News archive for 3rd June 2018

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Millions of kids 'will miss out on free school meals' by 2022 under Universal Credit plan - Mirror Cambridge University's poor diversity record highlighted by report - Guardian Teachers to be helped by cost-cutting - Express Opportunity is more than a place at Oxford - Financial Times Teacher reveals why he left student to rest after she fell asleep in class - Mirror Chuka Umunna ends unpaid student placements until labour or IPSA agree to provide funding - HuffPost 'Why I don't want my child to be an apprentice' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Educational Fad: Sitting In Rows - Teacher Toolkit How OfS will address value for money - Wonkhe Universities should take back control of the VfM agenda - Wonkhe Widening participation performance handicap: racehorse or show pony? - Wonkhe Working towards a sector taxonomy of value - Wonkhe New free website for schools to advertise vacancies - DfE Parents defend school that banned packed lunches for Halal and gluten-free meals - Metro Nutrition and the brain - Learning Scientists Subtle reinforcement: Techniques to gradually build confidence and character in our students - UKEdChat NASUWT comments on national teacher vacancies website - NASUWT Dearth of black students admitted to Cambridge revealed by FOI request - Financial Times Private schools 'abuse charity status' by giving discounts to richer families - Guardian Coco Pops and Cheerios to be banned from Scottish school breakfasts - Scotsman This much I know about…education, a tie-pin and having a choice in life - JohnTomsett Six models of lesson observation - Teacher Toolkit University World News - UK and global edition: 03 June 2018 - University World News Exams 2018: The 'myth' of the visual learner - BBC Teacher recruitment agencies face fees crackdown - BBC Crackdown launched on rogue teacher agencies who rip off the nation’s schools by charging ‘excessive’ fees - Mail Sturgeon gives Catholic schools £100,000 - Times ‘Outrage’ as councils call the tune with fees for music lessons in Scotland - Times Teacher vacancy website up-and-running in north east and Cambridgeshire - Schools Week 'I am in awe of GCSE resit students' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universal credit changes will bar 2.6 million children from free school meals, warns Labour - Independent DfE admits millions of children at risk of losing free school meals - Nursery World Scots girl bullied for saying grace left depressed - Times