News archive for 27th April 2018

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Is exam stress driving our children to mental illness and even suicide? - Wales Online IfA in talks with charity to take on EQA role after People 1st goes bust - FE Week DfE slashes support for future talent fund by £5m - Schools Week 'Landmark' childcare funding deal agreed - BBC Pupils anger at Jordanhill School end of year celebration change - Herald Scotland Academy trusts poaching Ofsted inspectors with higher salaries, Spielman warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE leads the education sector on training, says new report - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: Learners face being forced out of the classroom and onto apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Daily roundup 27 April: Mental health; county lines, and criminal responsibility - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Getting policy right - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New National Schools Commissioner to help raise standards - DfE Adopting mental health as a strategic imperative - Office for Students Condition Improvement Fund - Education & Skills Funding Agency List of declared subcontractors - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies financial returns - Education & Skills Funding Agency New campaign would make school libraries a statutory requirement - Schools Week Sats take toll on teachers’ mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'All the guff about the rich curriculum will come to naught if we don't have the teachers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Would a big pay increase reduce the burnout of teachers? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour's Dawn Butler blasts 'shocking' lack of black Caribbeans on Whitehall graduate scheme - PoliticsHome Heads launch legal tool to beat supply agency fees - Schools Week Teacher banned for watching porn at Roman Fields School - BBC Safeguarding, fire safety and segregation: DfE releases 28 new private school warning notices - Schools Week College that needed huge bailouts set to merge - FE Week AoC Sport National Championships: The south-east triumphs again - FE Week Early Years Teachers 'doing more work for same pay' - Nursery World Ofsted Watch: Royal Navy apprenticeships are ‘outstanding’ - FE Week Make the royal baby a true people’s prince – send him to a comprehensive | Robert Verkaik - Guardian Why I’m joining the class-action lawsuit over our lecturers striking | Milan Vaskovic - Guardian Mucklow tackles AEB devolution as director roles change at ESFA - FE Week Private school fees reach £17,000 per year on average - Independent Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 27 April 2018 - Pearson George Osborne to be questioned about pupil disadvantage in the north - Schools Week 'Colourful socks or kinky boots': what not to wear to get ahead in law - Guardian First aiders warn nursery children at risk - Nursery World Fresh round of redundancies at Learndirect as funding dries up - FE Week What is schooling for in the age of AI? - IOE London Blog School plans to shut at lunchtime on Fridays to stop teachers from 'burning out' - Independent Be ‘cautious’ about mentor programmes, schools told - Schools Week Traineeships expose the need for T-level collaboration - FE Week Special investigation: Why are colleges turning their backs on traineeships? - FE Week Policy Tracker - keeping track of what happened in the world of education in April 2018 - Pearson Publication of ISC annual Census 2018 - Independent Schools Council | ISC Time to get rid of supply agency transfer fees - Headteachers' Roundtable UCU comment on new analysis of staff training needs - UCU Could Ofsted be about to wipe the grading slate clean? - Schools Week Fund for bright disadvantaged pupils launched - DfE One in five children doubt their abilities as learners - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers faced with pupil violence ‘don’t get proper support’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching pupils how they learn boosts progress by seven months - Times Educational Supplement | TES Independent schools drop charitable status following 'cranked-up' government threats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Give teens more 'healthy' stress, says leading independent school head - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir David Carter - Why I'm standing down - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats takes toll on teachers’ mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mocks, cramming, revision guides – exam culture now starts with Sats in Year 2 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Progress 8: What if we started at the beginning? - Education Datalab Landmark Training Needs Analysis report sets out the evidence base for investment in workforce development - Education & Training Foundation ETF report on TNA: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Government refuses to say why some T levels classed as apprenticeship-only - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE leads the education sector on training, says new report - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: Learners face being forced out of the classroom and onto apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrap corporation tax cut and spend savings on FE, government urged - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to be a favourite teacher? - The Educator I thought US universities were marketised – till I came to the UK | Anonymous academic - Guardian School may cut hours to stop teacher 'burnout' - Guardian Why we should bulldoze the business school - Guardian Swinney's aide pushed for publication of damning inspection report - Herald Scotland The Bright Tribe Files: Parents and staff blamed by trust over Whitehaven fiasco - Schools Week Should primary pupils get mental health counselling? - BBC Australia is not ready for an 'overwhelming' 525,000-a-year influx of international students - Mail Private school fees soar to £5,700 a term - Herald Scotland 'Bespoke solutions' sought for four Scottish Borders schools - BBC Why shouldn't I be autistic and a student? - BBC Elbow's Guy Garvey to be songwriting professor - BBC Pupils describe their understanding of the economy - BBC Why English is not a ‘skills based’ subject - The Learning Spy Average private school fees rise above £17,000 a year for first time - Guardian Cold war extends to private schools as number of Russian children sent to UK almost halves  - Telegraph Private school fees soar to £5,700 a term - Mail One in five children could be at risk of mental health issues, study suggests - Independent Elbow singer Guy Garvey to teach songwriting course at Manchester Metropolitan University - Independent Developing children's ability to think about learning can boost their development - Nursery World Universities sit on £44bn after tuition fee increase - Times School fees have doubled in 15 years - Times House party! Best behaved students to celebrate prize - Times As a young Jew at Cambridge, university is where I have felt most vulnerable - Times USA: Florida massacre schoolboy pilloried for taking up a gun - Times National schools commissioner Sir David Carter to step down - Schools Week Private school fees rise again, and 5 more findings from the ISC Census - Schools Week