News archive for 1st December 2018

back to standard EdNews format

Schools abandoning foreign exchange trips because of burden of background checks - Mail Bid to downgrade universities shelved amid backlash from VCs - Mail School cuts: New £4.5bn pensions bombshell - HuffPost Police arrest science teacher after chemistry experiment sparks explosion in his garden - Mail How to register as a PCDL learning provider - Education & Skills Funding Agency Goodbye Sam - HEPI UKEdMag: Continuous provision beyond early years - UKEdChat 5 tips for organising homework - UKEdChat Half of GCSE and A Level grades could be wrong - Metro Pay, workload and pupil behaviour driving young teachers out of the profession - NASUWT Podcast 35: How do you talk about mental health? - Teacher Toolkit The Times view on international students - Times Scotland: Jack McConnell takes on chancellor role at university close to heart - Times Want to ease the teacher retention crisis? We must change the nature of the job - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10 reasons lessons can be less effective than they could be: - Teacherhead Edinburgh schools opened for 15 years without proper safety paperwork - Scotsman Are teachers the key to their pupils’ mental health? (video) - BBC AOs investigate private provider to church groups following misuse of funding concerns - FE Week Debra Gray: Ofsted is wrong about arts and media courses - FE Week Spielman using perception not facts on arts and media job prospects, says principal - FE Week 'I’ve got to stir up a bit of controversy here': Agnew defends Champagne wager comments - Schools Week Schools must be prepared for pupil-on-pupil sexual assault - Schools Week Safeguarding software 'normalises authoritarian approaches' in schools say academics - Schools Week Record 4,590 pupils excluded from school for racist bullying - Mail French bid to lure students from UK after Brexit - Times