News archive for 27th June 2018

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College chief walks 48 miles across three counties in 14 hours for NSPCC - FE News Polling finds no evidence that UK students hostile to free speech - Times Higher Education | THE Headteacher introduces enrichment week so parents can take children term time holiday - Telegraph Pupils offered lessons in how to spot fake news - Times Childminder numbers in England plummet - BBC Secondary school offers children an 'enrichment' week off during term time - Mail Pupils offered lessons in how to spot fake news - Times AoC backs campaign to keep international teachers in Britain - AoC | Association of Colleges Narcissistic adolescents may perform better at school - UKEdChat The mythical land of psychological types and its impact on education - Learning Scientists Fund-raising students collect thousands for charity - Leeds Beckett University Divide growing between rich and poor for school language learning - British Council Lords debates challenges facing disabled people - UK Parliament Tes FE Podcast: Addressing concerns over T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE pushing Treasury on teacher pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES The wisdom of students: monitoring quality through student reviews - Wonkhe HE is behind the curve when it comes to supporting mental health - Wonkhe Government breaks promise on school funding - National Education Union Gap widening in foreign language learning - PIE News Will TLIF be scrapped to pay for a teacher payrise? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five crucial questions Damian Hinds failed to answer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government breaks promise on school funding - ASCL Sunderland teachers to strike - NASUWT Don't leave it too late. It's time to plan for your future - NAHT NAHT's Nick Brook gives evidence about Ofsted's inspection of schools - NAHT Unions submit 5% pay claim ahead of July pay talks - UCU Adult education budget funding and performance management rules - FE News Teachers’ union delivers pay rise petition to John Swinney - Scotsman Daily roundup 27 June: Foreign languages, online game, and forces families - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Unions report a £59 real-terms cut in per-pupil funding - Schools Week Call for Partnerships: Bell Foundation looking for new Centres of Expertise - The Bell Foundation Journalism bosses hit out at apprenticeship training blockage - FE Week Get my name right at my graduation - BBC Our culture is saturated with porn – which is why we need to talk about it in schools - New Statesman Tory MP Confronts Education Secretary Over 'Appalling' Conditions Of Academies - HuffPost "Kids are going to school in the rain without a coat": How charity is helping UK's poorest kids - Mirror Childminder numbers drop by 600 in three months - Nursery World Damian Hinds defends T-levels timetable to Education Committee - FE Week Ex Varkey Foundation CEO spearheads new TechEd exploration - FE News Adult education budget funding and performance management rules - FE News 'Teachers shouldn't be parent volunteers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs urge Damian Hinds to back #LetThemTeach - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE pushing Treasury on teacher pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Powerful way to improve pupils' life chances' is lost in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'There's no excuse for applying stress until pupils snap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'The history curriculum must move beyond the World Wars' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New CEO for Cambridge International exam board - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Happy pupils perform better in school and in life' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Telling adjectives and verbs apart: a pupil guide - Times Educational Supplement | TES How misbehaviour can be a sign of language disorder - Times Educational Supplement | TES Transferring unused apprenticeship funds to other employers - FE News ‘Learn lessons’ from the ‘terrible case’ of Whitehaven and Bright Tribe, says Damian Hinds - Schools Week Wales launches guidance for healthy eating in early years settings - Nursery World Unions write to AOC to justify 5 per cent national pay claim - FE Week SEND review guide for governors launched - Times Educational Supplement | TES Monica Parle: 'Writing is undervalued and under-invested in' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School exclusions 'fuel knife crime in capital' says London's deputy mayor - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damian Hinds resolutely silent on school funding - Schools Week #1MinCPD: Receiving feedback - Teacher Toolkit LEO on the launchpad? - Wonkhe Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 March 2018 - Ofsted Our culture is saturated with porn – which is why we need to talk about it in schools - New Statesman FOI: early years dataset as at 31 March 2018 - Ofsted Zahawi dismisses funding concerns about 'successful' 30 hours - Nursery World King’s dean: English universities should consider going private - Times Higher Education | THE Smashing STEM stereotypes - SecEd Teaching Awards surprise 65 finalists on national Thank a Teacher Day - SecEd MPs demand action on STEM skills gap - SecEd Adopted children 'barely surviving' in high-pressure schools - Guardian More details emerge ahead of new inspection framework - SecEd Tenth National Pupil Premium and Ofsted Conference - SecEd Second National Delivering Statutory RSE and PSHE Conference - SecEd DfE accused of breaking school funding promise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds: 'I trust grammars on poorer pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES No change on English and maths GCSE resits policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former college lecturer appointed FE minister in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Life outside lectures: making student societies great - Guardian College unions call for 5% pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘If you have a learning disability, you should be as ambitious as anyone else’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nuclear industry forced to step in at 'appalling' Bright Tribe school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor pupils risk missing out on language learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Seven findings about children who have been in care - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Brexit effect and six other languages findings - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Smart’ glasses for teachers help pupils learn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'fail to understand traumatised adopted pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stress management for teachers - The Educator Women who volunteer still don’t get the credit - Wonkhe LEO on the launchpad? - Wonkhe Growing number of children at risk of multiple dangers, charity warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The media industry is changing fast, but universities aren't keeping up | Lisette Johnston - Guardian Primary school closes after 100 years - BBC Caroline Freeman and Nicola Simpson: A breath of fresh air for kids at Scots nurseries - Scotsman Could consultancy combat levy chaos? - FE News It’s time to let FE providers award their own degrees - FE Week Swinney had the air of a funeral director performing the last rites - Herald Scotland John Swinney accused of ‘mother of all climbdowns’ after shelving flagship school Bill - Herald Scotland Wales: Mum pulls sons out of school because they're not allowed to wear shorts in sweltering summer heat - Mirror Correspondence from the Minister for School Standards regarding alternative provision (pdf) - UK Parliament Students lose interest in languages after Brexit vote - Financial Times Military children: 'I've lived in 12 different houses' - BBC Adios French! Spanish will become the most widely-taught language in Britain within a decade - Mail 'Mummy, can you spray my face white?' - BBC Spanish exam entries on track to surpass French in English schools - Guardian Language lesson gap means poorest miss out, says report - BBC 'Don't say my name wrong at graduation' - BBC A third of state schools no longer teach languages in year 9 - Schools Week Spanish heads to top of class as pupils fall out of love with French - Times Faith school on probation for censoring Sherlock Holmes - Times Graduates on the front line of social work - Times Teacher uses $1m prize to promote arts - Times There are ways to save Britain’s lost children - Times Apprenticeship scheme is a tax on business, says Whitbread chief - Times Scotland: Swinney reforms turn into ‘mother of all climbdowns’ - Times Scotland: Education climbdown - Times Ireland: John Treacy wants school PE to go extra mile - Times