News archive for 24th August 2018

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Female primary school head admits child sex offences as outraged parents thought she was 'off sick' - Telegraph Teachers, on results day you became #MoreThanGrade - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'A creative education is the greatest gift we can give' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Enough humility – FE colleges must grab what’s rightfully theirs - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Circle the data three times, chanting “Gibbous Goveus"' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free sanitary products for students in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES NQTs: take all the advice you can get, but learn how to filter - Times Educational Supplement | TES Book reviews: Must-reads for the new school year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dad told his daughter he'd give her £100 for each A* GCSE (and she got 14) - Wales Online Parents admit they are excited about end of school holidays - Mirror GCSE results 2018 – What is happening with the reformed subjects? - NFER Partnership working to tackle CSE - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government to honour Erasmus+ payments in event of 'no deal' Brexit - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children's services spending rises by £368m - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Skills in London: Bridging the gap between business and colleges - Collab Group UCU Scotland comment on the introduction of free sanitary products in universities - UCU Do demographics determine destiny? They can in learning analytics… - HEPI Great teaching: The power of questioning - Teacherhead Melissa Benn: The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools - Sutton Trust Financial warning for alternative provision provider TBAP trust - Schools Week New projects announced to protect cultural heritage overseas - British Council Ofsted watch: A 'good' two weeks for employer providers - FE Week Ofsted slaps provider with grade 4 after evidence of copy and paste assessments - FE Week School census 2018 to 2019: technical information - DfE School census 2018 to 2019: funding report guides - DfE Co-ordinated admissions 2019: series 15 files - DfE The challenge from the Secretary of State: Warmly welcomed by Capita - Capita (general) Every School, College And University In Scotland To Give Out Free Sanitary Products - HuffPost Scotland to offer free sanitary products to all students in world first - Guardian Every school, college and university in Scotland to give out free sanitary products - HuffPost Awarding organisations: scope of recognition - FE News DfE ‘minded to terminate’ funding of ‘inadequate’ primary academy in Wiltshire - Schools Week Female primary school headteacher, 43, who admitted making child porn images faces jail - Mail Great Teaching: The Power of Questioning - Headguruteacher Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 24 August - Pearson GCSEs included questions pupils had already seen - Times Educational Supplement | TES Do demographics determine destiny? - HEPI Many UK ELT schools note rise in direct bookings - PIE News Inquiry opened into trustee benefits at independent school charities - Schools Week 'New linear GCSEs could put girls off Stem' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don't ape academic levels in apprenticeships' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU Scotland comment on the introduction of free sanitary products in universities - UCU GCSE results for pupil excluded from mainstream school - BBC Languages – modern & otherwise – are alive and well in GSA schools - GSA GSA girls are great at science GCSE – again - GSA Horizon 2020 underwrite guarantee update - Cambridge Network Scotland’s pupils ‘missing out’ on counselling - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE grades explained – what is the 1-9 marking system and how does it work? - The Sun Teacher training applications fall: what can be done? - The Educator Heads unions ‘to merge within a decade’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2018 — how to appeal your grade and what to do if you did not get the mark you needed? - The Sun The path to professorship is long, rocky and confusing. Why? | Anonymous academic - Guardian The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools - Guardian Cameron Wyllie: Unsayable but true: some kids are smarter than others - Scotsman It’s time to end the nonsense that Awarding Organisations produce ‘too many qualifications’ - FE News Crossing the great divide to pass GCSE maths - Financial Times Anger after parents told they can't withdraw pupils from school tests - Herald Scotland Testing analysis: When 'exceptional circumstances’ doesn't mean what you think - Herald Scotland GCSE pass rates rise as School Minister Nick Gibb can’t explain new grading structure in car-crash interview - The Sun GCSEs get harder...yet still the pass rate rises - Express Boy campaigning to scrap homework says it made his GCSE results worse - Metro GCSE results 2018: Foreign languages on the up but dismay at fall in music students - Times GCSE results 2018: the humble route to 14 top marks - Times GCSE results 2018: Placing the emphasis on tests is a result for boys - Times GCSE results 2018: Critics condemn ‘harder exams’ after grades rise - Times When parents fail they need educating too | Philip Collins - Times