News archive for 2nd August 2018

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Maths textbooks should be banned because they intimidate pupils, headteacher says - Telegraph Ucas apologises to thousands of students after email wrongly said they got into university - Independent Education secretary ‘welcomes’ awarding bodies decision to withdraw T-levels legal challenge - FE Week 16 to 18 accountability headline measures - DfE The anxiety riddle - UKEdChat 'Turismologists’ brighten college campus - AoC | Association of Colleges CBI launches the 2018 Education and Skills Survey - CBI Selective Schools Expansion Fund - Education & Skills Funding Agency Encouraging inclusion of at-risk students through co-op video games - BERA NI school system 'under major strain' - BBC FOI: early years dataset as at 31 December 2017 - Ofsted Schools out for summer - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Maths: As simple as one, two three? - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Curriculum based financial planning - EPI £20 million of access loans written off by government - AoC | Association of Colleges Young carers facing lonely summer, warn charities - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Becca Bland: why is the government halting loan payments to vulnerable students? - Guardian Spotlight on research – getting to grips with what’s available - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring The negative testing effect - Learning Scientists Nomadic teachers - UKEdChat Summer childcare options explained – from summer camps to childminders here’s what to do with your kids in the school holidays - The Sun Better standard of living associated with engineering, technical, scientific and mathematic careers - FE News Student Loans Company 'spied on vulnerable students' social media' - Guardian GCSE in British Sign Language may be introduced after deaf boy's campaign - Independent Professor Ewart Keep: New thinking essential to help leaders address FE policies and pressures - FE News Doomed school improvement fund ignored ‘big black hole’ in the north of England - Schools Week Universities extend teaching into evening to cope with expansion - Times Higher Education | THE The week in higher education – 2 August 2018 - Times Higher Education | THE 'Never assume resilience in forces children' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher who slapped pupil's face can stay in job - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four tips for avoiding pupils on holiday - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government writes-off more than £20m worth of learner loans in bid to get people into higher education - FE News A third of apprenticeship providers 'dormant' - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: Exam boards drop legal action - Times Educational Supplement | TES Strategic School Improvement Fund (SSIF) closed with £85m unspent - Schools Week Nursery downgraded for failing to spot toddlers are at risk of extremism - Independent Bullying ‘endemic’ at Sussex, report warns - Times Higher Education | THE Anger as Ofsted claims nursery failing to guard against radicalisation - Guardian Government U-turn a boost for sign language GCSE campaign - BBC Federation of Awarding Bodies decides not to issue a claim for a judicial review of T-levels - FE News Little Ducklings Pre-School slated by ‘bonkers’ Ofsted for failing to spot if kids aged two to four might become jihadis - The Sun T-level legal challenge dropped after DfE offer to ‘re-set the relationship’ with awarding bodies - FE Week Call to abolish tests that leave P1s ‘shaking’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon’s flagship new tests blasted as ‘cruel’ by hundreds of teachers - Express Government 'U-turn' over sign language GCSE - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to 'consider' bringing in sign language GCSE before 2022 - Schools Week Tackling stereotypes in STEM - Sutton Trust Telling women how not to get raped won't stop sexual violence on campus | Chris Linder - Guardian ‘We took acid and got scared of the pillowcases’: what we learned from our holiday jobs - Guardian Dundee campus allotments in demand by students - Scotsman Failure to support vulnerable kids risks a generation | Tom Peterkin - Scotsman Scots primary one pupils left crying by ‘cruel’ national testing - Scotsman Leader comment: A return to The Good Life? - Scotsman Brownies launch aviation badge to encourage girls to become pilots - BBC RoATP consultation & refresh: What happens next? - FE News An Oxford undergraduate again — in my late 50s - Financial Times School tests for five-year-olds leave pupils 'shaking and crying' - Herald Scotland National Citizen Service funding should be used elsewhere - LGA - BBC Nursery slammed by Ofsted for failing to spot if kids as young as two might become jihadis - Mirror 'We're with my disabled brother round the clock' - BBC Decline in creative subjects at GCSE prompts fears that arts industry could be damaged - Independent Deaf boy´s campaign for new GCSE in sign language takes step forward - Mail Refugee Caucher Birkar wins Fields Medal for maths but award is stolen - Times Email error raises tension for edgy A-level students - Times Thousands more grammar pupils despite ban - Times Scotland: John Swinney urged to abandon ‘cruel nonsense’ of tests for five-year-olds - Times Ireland: Parents in debt to pay for basic school supplies - Times