News archive for 22nd May 2018

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Tories axe nearly 700 'essential' children's nurses from schools - Mirror More than 60% of students offered places at Oxford are from state schools for the first time in the university’s history - Mail Scotland's exam board SQA admits Mary, Queen of Scots, exam paper blunder - Express Grammar school expansion plan costing £50m will only benefit ‘few thousand’ deprived students, admits education minister - Independent Schools to get £50 million to help reduce attainment gap in Scotland - Herald Scotland Improving science participation: Five evidence-based recommendations for policy-makers and funders - IOE London Blog Think civic! Five ideas for universities - Wonkhe "You wouldn't even do it to a dog!": Disgusted mum claims son, 11, was made to sit exams in cupboard - Mirror Ethnically mixed schools better for social cohesion, says new study of teenagers’ attitudes - UKEdChat For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer - UKEdChat Are you a healthy teacher? - UKEdChat PM says teachers key to tackling 'burning injustices' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to help pupils understand terrorist attacks - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Where's the money for careers guidance?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Team UK for EuroSkills Budapest announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pixar founder: VR can transform education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Diverse school pupils feel 'warmer' toward other ethnic backgrounds, reveals study - Independent Prime Minister and Education Secretary host teachers at Number 10 - DfE Academies budget forecast return - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency The 'value' of a degree is academic and vocational - Office for Students Collaborative inhibition - Learning Scientists Grant scheme launched: Supporting adult victims of crime who have English as an additional language - The Bell Foundation New keeping children safe in education statutory guidance published - NAHT School exclusion review - NAHT Rona Tutt's SEND summary (May 2018) - NAHT Ofsted research on lesson observation models - Ofsted British schools overseas inspection scheme - DfE Little girl writes the most adorable motivational note to herself ahead of SATs - Metro Daily roundup 22 May: Manchester bombing, consultation extension, and Telford CSE - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Why Generation Z are opting for apprenticeship schemes over a degree - ERSA 'Too often, CPD is undermined by a negative culture' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Increased nursery hours 'help children at school’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES USA: H-1B alternative OPT grew 400% in eight years, report finds - PIE News SEND: How to work with challenging parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Manifesto idea #16: Andrew Berwick - HEPI Oman & Ireland sign MoU on higher education - PIE News Ofsted considers its options on lesson observation - Schools Week Schools need official guidance on pupils’ social media safety - Schools Week Scotland: Heads on the block after history exam gets wrong date for death of Mary Queen of Scots - Herald Scotland The Careers and Enterprise Company - A bit more transparency required from this taxpayer funded body - Montrose42 Blog Manifesto idea #15: Anand Shukla - HEPI The Staffroom podcast - Teacher Toolkit John Swinney under fire over £50m school attainment funding - Mail Breaking into the digital sector: The skills that young people need - FE News Halfon seeks law change to give Social Mobility Commission more power - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Relationship and sexuality lessons to be compulsory in Wales from age five - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Hospital offers early years education to young patients - Nursery World Strike suspended at Bradford College following positive talks over job cuts - UCU Ethnically mixed schools better for social cohesion - London School of Economics | LSE What next for research and innovation in Wales? - Wonkhe Minister for School Standards questioned - Commons Select Committee Grammar schools could get cash for lowering 11-plus pass mark, and 4 other things we learned from Nick Gibb - Schools Week Gibb grilled over grammar school expansions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Strike at Bradford College suspended - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extra £50m to close attainment gap in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer parents feel schools act on their feedback - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gibb accepts endless reforms have put 'pressure' on teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don't wait for permission to take control of data' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don't wait for permission to take control of data' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What Laurel or Yanny taught me about education - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Hinds needs a good shaking over skills' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils ‘upset’ after exam board’s blunder over Mary Queen of Scots - Scotsman Nursery children tackle dementia - Nursery World Strike called off at Bradford College after voluntary redundancy concession - FE Week Dad on epic school trip to Science Museum shares tale of 'utter carnage' - Mirror Kirsty Williams announces focus on healthy relationships in major reforms to ‘Relationships and Sexuality’ education - Welsh Government Regional gulf in university entrants revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dear Damian Hinds, your academy policy is whim and dogma | Michael Rosen - Guardian How can 2,000 schools be protected from Britain’s toxic air? - Guardian Schools: how to raise £1m a year - Guardian Children in Wales will receive sex and relationship education from the age of five - Wales Online Oxford scheme offers path from disrupted schooling to university - Financial Times Ethnically mixed schools lessen hostility - BBC North eastern students six times less likely to start medicine and dentistry degrees than London peers, finds analysis - Independent Sex education given LGBT-inclusive overhaul in Wales - Guardian Six times as many new medical students from London as from north-east - Guardian North East students far outnumbered in many degree subjects - Mail Ethnically diverse schools ‘promote social cohesion’ - Schools Week Northeast left behind in race for medical degrees - Times Universities told to act on study drugs - Times Scotland: Exam board’s fatal error over Mary Queen of Scots - Times