News archive for 21st May 2018

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The North-South doctor divide: Six times as many Londoners study medicine as those from the North East - Mail I was a rotten student but smart enough to know the joy the Open University brings | Michael Morpurgo - Mail Most popular apprenticeships face rate cuts in IfA ‘funding band review’ - FE Week Educational super fad: detailed lesson plans - Teacher Toolkit DfE ditches year 7 ‘catch-up training’ fund before it even opens - Schools Week Early Ofsted monitoring report highly critical of airports apprenticeship provider - FE Week GCSEs are failing stress test as students suffer | Letters - Guardian Students won't be given grades on Wales’ most in-demand course due to mental health fears - Wales Online Did DfE check if new faith schools 'discriminate'? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor mental health is more prevalent among teenage girls from poorer backgrounds, new findings show - IOE London Blog Turning up the heat; meeting the HomeServe apprentices - Edge Foundation What teachers tapped this week #34 – 21st May 2018 - Teacher Tapp NatGeo mapmaker - UKEdChat Poor mental health is more prevalent among teenage girls from poorer backgrounds - UKEdChat British Council Garden at Chelsea draws on the UK and India’s shared love of cricket to inspire 100,000 Indian children to follow their dreams - British Council Representatives for one million students call for vote on final Brexit deal - PIE News Academy chain eyes Northern Irish teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plan to give social mobility body 'real teeth' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Reading is like a chocolate-covered strawberry' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Girls don't do physics because it's boring' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scouts to expand to further 500 deprived areas and trial early years provision - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 21 May: Healthcare warning, 'sharenting', and age verification - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UCU announces nominations to USS joint expert panel - UCU Research round-up (21 May 2018) - NAHT Prime Minister calls for ‘option’ to associate to next EU research programme - Universities UK Prime Minister shows right 'ambition to build momentum on Industrial Strategy' - CBI Subject knowledge enhancement (SKE): course providers - DfE Children in need of help and protection: call for evidence - DfE Robert Halfon MP proposes Bill to reform Social Mobility Commission - UK Parliament Turnover is vanity. Profit is sanity. Cash is reality. - Wonkhe Academics and administrators: No more ‘us and them’ - Wonkhe Teaching methods that work - The Educator Trouble brewing at NCG as Ofsted inspectors stay an extra day - FE Week Assess, plan, do, review resource - Teacher Toolkit Response to the Prime Minister's speech - Russell Group Manifesto idea #14: Beth Taswell - HEPI Industrial Strategy: the Grand Challenges - GOV.UK AI in classrooms ‘can teach pupils better than ever’, says headteacher - Evening Standard Manifesto idea #13: Jim Dickinson - HEPI Lords debates nursing student support - UK Parliament Daily roundup 21 May: Healthcare warning, 'sharenting', and age verification - CYPN | Children & Young People Now German police stop 'truant' families at airport - BBC Robert Halfon proposes bill to expand Social Mobility Commission powers - Schools Week Subject-level TEF consultation - Russell Group Greenwich University fined £120,000 for data breach - BBC Parents should be banned from parking at school gates in bid to cut air pollution, campaigners say - Independent Why teachers shouldn’t be afraid of other languages being spoken in the classroom - The Conversation Turn pupils into published authors in five days - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats are over: now to build happy memories of Y6 - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Exam season feels brutal, almost punitive' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don't simplify complex Shakespeare with emojis' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Why every school needs a gender champion' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Milton: No childcare support for apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher or parent: don't make us choose - Times Educational Supplement | TES More parents want later start for summer-borns - Nursery World Nautilus scholarship helps James dare to dream - Unionlearn 6 rules to follow to remain compliant post GDPR implementation - FE News TEF: The Incredible Machine remixed - Wonkhe Need to know: The exam reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students choose between eating and bus to college - Times Educational Supplement | TES Black students are right to want to see black therapists | Micha Frazer-Carroll - Guardian Engineering future scientists - Cambridge Network Scientists should be solving problems, not struggling to access journals | Benjamin Kaube - Guardian Clean-air campaigners call for ban on school run to cut pollution - Guardian Ban school drop off cars to safeguard pupils’ health, call - Scotsman What are the routes to opening new VA schools? - Schools Week Parents angry as school bullies ‘given more support than victims’ - Herald Scotland 'Sharenting' puts young at risk of online fraud - BBC Schools told to gear up and bid for cycle route funds - Herald Scotland That Facebook picture of your child’s birthday is a gift for online fraudsters - Times Drug abuse and mental welfare at university - Times USA: School shooting - reformers call for mass pupil boycott - Times Scotland: Use mealtimes to combat obesity, schools urged - Times Scotland: Teenagers go online to talk with parents - Times Scotland: Engineers are set to go to school - Times Ireland: Schools to set rules on smartphone use at home - Times