News archive for 12th August 2018

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Geoff Whitty obituary - Guardian GCSE results day: 'All aboard the rollercoaster' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The poorest students will be worse off under Wales’ new student loans package - Wales Online Can you really teach a child to love reading? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mature students who embrace clearing: 'Getting a degree was life-changing' - Guardian Call for mental health counsellors in every school in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Trust and flexibility are the key to teaching' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted 'to mark down exam-factory schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to get a degree without going to university – and other life routes - Guardian Middle-class teenagers 'play the system to get into top universities' - Guardian Iain Gray: Call Swinney to account for catalogue of failures - Scotsman Labour calls for investigation into exam results trend in Scotland - Scotsman Proposals to boost teaching profession in Scotland unveiled by Lib Dems - Herald Scotland European funding for UK universities slips ahead of Brexit - Financial Times Online bullying warning as Scots pupils go back to school - Herald Scotland Scandal of the safety hazard school buses - Express ‘Easier tests’ skew Higher results, says education expert - Times No prizes for solving Highers puzzle - Times Restless boys to outshine dutiful girls in tougher A-levels - Times Join us for an extra foundation year, say universities to weaker students - Times Schools inspector threatens D-minus for ‘exam factories’ - Times