News archive for 19th February 2019

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Schoolkids should have a legal right to 75 minutes of break a day, say MPs - Mirror Nursery wins religious discrimination appeal for sacking cohabiting teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES One small step for colleges, one giant leap for the DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Investigation after pupils say they were 'pinched and slapped' at faith school - Guardian Concern about increased Estyn inspections - National Education Union Evidence of disciplinary bias against sexual minority females - Best Evidence in Brief The effect of a World Cup on pupils’ effort and achievement - Best Evidence in Brief Effects of youth mentoring programmes - Best Evidence in Brief An evaluation of PACE Center for Girls - Best Evidence in Brief Is social-emotional learning linked to academic performance? - Best Evidence in Brief The European University Institute (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - DfE Get behind National Apprenticeship Week 2019 - 'Asks' of the sector - Education & Skills Funding Agency Principal and deputy suspended at Hadlow College Group - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stop 'humiliation' of college principals, urges union - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister blames toxic air on parents who drive pupils to school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary and secondary teaching are too alien to be lumped together... - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why child mental health services are in such a mess - Times Educational Supplement | TES School inspections in Wales to be halted for a year to help them prepare for the new curriculum - Wales Online New yoga trial aims to tackle high exclusion rates - Schools Week Boost school support for forces children, charity says - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Leadership Focus February 2019 - NAHT Learned helplessness - UKEdChat Project-based learning and employer engagement in university technical colleges offer lessons for schools - Edge Foundation Just Childcare buys 50th nursery - Nursery World Schoolchildren should dance more in schools, say researchers - UKEdChat Vietnam & UK sign 23 MoUs on education - PIE News NASUWT comments on National Education Service speech - NASUWT Vocational qualifications in the sixth form: uncertainty, confusion or a brand new future? - ASCL Oxford and Cambridge universities not doing enough to recruit poorer students, most Britons believe - Independent 'I'm not spending money on that': the rise of the teetotal student - Guardian Grammar heads banned log showing ‘bias’ against free-meals pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Inspectorate ‘delighted’ with council closing attainment gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stephen Lawrence's mother challenges minister over school racism - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour reveals lifelong learning commission panel - Times Educational Supplement | TES England’s school system is in crisis – could Labour’s National Education Service be the solution? - The Conversation NASUWT accused of using ‘anti-union’ law to break a strike by its staff - Schools Week French nursery group La Maison Bleue seals first UK deal - Nursery World Co-op Childcare gains top first aid award - Nursery World Scotland: Fees for Edinburgh’s top independent schools set to rise by £900, experts warn - Scotsman The commissioners selected for Labour’s adult education advisory board - FE Week More Welsh school inspections from 2021 - BBC Fighting for a level playfield in English and maths - Schools Week Take PE and sports premium cash off schools that misspend it, urges new report - Schools Week Why Britain’s private schools are such a social problem - IOE London Blog Project based learning and employer engagement in UTCs offer guidance to schools and colleges - NFER Seven ways to use project-based learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private special schools 'taking advantage' of councils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Corbyn: End 'grammar school attitude' to vocational study - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scots academics call for change in how land is used to slow climate change - Scotsman Female teachers are ‘breaking the glass ceiling to find a conservatory outside’ - Guardian New behaviour code for Sir and Miss caught in schools moral maze - Guardian MPs call for 1p clothing tax and darning classes in schools to cut waste - Guardian A child in a bedsit has more ‘character’ than a braying public schoolboy, Mr Hinds | Laura McInerney - Guardian Scotland: The schools using pizza and cake to tackle the poverty gap - Herald Scotland Scottish pupils to be taught lifesaving techniques - Herald Scotland Should multi-academy trust CEO pay be regulated? - Schools Week Scotland: All but two councils fail to give pupils gold-standard organic lunch - Herald Scotland Cheater, cheatier, cheatiest – a particularly sleazy uni ranking - Wonkhe Should former VCs be on governing bodies? - Wonkhe European university heads take the fight to publishers - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Usualising’ transgendered people can help break down stereotypes - Times Higher Education | THE Estyn to be in schools more often as curriculum preparations continue - Welsh Government "Traditional" schools must embrace project-based learning to reduce the skills gap - FE News Project-based learning and employer engagement in university technical colleges offer lessons for schools - FE News Scotland: Council credited for progress on narrowing attainment gap in schools - Mail Poor memory of depressed pupils harms exam results - Times Autistic children overcome fears in virtual reality room - Times Call for legal right to 75-minute school break - Times Decolonising curriculums is sinister and wrong | Melanie Phillips - Times Scotland: Catholic schools face closure threat in cost-cutting plan - Times Scotland: Teacher who let pupils watch Shrek porn video is struck off - Times Ireland: Sustainable living should be on curriculum, says Mary Robinson - Times More than a quarter of females have suffered from period poverty, survey finds - Mail