News archive for 19th June 2018

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Schools must play a part in protecting our children in the digital age - Telegraph Exclusive: Teachers should ban mobile phones in classrooms, says minister - Telegraph A-level students are played the wrong recording in their French exam - Mail £20bn NHS funding boost poses ‘severe challenges’ for schools, expert says - Independent Exam board 'sorry' for audio mix-up in French and Spanish A-levels - Guardian Pupils facing ‘hardest ever’ GCSE exams as experts warn grades risk becoming ‘a lottery’ - The Sun Teenagers as young as 14 admit to taking smart drugs to pass the 'hardest ever exams' - Mail Stoke-on-Trent school may install washing machine over pupils' hygiene - BBC Learning styles a myth? - Montrose42 Blog Exam board apologises for error in French A-level exam after complaints that it was 'appalling' and a 'travesty' - Telegraph The Guardian view on the Mackintosh fire: how to rebuild is Scotland’s choice | Editorial - Guardian T-levels reinforce class hierarchy | Letters - Guardian Cambridge academic goes on strike after claiming porter's refusal to call her 'Doctor' is racist - Telegraph Too white and Oxbridge: BBC would shun Monty Python and Goodies today - Times 'Impossible' French A-level exam 'a disgrace' say students - BBC EPI on School Performance in Academy Chains and Local Authorities - National Education Union Enough policy already; let’s get real about student mental health and wellbeing - HEPI Writing and iPads in the early years classroom - BERA Young people 'see cannabis as safer than alcohol' - BBC Getting the best deal? 2018 survey of school business leaders - NAHT Global educators hear how GSA Head is re-modelling STEM into STEAM - GSA Teens as young as 14 admit taking ‘smart drugs’ to pass ‘hardest ever GCSE exams’ - The Sun Testing children gives a poor measure of ability - BERA Teens as young as 14 admit taking ‘smart drugs’ to pass ‘hardest ever GCSE exams’ - The Sun High school scoops first national mental health award - Leeds Beckett University Lord Bilimoria to question India snub decision - PIE News Cutting-edge digital innovations lead the pack at 2018 ELTons - British Council STEM international teacher recruitment programme - DfE Campaigners push for 'wellbeing GCSE' to boost mental health in schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 19 June: Loneliness fund, hygiene poverty, and predicted grades - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Third class reporting from the lords - Wonkhe Disadvantaged students hit hardest by maths teacher shortages - Nuffield Foundation John Swinney hails ‘real improvement’ in closing attainment gap - Scotsman Students should get their exam results before applying to university, says union - Independent Councils should take schools back from struggling academy chains, says education report - Independent We could end exam distress by removing the root cause: exams - IOE London Blog NHS funding settlement poses ‘quite severe challenges’ for the DfE - Schools Week 'Level 2 qualifications are vital for progression' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I've always been a sort of maverick principal' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'How art can help students explore mental health' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school pupils 'graduate' from college - Times Educational Supplement | TES T Levels and the quest for equal opportunities: Holy grail or empty vessel? - FE News Campaigners push for 'wellbeing GCSE' to boost mental health in schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Is too much technology bad for students? - Teacher Toolkit Bulldoze or rebuild? Architects at odds over future of Glasgow School of Art - Guardian 40% of faith schools favour religious children of any denomination - Schools Week Learning styles - a myth? - Montrose42 Cambridge University May Ball students drunkenly stumble through streets. - Mirror Unis must come clean on top pay - Express Unregistered schools management information - GOV.UK Updated management information on unregistered schools in England, from 1 January 2016 onwards - Ofsted Vice-chancellors must justify big pay packets to Office for Students watchdog - Times England’s new provider unit likened to free school movement - Times Higher Education | THE Closures rise, as nurseries struggle with funding and admin - Nursery World Thousands call for halt to early learning goals review - Nursery World Childminders in Wales win funding for related children - Nursery World Call for junk food ads to be banned from on-demand services - Nursery World Teachers provide soap and toothpaste for poor pupils - The Educator MillionPlus comment on accounts direction issued by the Office for Students - MillionPlus Stop boiling the frog - Headteachers' Roundtable ASCL response to EPI report on academy chains and local authorities - ASCL UK only country to use predicted grades for university admissions, study shows - UCU UCU responds to new Office for Students requirements on VC pay - UCU Vice-chancellors must justify their salaries, which will be published annually - Office for Students School Performance in Academy Chains and Local Authorities – 2017 - EPI Five things we learned from EPI report on MATs and councils - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL comment on UCU report on university admissions - ASCL 'Let councils take schools from struggling MATs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES If postwar history starts in 1951, did the Tories ‘blue-wash’ the A-level syllabus? - Guardian Emotional last message sent by head teacher, 37, before he took his own life - Mirror From parties to politics: how student life has changed - Guardian If postwar history starts in 1951, did the Tories ‘blue-wash’ the A-level syllabus? - Guardian The academy dream is in freefall. Schools should not have to pick up the pieces - Guardian Scottish schools failing to recruit black and Asian teachers - Herald Scotland Job ads can give men a head start in school leadership selection - Guardian The Herald’s prestigious awards set to toast the finest in higher education - Herald Scotland Teachers are having to buy toiletries for pupils. And they say it's getting worse - HuffPost Primary school children affected by hygiene poverty, charity finds - Guardian Scottish schools failing to recruit black and Asian teachers - Herald Scotland Profile: Peter Lee - Schools Week Five things any good devolved skills plan should contain - FE Week Levy scheme turns executives into apprentices - Financial Times 'Ditch predicted grades' from university admissions - BBC Jewish pupils ‘avoid certain universities over fear of anti-Semitism’, Labour student leader warns demanding crackdown - Mail Universities could face 'significant' fines over vice-chancellor pay packages, regulator warns - Independent University chiefs to be forced to justify pay - Guardian Helicopter parenting is bad for children - Times Student visa snub is ‘kick in teeth’ for India - Times Author Geraldine McCaughrean attacks simplistic children’s books - Times Oxford academics open budget ‘Uber of universities’ - Times Vice-chancellors must justify big pay packets to Office for Students watchdog - Times Girls don’t need to be told what they want to study - Times Scotland: Construction firm Kier defends fire safety plan at Glasgow School of Art - Times Watchdog warns university bosses will have to justify pay in crackdown on huge salaries - The Sun EPI: ‘Let councils take schools back from failing MATs’ - Schools Week EPI report: Academies are no better than LA schools, and 7 other important findings - Schools Week