News archive for 29th June 2018

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Children put in 'physically and mentally cruel' isolation for 7 hours at Delta Academies Trust schools - HuffPost Universities may be fuelling the mental health crisis, leading psychiatrist warns  - Telegraph A broad and balanced approach to English teaching and the curriculum - The Learning Spy As few as 200 star pupils will achieve clean sweep of top grades in new GCSEs, study predicts - Telegraph GMB: Ark’s wealthy donors should bail out their struggling school - Schools Week Failure can be the route to success for today’s stressed schoolchildren - Times 'Ofsted needs a new approach to college groups' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can schools make use of apprenticeships? - Times Educational Supplement | TES YouGov if you want to: the data behind the “snowflake” story - Wonkhe Cultures of compassion in early childhood education - BERA Daily roundup 29 June: Fast food, mental health, and benefits - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Pupils should take their time to get things right, research reveals - IOE London Blog Middle-class student children and boomerang graduate children ‘closer’ to parents in challenging economy - London School of Economics | LSE ETF publishes report on current practice in using a system of phonics with Post-16 learners - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Maddalaine Ansell appointed new Director Education - British Council New AoC Chair announced as Julie Nerney - AoC | Association of Colleges Family stresses of learning disabilities highlighted - UKEdChat A guide to apprenticeships for the school workforce - FE News Partnerships between HE/FE essential to tackling skills shortages and social mobility, says Middlesex University - MillionPlus University celebrates International Women in Engineering Day - Leeds Beckett University UCU to ballot higher education staff for industrial action over pay - UCU In the news: Friday 29 June 2018 - UCU Governors ‘must have mandatory pre-appointment training’ - Schools Week What not to do on your Ucas university application - Telegraph How to write a great Ucas personal statement for university - Telegraph 21 new members appointed to IfA apprentice panel - FE Week Students may be wrecking Durham. But the university is to blame | Joe Banfield - Guardian AoC announces Julie Nerney as next chair - FE Week Julie Nerney is new chair of the AoC - FE News Free Schools: An ideological rather than an educational initiave - FE News Yorkshire nurseries win business rates relief - Nursery World Over 36,000 children left to face risk of abuse and neglect - Nursery World Successfully embedding #EdTech into schools will need a change in mindset - FE News Publication of school and pupil data for 2017 - NAHT NAHT's Nick Brook gives evidence about Ofsted's inspection of schools - NAHT Censorship on campus? A new poll reveals what students really think about free speech - New Statesman Ofsted should renege on its merger deal - FE Week AoC criticises new public sector register of providers - FE Week Ofsted: Bigger colleges aren’t always better - FE Week Ofsted watch: A week of contrasting fortunes for UTCs - FE Week UK university staff to vote on strike action in pay dispute - Times Higher Education | THE Don't drop the mic: why music college SoundSkool must not be silenced - Guardian Unleashing great teaching: The secrets to the most effective teacher development, by David Weston and Bridget Clay - Schools Week Ofsted right to consider separate behaviour judgment, says Nicky Morgan - Schools Week The DfE is ‘unrealistic’ about school cuts and 6 other morsels from the PAC’s annual report - Schools Week Public accounts chair wants schools to publish clearer financial information online - Schools Week Don’t let parents opt kids out of sex education, warns leading campaigner Peter Tatchell - Schools Week Poorest pupils miss out on language lessons - The Educator New draft early learning goals released by the government - NAHT Evening Standard teams up with PA to launch journalism apprenticeships - Evening Standard Education neuroscience: giving teachers smarter information – not just tomorrow but today - IOE London Blog Senior staff quit en masse from Learndirect - Financial Times Ex-principal paid £80k for gardening leave amid staff redundancy push - FE Week Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in June 2018 - Pearson Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 29 June - Pearson Neuroscientists urge teachers to give pupils time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cable calls for overhaul of 'nightmare' levy - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Why we need more great school leaders in the North' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School improvement jobs slashed by 60% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Take your time to get things right, neuroscientists say - Education Media Centre | EMC What’s the point of school inspection? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted right to consider separate behaviour judgment, says Nicky Morgan - Schools Week Youth club: a new era of photography – in pictures - Guardian Posh Boys by Robert Verkaik review – how public schools ruin Britain - Guardian Naughty Boy: Music producer teams up with 'world's best teacher' - BBC Why more girls should be doing engineering apprenticeships - FE News Exposed: The Downing Street teacher reception where academies reigned supreme - Schools Week New editor appointed at Schools Week - Schools Week Ofsted requires improvement – but how do we get there? - Schools Week Starting salaries for Scottish university graduates highest in United Kingdom - Herald Scotland ‘We need lessons on knife perils’ - Express Government response to the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence - Parliament Class sizes in English secondary schools are rising as new data shows there is now one extra pupil in each classroom compared to five years ago - Mail Can paying girls to go to school help South Sudan? - BBC Class sizes rocket to highest in five years - Express An extra pupil in every class at secondaries - Times Students raise £1,500 for cheerful cleaner to visit his family - Times Play to win the school catchment lottery - Times Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon drops new education minister Gillian Martin over offensive blog - Times Ireland: Reprieve for school fields after error over plan to build homes - Times Sturgeon in crisis: SNP plunged into chaos as minister dropped in racist row - Express