News archive for 18th November 2018

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University World News: UK and global edition - week ending 18/11/18 - University World News Weekly digest #133: Technology for math learning - Learning Scientists A boy called Freddie … - Teacher Toolkit What do the British public think about teachers? - Teacher Toolkit Two-year degrees: What to make of the latest announcement - HEPI Government boosts student choice with two-year degrees - DfE University lecturers told don't use caps as it frightens students (It might upset the snowflake students) - Express Poor reforms have damaged Scottish education - Times Educational Supplement | TES University bosses order lecturers to stop using capital letters when setting assignments because it might upset snowflake students - Mail Seventeen pupils at one British school 'in the process of changing their gender' - Mirror FE continues to be complicit in its own problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES Winners of national skills finals crowned - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'FE continues to be complicit in its own problems' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 7 negative mindsets teachers need to avoid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers push on with £11K fees for two-year degrees in England - Times Higher Education | THE Careers advice worse at schools with sixth forms - FE Week Schools with sixth forms ‘failing on careers advice’ - Schools Week Special needs pupils 'spend years out of school' - BBC Scotland: Is there a better way to teach our teachers? - Herald Scotland Replicate Plymouth model of tracking home-educated pupils, say experts - Schools Week Students could be charged 20% more per year for accelerated degree courses - Herald Scotland Universities are to offer two year fast-track degrees which will leave students up to £25,000 better off - The Sun Schools in Wales not aware of severe allergies, campaigner says - BBC Two-year degree plan to cut cost of tuition fees - BBC Students could be charged 20% more per year for accelerated degree courses - Mail Music tuition gives us a note of optimism - Times Primary school league tables show Sat results are on the rise - Times Squeeze on school spending puts classroom standards at risk - Times Educational success in primary colours - Times Birkbeck’s cut-price tuition fees set to kick off university price war - Times Alice Roberts’ Humanists campaign sparks faith schools family row - Times Religious primary schools are doing better in exam results than most of their private rivals - Mail Students could pay 20% more per year for speedy degrees - HuffPost