News archive for 27th January 2018

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Top academy schools sound alarm as cash crisis looms - Guardian Ministers urged to close loophole which saw 50,000 children go 'missing' from education last year  - Telegraph Parents in revolt at school's 'no homework' policy as they complain a generation will 'flunk' exams - Telegraph Opponents of selection, stay awake in the forthcoming months – our new education secretary is a fan of grammar schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES School measures pupil's fingernails and bans them from growing longer than half an inch - Mirror Secondary school league tables: GCSE and A-level results tables for London state and independent schools - Evening Standard Social media use linked to lack of sleep in students - UKEdChat ‘Depression education’ effective for some teens - UKEdChat Each teacher understands their own approach to teaching, and should be left to it – as long as it works - Times Educational Supplement | TES How Progress 8 disguises grammar school pupils’ true performance - Schools Week Victory for Grenfell campaigners as FE Commissioner scraps colleges’ merger - FE Week Experts call for re-think of apprenticeship levy as apprentice numbers fall - feCompare Ofsted revisits grade three college amid signs of falling standards - Times Educational Supplement | TES I don't want rich parents avoiding private school fees here, says head of top east London academy - Evening Standard Government loophole allows apprenticeship brokerage to continue - FE Week Boy, 15, 'spat at and stamped on more than 30 times' by '20 youths' in terrifying attack at his school - Mirror Job hunting: How do you know if you're ready to move schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warrington UTC enrages neighbouring schools by ‘poaching’ pupils - Schools Week Secret Teacher: education should be driven by evidence, not political whims - Guardian 'It captures their imagination': teaching sustainability through the arts - Guardian Revealed: the top ten schools in London - but figures show 30,000 children are being taught at underperforming secondaries - Evening Standard Revealed: Failing schools that received emergency cash - Schools Week Wild disparity between PISA tests taken on paper and PC - Schools Week The reception year isn’t all about learning to read - Schools Week Online safety campaign needed to protect children, says CyberSafeIreland - Times Rapid training course is an instant hit in Scotland - Times Scotland: Teachers want 10% pay rise to end strike threat - Times Schools clamour for app teaching maths through hip-hop - Times Dad, can I go on a date? - Times Ireland: Cutting career breaks ‘will deepen teacher recruitment crisis’ - Times Hate probe as former mayor calls headmistress who banned the hijab in primary school an 'evil racist' - Mail