News archive for 21st August 2018

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Employers not ready for rollout of T-Level technical school exam - Financial Times 'Off'-Rolling': Fifth of teachers have seen schools remove students through backdoor to improve results - Independent New GCSEs will reveal schools that unfairly help children get better results, private school chief says - Telegraph SNP accused of 'STONEWALLING parents' in new £350,000 education policy - Express Five tips on how to continue to survive the school holidays - BBC Welsh headteachers explain why their schools use English GCSEs - Wales Online From pasta to stir-fry: foods children should learn to cook in school - Guardian IfA funding rate review: retailer standard facing 20 per cent cut - FE Week Parents ask coroner to investigate Bristol University’s actions before daughter’s death - HuffPost 10 Top tips for managing health and wellbeing at university - FE News Teacher research makes us masters of our profession - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Campaigners fight to save council-run childcare settings - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The importance of looking at value-added on results day - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring The impact of a classroom management programme on children’s mental health - Best Evidence in Brief Residential special schools and colleges: support for children - DfE Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency A response to Komatsu and Rappleye: What if east Asia’s high achievement is not the result of long hours of study, cram schools, and exam pressure? - BERA The meteoric rise of the unconditional offer - Wonkhe Leave the street slang to students - Wonkhe Councils get funding to boost children's access to 'trusted adults' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Apprenticeship Standard Consultations Closing Aug 27th - FE News UVAC position statement – Delay in the transfer of non-levy paying employers to the apprenticeship service - UVAC Action plan to get parents more involved in the running of schools - Herald Scotland The essential business skills graduates are missing - Training Journal Universities on the edge as top institutions hoover up recruits - Times Higher Education | THE GCSE results: Are we closing the disadvantage gap? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Results dip for 30,000 taking English GCSE early - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: 'The exam cycle shrank my happiness' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who viewed child sex abuse - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE seeks to recover £300k from Bright Tribe - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'The risk of apprenticeship procurement' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam boards market GCSE-style tests for Year 7s - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: how to support disappointed students - Times Educational Supplement | TES What next after GCSEs? A guide to apprenticeships, BTECs and NVQs - Telegraph SNP’s £350k action plan to get parents to help at Scottish schools - Scotsman Quiz: which celebrities have these GCSEs?  - Telegraph GCSE results: re-marks, retakes and the step up to sixth form - Telegraph GCSE grade boundaries 2018: What is the new grading system and is it harder to do well this year? - Evening Standard GCSE results day 2018: what is the 9 - 1 grading system and why are so many students confused? - Telegraph Pupil destinations will trump Progress 8 as headline measure for UTCs - Schools Week US study: Effect of preschool home visiting on school readiness - Institute for Effective Education Professional development and early childhood education and care - Institute for Effective Education GCSE results day 2018: How widespread is early entry in English language and English literature? - FFT Education Datalab Management information on unregistered schools in England, from 1 January 2016 onwards - Ofsted How significant is publication bias in educational research? - Institute for Effective Education Labour fury as new analysis shows kids in poorest areas nine times more likely to be in struggling schools - PoliticsHome Exam boards market GCSE-style tests for Year 7s - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL comment on Labour analysis of educational inequality - ASCL The ultimate guide to student finance: tuition fees, bank accounts and how to budget - Telegraph Can a university rescue a city when the local authority fails? - Guardian No other European country tests children at 16: let’s scrap pointless GCSEs | Sandra Leaton Gray - Guardian USA: The inescapable weight of my $100,000 student debt - Guardian Should schools be judged by their exam results? - Guardian School asbestos incident ‘forgotten’ about for days - Scotsman USA: Digging into student debt (podcast) - Financial Times 1 in 10 students have missed a bill or rent payment while double the number are "frequently overdrawn" - Mirror Asthma sufferers warned before returning to school - BBC Regulators 'save' pupils who failed tougher GCSE science exam by moving grade boundaries - Mail Poorest students in England nine times more likely to be in inadequate secondary schools, research shows - Independent Poorer pupils far more likely to be in failing schools, finds research - Guardian May backs away from pledge of three million apprenticeships - Times Schools are cheating with their GCSE results | Rachel Sylvester - Times Scotland: Asthma attacks more likely when schools go back - Times Ireland: Zappone - I know childcare costs too much - Times Ireland: University funding will be linked to gender equality - Times Ireland: Third-level education should be free for all, says Sinn Féin - Times Poor pupils are nine times more likely to be in ‘inadequate’ secondary schools, study reveals - The Sun Poorer children more likely to be at failing schools, new study reveals - HuffPost