News archive for 7th January 2019

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Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 8: What knowledge? - The Learning Spy Foreign Office to publish training course online for first time so public can learn art of diplomacy - Telegraph Clarence House shares throwback snap of Charles riding his bike during his Cambridge years - Mail Committee holds final evidence session on Erasmus and Horizon - UK Parliament Thousands to benefit from multi-million pound boost to youth organisations - GOV.UK How ESFA handles allegations of suspected fraud or financial irregularity - Education & Skills Funding Agency Cut out any work that fills time instead of moving students on - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stressed teacher wanted to crash car to avoid going back to work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Quiz: What kind of teacher will you be in 2019? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Divert students from university to FE, says report - Times Educational Supplement | TES What is a teacher’s most important quality? Likeability - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brexit: Boarding schools call for clarity on EU pupils' status - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will we have league tables for activity passports? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Garry Phillips: The FE sector pays tribute - Times Educational Supplement | TES Arrest after stowaway found on school trip coach - Times Educational Supplement | TES More pressure to put menstrual wellbeing on national curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES College could increase teachers' hours to cut costs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why private schools are opting out of GCSE and A-level exams | Letters - Guardian Government accused of ‘broken promises’ after thousands of schools appear to have funding cut - Independent Scotland: Teachers to decide within days on strike action ballot - Herald Scotland Nearly 5,000 schools in England not given promised cash – union - Guardian Why teaching is still the best job in the world - The Educator More than 75% of Scottish teachers are ‘stressed’ - The Educator Lesson observation: “Not terrible though?” - Teacher Toolkit 5 tips for succeeding as a Head of Year - Teacher Toolkit Future Leaders eight years on - Ambition School Leadership Four challenges facing school leaders working in disadvantaged areas - Ambition School Leadership NHS long-term plan - Universities UK Sexting: advice for schools and colleges from the UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) - NAHT Broken promises from Government on school funding - National Education Union Three cheers for Michael Gove: if he can make Agriculture a STEM subject? - HEPI YOI fails younger inmates, inspection finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Cautious welcome for young people's mental health plan - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Schoolchildren to be offered sleep lessons after rise in disorders - Guardian Ministers accused of ‘broken promise’ on school funding - Schools Week Retrieval practice: How it helped me improve Sats results - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE accused of breaking school funding promise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brexit shows us how to work with our neighbours - Times Educational Supplement | TES Working in a pupil-referral unit changed my caree - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: 75% of teachers 'often stressed by workload' - Times Educational Supplement | TES University a 'false promise' for too many youngsters - BBC Making apprenticeships work for all - New Statesman Scotland: New childcare course aimed at men launched in Highlands - BBC Ofsted under fire for sharing new inspection plans with MATs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: What is the fourth industrial revolution? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tide's out, school's in: the many benefits of beach teaching - Guardian Cut scholarships and fund less well-off pupils instead, says head of £32,000-a-year school - Telegraph P1 pupils in Scotland being used ‘to score political points’ - Scotsman What does 2019 hold for apprenticeships? - FE News More than three-quarters of Scots teachers frequently feel stressed - Herald Scotland Let’s go fly a kite: Students - Wonkhe Let’s go fly a kite: Who is HE for? - Wonkhe A beginner’s guide to student loans in the public accounts - Wonkhe Let’s go fly a kite: Running and regulating universities - Wonkhe Let’s go fly a kite: Single-cellular scholarship - Wonkhe Families waiting too long for special needs support in England - BBC One in four students are on 'Mickey Mouse' courses that won't lead to well-paid jobs... leaving taxpayers to foot the cost of their unpaid loans - Mail Scotland: Workload leaves more than three quarters of teachers stressed - Mail What the sector wants in…2019 - Nursery World Ofsted delay hits childminders - Nursery World Spotlight on…Angela Brown - Nursery World Brexit: Top schools eye European growth as financial firms quit London - Times Tuition fees cut would hurt poor, prime minister told - Times Student writers help pupils with university applications - Times Quarter of degrees ‘are never worth the money’ - Times Scotland: UK students ‘soon to be outnumbered’ - Times Scotland: Stressed teachers blame workload and levels of pay - Times