionist on hunger strike condemned - NASUWT Staff protest at Coventry University over 'sham union' dirty tricks - UCU Maths anxiety, working memory and self-concept - Institute for Effective Education How powerful is your evidence? - Institute for Effective Education Correspondence from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Children and Families (28 March 2018) - download - UK Parliament Colleges asking for help before they run into trouble, says deputy FE commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education, not income, the best predictor of a long life - UKEdChat Lack of sleep leads to obesity in children and adolescents - UKEdChat Best Evidence in Brief: Issue #160 - 17 April 2018 - Best Evidence in Brief Destination or dead end? - Teacher Development Trust | TDT SET launches new modern identity to better reflect the career, community and professional practice of its members - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Difficult questions about some schools’ Key Stage 2 results - Education Datalab Correspondence from the Chair of Office for Students (5 April 2018) - download - UK Parliament Correspondence from the Ofqual Chief Regulator regarding examinations (10 April 2018) - download - UK Parliament Food, fraud and going abroad: What’s on Ofsted’s £1m credit card bill? - Schools Week Science clubs may boost socially disadvantaged pupils’ scientific aspirations - Institute for Effective Education Two behaviours linked to dropout rates in high school - Institute for Effective Education Potentially positive effects for counselling before college - Institute for Effective Education Progress 8 could be undermined by rogue primary test scores - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher cleared of having sex with pupil 35 years her junior - Times Educational Supplement | TES Alliance launches provider costs calculator as alternative to DfE template - Nursery World A troubled school focused on helping pupils cope with their problems - and the results flowed - Wales Online AoC Sport National Championships kicking off for their 40th year - FE Week Future of Workers’ Educational Association threatened by devolution - FE Week Dorset pupil referral units are turning away excluded pupils - Schools Week Zero tolerance 'unreasonable' for SEND pupils, MPs told - Times Educational Supplement | TES 2,000 people call for DfE to honour pledge on early years teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Benefits system stops poor youngsters taking up apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending watchdog launches inquiry into academy conversions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools to share in over £90m to help disadvantaged learners - Welsh Government Schools will close without more money for ageing buildings, DfE warned - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE property company considers onsite housing for teachers - Schools Week How school expulsions could be fuelling the rise in youth violence - The Conversation Kids Planet and Happy Days add nurseries - Nursery World Bitter war of words intensifies between AELP and IfA - FE Week The Society for Education and Training launches new modern identity to better reflect the career, community and professional practice of its members - FE News DfE to consult on home schooling and out-of-school settings - Nursery World Trainee barristers could lose marks in exams for wearing short skirts or 'kinky boots' - Independent Alternative education provision and apprenticeships examined - UK Parliament Unregistered schools management information - Ofsted Using Ofsted’s inspection data summary report (IDSR): 16 to 19 - Ofsted ‘Bill of rights’ for excluded pupils must not be tick-box exercise - Schools Week The taste of Mandarin is sweeter when the teaching methods are informed by research - IOE London Blog Industry should co-fund the National Retraining Scheme, say Lords - Times Educational Supplement | TES Difficult questions about some schools’ Key Stage 2 results - Education Datalab Reviews of marking and moderation (previously known as enquiries about results) for GCSE, AS and A level - Ofqual Management information on unregistered schools in England, from 1 January 2016 onwards - Ofsted Teachers walk out in a strike over the way their school is managed - Wales Online School children quiz Nasa astronaut - BBC Apprenticeship scheme should be scrapped and replaced with a ‘lifelong learning levy’, says former schools minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES A Comprehensive University system? Why is the selection debate only focused on schools? - Montrose42 Colleges woo students with promise they won't have to take unpopular Welsh Bacc - Wales Online 9:35 a.m. Education Committee examines alternative provision and apprenticeships and skills training - Commons Select Committee Teachers to strike at Monmouthshire school - NASUWT Communicating the university-to-work transition to students - Wonkhe Death by no higher education - Wonkhe Robert Halfon: ‘The Tory party should change its name to the Workers’ party’ - Guardian Who can blame parents for boycotting Sats? | Laura McInerney - Guardian Bound to succeed – getting youngsters and employers outdoors together - Scotsman Oxford and Cambridge: will elite universities go private and raise fees? - Guardian Leading employers are recognising how management apprenticeships drive growth - FE News The impact of the levy on apprenticeship quality - FE News Why we need to promote learning for democracy - FE News School library fund 'not enough' to cover cuts - Herald Scotland CITB shedding 800 jobs as it pulls out of direct training - FE Week Almost a third of pupils missed out on their first choice of primary school in some areas - The Sun Pupils with ADHD 'failed' by Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teach pupils how to be healthy parents, say experts - Times Parents claim divorce to win school places - Times Lack of sleep blamed for child obesity - Times Law students will have points docked for short skirts - Times Police warn parents over app used to hide photos - Times France: Macron risks repeat of ’68 as university is barricaded - Times Scotland: Pupils urge their school chaplain to quit in row over gay marriage - Times Scotland: Diagnosis of ADHD in children is inconsistent - Times Children could get lessons in how to spot fake news in a bid to combat interference in elections - Mirror