News archive for 9th August 2019

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Dozens of students’ Maths A-level grades withheld amid online leak inquiry - Telegraph Car free zones to be introduced at six Scottish primary schools - Scotsman Shukri Abdi's family brand school inquiry into bullying a whitewash - Guardian The asylum seeker who has learned fluent Welsh in a year - Wales Online School league tables fuel anxiety in students, leading headmistress says, as she calls for a mass boycott - Telegraph A level entries in Wales have fallen this year. Here's why and these are the subjects that suffered - Wales Online Glasgow imposes car free zones at six primaries - Herald Scotland DfE and TPS accounting officer system statement - DfE EYFS staff:child ratios - DfE approved qualifications - DfE US researchers urge caution on 'flipped learning' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dispute over £4 million sale of Durand boarding academy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Better sex education 'may have averted murder' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council faces £241k bill for defunct academy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Culturally appropriate pedagogy in comparative contexts - BERA NASUWT comments on the review report on the health and safety of Buchanan and St Ambrose schools, North Lanarkshire - NASUWT The September 2019 Spending Review: austerity ended, or perhaps just paused? - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 9 August - Pearson UK government announces fast track visa plan for top researchers - PIE News Coatbridge schools at centre of health scares 'are safe' - BBC Staying silent on exam result stress is never the right answer - CYPN | Children & Young People Now A transcultural doctoral curriculum? - Advance HE Chancellor announces one-year budget round as Spending Review shelved due to Brexit - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Durand Education Trust in legal battle with DfE after refusing to hand over assets for free - Schools Week A-level maths results for 78 students withheld after leak of paper - Guardian Highbury College loses FOI battle to keep the principal’s expenses a secret - FE Week Accelerated degrees to bespoke courses: what the future of British universities look like - Telegraph Edexcel maths A-level leak bigger than first thought, admits Pearson - FE Week A ‘snowflake’ with ‘vacuous’ thoughts: former sector leader hits back at policy adviser to Hinds - FE Week 'The sense I was clever was knocked out of me': confessions of a uni dropout - Guardian Ofsted Watch: Employer providers excel in good week for FE sector - FE Week What if words like 'can't' or 'money' were banned? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Social mobility' ignores what really holds pupils back - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: where can I study them? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can the government get the country Brexit ready? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads' 'dismay' at school funding boost delay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edexcel maths A-level leak bigger than first thought, admits Pearson - Schools Week London nursery group sells to investors - Nursery World Review of water samples at Scottish 'blue water' school finds no illness link - Scotsman 'Blue water' schools: Report finds no link to illness - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers aren't trained mental health professionals - Times Educational Supplement | TES 78 pupils’ results ‘withheld’ after A-level maths leak - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney: 'We're making progress ... and I'm determined to build on that' - Herald Scotland Ex-NSN director’s government appointment ‘blocked’ by Downing Street - Schools Week Pearson schools head: I regret the extra stress caused to teachers and pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Buchanan and St Ambrose High School safe, according to independent review - Herald Scotland Pedagogy Focus: John Dewey - Times Educational Supplement | TES Levy shortage starving small firms of apprenticeships poses early test for Johnson campaign pledge - AELP Spending review won’t give schools more cash for a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: providers face cash shortage for SMEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Review into North Lanarkshire 'blue water' schools to be published - Herald Scotland A world-class education system is well within Britain’s grasp - Telegraph Row over Scottish ministers’ education gap claims - Scotsman Athena SWAN equality charter could cover ethnicity and disability - Times Higher Education | THE UK admissions isn’t perfect, but improving it will be difficult - Times Higher Education | THE Derry is returning to its scholastic roots - Wonkhe Building the anti-racist classroom - Wonkhe Three in four providers cannot meet SME apprentice demand thanks to levy drought - FE Week Worship in school assemblies is ‘inappropriate’, say half of Britons - Schools Week Scottish school faces boycott over phone mast health fears - Times EU rules broken in Irish schools repair contract - Times