News archive for 14th June 2018

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Student, 19, took Ketamine at black tie ball before plummeting to his death from crane - Mirror Cry for help! School in Theresa May’s constituency begging for toilet rolls from parents - Express School begs for toilet rolls from parents in Theresa May’s constituency - Mirror Minister claims lecturer reported for hate speech for teaching history, sparking angry denials - Independent Scotland: Primary teachers 'losing 70 hours a week' to new standardised testing - Herald Scotland IfA extends early years T-Level consultation again - Nursery World Rap tutorials help troubled Scots school pupils turn the page - Scotsman CPD picks of the week - Teacher Toolkit How French should French lessons be? - UKEdChat The art and science of memory (part 2) - Learning Scientists Launch of 2018/19 Beacon Awards - Edge Foundation Give young children eye tests to improve their literacy, as one in ten may have undiagnosed conditions - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Sweating the small stuff - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF More than half of UK children have been bullied or abused online - Primary Times DfE announces £1m funding for mental health check pilots - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 14 June: Child refugees, bullying, and judge's criticism - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Professor Green talks about young people's struggles - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Open access – are we almost there for REF? - Wonkhe Putting Bourdieu into praxis? Possibilities for sociology of education to make a difference in classrooms - BERA In case you missed it… - HEPI Ministers need to respond to latest crash in apprenticeship starts - AELP Disadvantaged pupils have less-qualified science teachers across the developed world, and other findings from PISA - IOE London Blog Keeping the sinking apprenticeship afloat - Wonkhe Need for urgent clarity on status of EU students - Universities UK Research organisations questioned - UK Parliament Drop in first choices shows pressure on secondary places - ASCL Apprenticeship and levy statistics release: our response - Learning & Work Institute Apprenticeship starts down 28% - FE News Children caught carrying knives are 'persistently absent' from school, study reveals - Evening Standard Calls for changes to levy scheme after apprenticeship starts tumble - Financial Times Inspiring members back to books with Reading Ahead - Unionlearn Wanted: Creative solutions to fill tech talent gap - Scotsman Nurseries renew call to scrap business rates for childcare providers - Nursery World More children denied places at overcrowded secondary schools - Times How to cut ‘decision fatigue’ in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Make no mistake: expanding grammars is harmful' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head warns of toll of knife crime on schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer pupils offered first-choice secondary place - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'The big problem at the heart of SEND funding' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 5-year-olds ‘crushed’ by national assessments in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We need to talk about exclusions' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Betsy DeVos' visit will be in a bubble of privatisation - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are you reading? - Teacher Toolkit Metro mayors demand control over unspent levy - FE Week Teenage knife possession offenders do worse in GCSEs – report - Guardian Scotland: Parents and teachers blamed for obsession with university education - Herald Scotland First-choice secondary school offers fall again as ‘baby bulge’ moves - Schools Week Supporting EAL learners in primary schools - Headteacher Update How do qualification entry rates differ between schools and multi-academy trusts? - FFT Education Datalab Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 December 2017 - Ofsted Student loans in Scotland: 2017 to 2018 - Student Loans Company Student loans in England: 2017 to 2018 - Student Loans Company Apprenticeship and levy statistics: June 2018 - GOV.UK Student loans in Wales: 2017 to 2018 - Student Loans Company Student loans in Northern Ireland: 2017 to 2018 - Student Loans Company Secondary and primary school application and offers: 2018 - GOV.UK Teacher vacancies, sickness absence and substitution statistics in Northern Ireland, 2017/18. - GOV.UK Vocational qualifications dataset - GOV.UK The Education Committee hears from policy experts as part of its inquiry into school and college funding. - GOV.UK Wide variation in UK universities’ REF open access compliance - Times Higher Education | THE The week in higher education – 14 June 2018 - Times Higher Education | THE Labour ‘needs plan’ to write off English student debt - Times Higher Education | THE Monthly update: apprenticeship starts down 52 per cent in March - FE Week Greater Oxbridge diversity will have academic as well as social benefits - Times Higher Education | THE Heads blast 'insulting' DfE funding advice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chartered College to target headteacher pedagogy - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do qualification entry rates differ between schools and multi-academy trusts? - FFT Education Datalab Subcontracted provision – compliance vs quality - FE News Scottish university chief hits back in free speech campus row - Herald Scotland Wales: ‘Chuckle Brother’ teacher is struck off for dragging pupil across playground - Express Wales: Pushy parents try to use videos taken at sports day as ‘evidence’ to overturn race results - Mirror Students who communicate electronically among guests attending Hawking memorial - Mail Average teacher paid £38,000 a year — despite union claims of low pay - The Sun Wales: Parents take video evidence to challenge school sports day results - Times Stressed Eton boys welcome mobile curfew to help them sleep - Times Students stay silent in seminars over fear they will cause offence - Times Grammars ‘can help other schools to raise standards’ - Times Classroom pay ‘too high and staff should stop whining’ - Times Wales: Teased teacher struck off for grabbing pupil - Times New GCSEs are a poor preparation for the workplace - Times Scotland: Web giants ‘are fuelling child mental health crisis’ - Times Ireland: State ‘must act now’ on funding of universities - Times