News archive for 27th May 2018

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The education week that was: Exams and Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE Revision is Poetry: Intensity, hard work; and so much deep learning. - Teacherhead How to handle your first observations - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is there a right way to teach? Making sense of the trad-prog debate. - Teacherhead MPs agree to slow roll-out of new ‘T-level’ qualifications - Financial Times How does question difficulty order affect evaluations of test performance? (part 2) - Learning Scientists Exams: Use the motivation, lose the stress - UKEdChat University World News: Global Edition - week ending 27th May 2018 - University World News Theresa May hails 'gold standard' new T Levels - as top official warns over timing - PoliticsHome Swansea to Newcastle: the offshore ownership of student blocks - Guardian Revealed: the developers cashing in on privatisation of student housing - Guardian 'We must stop praising teachers as "resilient"' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could knitting help pupils cope with exam stress? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Designing teacher instruction for student achievement - Teacher Toolkit Institutes of Technology competition: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Government response to the T Level Consultation: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges T levels: Rollout of some courses will be delayed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Akala: T levels are for state school pupils to get 'working class jobs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tories overrule the Schools Department who warns new college student courses won't be ready on time - Mirror John Swinney in education policy u-turn after pressure from councils - Herald Scotland It’s not wrong to use the apprenticeship levy to fund MBAs - FE Week Top blogs of the week 21 May 2018 - Schools Week The OECD’s PISA gender reporting reinforces unhelpful stereotypes - Schools Week The working class: Poverty, education and alternative voices by Ian Gilbert - Schools Week T levels: Rollout of some courses will be delayed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds: 'This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'All GCSE resit students can improve grades' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we need better training behind bars - Times Educational Supplement | TES T-Level New exam to be taught at 52 colleges as part of biggest technical education shake-up in 70 years - The Sun First colleges to teach new vocational T-levels to be named - BBC Government response to the T Level Consultation - FE News What happens when poor young black men from London’s mean streets are sent to Rugby? - Times Milton Keynes College wants to turn Bletchley into an Institute of Digital Technology - Times It will soon be goodbye to boys’ schools, declares Mr Chips - Times It will soon be goodbye to boys’ schools, declares Mr Chips - Times Guy Sanderson: Why I’m taking Eltham College co-educational - Times Parents told T-levels may not help get a job - Times Talent, not race, must open doors at Oxford - Times Biggest schools revolution in seventy years- Technical exam worth 3 A-levels - Express New T Levels mark a revolution in technical education - Sector Response - FE News