News archive for 6th October 2018

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Most sex abuse claims against teachers 'made up' by pupils, teaching union head suggests - Telegraph Lessons that misfire. Good intentions + bad theory = poor results. - Headguruteacher ‘If a qualification cannot delivered in timetabled time, then there's something wrong’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES This much I know about…how I have become a very boring teacher! - JohnTomsett Movers and shakers: Edition 256 - FE Week Where to move for... the best A-level or Higher results - Guardian A headteacher’s wonderings; two years in! - UKEdChat Stop teaching kids how to be happy, says education expert - UKEdChat What is the lived experience of the child? - UKEdChat What does massed reading and watching do to attention? - Learning Scientists Trust gets £300,000 for taking over troubled Whitehaven Academy - Schools Week Scotland: Parents too scared to help children with maths homework - Scotsman Jazz hands – now that’s an act of kindness I can applaud - Guardian Tory conference 2018: what was said about FE and skills? - FE Week Scotland: More than 1,000 teachers under 40 quit the profession - Herald Scotland Private school cuts pay if pupil numbers dip - Schools Week ‘They’ll blame the housing crisis on PRUs soon!’ - Schools Week Specialist college set up to train engineers for controversial HS2 railway recruited just 96 students - Mail Fife divided after vote to end tests for five-year-olds - Times John Swinney hails `progressive´ policies as SNP gathers for conference - Mail Universities have become graduate factories, just ones that care little about their output - Times AI will offer every child ‘an Eton education’ - Times