News archive for 27th February 2018

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University dispute: More talks but strikes continue - BBC University staff pension dispute moves to Acas - Guardian Over 150 schools close as Scotland prepares for heavy snow - Scotsman Lecturers and university leaders enlist conciliation service Acas but strikes are set to continue  - Telegraph Unregistered schools - BBC Sexting: One in seven teens are sending sexually explicit images, says new research - Independent University lecturers are striking against their own future - Times More Scottish teachers and pupils are cheating in exams, new figures suggest - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor pupils in Scotland half as likely to attend university compared with wealthier peers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Want to avoid the rise of a new extremism? Values-based schools and a 'cosmocentric' education are the key' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Toby Young's OfS appointment was questionable – minister - Guardian Calls to change rules to unlock extra funding for young adult carers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Success rates drop in Scottish colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted refusing to reveal why it inspected McDonald’s haircut school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we should balance out, not destroy, the pipe dreams of our students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government ‘looking at the options’ for its New Schools Network support - Schools Week 'Disproportionate punishments' key to safe snowball fights, says heads' leader - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish private school teacher jailed for making his own child porn - Scotsman Students are right to recognise uni as a massive rip off… but there’s a simple solution: don’t bother going - The Sun Recruitment crisis leaves millions for initial teacher training incentives unspent - Times Educational Supplement | TES US charter school chain Kipp offers support to possible abuse victims after firing co-founder for 'sexual misconduct' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meddling' Tory ministers savaged over appointment of scandal-hit student tsar Toby Young - Mirror IfA boss hits back at vested interests against apprentice reforms - FE Week Schools ban 'meet me at McDonald's' haircut - Express America’s teachers give voice to demands for gun control - Financial Times University watchdog ‘failed to vet Toby Young thoroughly for post’ - Evening Standard Sir David Carter ‘clarifies’ comments on Janet Renou’s Whitehaven visits - Schools Week 'Avoidable mistakes made in appointment of Toby Young' - BBC Toby Young’s appointment reinforces our worst fears about establishment hypocrisy | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Letter from the commissioner for public appointments regarding the Office for Students - Parliament Correspondence from the National Schools Commissioner regarding Whitehaven Academy - Parliament Functional skills maths and English content guidance published - Times Educational Supplement | TES Support and regulation needed for high-quality apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Little boy's show-and-tell spelling blunder leaves parents in hysterics - Mirror Baseline assessment is 'unethical, expensive and threatens children's mental health' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE announces funding to cover extended support for care leavers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 27 February: Unregistered schools, extremism, and Toby Young - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Campaigners publish case against the baseline - Nursery World Scottish universities and colleges to share £1.8bn public fund - Scotsman Embattled universities face limits on powers - Times Enrolments at schools and in funded pre-school education in Northern Ireland 2017/18 - GOV.UK Avoidable mistakes’ made in Toby Young vetting process, inquiry finds - Times ASCL calls on government to scrap resit policy - ASCL Dear Damian Hinds, here’s what your schools minister can learn from Eton - Guardian Should schools sell sports supplements to pupils? - Guardian 'We batter them with kindness’ - schools that reject super-strict values - Guardian A long time in higher education… - FE News Profile: Drew Povey, Executive head, Harrop Fold School - Schools Week Rector launches savage attack on Glasgow University - Herald Scotland ‘Stay at home’ Scottish university students more likely to study here - Herald Scotland Scotland: Moving away to university an important ‘escalator’ for social mobility - Herald Scotland English tuition fees lead to Scots choosing a university near home - Herald Scotland Ex-footballers jailed over shameful £5million sports leadership scheme scam - The Sun More than 50 child abuse or neglect cases are uncovered at illegal faith schools - Mail Schools 'should encourage pupils to move away for university' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE options: How to make the options process SEND friendly - Times Educational Supplement | TES New Facebook app puts primary pupils at risk, charity says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should work with health experts to combat obesity, report says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disadvantaged students more likely to live at home while studying - Mail Ministers meddled in Toby Young getting OfS role, report finds - Guardian Harris Academy Sutton seeks to take on grammars - Times Mother of Matilda star prepared to ‘go to jail’ over home schooling row - Independent Poorer students likely to live at home - Sutton Trust It ain’t what we do, it’s the way that we do it’ – researching student voices - Wonkhe Freemasonry and universities: a bit like Facebook? - Wonkhe Unequal mobilities - Wonkhe Poorer students three times more likely to live at home while at university, study says - Independent Tories to give rich parents £2,000 for childcare - Mirror