News archive for 2nd May 2018

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USA: Teacher of the Year stages silent protest as Trump awards prize - Guardian Former schools chief blames rise in gangs on 'dads who don't care' - Mirror Schoolchildren are losing the ability to read maps as they are too reliant on their mobile phones for directions - Mail Poverty makes Scots parents feel like ‘outcasts’ - Scotsman Olchfa School in Swansea gets excellent rating from Estyn inspectors - Wales Online Scottish teachers fear Big Brother cameras in classrooms - Express What are the National Tests in Wales? Why are children taking them? - Wales Online David Gonski, I'd give you a B+ on your report card | Peter Hutton - Guardian Parents told that sick children must sit all Sats exams as calls for boycott grow - Independent Middle schools defend themselves as councils ditch three-tier model - Schools Week London mega-merger to create England’s third biggest college group - FE Week 5 videos to encourage active learning - Teacher Toolkit How successful are BTEC students at university? - Wonkhe Complaints – student engagement in its richest form? - Wonkhe National Education Union demonstrates against edu-business Pearson’s support for Low-Fee Private Schools - National Education Union UKCES Employer Skills Survey 2015: UK report - DfE 'We need to have faith in young people – give them the vote at 16' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Building set to start on £58m Nottingham College City Hub - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Prepare your students for interviews with robots' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Stem Centre that boosts cross-college collaboration - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted pledges action to stop schools 'off-rolling' challenging pupils - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 2 May: DCS departure, cot deaths, recruitment problems - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Inspectors criticise SEND support in Redcar and Cleveland - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Anne Milton hasn’t met IfA’s apprentice panel in first year - FE Week 'Opportunity areas' are hampered by lack of time, claims ex-schools minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Osborne urges government to make improving northern schools its 'big idea' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We can't let the discrimination of confident women filter down to our classrooms' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Manufacturers demand talks over Apprenticeship Levy woes - SecEd How to unlock the learning potential of metacognition - SecEd Half of international students don’t feel ‘global’, according to a new survey - PIE News The experts who decide which maths mastery books are DfE-funded - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We must tackle the prejudices that prevent men working in early years' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of approved maths mastery textbooks doubles - to two - Times Educational Supplement | TES Artificial intelligence 'risks school apartheid' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Spoon-fed' state pupils are unable to cope at uni, claims ex-private school head - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'When did secondary school English become so joyless?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils ‘trapped’ and teachers ‘let down’ by personalised learning fad, expert claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mobile phones mean young people 'can no longer read maps' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Teachers need to be involved in ed tech development' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Higher education and international challenges takes centre stage at Going Global opening - British Council ASEAN higher education systems are becoming more open for international engagement - British Council Students raise air pollution concerns - SecEd Education research travel grants - SecEd Concerns over impartiality of Education Scotland - SecEd ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: May 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Study explores the down side of being dubbed ‘class clown’ - UKEdChat MPs launch school funding inquiry - SecEd Ministers urged to consider salary supplements for new teachers - SecEd Girls in Space: King’s High link-up with international space station - GSA NAHT Cymru comments on children’s mental health inquiry report - NAHT Early years provider non-compliance: action by Ofsted - Ofsted USA: 'We’re being assertive': Arizona teachers feel new power as strikes set to end - Guardian How to get more men into early years teaching - BBC Exeter University expels students over racist Whatsapp messages - HuffPost Alexa-style robots could ‘help shy children put up their hands’, says head - Evening Standard University of Exeter expels law students over ‘racist’ Whatsapp messages - Independent UTC architect George Osborne says 14 start age ‘hasn’t worked’ - Schools Week UTC architect George Osborne says 14 start age ‘hasn’t worked’ - FE Week Becoming fluent in another language as an adult might be impossible – but I’m still going to try - Guardian Why we need more male primary school teachers: 'Kids need to know men care about education as much as football' - HuffPost Transcript of Westminster Hall debate re safeguarding children and young people in sport - They Work For You AI will soon beat pupils taught knowledge-based curriculum - Schools Week Corrections to Employer Skills Survey - FE News The benefits of a bilingual brain in the modern world - IOE London Blog Free Play-Doh activities for EYFS children - Nursery World Thirsk schoolboys found after climbing fence - BBC Scotland’s new film and television school welcomes first students - Scotsman £10m Northern Powerhouse education fund ‘not spent’ - Schools Week Social media damaging mental health by creating 'epidemic of loathing' for young people - Express USA: What's on the minds of America's teens: guns, sexism, school safety - Guardian Machine learning and the rise of robots. Identifying tomorrow's skills needs - Nesta Bishop of Llandaff school wins top Estyn inspection report rating possible - Wales Online Student finance: Fighting misconceptions - FE News Take the BNF's healthy eating challenge - Nursery World Why we have not yet solved youth unemployment - FE News What to do about the teacher workload and recruitment crisis - Teacher Toolkit How to achieve and maintain work life balance as a teacher? - The Educator Chartered College's research journal for teachers criticised for 'conflicts of interest' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Osborne to urge ministers to bridge the North-South gap in school standards - Times Educational Supplement | TES More male role models are needed in early years, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching assistants too scared of 'undermining' teachers to confront unruly pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES The girl who dropped out of school aged 12 but is now going to university - Wales Online Cameron Wyllie: How state schools could run extra-curricular clubs - Scotsman Why data, evidence and evaluation matters more than ever to FE policy-makers and leaders - FE News Scottish universities urged to scrap controversial graduation fees - Herald Scotland Teachers issue Big Brother warning over classroom CCTV - Herald Scotland Lack of male nursery teachers deprives kids of role models, head teachers warn ministers - The Sun Meet the kids learning to DJ at school - BBC Can new Braille technology boost literacy levels? - BBC Schools get behind call for more men in early years - Nursery World School exclusion rates linked to violent youth crime - Times YouTube stars promote service that helps young students cheat - Times Improving Northern schools should be a national priority - Times Scotland: Roma children need translators to help spell out exploitation risk - Times Heads back call for more male early-years teachers - Schools Week