News archive for 25th May 2018

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'We must keep fighting for LGBT support' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It’s time to give voice to governors' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We need to bridge the researcher-teacher gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: what we know so far - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stabbed GCSE student refused exemption by exam board - BBC Poor broadband means Conwy valley girl does homework in lay-by - BBC T-level content published – but 5 day consultation deadline branded ‘staggering’ - FE Week Teachers have walked out of the classroom at a key exam period in a row over management - Wales Online Wales: Teachers have walked out of the classroom at a key exam period in a row over management - Wales Online Exam pressures: one in four Childline calls going unanswered due to a lack of funding - Wales Online Manifesto idea #22: Vonnie Sandlan - HEPI Stabbed GCSE student refused exemption by exam board - BBC DfE to scrap attainment targets for SEND pupils - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The UKEdPodcast – Episode 22 – Phonics pruning and thriving - UKEdChat The effective use of detentions - UKEdChat League tables ‘destroy’ poor white schools - The Educator Ofsted attempts parental charm offensive - Schools Week UCU and prison education provider PeoplePlus agree recognition deal - UCU In the news: 25 May - UCU Manifesto idea #21: Paul Murray and Chere Kempt - HEPI Sex education turns over a new page in Welsh schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 25 May: Active families, period poverty, and smoking ban - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scotland: John Swinney announces minimum school clothing grant of £100 to relieve family pressure - Scotsman PISA gender report ‘reinforces stereotypes’ - Schools Week TAs miss out on training as funding plummets - Schools Week Commissioner credits improvements at college Ofsted branded ‘unsafe’ - FE Week London colleges hit with strikes – but exams go on - FE Week FE college incorporated just four years ago told to merge - FE Week League tables changes ‘toxic’ for poor white schools - BBC Troubled UCAT trust to shed four schools after finances warning - Schools Week Exporters hampered by shortage of skills - Times Walking to school falls to ten-year low - Times Teacher who referred to her white board marker 'magic pen of sex' banned from classrooms - Independent Ofsted watch: Mixed bag at three ‘new’ apprenticeship providers - FE Week Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 25 May 2018 - Pearson London needs proper control of its adult education budget - FE Week Pearson puts London property up for sale - Financial Times Universities battle with IfA over degree funding cuts - FE Week Is pushing ahead with T-levels fair on young people? - FE Week 'We need to face our unconscious bias' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to win apprenticeship money and power - FE Week AoC proposes restriction on apprenticeship funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prisons minister: 'Adult' GCSE not off the table - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five-year-olds ‘in tears’ over assessments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reformed GCSEs put pupils with SEND '10 steps back' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam reforms haven’t improved learning, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years providers 'face £500m childcare funding shortfall' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now A teacher reflects: 'what I've learned from this year's GCSE' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brightlingsea parents consider removing children from school - BBC When I admitted I was HIV positive, my fellow academics excluded me | Anonymous academic - Guardian Grammar schools benefit from DfE’s largesse - Schools Week Amy Macleod: Guiding girls towards new challenges can lead to big things - Scotsman Finalists announced for The Herald Higher Education Awards - Herald Scotland Nurseries turn to great outdoors to help solve free places squeeze - Herald Scotland Make a wish: The schools forced to use Amazon to ask parents to buy pens - Schools Week PISA gender report 'reinforces stereotypes' - Schools Week Poor white schools 'destroyed' by rankings - BBC Funded places leaving providers out of pocket by millions - Nursery World Yorkshire boys found guilty of plotting Columbine-style school attack - Times Air in London classrooms more polluted than outside - Times T levels are being rushed, Damien Hinds told by top official - Times Nottingham Trent law student admits making racist chants that left woman too afraid to go out - Times Addressing the attainment gap can help black students thrive in higher education - Times Scotland: Free whisky for 10-year-olds in Ardnamurchan will help pay for education - Times Scotland: Walking to school falls to ten-year low - Times Scotland: Driver Callum Phillips worked on school buses after crash that killed Rangers fan - Times Scotland: Charity unveils whisky cask benefit scheme for area's youngsters - Mail