News archive for 18th April 2018

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Manchester 'snack' teenager explains his viral head boy campaign video - BBC These loving mums both have sons with special needs. So why do they argue it's time to end the well-meant policy of sending them to mainstream schools? - Mail Middle school students should start school later, study claims - Mail How clever do you think you are? Test yourself with these 14 GCSE questions - The Sun Find out what’s new about the National Apprenticeship Awards 2018 – now open for entries - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ministers under fire as student loan interest hits 6.3% - Guardian Syria: The teachers of Idlib on the impossible struggle to educate their students - Guardian British girl wins gold medal in international maths competition - Guardian Fitness trackers are damaging youngsters’ mental health, leading headmaster warns - Telegraph Inclusion in education works. We must respect it | Letters - Guardian Students hit with ‘eyewatering’ loan interest of 6.3% - Times Want to teach facts? A robot could do it better, says this academic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Philip Hammond: Government 'always expected' apprenticeship starts to fall - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher training: 'We are witnessing a dangerous lowering of the bar to entry' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE's top official calls for 'more rounded' way of judging UTCs - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA update: April 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies budget forecast return - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies accounts return - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 18 traineeships and adult education budget growth requests - Education & Skills Funding Agency Help for nursing students affected by loan overpayments - DfE Learning Mandarin will give children ‘significant’ career boost - PIE News LSE pay students over “mould and mice” - PIE News Students warned of rise in maximum interest rates on loans - Mail Cuts to school support services make children more vulnerable to gang violence, world’s best teacher Andria Zafirakou says - Independent Students with ADHD are more likely to come from disadvantaged communities - SecEd The great training robbery: assessing the first year of the apprenticeship levy - ERSA Daily roundup 18 April: Solitary confinement, selfies, and data breach - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Hull College Group staff vote to strike over job cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges need to spell out how they make money, says senior ESFA official - Times Educational Supplement | TES Neil Carberry to leave Confederation of British Industry (CBI) - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils must sit Sats, headteachers are told - Times Educational Supplement | TES I'm worried about the growth mindsets of the growth mindset gurus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Be ‘bold and courageous’ with your curriculum, Ofsted urges - SecEd Why do some students shun school meals at lunchtimes? - SecEd Schools targeting older teachers for capability in a bid to avoid higher salary costs - SecEd Trade unions call for action on mental health – for pupils and staff - SecEd Teachers urged not to fall foul of new data regulations - SecEd Education support charity reports sharp rise in calls about stress - SecEd Share a Pencil Day - SecEd Project Quantum aims to cut workload - SecEd Early cooking skills strongly predict future nutritional well-being - UKEdChat Evidence-based education: expectations, barriers and pitfalls - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Can practicing retrieval help future learning? - Learning Scientists Is your school https compliant? - UKEdChat 'Intensive but fun': all you need to know about studying architecture - Guardian Education committee to hold SEND inquiry - Schools Week Hull College Group UCU members overwhelmingly back strike action over job cuts - UCU Religiously engaged adolescents demonstrate habits that help them get better grades - UKEdChat Hull College staff 'overwhelmingly' vote to strike over 200 job cuts - FE Week Governors quit free school where no pupils did GCSEs - BBC Arts risk becoming the preserve of the elite once again - Telegraph Five ways artificial intelligence will shape the future of universities - The Conversation Special educational needs and disabilities inquiry launched - Commons Select Committee Is it time to get rid of head girls and boys? - Guardian Student loans interest rate to rise in line with inflation - BBC New ways to win at the 15th National Apprenticeship Awards - FE Week Early years group calls for smacking ban - Nursery World Teachers won’t forget the botched attempt to create a “hostile environment” in our schools - New Statesman Ofqual won’t regulate private teacher-examiner numbers despite cheating scandal - Schools Week ‘Rising Star’ among new award categories as National Apprenticeship Awards 2018 open for entries - FE News Test anxiety can be debilitating. But schools can help students manage it - Guardian 5 ways to handle troubled students - The Educator Undertaking End Point Assessment - new supported open learning programme - FE News Graduates urged to see HR in a new light - Scotsman Waive teachers' tuition fees, say chartered college and training providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES How schools can help transgender pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Skills Show rebrands as WorldSkills UK LIVE - FE Week Academy trusts need to change as they expand, research finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL survey shows inconsistency in school inspections - ASCL LEO and its limitations for learners - Wonkhe Universities can now be a model of capable change - Wonkhe Encouraging reading - Teacher Toolkit Oxford students are forced to cancel cannabis-themed party after being accused of cultural appropriation - Mail Apprenticeship schemes provide stability in uncertain times - FE News Apprenticeship schemes to provide stability in uncertain times - FE News USA: A Silicon Valley coding school — with no teachers - Financial Times How the levy has affected employers - FE News Poorest pupils face postcode lottery over exam results - Herald Scotland Analysis: There is clear evidence growing up in poverty undermines attainment - Herald Scotland #Metoo in China: fledgling movement in universities fights censorship - Guardian Grammar school replaces its head boy and girl in favour of gender-neutral terms to 'ensure stereotypes disappear' - Mail Majority of millennials stay in same career as they fear starting from scratch, survey suggests - Independent Ofqual responds to Education Committee hearing re regulation of qualifications and assessments - Ofqual OfS responds to questions from the Education Committee hearing re value for money in HE - Office for Students Can you really revise while chatting online? - BBC Nine ways in which expanding academy trusts have to change to succeed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Citizenship education in a 'parlous state' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted inspectors accused of creating 'unnecessary workload' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head boys and girls outdated, says Guernsey Grammar School - Times Mansfield College, Oxford forced to cancel cannabis-themed party - Times ‘Midlife crisis’ teacher, 54, cleared of sex with pupil - Times We must teach children the skills for tech jobs that don’t exist yet - Times Scotland: Parents have their say on music cuts - Times Scotland: SNP under attack over school library fund swamped by applications - Times Ireland: Schools wait years to get new buildings - Times Academy trusts must pause as they grow or ‘risk school improvement’ - Schools Week