News archive for 28th June 2018

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School ditches uniforms to help kids stay cool in the hot weather - and the pupils are loving it - Mirror What university is like when you're still wetting the bed at 18 - Wales Online Secondary school classes have more pupils in than five years ago - Mirror It’s official: school budget cuts have finally caught up with teaching assistants - IOE London Blog Schools no longer required to record pupils' nationality - Guardian Super-sized classes at highest level on record - Telegraph Student loans: use of RPI costs graduates up to £16,000 - Guardian Spending more on boys' sports teams breaks law, schools told - Guardian Teacher numbers at lowest since 2013, official figures show - BBC An eighth UTC gets the bottom Ofsted grade - FE Week 'Snowflake' generation of students’ hostility to free speech revealed - Telegraph Nicola Sturgeon ditches new education minister after offensive blog posts - Herald Scotland UK college to pay settlement fees of European staff after Brexit - Financial Times Sturgeon in sudden U-turn over minister’s transgender remarks - Times Training needs of early years sector examined by new ETF report - Education & Training Foundation Number of teachers in state schools continues to decline - EPI Industrial Strategy: building a Britain fit for the future - GOV.UK New package of measures announced on student mental health - DfE Participation in education, training and employment - FE News IOE researchers urge government to review how drugs are prescribed to children for ADHD - IOE London Blog IOE’s ground-breaking EDUCATE programme presents awards to its first cohorts at the London Festival of Learning - IOE London Blog When do schools break up for summer, how long do the summer holidays last and what date will they go back? - The Sun Daily roundup 28 June: Jedi training, disabled children's health, and knife detection - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Multi-million pound fund launched to help colleges improve - DfE Warnings over teacher recruitment and retention crisis - The Educator CPD picks of the week - Teacher Toolkit Quality assurance, with a Welsh accent - Wonkhe Parents – partners or interference? - Wonkhe Statement re the DfE's withdrawal of the requirement for schools to assess English language proficiency - The Bell Foundation Student Mental Health Charter - Russell Group Swift Brexit progress needed - Russell Group NEU comment on school workforce stats - National Education Union Latest teacher retention statistics paint a bleak picture for teacher supply in England - NFER 8 out of 10 30-hour childcare places provided by private and voluntary sector - Nursery World ‘Evidence’ and the EEF toolkit: Reliable science or a blunt set of tools? - BERA Schools will not lose money next year, unions admit - Schools Week ASCL comment on fall in teacher numbers - ASCL Action needed over retention crisis - NASUWT All aboard! Smooth sailing to academic success - Wonkhe Nicola Sturgeon axes new Scottish minister Gillian Martin for transgender comments - Mail Reviews of changes to the SEND system examined - UK Parliament Troubled UCAT academy trust to close, shedding seven schools - Schools Week Twenty-six more private school warning notices published - Schools Week When “balance” goes bad - The Learning Spy Fears Glasgow School of Art will collapse any day after fire tore through building - Mirror College principal attacks staff troublemakers in Lanarkshire - Herald Scotland Spotlight on 16-year-olds as NEETs rise and level 2 apprenticeships fall - FE Week Glasgow University hears its first Gaelic graduation speech in 567 years - Herald Scotland Angry parents slam closure of top private Hindu school and say ‘it's like a smack in the face’ - Evening Standard Snubbing tech in schools is failing disadvantaged pupils, finds think tank - FE News DfE reiterates that gender segregation is ‘unlawful discrimination’ - Schools Week New package of measures announced on student mental health - FE News Bids reopen for £13m strategic college improvement fund - FE Week Partnerships between HE and FE essential to tackling skills shortages and social mobility, say @MiddlesexUni and Capital City College Group - FE News Large part of Glasgow School of Art to be urgently dismantled - Guardian Return to Teaching pilot was a flop, new data reveals - Schools Week Never mind the Brexiteurs: why it’s time to learn French | Phil Daoust - Guardian A story about Harry Kane and Russian history is inspiring schoolkids to read - Guardian DfE: Schools get bigger as pupil population increases by 66,000 - Schools Week Evaluation of the return to teaching programme: Not good value - FE News Protesting schoolboys turn up to class in skirts after teachers reject their pleas to wear shorts - Mail New SNP education minister mocked transgender students - Herald Scotland £15m fund launched to help colleges improve - FE News Two in five physics teachers do not hold degree in the science, figures show - Mail Podcast: Tom Bewick, chief exec of FAB talks about T levels - FE News Digital skills crucial to the success of fourth industrial revolution - Jisc Teachers are entering and leaving the job at the same rate – and other school workforce findings - Schools Week Government renews call for parents to sign up for Tax-Free Childcare - Nursery World Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2018 - DfE School workforce in England: November 2017 - DfE Participation in education, training and employment by 16-18 years olds in England: 2017 - DfE Higher education leavers statistics UK: 2016 to 2017 - Higher Education Statistics Agency Forecasts of student numbers, student loan expenditure and student loan repayments in England - Student Loans Company Advanced learner loans paid to FE students in England: 2017 to 2018 - Student Loans Company Education provision: children under 5 years of age, January 2018 - DfE Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 28 February 2018 - Ofsted Analysis of training for further education learners on benefits in England: 2016 to 2017 - DfE Northern Ireland: HE fact sheets, including age participation and equality categories - GOV.UK DfE: Schools ‘must no longer request’ pupil nationality data - Schools Week Project investigates outstanding teaching, learning and assessment of apprenticeship standards - FE News National tests bordering on 'child abuse' claims head - BBC Spelling and grammar increased in functional skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES National learning analytics service to launch - Times Educational Supplement | TES Next phase of college improvement fund launches - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK gets world-first national learning analytics service - Times Higher Education | THE Is grade inflation a worldwide trend? - Times Higher Education | THE Another successful send-off - Sutton Trust Sitting exams at different times ‘increases cheating’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edtech 'can help close the attainment gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Harnessing the opportunities in global higher education - HEPI We need an international benchmark of excellence - FE News Here’s how English skills policy needs to change - FE Week Vulnerable pupils face 'terrifying damage' in mainstream schools - Herald Scotland Headteachers 'disappointed' after ditching of legislation to give them more power - Herald Scotland Headteacher offers pupils a week off from lessons… if they write about what they learn - Express Parents could be alerted if their son or daughter is on the verge of a mental breakdown at university under Government proposals - Mail Letter from Nick Gibb to Robert Halfon re the Alternative Provision Inquiry - DfE Teach primary school pupils about finance, say City firms - Guardian Student mental health must be top priority – universities minister - Guardian Student mental health support must improve, universities told - BBC Mental health: University students share their worries - BBC Head teacher gives "deprived" pupils an extra week off in term time for holidays - Mirror Universities urged to invest in  mental health services as minister launches new charter to promote student wellbeing - Telegraph Council condemns ‘insular and selfish’ Durham University students - Times Universities told to back mental-health charter for students - Times Essex school offers week’s holiday in term time . . . for learning - Times Scotland: New education minister Gillian Martin mocked ‘hairy knuckled’ trans students - Times Scotland: Extra year in education can have a lasting effect on IQ - Times