News archive for 12th June 2018

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MPs could soon ban retailers near schools from selling energy drinks to under 16s - The Sun Teachers fear Fortnite generation are hooked on online games as they demand pupils get lessons on web safety - Mirror Children from poorer families less likely to take up free pre-school place, study finds - Independent Councils should consider sending children in care to boarding schools to reduce risk, minister says - Independent What are grammar schools, why are they controversial and what is the government’s £50m expansion plan about? - The Sun London's largest college group has a new Chief Executive - FE News Salford Academy Trust to give up its four schools and close - Schools Week Stop fighting over the crumbs of the adult education budget! - FE Week Podcast 4 with Mark Dawe discussing SME's and Apprenticeships - FE News DfE seeks bids for £100,000 phonics roadshows contract - Schools Week Windows platforms remain dominant in education sector - UKEdChat Raising literacy levels of targeted school pupils - Leeds Beckett University Learning styles - a detriment to effective student learning - Learning Scientists Urban violence can hurt test scores even for kids who don’t experience it - UKEdChat Beyond the ‘Reading Wars’: How the science of reading can improve literacy - UKEdChat Small group maths instruction benefits young children - UKEdChat Fidget ‘toys’ vs ‘tools’ - UKEdChat Criticism from parents affects how children’s brains respond to emotional information - UKEdChat Creating an education technology (EdTech) competency framework to promote new pedagogic approaches - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Millions of children missing out on support - Nursery World Students reduced to tears during exam when topic they revised doesn't come up - Mirror Many FE professionals recognised in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours - Education & Training Foundation Can macro policies solve educational challenges? - Sutton Trust Leading charity sector figure to lead London’s largest college group - FE Week New research highlights the gap between parent and student perceptions regarding ‘The Leap’ to university - HEPI Getting Ahead London programme is now open for applications - NAHT PSHE must be made mandatory to arm pupils with vital skills - NAHT Interim National Schools Commissioner appointed - DfE Free early years schemes 'disproportionately benefit the better-off' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Boarding school placements found to reduce number of children in care - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 12 June: Brexit resignation, care applications, and energy drinks - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Outside in: The role of the university library in open science - Wonkhe Bang! – grade inflation in TEF3 - Wonkhe Teaching quality- a sticky wicked problem? - Wonkhe Impact on children of early years education examined - UK Parliament ‘Milkrounds’ still relevant in the social media age, research finds - FE News Edinburgh 18th in World University Rankings - Scotsman US study finds free glasses improve reading achievement for disadvantaged pupils - Institute for Effective Education Do physically active lessons improve pupil engagement? - Institute for Effective Education Warwick University bans three students who joked about rape and racism on Facebook - Independent Festival of Learning winners 2018 winners announced - FE Week US study examines differences between computer tests and paper-based tests - Institute for Effective Education Study shows benefits of after-school programme promoting healthy lifestyles - Institute for Effective Education Letter to Robert Halfon from Anne Milton re the status of the 1,146 Carillion apprentices - Parliament School inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Parents have been filming school sports day races on their phones to query who really won - Wales Online Children from higher-income families more likely to access funded pre-school places - Nursery World Sending children in care to boarding school reduces risk, says minister - Times Funding for 16-18 students to drop to 30-year low - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges and providers improve Ofsted performance - Times Educational Supplement | TES University teaching chiefs ‘rarely have education background’ - Times Higher Education | THE Top universities’ journal subscriptions ‘average £4 million’ - Times Higher Education | THE How to be an effective form tutor - Teacher Toolkit Two Stoke studio schools near their end - Schools Week Warwick University expels three students racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic jokes - Mail Chuka Umunna, there’s no excuse for unpaid ‘student placements’ | Phil McDuff - Guardian Dominic Herrington to succeed Sir David Carter as interim national schools commissioner - Schools Week Spiralling care costs 'causing millions of children to miss out on help' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Most students think taking illegal drugs causes problems for users as well as society and want their universities to take a tougher stance - HEPI Ensuring support for speech, language and communication needs is firmly embedded across the school - NAHT How reading can boost empathy - Times Educational Supplement | TES What teachers tapped this week #37 -11th June 2018 - Teacher Tapp Universities’ league table obsession triggers mental health crisis fears - Guardian Fake news: Teaching children the difference between Trump and truth - Guardian T-levels: The latest in a series of quickly forgotten vocational qualifications | Fiona Millar - Guardian T Levels – back to the future at 16 - FE News Transfer teachers between schools every five years (report) - Herald Scotland Sabrina Hobbs - Profile - Schools Week Three-quarters of students have never tried drugs and most want universities to clamp down on people who do, shock survey finds - Mail Primary heads tell parents: Keep your children away from violent Fortnite game - Mail Modern students 'prefer work to drugs' - BBC Majority of students want universities to take repeated drug use more seriously, study finds - Independent IQs have started to fall by seven points per generation in 'pretty worrying' trend, scientists discover - Mail Drug use less prevalent among students than thought, poll suggests - Guardian Half children's services money 'spent on 73,000 in care' - BBC Students clean up their act as they turn down illegal drugs to focus on studies - Telegraph Children ‘are lured into web addiction’ - Times Chester University ordered to demolish £120m science park - Times Three Warwick students expelled for rape jokes on Facebook - Times Students call for crackdown on drug use - Times Ireland: TDs urged to make sex education a core subject - Times Children’s commissioner: ‘Millions of pupils miss out on support’ - Schools Week