News archive for 25th June 2018

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Schools are ‘gaming the system’ as thousands of the most difficult pupils are kicked out to boost their overall exam results - Mail Government plans a review of children’s physical activity at school - Schools Week Valleys college staff threaten to strike over job cuts - Wales Online Children should be given HPV vaccine at primary school to catch them before they start having sex say doctors - Mail Number of students killing themselves nearly doubles since 2000 - The Sun How apprentices in England are assessed - FE News Pay cut for 'fat cat' academy chiefs earning more than the Prime Minister - Telegraph Exam stress ‘isn’t new’, and two other things we learned from ministers at education questions - Schools Week Top mandarin admits to contingency concerns over T-levels - FE Week Ofsted Grades here to stay. Now what? - Teacherhead Ofsted at the public accounts committee: Five things we learned - Schools Week GCSEs: I’ll never forgive you, Michael Gove | Letters - Guardian The 10 hardest universities to get into - Telegraph 'We need to show what more investment will achieve' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools excluding difficult pupils to keep grades up - Times Teacher is the most desirable job in the UK right now! - FE News Ofsted: New apprenticeship provider monitoring visits a ‘concern’ Billy Camden - FE Week How apprentices in England are assessed - Education & Skills Funding Agency What teachers tapped this week #39 – 25th June 2018 - Teacher Tapp MillionPlus CEO writes for HEPI - England’s choice for post-18 education: Levelling up or down? - MillionPlus Work environment impacting on health of disabled teachers - NASUWT Popularity of UK among business students climbs after Brexit - Financial Times 10 practitioner-led projects investigate outstanding teaching, learning and assessment of apprenticeship standards - Education & Training Foundation | ETF What is the best type of lesson plan? - The Educator Word gaps: 5 strategies to boost vocabulary - Teacher Toolkit Assessing the state of the relationship - Wonkhe Votes for all – getting students back on the electoral register - Wonkhe MPs urge creation of new department for children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 25 June: Energy drinks, psychotherapy, and gangs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now FE college staff consider quitting as workloads and stress levels rise - National Education Union England’s choice for post-18 education: Levelling up or down? - HEPI University student suicide rates revealed - BBC Male students in England and Wales more likely to kill themselves - Guardian Written Statement on childhood obesity - a plan for action, chapter 2 - Parliament Teachers 'upskirted' and 'downbloused' by pupils in class, union warns - Telegraph Climbing Frame scales new heights with exciting refresh - Unionlearn Anne Milton speech from AELP summer conference - FE News Milton ‘reluctant’ to reduce off-the-job training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anne Milton talks about Social Mobility, Career Progression and SMEs - FE News Can university graduates really become police detectives in 12 weeks? The jury’s still out - The Conversation Phonics check 2018 pass mark announced - Schools Week How can we get more kids to not hate maths? - IOE London Blog A new dawn across the data landscape - Wonkhe FE commissioner reflects on six months of change - FE Week Kids in primary school must have jabs to stop STI - The Sun Brighton College head says pupils found it 'liberating' to switch off their phones - Mail The Scottish universities finally achieving gender equality - Herald Scotland 70% of College staff consider quitting as workloads and stress levels rise, according to NEU poll - FE News Private providers deliver 3 in 4 apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-thirds of FE staff have considered quitting - Times Educational Supplement | TES 70% of College staff consider quitting as workloads and stress levels rise, according to NEU poll - FE News HSE launches resources to help parents talk to their children about sex - Times AELP presents its new code of governance - FE Week Childminders’ relative rule plea - Nursery World Wages, admin, profitability top list of concerns - Nursery World