News archive for 17th April 2019

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Warning over pupils moving between schools - BBC UK universities spent £87million on compensation for bullying, sexual misconduct and discrimination - Mail Banned: Assistant principal created an ‘upskirt’ image of a schoolgirl - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher’s tears over colleague’s suicide as he calls for more support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Unions call on government to intervene in pay dispute - Times Educational Supplement | TES The biggest colleges in England - Times Educational Supplement | TES ​​​​​​​Headteachers must give ‘creative control’ to teachers and pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Non-disclosure agreements have their place, but they are being widely abused on British campuses - Telegraph SEND - Ofsted, Care Quality Commission and the Independent Parental Special Education Advice questioned - UK Parliament Imprisonment of young people as a punishment 'must end' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Parliamentary committee calls for ban on pain-inducing restraint - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Teaching union calls zero-tolerance school policies 'inhumane' - Guardian The baseline assessment isn't perfect, but supporting it makes sense - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools asked to take a 'mindful moment' to raise money for mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers have no option but to quit | Letters - Guardian Key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores - DfE ESFA funded 16 to 18 traineeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency There is method in the madness of Labour's ban on primary school testing - Telegraph A guide to apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 17 April 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Assessment organisation finally found for nursing apprentices - FE Week Comparing apples with oranges - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Ministers warned over cuts as teachers claim 'crisis point' in child mental health - PoliticsHome Primary pupils speak of suicide in 'growing mental health crisis' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government pledges free sanitary products for all primary schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now I’m a primary school teacher and Corbyn’s plan to scrap Sats fills me with dread | Solomon Kingsnorth - Guardian UUK response on use of NDAs - Universities UK UK businesses called upon to help turn around the nation’s numeracy skills - National Numeracy It’s time to place our students first, by putting feedback first - BERA Do we test children too much? - Teacher Toolkit More pupils miss out on preferred primaries in high-demand areas - Schools Week The attention of a junior minister - Wonkhe School bullying increases chances of mental health issues and unemployment in later life - UKEdChat Wonkhe speaks to Kirsty Williams (podcast) - Wonkhe We need Sats. Ditching them would be a mistake - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils shut in isolation rooms for hours, teachers say - BBC UK universities spent £87m on 'gagging orders' to keep bullying and sexual misconduct claims quiet - Independent Potty training expert insists it's 'not acceptable' to send five-year-olds to school in nappies - Mail Scotland: Aberdeen University revokes Sultan’s degree over gay stoning laws - Scotsman Zero-tolerance approaches to bad behaviour in schools are ‘inhumane’, teachers say - Independent Swinford school campaigners celebrate saving head - BBC NASUWT union staff vote for further strikes over pay and pensions - Schools Week Labour will scrap Reception baseline and SATs - Nursery World Abolish the anti-union laws - National Education Union Accountability and assessment - National Education Union The Fred & Anne Jarvis award - National Education Union Valid assessment for all - National Education Union Disability discrimination - National Education Union Change needs to come from within - National Education Union The Steve Sinnott International Solidarity Award - National Education Union Palestine - National Education Union A national education service - National Education Union Mental health in exam factories - National Education Union Let councils regulate ‘draconian’ school behaviour policies, says NEU - Schools Week Businesswoman who didn't go to university says school cancelled her planned talk - Mail Tracking eye movements to help reading - BBC Scotland: Call to change ‘crazy’ funding of special schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats made me the teacher I never wanted to be. Let's get rid - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to support pupils with adverse childhood experiences - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE researchers must leave imposter syndrome behind - Times Educational Supplement | TES Zero-tolerance behaviour policies are 'inhumane', says union - Times Educational Supplement | TES From grim to gleaming: how to fix your school loos - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities plan to drop EYT courses - Nursery World Scottish university revokes Sultan of Brunei's honorary degree over anti-LGBT laws - Herald Scotland Mental health problems among children have hit 'crisis point', say teachers - HuffPost Periods: Free sanitary products in primary schools aiming to tackle 'period poverty' - BBC Jeremy Corbyn pledges to abolish primary school tests: Children 'left in floods of tears' - Express Progressive Muslims, Jews and Christians must stand together for LGBT rights | Michael Segalov - Guardian Free sanitary towels to be given to all primary school girls from early 2020 - Mirror Rayner: Parents should be 'weaned off' league tables - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK universities pay out £90m on staff 'gagging orders' in past two years - Guardian Universities spent close to £90 million on pay-offs with gagging orders attached, new figures show - Telegraph Student mental health crisis a 'slow-motion car crash', say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's an educational revolution': how AI is transforming university life - Guardian Universities are about social mobility. This needs to be recognised | Justine Greening - Guardian The state of education: Young people’s mental health - National Education Union Britain will fall behind if adult education is not increased - The Educator Children as young as nine talk about suicide as mental health problems get worse, teachers warn - Independent UK universities face 'gagging order' criticism - BBC Research is teaching preparation - Times Higher Education | THE Gaining insights into young people who are NEET is as easy as L-E-O - FE News The Liberal Democrats and tuition fees: lessons for the Conservatives today - Wonkhe Wales: What does the world of everyday physics look like? - BBC Open University: Photos issued to mark 50th anniversary - BBC Four-fifths of teachers say pupils’ mental health is getting worse - Schools Week Mental health of pupils is 'at crisis point', teachers warn - Guardian Jeremy Corbyn's plan to scrap SATs is a dumbed down plot to damage pupils' dreams - Mail Children as young as nine are talking about suicide in class, teachers' survey reveals - Telegraph Corbyn pledges to scrap SATs for primary pupils - Times Jessica Scatterson, 12, killed herself after ‘intense’ use of social media - Times