News archive for 9th May 2018

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Students at top university probed over comments ‘about rape and racism’ - The Sun Cambridge scraps 300-year-old tradition of posting results to protect students' feelings - Express Cambridge University considers lowering burden of proof after claims that sexual predators are getting away with their crimes    - Telegraph Inside the school where parents are pupils - Mail Pupils caught drinking from plastic bottles will be treated like smokers behind bike sheds, leading headmaster says  - Telegraph Heads spending money for poor pupils on school police presence - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils using plastic straws and bottles will be punished like smokers at Brighton College - Times The government’s green paper on mental health: failing a generation - NAHT Pay strikes to hit ten colleges in May and June - UCU UCU comment on HEPI Brightside report on widening access to higher education - UCU QSES International Student Survey - Russell Group SET opens next application window for Advanced Teacher Status - Education & Training Foundation Maths for Life Trials – do you want to take part? - Education & Training Foundation | ETF AoC Chief Executive joins National Patrons Network - AoC | Association of Colleges UK HE calls for research integration as EU budget revealed - PIE News London voted the world’s best student city - PIE News Teacher subject specialism training: funding for schools - DfE Daily roundup 9 May: Gangs database, child slavery, and charity chief - CYPN | Children & Young People Now What now for the North? Realities, myths and collective intelligence in the northern powerhouse - IPPR A guide to apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency Data collection maintenance schedule - Education & Skills Funding Agency School resource management - Education & Skills Funding Agency Providing and updating academy trust governance contacts - Education & Skills Funding Agency Get financial advice for schools - Education & Skills Funding Agency Review of end of year 16 to 19 study programmes data for 2015 to 2016 - Education & Skills Funding Agency London ranked best city in the world for students despite costs - Express Criminal record checks for childminders and childcare workers - Ofsted Apprentices from Hull discuss apprenticeships and skills training - UK Parliament University of Montana plans to cut majors and staff numbers - Times Higher Education | THE HMC appoints new leader to represent elite independent schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'No, the school holidays are NOT a sabbatical for teachers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School leaders call for an end to growing ‘complaints culture’ - SecEd Positive reaction to QTS and induction reforms - SecEd Education secretary’s pledge to end the ‘confusion’ of accountability receives cautious welcome from heads - SecEd Welsh Assembly members demand action on anxiety, depression and self-harm - SecEd FI in Schools launches - SecEd Maintenance loans – money worth having? - HEPI Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: A manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation - HEPI Green Paper on Mental Health - National Education Union 'Sats are inhumane – scrap them now' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils' education 'damaged by lack of diversity in teaching' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'No, the school holidays are NOT a sabbatical for teachers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES HMC appoints new leader to represent elite independent schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10 colleges to be hit by strike action - Times Educational Supplement | TES New easy-to-follow guidance to comply with off-the-job training rule for apprenticeships - AELP Children's mental health: Thousands to miss out on help under government plans, say MPs - PoliticsHome 'Long summer holidays harm disadvantaged pupils - so scrap them' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Finance directors should keep principals grounded, says deputy FE commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs want answers on school improvement in the north - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to apply for your first teaching job – and get it! - Teacher Toolkit How to prepare for your first teaching post? - The Educator Teacher–student dialogue: Why it matters for student outcomes - BERA Nursery group's new flagship opens its doors - Nursery World Brighton school will punish pupils who bring plastic bottles the same as if they were caught smoking - Independent UK universities alarmed by poaching of top computer science brains - Financial Times University of Warwick suspends 11 students over rape jokes - BBC Children 'denied free school meals because of parents' immigration status' - Guardian The Imperial full-Time MBA ranks 1st globally for women working in finance - FE News The 10 best cities in the world to be a student in 2018 – in pictures - Guardian Edinburgh named one of the best cities in the world for students - Scotsman School children should be taught spot digital adverts, experts claim - Evening Standard The mental health reforms must do more to support schools - Schools Week Robert Halfon: the mental health reforms must do more to support schools - Schools Week Staff at colleges striking for up to 7 days in exam season - FE Week Teacher Appreciation Day messages prove our school days have a lasting impact - HuffPost Durham Sixth Form Centre paid ransom after cyber-attack - BBC University of Warwick suspends 11 students over rape jokes and racist slurs on Facebook - Independent Private Christian school under governance investigation - Schools Week Durham Sixth Form Centre paid ransom after cyber-attack - BBC Physics teaching reimagined by international exchange website - FE News A Tale of Two Conferences – some reflections on the recent revolution in higher education - FE News Private Christian school under governance investigation - Schools Week Research every teacher should know: the value of student evaluation - Guardian A journey from student to teacher - FE News Scots teachers could be charged to park at school by council - Scotsman What you need to know about the new free speech pledge for universities - The Conversation Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children 'could be failed by mental health plans' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Six ways to improve pupils' mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental health plans do not go far enough or fast enough - ASCL MPs criticise 'unambitious' government on children's mental health efforts - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government is 'failing apprentices' in mental health proposals - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do Scotland’s students manage their money? - Wonkhe Select Committee findings of Mental Health Green Paper: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Three steps to increase research impact - Wonkhe 10:30 a.m. Education Committee holds session with Hull apprentices and training provider - Commons Select Committee Green Paper on Child Mental Health lacks ambition - UK Parliament Green Paper on Child Mental Health lacks ambition (report) - UK Parliament Free DfE teacher vacancy service on track for testing this month - Parliament London ranked best city in world for students - Telegraph Response from Anne Milton re the number of SEND students in FE and HE - Parliament Response from Anne Milton re policy implications following EEF report on the apprenticeship levy - Parliament The importance of teaching digital skills - FE News Transcript of Tuesday's Westminster Hall debate about progress on the skills strategy - They Work For You It’s time to look after the grown-ups - FE News Cash boost for Scottish university museums - Herald Scotland 'Schools can have anything... except more money' - BBC Mental health plans 'failing a generation', say MPs - BBC Government's mental health plans to leave hundreds of thousands of children without needed support, MPs warn - Independent London ranked top city for students - BBC Government criticised for ignoring apprentices in mental health plans - FE Week Government plans to tackle mental health crisis 'will fail a generation' - Guardian The Government’s Green Paper on Mental Health: Failing a generation - FE News Government mental health plans ‘failing a generation’ of children - Nursery World Oxford vows to reinstate Theresa May on its geographers’ wall of fame - Times Warwick University suspends students who joked about ‘raping 100 girls’ - Times EU students put off British universities - Times Mental healthcare failing young people, MPs warn - Times Ireland: Schools must admit pupils regardless of faith under big reforms - Times The government ‘is failing a generation’ with school mental health reforms - Schools Week