News archive for 22nd June 2018

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Learndirect in talks on rescue sale - Financial Times Low paid teaching assistants forced to buy food and books for children at cash-strapped schools - Mirror Four reasons why female teachers are paid less than men - FFT Education Datalab Drive to rid schools of dead white men like Shakespeare will leave children at mercy of fads - Telegraph Top girls school ridiculed for Austerity Day lunch that served up baked beans and potatoes  - Telegraph Exam board launches investigation into security breach after Maths A-level questions are leaked online  - Telegraph Recreation inspired by Edinburgh’s Fettes College to open in China - Scotsman Ucas denies loss of confidence after revelation black people more likely to have applications investigated - Independent The Guardian view on mobile phones: schools are better without them | Editorial - Guardian The government is ‘minded to’ terminate funding for troubled Gloucester Academy - Schools Week Ofqual investigates ‘allegations of malpractice’ in Edexcel A-level maths paper - Schools Week Global teacher prize winner Andria Zafirakou to found school arts charity - Schools Week Schools to pilot revised Early Learning Goals from September - Nursery World Glasgow School of Art walls in danger of 'imminent collapse' - Herald Scotland 65 winners scoop silver Pearson teaching awards for 2018 - Schools Week Ofsted chief’s ‘call to action’ shows her lack of understanding | Letters - Guardian £8,000-a-term school criticised for `austerity day´ lunch of baked potatoes - Mail Ten of the best value private schools in the UK - Telegraph Podcast 23: Vic Goddard - Teacher Toolkit St Paul's Girls' school slammed for austerity day lunch - HuffPost Skills minister: IfA is better but still not fast enough - FE Week Bullies chop off five-year-old disabled girl’s hair with classroom scissors for the sixth time in eight months - Mail Skills minister: IfA is better but still not fast enough - FE News Students' end-of-year artwork 2018 – your entries so far - Guardian Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 22 June - Pearson Primary school teacher fined for taking her son out of school to go to China during his GCSE year - Mail Labour pledges to 'do away' with Tax-Free Childcare - Nursery World New early-learning goals to be trialled in 25 primary schools - Schools Week No, teachers aren’t overpaid – despite what some think-tanks may claim - Schools Week Top private school holds 'austerity day' with baked potatoes and beans for lunch - Independent The schools and colleges students in Merthyr Tydfil will have to pay to get to - Wales Online British working class children ‘lack drive’ of migrant families, Ofsted chief says - Express Davidson blames Sturgeon for trying to 'con Parents by rigging education stats - Express Schoolboy scalded by exploding kettle - The Sun 'Panic attacks and crying': how the new GCSEs affected pupils - Guardian Ofsted watch: Private provider celebrates grade one - FE Week Just 1 in 10 Stem apprentices female, report finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES As a teacher, sitting an exam really puts you to the test - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities credibility at risk over rise in first class degrees - The Educator Nursery school expands with outdoor provision - Nursery World Headteacher raises extra £300,000 for school budget - Times Head hits back at Ofsted chief over extremism claims - Times ‘Period poverty’ campaign sees dozens of schools give free tampons to girls - Evening Standard Love Island is a sad reflection of the education system former Ofsted chief says - Telegraph Oxford University students in drug-fuelled orgies and live sex shows during - Mirror Glasgow School of Art fire damage survey delayed over falling debris fear - Guardian Scrapping employer fees would be a mistake - FE Week Public Accounts Committee: sharper focus on skills is crucial to UK productivity - Commons Select Committee Snobby ex-Ofsted chief blasts Love Island as ‘appalling’ and a ‘sad reflection on the education system’ - The Sun NHS apprenticeships fall by more than a third - FE Week Hull College boss: How I’m taking it out of intensive care - FE News Roma pupils 'hiding nationality' to avoid bullying in Scottish schools - Herald Scotland Milton ‘the fixer’: I just want to make it all work - FE Week Federation of Awarding Bodies gets the lawyers in over T-levels - FE Week Three pupils suffer horrific burns with one 'scarred for life' after camping kettle explodes - Mail Visa system ‘does not function effectively’ for UK universities - Times Higher Education | THE Review of the Early Learning Goals in England - Early Education Crying “grade inflation” dismisses students’ achievements at university - New Statesman Nursery group adds seventh setting - Nursery World Successful transition to work programme to more than double in size - FE News What are the best CPD courses for teachers? - The Educator Just 1 in 10 Stem apprentices female, report finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Money 'biggest barrier' to edtech use - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I'm worth it', says £240k academy boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sharper focus needed on skills crucial to UK productivity - UK Parliament If at first you don’t succeed… - Education Media Centre | EMC Four reasons why female teachers are paid less than men - FFT Education Datalab Schoolchildren 'scarred for life' after camping kettle exploded 'like a bomb' during outdoor cooking class - Mirror Teachers 'must confront sexism – including theirs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Try, try and trying again really does work' - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels exam board plans 'fundamentally flawed' - Times Educational Supplement | TES CPD picks of the week - Teacher Toolkit Schools await sign-off for popular BTEC course - Schools Week Date set for first new children’s mental health data in 14 years - Schools Week I just got a permanent academic job – but I'm not celebrating | Anonymous academic - Guardian Ofsted chief: families of white working-class children 'lack drive' of migrants - Guardian £12m to boost employability - Welsh Government Formative and end point assessors are under-represented and need professional recognition - FE News Don't reform the reforms! - FE News White, working class pupils ‘lack drive of migrant families’ because they have borne the brunt of economic dislocation, says head of Ofsted - Mail The UK government has launched the Institute of Coding, a body of universities and tech leaders to tackle the digital skills gap - City AM Give schools an Ofsted rating for their careers advice, say MPs - Schools Week Sharper focus needed on skills crucial to UK productivity - FE News Four reasons why female teachers are paid less than men - IOE London Blog Love Island ‘a sad reflection on the education system’ says former Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw - Times Bristol University suicides just bad luck, says academic - Times Engineering new ways into industry for women - Times Scotland: Statues feared lost in Glasgow art school fire - Times Scotland: Davidson accuses SNP of rigging stats to con parents - Times Scotland: Talking children up and down - Times Public Accounts Committee wants more DfE action on bad apprenticeships - FE Week