News archive for 6th September 2018

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School 'keeps 70 children in a hall all day - because they 'didn't have right logo on their trousers' - Mirror British universities could be closed unless they work harder to recruit more poor students - Mail USA: The comeback kids: how a struggling public school made the grade - Guardian 70 schoolchildren 'kept in a hall' because their trousers didn't have the right logo - Wales Online Priorities for a National Education Service | Letters - Guardian Things all parents should do this week to help their child settle into school - Mirror School uniform row after 90 pupils sent home or put in isolation on first day back by strict new headteacher - Mirror Early years should get more music, says arts chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Matching ambition with outcomes for fair access and participation - Wonkhe A step change for access and participation? - Wonkhe £8 million investment in new mental health research networks - Cambridge Network Launching a digital revolution in schools - Nesta Blended learning: more than just equal access - BERA NEU industrial action will continue and will escalate - ATL Leadership Through Sport & Business are delighted to partner with us! - Collab Group UCU welcomes move from NCG to tackle insecure contracts - UCU NAHT drafts response to the Secretary of State's announcement on pay - NAHT British international schools told to stop DBS checks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chief Rabbi publishes first LGBT guide for orthodox schools - BBC Setting pupils by attainment unlikely to boost attainment, but grouping them or specific activities in class might - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Early analysis of 2018 Key Stage 4 results - FFT Education Datalab Teacher externships boost careers advice programmes in schools - Edge Foundation The start to your best teaching year - UKEdChat Deals for schools - DfE Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills - Ofsted People connected with Ofsted-registered childcare - Ofsted How to make school partnerships work - Education Development Trust | EDT Register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Greener neighbourhoods may be good for children’s brains - IOE London Blog Scotland: fewer pupils taking music lessons as fees rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES To fix the global education crisis, leaders must listen - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher escapes ban after faking QTS certificate - Times Educational Supplement | TES What's the value of the professional skills test? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only two responses to DfE survey on maths early careers payments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: SNP told ‘use JK Rowling to boost Named Person’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon defends national tests for youngest pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Michael Wilshaw: FE sixth forms outperform schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Clare Jarmy: Should you try to be a ‘hero’ teacher? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents unhappy after school installs unisex toilets over summer - Metro Student Loans Company announces new CEO - FE News Opening up opportunities in film and TV with BECTU - Unionlearn Parents get time off for children's first day of school - BBC The real cost of being a Uni student - FE News Parents vow to keep children at home after headmaster installs 'unisex' toilet block - Mirror DfE warns schools about political activity - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Teaching Year 7 is great – if you do it well’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Call in the skills cavalry’ says WorldSkills UK chief - FE News Teacher shortages worsening in majority of US states, study reveals - Guardian USA: The teacher pay gap: how a promising career for women lost its shine - Guardian USA: The day maggots fell from the ceiling: why I quit teaching - Guardian USA: The working-class kid who became a writer: how a Kansas teacher helped change my life - Guardian Chris Jones: 'We need to define T-level success' - Times Educational Supplement | TES College group to boost job security - Times Educational Supplement | TES NCG tackles casual staff contracts - FE Week Call in the skills Cavalry says UK Worldskills chief - FE News This is why you should take your kids to the park after school - HuffPost Millions of children in families too poor to afford a healthy diet - Nursery World Ex-Bank of England chief attacks ‘unfair’ UK pension reforms Universities Superan - Times Higher Education | THE Top astronomer donates £2.3 milllion prize to young physicists - Times Higher Education | THE Train all university staff in suicide prevention, says guidance - Times Higher Education | THE 'Remember, NQTs, mistakes happen – don't panic' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New GCSEs require teaching time that we do not have - Times Educational Supplement | TES Salford City Council looks to schools to take on its nurseries - Nursery World Minister attacks 'monoculture' of universities - Telegraph Bunsen burner gauze mats containing asbestos sold to schools across UK since 1976 - Independent Black pupils disadvantaged by setting - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of pupils in wrong maths set - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers advised to minimise setting - Times Educational Supplement | TES Essay mills are still legal - are universities soft on cheating? - Montrose42 'Supersize' infant classes double over seven years - Telegraph Teachers advised to minimise setting - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of pupils in wrong maths set - Times Educational Supplement | TES Black pupils disadvantaged by setting - Times Educational Supplement | TES David versus Goliath: The past, present and future of students’ unions in the UK - HEPI Why degree apprenticeships should be the next big thing - Sutton Trust Thousands of students investigated for a range of misconduct, new figures show - Mail Government universities minister tells professors to 'call out' censorship as students push for controversial visitors to be banned - Mail Why is the curriculum so white in business schools? | Alessia Contu - Guardian Is age just a number? The problem of age bias in recruitment - FE News Threat of legislation to empower headteachers 'unhelpful' - Herald Scotland Pupils 'being double tested' in quarter of councils - Herald Scotland Children who grow up in leafier areas do better at school because plants are 'less tiring to look at' - Mail Chief rabbi calls on Jewish schools to tackle homophobia - Guardian Solving Scotland's education crisis will take a decade, union warns SNP - Express Angela Rayner: Infant class sizes are ‘unsustainable’ - Schools Week A local park boosts pupil achievement - Times Overcrowding doubles for primary pupils - Times Sexual insults, obscene messages and misogyny: I was the only teen girl at Eton - Times Scotland: Parents pull children from music lessons over ‘pay-to-play’ charges - Times Scotland: Music tuition is crucial on a local and national scale - Times Scotland: Last-ditch appeal by Swinney to save P1 tests - Times