News archive for 26th June 2018

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Adopted children need better support at school - Schools Week Mum takes sons out of school because they're not allowed to wear shorts - Wales Online Jewish school in UK criticised for redacting 'bare wrists' from books - Guardian Top mandarin admits to contingency concerns over T-levels - FE Week Schools reform bill will not be brought in ‘at this time’, Swinney confirms - Scotsman 300 schools picked out in GCSE 'off-rolling' investigation - Guardian FE funding 'too low', post-18 review told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Neglected children never get to learn about ‘normal’ life - Times Pop-up podiatry schools put a spring in the step of healthcare courses - Office for Students Universities Minister launches open data competition - DfE Scotland: Trust in SNP falls again after 'decade of mismanagement' in Scotland, survey reveals - Express School offers children week off in term time - BBC New guidance on preparing for literacy - Best Evidence in Brief UK government sets out post-Brexit registration for EU citizens - PIE News ‘Low-cost’ private school gets government green light - Schools Week Lowestoft teachers to strike - NASUWT Excessive workload and cuts hitting teacher morale - NASUWT 'Blatant discrimination' of disabled teachers challenged - NASUWT NASUWT welcomes Education Bill announcement - NASUWT Daily roundup 26 June: Early development, upskirting, and tablets - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children fleeing domestic violence 'forced to sleep rough' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Teacher education: A weapon of mass instruction? - BERA Training providers confirm in survey why the apprenticeship reforms aren’t going well - AELP Don’t ditch your librarian - UKEdChat Urban violence and pupil performance - Best Evidence in Brief New findings about Investing in Innovation (i3) evaluations - Best Evidence in Brief The impact of wearing glasses on early literacy - Best Evidence in Brief Ultra-Orthodox Jewish school blacked out bare wrists and Picasso pictures in textbooks - Telegraph Greater flexibility for apprenticeship levy as transfers extended - DfE The DfE considers putting mentors ‘in the classroom’ with teacher trainees - Schools Week Heatwave in the UK: How hot does it have to be for school to be cancelled? - Mail Stamford Hill school with sex ed ban 'inadequate' - BBC Ofsted warns parents could be overmedicating their children as ritalin prescriptions double in a decade - Independent World’s top teacher uses £1m prize money to bring artists to schools - Evening Standard AoC backs #LetThemTeach campaign - Times Educational Supplement | TES Low expectations are stopping young disabled people going to university - The Conversation Graduate recruiters are clamouring for more talented women – and schools should be afraid - Schools Week North London teacher who won $1m will use windfall to get artists into schools - Guardian Jewish school found redacting textbooks put into special measures - Schools Week Post-18 education review panel will try to fix HE and FE funding imbalance - FE Week Kirsty Williams: New online PGCE can make Wales a world leader - Welsh Government Ofsted: Half of pupils who leave before their GCSEs don’t end up in another state school - Schools Week Can you take your children on holiday during term time and what’s the fine if they miss school? - The Sun Are birthday cards to ex-pupils the solution to the teacher recruitment crisis? - Schools Week Cambridge University has a problem with race. Now it must admit it - Guardian Education Bill ‘shelved’ over lack of support at Holyrood - Herald Scotland DfE: T level work placements ‘hard to deliver’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted set to grade providers on 'behaviour and attitudes' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Simon Ashworth speaks about Subcontracting - FE News Ofsted does not have a preferred style of teaching for early years - NAHT School funding still in crisis: regional school summits - NAHT 10 tips for transition into primary school - Teacher Toolkit Mum’s fury after school ‘asks her to keep autistic son at home during Ofsted inspection’ - The Sun Two private schools to merge ahead of ‘tax bombshell’ - Scotsman Nursery owner takes on global early years role - Nursery World Proportion of ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ schools drops after Ofsted reporting change - Schools Week Jisc launches partnership to inspire young people into STEM - Jisc Changes to Ofsted’s statistical reporting of inspection outcomes for state-funded schools: an analysis of the changes - Ofsted State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 March 2018 - Ofsted Greater flexibility added to apprenticeship levy - Times Educational Supplement | TES The FE commissioner is wrong: We should keep PROCAT open - FE Week Framework launches to improve scholarship work in College HE - AoC | Association of Colleges New data published on student suicide rates - Universities UK David Laws and Natalie Perera - Schools Week Workload and cuts ‘badly damaging’ teacher morale - Times Educational Supplement | TES Take the stress out the school holidays with Tax-Free Childcare - DfE How ‘smart’ online courses can help close the gender gap - Education Media Centre | EMC Refugees lose friends, money, home – ‘only knowledge lasts’ - Guardian Value for money? What a grim, cold way to talk about universities | Linda Drew - Guardian Teachers on charity: ‘It was humbling. I never thought it would happen to me’ - Guardian West Yorkshire Career Learning Pilot event in Leeds - Unionlearn Pupils learn to sign for deaf awareness week - BBC No more student lie ins University lectures to start at 8am this autumn - Express Unionlearn hosts Career Learning Pilot events in Leeds and Taunton - FE News Dear Damian Hinds, check your sums on school spending | Michael Rosen - Guardian It’s Dr Jim from now on as Napier honours underground arts legend - Scotsman St Andrews University reaches £100m fundraising target - Scotsman Melvyn Bragg: UK becoming a stupid country - Mail Have you mastered the art of talent acquisition? - FE News New project aims to improve life chances of teenagers - Financial Times Just 1 in 7 parents think apprenticeships are a good idea - and most children don't even know what they are - Mirror Education Bill ‘shelved’ over lack of support at Holyrood - Herald Scotland The broken childcare market is a classic government failure - City AM Ofsted chief warns that Ritalin prescriptions are on the rise, as parent try to medicate away bad behaviour - The Sun Training providers confirm why the apprenticeship reforms aren’t going well - FE News Britain is becoming a stupid country, Melvyn Bragg says - Guardian Use of ‘chemical cosh’ drugs on children doubles in a decade - Times End of the student lie-in: Durham lectures to start at 8am - Times Some heads have lost sight of their true purpose, says Ofsted chief - Times This has given me a second chance - Times Prove you attempted suicide, pupil was told - Times Next wave of free schools to target areas of greatest need - Times Students asked to help create their ideal university - Times Scotland: Retailers and private schools cry foul after rates reform is brought forward - Times Scotland: University’s £100m for poor students - Times Ireland: Schools hit by Carillion collapse to be finished - Times Ireland: Skills shortage in construction sector - Times Three quarters of providers unhappy with non-levy apprenticeship funding - FE Week