News archive for 12th September 2018

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Students from care background defy expectations, report claims - Herald Scotland Scotland: Loretto School drama teacher suspended over 'inappropriate behaviour' - Express ‘I cannot believe what I have just read!’ Student group banned after defending Gulag camps - Express 'No crime committed' say police in teacher probe - Herald Scotland UK must welcome international students | Letters - Guardian Learning tool helps close gap in Scotland’s maths attainment - Scotsman Scotland: Student hires 12 staff to take care of her at university - including a butler and lady's maid - Mirror Schools may no longer ban pupils from having dreadlocks, after Rastafarian boy has ban overturned - Telegraph Gypsy pupils experience bullying and racism, MPs told - BBC London Councils calls for urgent solution on nursery school funding - Early Education Office for Students publishes new Prevent monitoring framework - Office for Students Matching ambition with outcomes for fair access and participation - Office for Students USA: Georgia school asks parents: can we paddle your misbehaving children? - Guardian Employer skills survey 2017: England and local toolkit - DfE Schools financial efficiency: metric tool - DfE Essential digital skills framework - DfE ‘Without fear or favour’ – MPs urge Ofsted chief to speak out more - SecEd HSE issues warning over asbestos-containing gauze - SecEd Commission proposes new subject of religion and worldviews to replace outdated RE - SecEd Shakespeare Learning Zone - SecEd Scotland: Swinney urged to ditch threats of legislation - SecEd Wales: Boy dies in hospital after being found unconscious at Llanelli school - Mirror School resource management self-assessment tool - DfE Children and Families Minister speaks at safeguarding conference - DfE Teacher Recruitment Bulletin - DfE Removal of apprenticeship frameworks - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 12 September 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Next steps on the mental health green paper - government responds to consultation - NAHT Increase to employer contribution rates for the Teachers’ Pension Scheme likely but implementation deferred until September 2019 - NAHT The fallacy of higher education and income equality - Wonkhe Apprenticeship statistics: Our response - Learning & Work Institute How does testing affect related, untested content? - Learning Scientists How do schools vary around the world? - The Educator Why we need to promote equality - Ambition School Leadership Systematic reviews and weather forecasts – how purpose shapes the significance of systematic reviews for different education stakeholders - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring UK Parliament hears second round of evidence on int’l students - PIE News Desperate parents are bribing priests with muffins – our faith school system must end | Zoe Williams - Guardian Four in 10 providers see fall in profits due to 30 hours childcare initiative - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Religious background is more important than a faith school education for academic success - IOE London Blog Educational psychologists demand UK-wide smacking ban - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Initiative to educate new mental health nurses - Cambridge Network Ireland: Transport blow for rural school - SecEd USA: Georgia school brings back smacking naughty kids with wooden bat… and parents think it’s a brilliant idea - The Sun EAL: Working with new arrivals - SecEd London school that told boy to cut off dreadlocks backs down - Guardian Funding cuts and bullying hitting Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils, MPs told - Schools Week 'We have no idea if most things in education work' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hard-left students at Goldsmiths University bizarrely defend Stalin’s gulags where millions of people died - The Sun £18m ‘future talent fund’ cancelled less than a year after it was announced - Schools Week 10 ways for teachers to look after their wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges hit out at 'woeful' international student report - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'In the UK we must share our learning about skills' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Instagram is bursting with teacher positivity' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Britain should be welcoming international students - Financial Times College performance improves, Ofsted reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sheffield spends apprenticeship levy on managers taking its MBAs - Times Higher Education | THE Non-Russell Group degree ‘harms affluent women’s prospects’ - Times Higher Education | THE £18m ‘future talent fund’ cancelled less than a year after it was announced - FE News Children and Families Minister speaks at safeguarding conference - FE News Academic advantage of going to a faith school is 'short lived' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted says some schools are 'pushing away' Gypsy Roma pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Teaching has pushed me down the pecking order' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disadvantaged two-year-olds missing out on early education, finds report - Nursery World Four tips for NQTs in the first weeks of term - Times Educational Supplement | TES Local schools encouraged to apply for £500 worth of free resources and training - FE News Dreadlocks ban school backs down after court action threat - Evening Standard Protest over £30m on offer for school nursery places - Nursery World The toxic legacy of parent shaming – and the damage it does to children - The Conversation DfE 30 hours report lays bare the challenges for providers - Nursery World Teacher training and the 'problem of more' - how do we scale up without sacrificing quality? - IOE London Blog Government urged to find funding solution to save nursery schools - Nursery World Robots will never replace teachers but can boost children’s education - FE News Students invited to help select potential targets for the world’s cutting-edge space observatory - FE News £20m grammar school transport scheme quietly shelved - Schools Week Heads urge Ofsted to ‘pause’ inspection changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads want 'requires improvement' to replace floor standards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academic advantage of going to a faith school is 'short lived' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Ofsted must prove its reports are reliable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nine ways to improve school accountability - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'School accountability can be a force for good' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Taking student-centred approaches to the next level - Wonkhe Learning difficulties: the 10 research priorities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dad slams school after son, 12, put in 'isolation' over JD Sports 'shoes' - Mirror Tories quietly ditch scheme to spend £20 million ferrying a few hundred pupils by taxi to their nearest grammar school - Mirror British people often boast about being ‘bad at maths’. Here’s why that causes genuine harm - Guardian Students want universities to invest in teaching staff. Why won't they listen? | Sally Hunt - Guardian Ministers ditch plans to pay poorerst grammar school pupils' transport costs - Guardian Leader comment: What toddlers ‘talking’ like apes says about humans - Scotsman Be guided by what’s dependably, fundamentally certain: Einstein and the CEO - FE News Do MBA courses teach the right skills? Readers respond - Financial Times Ministers urged to investigate how big numbers of non-EU graduates are ending up in UK jobs on rock bottom pay - The Sun What do students really eat? - BBC Graduates held back by lack of basic literacy and numeracy despite huge tuition fees, report says - The Sun Energy & Utility Skills announces partnership with The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award to build excellence in the workforce - FE News Ground-breaking analysis of 10,500 companies reveals training programmes that helps firms grow - FE News Senior teacher at Scots boarding school suspended after 'deeply disturbing' allegations - Herald Scotland Almost one in three graduates are overqualified for their job, major report finds - Telegraph Police catch 11‑year‑olds being used to sell drugs - Times Graduates ‘lack basic maths and literacy skills’ - Times Give overseas students more time to find work, May is urged - Times Anti-trans group accused of encouraging school bullying - Times Fresher student Abigail Hall’s death is a mystery, doctor tells inquest - Times Kirstie Allsopp quits Twitter after backlash for smashing children’s iPads - Times Beggared yourself with school fees? No Jag for you then | Carol Midgley - Times Scotland: Coddled children must be taught to cope with failure, cleric says - Times Scotland: Children aren’t little monkeys, they’re really just tiny apes - Times Scotland: Teacher accused of failing to act on deaf school abuse claims - Times Scotland: Scots girls most bullied in Europe - Times Scotland: Ex-teacher jailed for sexual abuse - Times Ireland: Drop in Junior Cert pupils achieving straight A grades - Times