News archive for 10th October 2018

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Global: Playing catchup - funding for education still lags behind health - Financial Times Headteacher who ‘kept secrets’ for ex-pupil who later killed herself cleared of misconduct - Mail Cambridge University students vote against Remembrance Sunday motion over fears it 'glorifies' war - Telegraph Supportive letters boost national leader of education applications, study finds - Schools Week Tackling mental health in the classroom - Leeds Beckett University The effect of pupils moving into and out of the Pupil Premium group - FFT Education Datalab Theresa May announces annual review of children's mental health - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Free places available on ETF courses - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Getting to the heart of the matter: can a compassionate approach to inclusion really make a difference? - Advance HE Government announces expansion of delayed child trafficking initiative - CYPN | Children & Young People Now England schools face £1.7bn pension black hole, research reveals - Guardian Teachers analysis compendium 4 - DfE Community learning mental health research project - DfE Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills - Ofsted ESFA Update: 10 October 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency A guide to apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency Second language programmes in international schools - BERA Feel Stress Free - new mobile app launched to support mental health in schools - Cambridge Network AELP statement on the funding of further education - AELP Hands up for education - NAHT Solving a missing Brexit link - retaining the positive role of European students - MillionPlus How universities can support mental health this World Mental Health Day - Universities UK Mental health services for young fail to live up to the promise - Times Names are important for the “non-academic” - Wonkhe The estate we’re in - Wonkhe Children’s mental health - Teacher Toolkit News from the Tory fringe - Edge Foundation New staff without DBS 'should not be left alone with children' - Ofsted - Nursery World New staff without DBS 'should not be left alone with children' - Nursery World Don’t underestimate the power of asking ‘how are you?’ - Times Higher Education | THE Two federations join forces to ensure integrity and independence of assessment and quality assurance in apprenticeships - FE News Theresa May accused of 'deliberately misleading Parliament' after using discredited statistics - Mirror Parliamentary petition launched calling for sustainable college funding - FE Week Council-run nurseries are twice as likely to be in debt - HuffPost Nord Anglia Education moving to London - EducationInvestor Children in direct appeal to MPs over school funding - Mail PMQs: Corbyn and May on education funding and austerity (video) - BBC Hymns could be banned in school as boffins say children shouldn't feel forced to believe - Express Theresa May accused of misleading Parliament over 'discredited' schools claim - HuffPost Mexico looks to Scottish universities for energy industry lessons - Times Higher Education | THE International fees trust fund ‘just another idea’ - Times Higher Education | THE UK Student Loans Company pays out £72K compensation - Times Higher Education | THE Why Birkbeck is leaving the UK rankings race - Times Higher Education | THE Mental health is global challenge that will require an interdisciplinary solution - Times Higher Education | THE Bristol launches UK’s first science of happiness course - Times Higher Education | THE MPs want penalties for schools that flout the ‘Baker Clause’ - SecEd Scottish teachers ‘significant step closer’ to strike - SecEd Mental health toolkit offered to schools - SecEd Nord Anglia moves HQ to London - PIE News The schools most likely to see GCSE grade swings - Times Educational Supplement | TES 5 reasons why schools struggle with CPD - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five steps to tackle work-related stress - Times Educational Supplement | TES May repeats dubious funding claim days after stats watchdog slapdown - Schools Week An analysis of recruitment, retention and training within the state-sector teacher workforce - DfE Teacher's brilliant response to headteacher 'who told him his lesson was s***' - Mirror North East fund targets struggling schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Might Labour hand RSCs’ powers to councils? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rayner accuses DfE of 'lying' about school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plan to fine schools £5,000 per exclusion - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bristol University launches a course in happiness - HuffPost 'Rayner and Hinds offer empty education policies' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's time to end the stigma of period poverty' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why can't the Conservatives fix mental health? - Guardian PM rejects call for 3.5% pay rise for all teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stop FE 'initiative mania', say sector leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Demand for graduate business studies up globally - PIE News EU law stops VAT cuts to all school uniforms, says minister - BBC Scottish school’s charity breakfast axed after lorne sausage complaint - Scotsman Crude, racist textbooks have no place in today’s education system | David Lammy - Guardian Teenagers bombarded by gambling ads ask for help - BBC Wales’ curriculum to put “citizens first” - Kirsty Williams - Welsh Government Students back mental health alerts following Bristol suicides - BBC We have leaking roofs, dirty loos and old books, pupils tell MPs - Times School and college funding inquiry: Education Committee question further education sector - FE News How to improve our children’s mental health - Teacher Toolkit Learning from colleagues - The Educator 10:15 am: Committee question further education sector on funding priorities - Commons Select Committee One in 10 children has no-one to talk to when feeling worried or sad' - Mail First ever minister for suicide prevention appointed as 'too many suffer in silence' - HuffPost One in 10 pupils talk to no one when unhappy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union to offer free sanitary products to students - Times Educational Supplement | TES 7 reasons why school music is 'at crisis point' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ban hymns and prayers in schools, say academics - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Crisis' as most schools end compulsory music from Year 9 - Times Educational Supplement | TES UTCs give young people the skills to do the job: Overcoming the academic-vocational divide - FE News Parents appeal to John Swinney for help after flooding at island primary - Herald Scotland Calls for greater diversity among school governors - BBC Nearly 500,000 children have no-one to talk to when sad, survey finds - Independent UCU follows Scottish government in paying for sanitary products for learners - FE Week Music disappearing from curriculum, schools survey shows - Guardian World Mental Health Day - free support via augmented reality - FE News Music is ‘at risk of disappearing’ from schools, research finds - Schools Week Fears for the future of music lessons in schools - BBC Spurned seductress was allowed to ruin my life, claims academic - Times NHS criticised over child mental health spending - Times Teacher who married girl aged 13 is banned for life - Times Scotland: Primary school pupils to get sex consent lessons under SNP plan - Times Scotland: Focus on grades taking toll on children’s mental health - Times Ireland: Unions and business deride ‘paltry’ rise in education funding - Times Ireland: Basic income threshold for childcare scheme is raised - Times University 'dual nationality' plan for Brexit - BBC Music lessons in schools at risk unless government funds teacher pay rise, councils warn - Independent