News archive for 16th April 2019

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The Great British School Swap review – racial harmony? It's child's play - Guardian School children swap ethnic groups - and the results are very eye opening - Mirror Labour would scrap Sats because primary school children are 'unique' - Telegraph Performance pay cuts spending on primary teachers by 11% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers could strike if schools impose teaching styles - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer pupils may have got first-choice primary school place - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND provision in ‘crisis,’ teachers warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reformed functional skills specifications released - Times Educational Supplement | TES If everybody hates Sats, why haven’t they been abolished already? - Independent Scotland: Vital allowance for poorer pupils falls by £1.6 million - Herald Scotland Families still struggle to find primary school places in English cities - Guardian Labour will abolish Sats in primary schools, Corbyn tells education conference - Mail Corbyn vows to scrap Sats exams at primary schools - Financial Times Jeremy Corbyn vows to scrap SATs exams for seven-year-old school children - Mirror Teachers face going unpaid over summer holidays as five trusts plan notice-period change - Schools Week Labour will abolish all primary school SATs tests if Jeremy Corbyn gets into No10 - The Sun Scramble for primary school places is toughest in wealthy Chelsea - Evening Standard Free sanitary products in England’s primary schools from early 2020 - UKEdChat SATs are the fairest way to judge pupil progress - Schools Week Setting up in-class libraries in rural China - Best Evidence in Brief Effects of charter middle school attendance on college enrolment and completion - Best Evidence in Brief Test anxiety intervention and uncertain control - Best Evidence in Brief UK to offer free sanitary products to primary school pupils - Mail Labour pledges to scrap primary Sats if elected - BBC Parental conflict reduction projects to get £2m in DWP funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted praises improvements at inadequate council - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Can attention span in infancy predict later executive function? - Best Evidence in Brief Jeremy Corbyn promises to scrap Sats tests in schools - Mail Labour vows to end SATs exams in primary schools - HuffPost An historic week for primary education - National Education Union Corbyn: Labour will scrap SATs - Schools Week One in five teachers planning to leave profession - The Educator Our school system is 'unrecognisable' but not in the way the Tories think - Mirror NEU Representative and Officer of the Year Awards - National Education Union Jeremy Corbyn's speech - National Education Union Supporting special educational needs and disabilities - National Education Union Fair pay for teachers - National Education Union LGBT+ rights - National Education Union Huge employer provider to downsize and scrap all level 2 apprenticeships - FE Week Workload and pedagogy - National Education Union Devolution of pay and conditions to Wales - National Education Union The Nikki Simpson Award for Learning - National Education Union The state of education: workload - National Education Union Major MAT saw third of schools fall into the red last year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Corbyn says Labour would scrap Sats and Reception baseline test - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers threaten national strike if 5% pay demand isn’t met - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to improve your assessment of apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jeremy Corbyn reveals Labour would scrap ‘high-stress’ primary school Sats tests - PoliticsHome Labour will scrap Sats and let teachers teach, vows Jeremy Corbyn - Guardian What’s the best way to improve teaching quality? - Times Educational Supplement | TES EQA contract award - IfATE ASCL response to Labour's plan to scrap SATs - ASCL Labour will abolish Sats exams in primary schools, Jeremy Corbyn says - Independent School assistant loses job over petition against LGBT teaching - Guardian Fairford school worker 'sacked for view on LGBT teaching' - BBC Teachers vote for compulsory LGBT+ lessons from KS1 upwards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Financial support for senior pupils plummets - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school places – find out if your child got their first choice and what to do if they didn’t - The Sun Primary pupils 'must learn about same-sex relationships' - BBC Teachers under pressure are quitting the classroom - HuffPost Scotland: Education allowance for poorer students down £1.6 million in a year - Mail We cannot ignore the grim state of school loos - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Assistant head who misled parents over trips away with pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents must be part of the campaign to ditch Ofsted grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Make LGBT+ education compulsory in all schools, says NEU - Schools Week What to do if you don’t get your first choice Primary school place and how to appeal - Metro Government must make LGBT+ relationships classes compulsory in all schools, teachers say - Independent Apprenticeship quango tender for quality assurance won by incumbent - FE Week Keeping schools mentally healthy: sometimes young people just need to talk - Schools Week Families to find out primary school places today with thousands set to miss out on first choice - The Sun Nearly 100,000 children will be dumped in a failing primary school today - Mail 100,000 pupils sent to failing primaries - Times 'Exhausted’ teachers blame workload for predicted exodus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reforms mean primaries 'unrecognisably' better, says Gibb - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free sanitary products to be offered in primary schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three hours sleep and surviving on Diet Coke – one teacher’s 'unbearable' workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Offer Day 2019: Primary school places to be revealed - Mail School assistant, 43, sacked after posting petition against transgender teaching in her son's school - Mail Cuts mean arts education is being outsourced to the culture sector – and it's not working - HuffPost I’m a teacher and I live in the back of a van - Guardian Parents plan legal action over new tests for four-year-olds - Guardian Primary school league table: Search and compare the best primary schools in your area - Telegraph Six challenges for institutions supporting research capacity building in developing countries - HEPI Apprentices and graduates – why can’t we agree we need both? - Wonkhe Free sanitary products in all primary schools - DfE Minister shares primary school confidence on offer day - DfE Do A-level results matter or not? A question for our unscrupulous universities | Laura McInerney - Guardian Apprenticeship gateway to end-point assessment, more than just a tick box exercise - FE News Why cyber crime is a threat but also an opportunity - Scotsman ‘I am getting out before it kills me’: Two in five teachers plan to quit within five years, union warns - Independent Children who consider suicide face ‘wall of silence’ - Herald Scotland History of Scottish Parliament taught to younger generation in new comic book - Herald Scotland Christian school assistant, 43, is sacked after protesting against transgender issues being taught in son’s primary - The Sun North Yorkshire head eliminates school exclusions - BBC Free sanitary products plan extended to primary girls - BBC Fifth of teachers plan to leave profession within two years - Guardian Thousands of pupils set to miss out on first-choice primary school - Guardian Four out of 10 teachers plan to quit, survey suggests - BBC 12,500 youngsters to be offered places in ‘stuck schools’, warns NSN - Schools Week Two in five don't expect to stay in teaching beyond five years - Schools Week DfE to fund free sanitary products in primary schools - Schools Week Number of children taught in 'super-size' primary school classes is highest in a decade, data shows - Telegraph Huawei warns innovation will slow if universities reject funding - Times Higher Education | THE Lancaster University protest rules ‘repressive and impractical’ - Times Higher Education | THE Universities should be forced to stick to their entry requirements - Times Higher Education | THE Climate protests: Teachers won’t punish absent pupils - Times Children stranded in ‘stuck schools’ is a burning injustice too far | Luke Tryl - Times Scotland: Teacher who butted player in shinty clash avoids work ban - Times Scotland: Ministers urged to set date for minimum student income - Mail