News archive for 23rd April 2018

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Brighton parents took children out school to sail around the world - Mail Another studio school set to close following pupil recruitment difficulties - Times Educational Supplement | TES England held back by rote-learning, warns Pisa boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Being a headteacher isn't one big job, it’s a million small jobs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teach bushcraft skills to boost grades of poorest pupils, say Scouts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding crisis forces headteacher to become school caretaker - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Robots will never be able to teach English literature' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four books to get primary pupils thinking - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'The baseline must be drawn here – this far, no further' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Quick Q&A: How to help pupils close the vocabulary gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers and pupils let down as mental health 'crisis' grips schools, poll shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Education needs fairer funding, not new institutions' - Times Educational Supplement | TES US teachers are angry – and they're running for office - BBC Black people in UK 21 times more likely to have university applications investigated, figures show - Independent Students are suing universities over lost teaching time due to strikes - Wales Online 'Winter has come for FE industrial relations – national pay bargaining mechanisms are failing' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extreme haircut ban school cuts staff - BBC 'College sport is about more than competition' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Isle of Wight Studio School to close in 2019 - Schools Week Isle of Wight studio school on the brink of closure - FE Week Ensure students have the money to live - Times Higher Education | THE The benefits of online learning - Education & Training Foundation What teachers tapped last week #30 – 23 April 2018 - Teacher Tapp New campaign urges employers to support local school governance and develop their staff - Education and Employers Data protection: toolkit for schools - DfE Local area SEND inspections: information for families - Ofsted Five myths about the NSS - Office for Students UCAS' statement on its verification service - UCAS Government to boost support for children of alcoholics - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Safeguarding in out-of-school education settings - NAHT Join our secondary council - NAHT NFER announces appointment of new Chief Social Scientist - NFER What we learnt at the HEPI University Partners’ Policy Briefing Day 2018 - HEPI Time for reform of the apprenticeship levy? - NFER SATs ready revision tips for teachers and children - Teacher Toolkit Employers left confused by new GCSE grades - The Educator 5 fantastic tips for educators on managing workload - The Educator Principal departs from cash-strapped Barnfield College - FE Week Helping everyone get the most out of degree apprenticeships - Wonkhe Kirsty Williams outlines ‘mixed economy’ education vision - Welsh Government Neuroscience is unlocking mysteries of the teenage brain - The Conversation Survey looks at the impact of work on early years practitioners' mental health - Nursery World Students should receive minimum living income to overcome poverty, says report - Independent Parents 'forced' to send girls to £10k school because they could not get offers near home - Evening Standard Russell Group Teacher Conferences - Russell Group UK must support lifelong learning to be ready for the coming wave of automation - FE News How does it feel to be in the bottom group? A new project investigates - IOE London Blog School lunches: All Edinburgh primary schools to partake in Meat Free Mondays - Scotsman #ClassDismissed NUS Poverty Commission report - Sectorresponse - FE News Better-off families gain £300 a month more than poor families from Government childcare policies - Nursery World Labour bid to block powers of controversial Office for Students - HuffPost Sports students teach 4,000 Cheshire schoolkids how to play rugby - FE Week USA: Teacher asks children to list the positives of slavery - Metro How our student cost of living crisis means poor students are being penalised for being poor - HuffPost Lord Soley: We must never forget the rights of the child in home education - PoliticsHome Need to know: Ofsted inspection changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Education transformed my life - everyone deserves that chance' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Post-16 education sector ‘profiting’ from class divide, says NUS - Times Educational Supplement | TES NUS calls for ‘minimum living income’ for post-16 students - Times Higher Education | THE £6m pledge for children of alcoholics - BBC University costs working-class students more, says NUS report - Guardian Cambridge University urged again to end fossil fuel investments - Guardian Labour bid to block regulatory powers for Office for Students - Guardian Millions of UK children worry about air pollution near school - Scotsman Post 18 - an opportunity not to be derailed - FE News What lessons can we learn from end-point assessments? - FE Week Movers and Shakers: Edition 241 - FE Week I say, old sport, better careers advice is on the way - FE News Be prepared: Scouts offer to help pupils through summer holidays - Herald Scotland ‘Cut school summer holidays’ to help families cope - Herald Scotland NUS: 'Working-class students face poverty' - BBC Doctors urge ban on chip shops near schools - Times Pocket money feeding drug habits, says schools chief - Times We’ll force a vote on the tangled knot of interests in the Office for Students - Times Scotland: Funding threat over campus sex abuse - Times Ireland: 19 Trinity College staff paid more than €200,000 - Times Ireland: University College Dublin academic wins €30,000 for age discrimination - Times