News archive for 18th June 2018

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How can we measure and report progress meaningfully? - Teacherhead Headmistress of leading girls' school sacked as police open a fraud probe into her expenses claims - Telegraph Pupils are facing the toughest ever GCSEs, as education leaders warn grades risk becoming a 'lottery'  - Telegraph Transition for pupils with additional needs - Teacher Toolkit Jewish students put off going to certain universities due to Left-wing anti-Semitism, Labour Students leader claims  - Telegraph University students' data to be shared with private companies - Telegraph UK snub for India in student visa change ‘an act of self-harm’ - Times Higher Education | THE Omagh shared education campus receives £140m Government funding boost - Mail Testing children gives a poor measure of ability | Letters - Guardian It’s time for fundamental reform of university admissions - Wonkhe Victims to help develop £2.1m national child exploitation programme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now As with so much in life you learn a lot from your children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 18 June: Youth violence, sugar, and toilet paper - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK relaxes some visa laws and angers Indian stakeholders with snub - PIE News Mid-table obscurity – university rankings you may have missed - Wonkhe Stuck as poor for 150 years - Sutton Trust Indian student visa decision is “act of self-harm”, think-tank says - Social Market Foundation | SMF What teachers tapped this week #38 – 18th June 2018 - Teacher Tapp International Textbook Summit - DfE Higher education market not working in interests of students or taxpayers - UK Parliament Pre-key stage standards published for use in 2018/19 - NAHT Hands off the jam roly-poly: why banning puddings in school is a bad idea - Guardian UK teachers share expertise in girls’ education with world-wide educators - GSA School Cuts coalition and local authorities tell Education Secretary more money is desperately needed for SEND pupils - National Education Union ISC statement: Exam difficulty in light of recent reforms - Independent Schools Council | ISC A digital skills gap is opening up among pupils - The Educator 'Helicopter' parents cause their children to struggle at school, become badly behaved and 'defiant' - Mail As UCAS deadlines loom: Civil Engineering – Is a degree the only way? - FE News Carnegie medal winner slams children’s book publishers for ‘accessible’ prose - Guardian Early years T-Level will give licence to practice - Nursery World Anne Milton launches £22m construction skills fund - FE Week 'It’s only one cheer from me on devolution so far' - Times Educational Supplement | TES £22m construction fund to pay for on-site training - Times Educational Supplement | TES New UTC approved after DfE 'pause' - Times Educational Supplement | TES SERC joins forces with local primary school to prepare pupils for the future - FE News NHS starts fall despite apprenticeships push - FE Week Two more schools to offer T-levels from 2020 - Schools Week Adult learning key to helping people into work in Wales - Welsh Government Digital and science engineering UTC to open in Doncaster in 2020 - FE Week Education and Training in the Catering Industry - FE News Scotland: ‘Single-sex schools give girls courage and opportunity to develop’ - Scotsman Rethinking standardised test scores - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics 15 hilarious times that teachers were way funnier than their students - Mirror Science Minister Sam Gyimah launches new ScienceSpotlight avatar - FE News Boys far more likely than girls to play sport outside of school, researchers claim - The Sun How should children be better protected online? - Parliament Wales: Why your child still has no chance of getting a place at preferred school even if you appeal - Wales Online Imperial College Business School’s MSc Finance enters the global top 10 in FinancialTimes rankings - FE News Glasgow School of Art fire: Mackintosh building future in balance - Times Higher Education | THE UCU on 'heartbreaking' Glasgow School of Art fire - UCU Need to know: Grammar school expansions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lessons from America. When was your vice chancellor last asked for a selfie? - Wonkhe What does it mean to be a 21st-Century civic university? - Wonkhe Digital and science engineering to be taught at new college - DfE EAL Assessment Framework for Schools wins a prestigious British Council ELTons Award 2018 - The Bell Foundation Childhood sibling dynamics may predict differences in college education - UKEdChat Cultivate an inclusive STEM sector to benefit society and the economy - PoliticsHome 'Labour anti-Semitism row is putting off Jewish students' - BBC Mid-table obscurity – university rankings you may have missed - Wonkhe Helping businesses retain returning mums - FE News From student to employee: the importance of learning to manage mental health - FE News Why schools need a coherent curriculum - Schools Week Schools in Finland set to learn from Scotland's under fire curriculum - Herald Scotland Councils call on government to increase funding after thousands of children with special needs left without school places - Independent Civil servants will be quizzed on what school they went to in a drive to increase diversity - Mail Netflix should be funding young actors, says head of drama school - Times Scotland: £100m to rebuild Glasgow School of Art after new blaze - Times Scotland: Glasgow School of Art: Graduates’ anger at destruction of a masterpiece - Times Scotland: Glasgow School of Art had no sprinklers and ‘went up like a matchbox’ - Times Ireland: Girls ignorant and ashamed of their periods - Times Hinds challenged over ‘dangerously inadequate’ SEND funding - Schools Week