News archive for 30th May 2018

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Spielman: Ofsted unable to do ‘full scrutiny’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES If it isn't on Show My Homework, does it even exist? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are any DfE policies based on educational merit? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why teachers shouldn't fear group work - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Serious concerns' over T-level work placements - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secrecy over Agnew conflicts of interest - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gender pay gap: only one piece of the equality jigsaw - Teacher Toolkit West Lothian vote for £354-a-year music tuition fee per child - Scotsman London colleges slip down university reputation rankings as Oxbridge stays on top - City AM UK universities drop in global reputation rankings for research and teaching - Independent AEB policy set to change with free courses for anyone earning less than £15,726.50 - FE Week 'Classist' Cambridge drinking societies should shut, says group - Guardian Entries for GCSE, AS and A level: summer 2018 exam series - Ofqual Daily roundup 30 May: Domestic abuse, Ofsted visit, and stabbing death - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Students don't do so well in exams when it's hot – so is it time to overhaul the academic year? - Guardian Direct link to the government's report examining childhood obesity - Parliament Hotter years 'mean lower exam results' - BBC Schoolchildren ‘burned out’ from comparing lives on social media - Evening Standard Children's minister insists no need for 30 hours protection for nurseries - Nursery World Teachers suspended over air rifles at York Minster School - Times Town planners hit out at 'inflexible' IfA - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sally Hunt: Colleges' record on pay a 'disgrace' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted praises council's 'outstanding' children's services leadership - CYPN | Children & Young People Now “No one nation is best at everything” – U21 ranks national HE systems - PIE News Fighting casualisation of staff in universities and colleges is 'biggest challenge of our time' says Sally Hunt - UCU Busy Bees snaps up Mace Montessori - Nursery World Reducing Teacher Workload - FE News Teachers & pupils at breaking point: could the Careers Strategy help? - FE News For some children, reading feels like a cryptic code. We can help them crack it - Guardian UCASwill no longer ask aspiring students about their criminal history - HuffPost Teachers waste 1 million ours every year teaching toilet hygeine - The Educator 22,000 children severely obese at the end of primary school - Nursery World Education and training in the catering industry - FE News Invitation to express an interest to deliver a T Level in construction - FE News Applications for maths centres of excellence open now - FE Week Grouchy teenagers are actually losing brain matter and should be left alone, rather than disciplined - Mail It’s not brains that learn, it’s people - IOE London Blog Care Leavers bursary, making apprenticeships more accessible - FE News Early years vocational qualification map revised - Nursery World MPs demand tougher government action on child obesity - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Increase in pupils who can't wipe their own bottoms - Times Educational Supplement | TES What we’ve learnt about the independent alternative provision sector - FFT Education Datalab Call for powers to limit junk food advertising near schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES What we’ve learnt about the independent alternative provision sector - FFT Education Datalab How guinea pigs taught me today’s exam stress is serious | Jackie Ashley - Guardian Wellbeing in the workplace: Why we need to prioritise physical and mental wellbeing all year round - FE News Parents face fees of £350 for pupils to play a musical instrument - Herald Scotland Grammar school tests: How do children cope? - BBC Teachers spend more than million hours a year helping children use toilets, study says - Independent Neuroscience expert claims GCSEs can damage teenagers' mental health - Mail Hotter years 'mean lower exam results' - BBC One million hours of lessons lost to kids not toilet trained at home - Mail Primary school teachers spend more than a million hours a year toilet-training their students, researchers say - The Sun Primary teachers losing up to 1 million hours in lesson time showing children how to use the lavatory  - Telegraph Oxbridge’s £3.5bn portfolio makes it bigger landowner than church - Times T levels have employers scratching their heads - Times How moody teenagers are (literally) losing their mind - Times Scotland: Music lesson cuts hit middle-income homes - Times Ireland: Make home economics mandatory to tackle child obesity, teachers say - Times Ireland: Citizens’ assembly could debate schools patronage - Times Primary teachers spend hours cleaning up children after they use the toilet - Mirror Private alternative providers get worse Ofsteds than council provision, and 4 other findings - Schools Week