News archive for 28th April 2018

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New Donaldson's School service helps young people struggling to fit in - Herald Scotland More than 1,000 learners that failed courses last year will now be told they passed, after government U-turn - Schools Week More than 1,000 16 to 18-year-olds that failed courses last year now told they passed - FE Week 'The abuse teachers are expected to put up with is simply obscene' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Andreas Schleicher profile: 'I’ll know our job is done when Pisa is superfluous' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Long read: Four years on, husband of murdered teacher Ann Maguire still wants answers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'FE reform shouldn’t knock opportunity' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The teachers' strikes prove it: the media is finally seeing America's new labor landscape - Guardian Charity set to announce purchase of People 1st - FE Week Apprenticeship qualifications: no uptake under new rules - FE Week Parents fear app is storing private data in the US on how their children behave - Mail This much I know about…how examination boards are making the teacher recruitment and retention crisis worse - JohnTomsett Gifted students flunking A levels due to flood of unconditional offers - Universities Minister - HuffPost Secret Teacher: I fear for the wellbeing of students under pressure to perform - Guardian Kent private school seeks unpaid intern for one year’s work - Schools Week More cuts at Edinburgh College to tackle £2.5m black hole - Scotsman Jane Bradley: The benefits of meat-free Monday in schools - Scotsman How WorldSkills is just like the Olympics - FE Week Office for Students wades into unconditional university offers storm - Schools Week Funding rules prevent MATs from building affordable homes for teachers - Schools Week Teaching thinking skills makes children more intelligent - Schools Week Funding rules prevent MATs from building affordable homes for teachers - Schools Week Revealed: The Scottish universities running at a loss - Herald Scotland Police track hundreds of ‘invisible’ home-schoolers - Times Children aged 6 given homework for Sats - Times Pupils need healthy stress, private school head claims - Times Moving year groups in primary: why don't more teachers do it? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Drive to reduce exclusions blamed for pupil violence in Scotland - Times ClassDojo is harvesting data on how British schoolchildren behave - Times