News archive for 26th April 2018

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Oxford porters should be given 'unconscious bias' training, amid claims that they target black students - Telegraph The Bright Tribe Files: Conflict of interest warning over Manchester UTC link - Schools Week The Bright Tribe Files: Northumberland council takes legal action - Schools Week The Bright Tribe Files: What’s going on at the under-fire academy trust? - Schools Week Skipping, hide and seek and tag are the playground games Britons most remember, finds study - Independent Sheffield universities probe 'racism' reports - BBC Pupils put high school up for sale on eBay in final-year prank - Herald Scotland Charge parents for teachers' CPD - The Educator Colleges students need more information about drugs to keep them safe - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of colleges paying leaders over £200k rises - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC: “TeachFirst is great but we need an FE relevant initiative” - Times Educational Supplement | TES Russell Group hails new AI Deal - Russell Group Trans guidance for schools and colleges - National Education Union Let's tackle the causes, not the symptoms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inclusive teaching checklist - Teacher Toolkit Daily roundup 26 April: Staffing pressures, obesity, and Barnardo's appointment - CYPN | Children & Young People Now In the May edition of CYP Now: SEND reforms, preventing youth violence, and recruitment and retention in children's social care - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How schools can engage with research and evidence - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Latest figures show increases in universities' income, surpluses and reserves - UCU College accounts reveal bumper pay rises for principals in 2016/17 - UCU Management degree apprenticeships: the UK’s engine room where overalls are not required - Universities UK Open academies and academy projects in development - DfE Lords examines Home Education (Duty of Local Authorities) Bill - UK Parliament ESFA financial management: college accounts - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 26 April 2018 (issue 217) - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 education: financial management and assurance - Education & Skills Funding Agency Financial benchmarking tool for colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency The hidden benefits of higher education: mental health and resilience - Office for Students Warning notices to independent schools - DfE London's first outdoor nursery gets Queen's Award for innovation - Evening Standard Not too fast: Things to consider before implementing new strategies in your teaching - Learning Scientists Curiosity is key to early childhood success in maths and reading - UKEdChat 'Teachers should encourage students to speak up – and remember to do so themselves' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher training applicants down by 15 per cent - Times Educational Supplement | TES Elaborate uniforms are pricing out poor pupils, schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES New guidance report published: how to develop pupils’ metacognitive skills - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Making sense of metacognition - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF 'Too many kids think of engineers as men in overalls...' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School could close to pupils on Friday afternoons to avoid teacher burnout - Times Educational Supplement | TES What's driving the recruitment and retention crisis? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher struck off after telling pupils about having sex behind a tree and smoking cannabis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa comparisons ‘not useful’, globally respected education academic says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to increase class sizes to give teachers more time for CPD - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three grammar myths you need to banish from the classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academies minister reduces his control of Inspiration Trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five reasons being a SCITT mentor is like being a first-time parent - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Sats don't prepare pupils for secondary school. So what's their purpose? To impress Ofsted?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fed-up teacher quits job after humiliating incident with 'rude parent' and students trash her classroom - Mirror Parents' fury as school reveals plans to end at 1.15pm on Fridays - Express Abbas Edalat: British-Iranian academic 'arrested as spy' - BBC School could close early to ease workload - BBC Should we call time on analogue clocks? Some teachers think so | Kester Brewin - Guardian UCU blasts 10% pay rises for ‘greedy’ college principals - FE Week Parents furious as school announces plans to shut at lunchtime every Friday so stressed teachers can ‘chill out’ - The Sun Number of children being homeschooled in UK rises by 41% over three years - Independent USA: Arizona teachers begin strike as wave of education walkouts rolls west - Guardian People 1st collapses, stunning the FE sector - FE Week France: Pupils must do sums in their heads for 15 minutes a day - Times Isn't that a walkboy? - BBC PM told to stop schools flogging off playing fields to help fight obesity - The Sun MPs debated school funding and social care - Parliament Education statistics for rural and urban areas - GOV.UK Over a hundred schools in Scotland don’t have smoke detectors - Scotsman Animal magic: goats, squirrels and higher education - Wonkhe DfE launches good estate management guidance for schools - NAHT Integrated thinking and reporting: telling a different story of HE - Wonkhe How analytics can support student success - Wonkhe Benefits of mental health counselling in primary schools 'worth six times the cost' - Times Educational Supplement | TES You’re never too old to learn how to code - Financial Times New guide to tackle violence against female students - Herald Scotland Shirley-Anne Somerville: Sexual harassment a ‘deeply engrained societal issue’ - Herald Scotland Universities should stop reporting student drug dealers to police - Mail Home-schooling in the UK increases 40% over three years - BBC School sex abuse: 'My son was raped on a play date' - BBC Israeli school for both Jews and Arabs - BBC Drugs 'used by two in five students' - BBC Bank economist calls for counselling for primary school pupils - Guardian 'Archaic and harmful': report condemns strict handling of student drug takers - Guardian Primary school mental health counselling may help economy, study says - BBC Student complaints about UK universities growing, says watchdog - Guardian Universities told to stop reporting students caught with drugs to police after hundreds referred to forces - Independent London-based professor is arrested in Iran - Times Spare student drug users, union argues - Times Rise in complaints about degree courses - Times Mother begins legal fight to cut student loan rates - Times Scotland: Tories attack language teaching ‘failures’ - Times