News archive for 29th April 2018

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Giving vulnerable children a boarding school place can dramatically improve their future, Government study finds - Telegraph University World News: Global Edition - week ending 29th April 2018 - University World News University to force students to sign contract promising not to take drugs - Independent University World News: Africa Edition - week ending 29th April 2018 - University World News Cheating at UK's top universities soars by 30% - Guardian A business answer to America’s broken education system - Financial Times Buckingham University aims to be UK's 'first drug-free campus' - BBC University of Buckingham is to become Britain's first to be drug free where students will have to sign a contract - Mail 'Amid all the gloom around teaching, we must try to hang on to the wonderful moments' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The education week that was: Sir David Carter gets more time to practice his floss dance moves - Times Educational Supplement | TES How becoming a foster mum changed the way I run my school - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Life of a Deputy Headteacher: The Finale - Teacher Toolkit Educational fad: Lollipop sticks - Teacher Toolkit Which local authorities got flexibility on high needs funding? - Schools Week Ofqual investigates examiners’ experience and background - Schools Week Forget behaviour policies: we need behaviour culture! - Schools Week Anti-Eton activist blasted David Cameron's schooling despite kids' own private education - Express A Life in the Day: the TED talk star Ken Robinson - Times Universities ‘failing’ students on drugs as punishments soar - Times Stowe school cuts fees by £7,000 per year so it's not overrun by oligarchs sons - Mail Equally Safe in Higher Education toolkit is welcome, but youngsters must learn from early age to cope with life - Times Cash-strapped schools’ switch to 4½-day week has parents fuming - Times