News archive for 1st June 2018

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Richmond becomes first university in UK to award British and US degrees - Evening Standard Niall Ferguson leaves Stanford role after ordering 'opposition research' on a student in free speech row - Telegraph Headteacher who helped children cheat in Sats exams banned from working in schools - Independent Demands for fairness after ESFA sets aside £2.6m in Somerset tender - FE Week New bullying guidelines 'don't go far enough' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New type of academy trust to run secure schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats: DfE publishes KS1 test papers - Times Educational Supplement | TES British parents are teachers' biggest cheerleaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU threatens college pay strikes in autumn term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Green light for teacher who photographed undressed boy - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Being LGBT in college is getting better' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What is the secret of your classroom management? - The Educator Dieting associated with risky behaviours in teenage girls - UKEdChat National Academy for Educational Leadership (NAEL), Wales - Education Development Trust | EDT Manifesto idea #30: Sonia Sodha - HEPI School funding pressures leave pupils and staff at risk from exposure to asbestos in schools - Voice The gap year for social, emotional and vocational learning in Irish secondary education - BERA NAHT submits evidence to the Education Select Committee - NAHT Daily roundup 1 June: School readiness, organ donation, and budget deficit - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 31 May: Free schools, funded internships, and refugee support - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The Ucas row is bad. But racism in education starts much earlier - Guardian Who is Amanda Spielman? Ofsted chief inspector who wants to transform early years education - The Sun Manifesto idea #29: Rosemary Bennett - HEPI Parents too busy to teach children how to use toilet before starting school, suggests Ofsted boss - Independent Parent anger at end to same-sex running races at Highlands school - Scotsman Drop prejudices against grammar schools, urges headteacher in BBC documentary - Evening Standard New university courses to boost GP numbers in Scotland - Scotsman Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 1 June 2018 - Pearson Academy trusts invited to set up ‘secure schools’ for pupils in custody - Schools Week Spielman: Growth in reception pupils lacking basic skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of vulnerable pupils placed in substandard schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Managing grade inflation and demonstrating student improvement - Universities UK How to strengthen your willpower to improve your wellbeing - Teacher Toolkit Parents baffled as primary school in Scotland ends boys and girls only races at sports day - The Sun Ofsted watch: An ‘outstanding’ week for FE and skills - FE Week Primary school in Scotland scraps boys and girls-only races from its sports day - Mail Ofsted chief calls on nurseries to help close the 'word gap' - Nursery World UK school only serves water and halal meat in canteen and bans pupils from bringing in packed lunches - Mirror Technical education changes bring T levels - Unionlearn Why a GCSE In sign language Is so essential - HuffPost Exam stress: What is it and how can I manage it? - The Conversation SEND in the Early Years: last chance for early bird rate - Nursery World Learning facilitation: A transformational model - FE News Awarding university subjects gold medals is deeply flawed | Hetan Shah - Guardian Scotland: Teachers to demand 10% pay rise as EIS union gathers for AGM - Scotsman Children unable to talk properly when starting school at age four - Ofsted head - Mail How to build empathy in the classroom, one story at a time - Guardian British kids are starting school unable to speak correctly, dress themselves or use toilets, head of Ofsted warns - The Sun I struggle when hiring academics – because the candidates are too good - Guardian Our schools are broke – so why aren’t we talking about it? - Guardian Ofsted head makes claim that children starting school 'unable to use toilet' - Express "There's no time to breathe" - the nursery workers trapped on the minimum wage for life as overtime and targets soar - Mirror How to close the vocabulary gap in the classroom - Schools Week Colleges face £174m exams bill - Times Educational Supplement | TES Quarter of early years workers 'considering quitting' due to stress - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scottish teachers move to war footing in battle for 10 per cent pay rise - Herald Scotland Angry Glasgow parents facing 50% increase in nursery fees - Herald Scotland 'Pinball kids experience too much change in care' - BBC Educate children to tackle ethnic minority donor crisis, MPs say - BBC Thousands of children in care face multiple moves making them more vulnerable - Independent `Pinball kids´ shunted around care system, report finds - Mail A critical report on free schools actually shows their success - Times Thousands of looked-after children moved 20 miles or more mid-year - Schools Week