News archive for 30th March 2018

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Revise seven hours a day over Easter, says education expert - BBC One in five teachers say their schools have asked parents for money amid funding pressures - Independent Ofsted stance on hijab risks heightening threat of physical attacks on Muslims in schools. - Independent Teaching union criticises Ofsted chief over hijab ban for young girls - Guardian 'Revision should be about piecing things together, making links and unearthing new discoveries… ' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eton reveals gender pay gap figures well above national average - Guardian USA: Elite universities are selling themselves – and look who’s buying - Guardian Scotland: Girls choosing low-paid careers subjects rather than STEM - Scotsman Pupils being deprived of frontline cash by fat-cat academy head salaries, say MPs - PoliticsHome Annual report highlights new FE workforce data as part of ETF’s Spring research series - Education & Training Foundation Surveillance culture in schools ruining stressed teachers´ lives - Mail Schools risking teacher suicides with surveillance 'designed to crush' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy schools finances - Parliament The education week that was: Lockdowns, grammars and The North - Times Educational Supplement | TES NUT union plans new uniform guidance for schools after Ofsted hijab row - Schools Week Academy accounts highlight potential risks to pupils and taxpayers - Commons Select Committee Ofsted chief's hijab comments could provoke assaults on girls, union claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES How pupils are being taught in mouldy classrooms with crumbling walls - Mirror Advice to revise 7 hours a day for GCSEs over Easter 'unbelievable' - Guardian 'The government has turned our classrooms into testing and exam factories' - Kevin Courtney - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs criticise failure to tackle excessive salaries in academies - Guardian A truly informed choice has to consider all that is on offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy accounts highlight potential risks to pupils and taxpayers - UK Parliament 'Even the language is pejorative' – academy chain founder attacks official attitudes to primaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than half of 100 biggest gender pay gaps are in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Excessive' academy salaries are depriving schools of vital funds, MPs warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Seventy per cent of teachers say their school has damp, leaks or mould - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions win teachers millions in compensation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Six ways the DfE is failing to manage academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Girls doing significantly better than boys in high-level qualifications – even in subjects with far more boys - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE gender pay gap far worse than the national average - Times Educational Supplement | TES Size of average pay packets for FE teaching staff has shrunk - Times Educational Supplement | TES With FE the focus of policy, data and evidence matter - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship levy failing its first test - Times Schools wasting millions on ‘vain’ rebranding, union says - Times Teachers condemn Ofsted chief over hijab comments - Times Academies are using taxpayers’ money to pay 'unjustifiably' high salaries to senior staff, MPs warn - Telegraph Teacher who asked student to stop chewing gum was beaten so badly that she developed PTSD, - Telegraph Teacher wins £250,000 compensation claim after falling off chair while pinning artwork up - Express Six things we learned from the Public Accounts Committee’s damning report into academies - Schools Week Fat-cat academy pay costs pupils, say MPs - Times Scottish reforms look vanilla next to England’s pitched battles - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools need to do more if they want to keep mum (and dad, too) - Times Educational Supplement | TES