News archive for 23rd May 2018

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'There is no shame in taking a vocational route' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Magic pen of sex’ teacher struck off - Times Educational Supplement | TES Long read: Why won't MPs hire apprentices? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Be wary of grand educational theories' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It was a joke that got out of hand' - dad caught out lying about 'utter carnage' on daughter's school trip - Mirror Lincoln university students locked in library as armed police storm campus - Independent Oxford University retweets post calling David Lammy ‘bitter’ after criticism of diversity figures - Independent Scotland: Row as pupil poverty cash 'earmarked for swimming' - Herald Scotland They are so clever. So how can Oxford University get it so wrong on access? - Guardian Oxford admissions statistics – how diverse is the university and what has David Lammy said about it? - The Sun Government agrees with PAC over mishandling of Learndirect and accepts all recommendations - FE Week Make teaching more int’l to aid UK recruitment problem – COBIS - PIE News Daily roundup 23 May: Sugar reduction, grammar schools, and peer support - CYPN | Children & Young People Now I can’t keep calm. I’m going to be a teacher! - Education & Training Foundation What can short standardised tests tell us about the attainment and progress of individual pupils and of schools? - FFT Education Datalab UK Universities minister supports study abroad - PIE News Youngsters on track for bright futures with Virgin - Edge Foundation Education charity, Edge, comments on today’s NEET figures - Edge Foundation Boys continue to lag behind in reading - UKEdChat ‘Inadequate’ Gloucestershire free school to close - Schools Week "Creepy" IT teacher suspended in Wales - Mail Dramatic scenes as armed police arrest man at University of Lincoln - Mirror New research helps to de-gender the teaching profession - UKEdChat Government’s grammar school funding won’t improve children’s outcomes, say experts - UKEdChat Students taught by highly qualified teachers more likely to obtain degree - UKEdChat Study finds boys’ fitness has declined over past 20 years - UKEdChat Study finds popular ‘growth mindset’ educational interventions aren’t very effective - UKEdChat Academies will need government approval for related-party transactions - Schools Week The Northern Challenge? - IPPR Manifesto idea #18: Dan McEvoy - HEPI Robert Halfon MP comments on Government Response to report - Commons Select Committee If we are serious about social mobility then degree apprenticeships are essential - Wonkhe Ofsted Inspections: Do they have any benefits? - The Educator Oxford University involved in Twitter row with David Lammy - BBC Manifesto idea #17: Conor Ryan - HEPI Social Mobility Commission gets new chair – but no new powers - Schools Week John Swinney to look again at Primary One school testing regime - Scotsman What happens if someone dies in an exam in the UK? - Metro Dame Martina Milburn tipped for chair of Social Mobility Commission - Nursery World Safeguarding guidance updated with advice on tackling sexual violence - SecEd Resource aims to boost teacher recruitment in London - SecEd More than 8,300 teams join Student Investor Challenge - SecEd Cyber security courses - SecEd Tackling biphobia - SecEd NEU comment on UCL report re grammar schools - National Education Union Exam boards refuse to award stab victim who missed GCSEs his predicted grades - Independent Space, the final frontier - FE News Podcast with AELP's Mark Dawe on end point assessment & AELP's plans for workforce development - FE News Government selects Prince's Trust chief to lead Social Mobility Commission - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Schools warn of more cuts to come as budget pressures bite - SecEd Tes FE podcast: College funding and Applied Generals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dame Martina Milburn backed for Social Mobility Commission - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Scrapping Ofsted grades wouldn't fix accountability' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney: Money for poor pupils must not prop up budgets - Times Educational Supplement | TES My guide for parents of students sitting exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Listen: Why you have got direct instruction wrong - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Schools are not factories merely producing workers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers unite to end weekend CPD 'burden' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford Uni retweets person calling David Lammy 'bang out of order' over diversity data - HuffPost What can short standardised tests tell us about the attainment and progress of individual pupils and of schools? - IOE London Blog Oxford University blasted for sharing attack on 'bitter' MP who called it a 'bastion of privilege' - Mirror New rules for schools after absent boy starved to death with mother’s body - Evening Standard Oxford University admits need to improve student diversity after third of colleges accept handful of black applicants - Independent Tories' £50million grammar schools handout 'is unlikely to bring benefits' says damning study - Mirror Grammar schools' expansion cash will not boost outcomes - The Educator Has the Office for Students got its thinking straight on governance? - Wonkhe Scotland: Teacher fired for sex abuse claims wins £10k for unfair dismissal - Scotsman Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), UK: May 2018 - Office for National Statistics (ONS) 'Give lessons on appearance-related bullying' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Expanding grammars 'unlikely' to benefit pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government’s grammar school funding won’t improve children’s outcomes, say experts - UCL Institute of Education UCL Report: the association between attending a grammar school and children’s socio-emotional outcomes - UCL Institute of Education Professor Brigid Daniel: Teachers are in a class of their own - Scotsman £100m schools refurb put on hold following plea to build replacement WHEC - Scotsman Grammar school education has no positive impact on student’s self-esteem, study finds - Independent Grammar school funding attacked for aiding ‘haves’ - Financial Times Global: United Nations to ask young people for their views - BBC Nearly one in five Oxford students now BME as university announces diversity drive in the wake of public backlash - Telegraph Grammar school pupils 'gain no social or emotional advantages' by age 14 - Guardian Oxford faces anger over failure to improve diversity among students - Guardian Oxford’s Wadham College: Diversity drives standards up, not down - Guardian Oxford University can’t solve British inequality by itself - Times Grammar school expansion fund will not improve children´s outcomes, study says - Mail One in 10 Oxford undergrads from disadvantaged areas - Financial Times Grammar schools do not help children achieve academic success, study claims  - Telegraph Grammar school expansion money ‘won’t improve outcomes’ - Schools Week Geography finds its place among elite - Times Stab victim who missed GCSEs in hospital is denied his grades - Times Tweets, tears and tantrums as Science Museum school trip leaves father a broken man - Times France: Hijab-wearing student leader is denounced - Times Ireland: Irish language school plan will frustrate parents - Times Grammar schools have 'no benefit to young people', fresh study finds - HuffPost