News archive for 10th January 2019

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WhatsApp groups for parents become overrun with 'vitriolic tirades', leading headmaster warns - Telegraph Scottish council looks to shorten school week, close two schools - Scotsman International Textbook Summit - DfE New centre for excellence to boost modern foreign language skills - DfE New free schools to benefit children with additional needs - DfE Scotland: First Minister apology to academics 'misrepresented' on primary school testing - Herald Scotland Cutting tuition fees will turn universities into vassals of the state | Simon Jenkins - Guardian Education Minister faces questions as biggest reform of Welsh schools in a generation heavily criticised - Wales Online Vulnerable pupils 'struggling to see educational psychologists' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Unpleasant' parents stopping teachers from telling-off pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Embrace your quirks and become a better teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES What kind of education do we believe our children deserve? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Colleges must ‘recruit with integrity’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top academy trust hit by £77k cyberattack - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Struggling council could cut teaching hours and close primary schools - Mail Young Brits 'feel forced into going to university despite other options' - Mirror Losing track of your data? - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Data for decanting and the hatching of life trajectories - BERA College governance: Opportunities and challenges - Collab Group Top 10 ‘afternoon’ teaching strategies - Teacher Toolkit Supporting social mobility through the post-18 review - Sutton Trust Hunger minister needed to address food insecurity, say MPs - Nursery World Calls to overhaul youth remand system - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Jisc and HESA: an integration for the future of data - Wonkhe Welcome advances for universities - Times Higher Education | THE Staff out of pocket as sector splits on aid for foreign recruits - Times Higher Education | THE PhDs without tears: how academics can help ease students’ minds - Times Higher Education | THE Teacher at £32,000-a-year school struck off over sexual touching with girl in common room - Mirror FMQs: Severely autistic Scottish child’s help slashed under cuts - Scotsman Climate change school strike by 13-year-old Scottish pupil - Herald Scotland Scotland: Autistic pupil's school support slashed due to budget cuts, Nicola Sturgeon told - Mail Some free schools were always ‘bound to fail’, admits former minister - Schools Week Academics accused of ‘unconscious bias’ against grammar schools in controversial HEPI report - Schools Week Scotland: Inverness primary school evacuated over suspected gas leak - Herald Scotland Grammar schools are revolutionary for disadvantaged pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Now is time for change in adult education policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damian Hinds: My year-long battle to reduce your workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to give faster and better feedback - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vulnerable adults least likely to have opportunities to learn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why not getting into Oxbridge can make, not break, students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching abroad: five questions you need to consider - Times Educational Supplement | TES The new GCSEs are suited to robots - not pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES The new term is a fraught time for autistic pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Change4Life teaches children how to cut sugar - Nursery World Flex for Success: Employers want greater say in spending apprenticeship allowance - Sector Response - FE News Grammar schools and access to universities: HEPI report not an accurate or complete picture - IOE London Blog Ofsted to launch new inspection framework consultation at SFCA conference next week - FE Week Scotland: Claims top academic backs Primary 1 tests are a 'perverse misrepresentation' - Express Bursaries failing to solve teacher retention crisis, says Labour - Guardian Reading to pre-school children boosts their language skills - Nursery World Grammar schools significantly increase the chances of disadvantaged pupils reaching highly-selective universities, especially Oxbridge - HEPI Competition for young space entrepreneurs lifts off - GOV.UK Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 10: Struggle and success - The Learning Spy 12:00 p.m. - Members of the Lords will debate the contribution made by free schools to improving educational standards - Commons Select Committee Grammars boost poorer pupils’ chances of getting into top universities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revival hopes for language GCSEs with new centre of excellence - Times Educational Supplement | TES Make apprenticeship levy more flexible, say firms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Commission marks centenary of landmark report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears over effectiveness of 'rushed' DfE curriculum fund - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ex-Langley School teacher banned for sexual touching - BBC Revisiting Dylan Wiliam’s five brilliant formative assessment strategies - Teacherhead Honours' nominations for New Year 2020 - now open - AoC | Association of Colleges Rise in SEND children stretches childcare providers' finances - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scotland: Slow readers face school ‘walk of shame’ to sit with younger pupils - Herald Scotland Second international expert savages Scottish Government on primary testing - Herald Scotland Narratives on higher education: rock goes to college - Wonkhe Pupils from the poorest families are twice as likely to get into Oxbridge if they attend a grammar school - Mail Poor pupils at grammar schools twice as likely to attend Oxbridge, study claims - Schools Week Lifelong learning campaigners join forces to launch ‘centenary commission’ on adult education - FE Week Teacher bursaries are a £22m waste of money, says Labour - Guardian MPs want hunger minister role introduced - BBC Demands grow for more transparency from government on apprenticeship levy spending - FE Week Apprenticeship system not responding to employers' needs, says report - Mail University of York to run £4.8m languages ‘centre of excellence’ - Schools Week Grammar schools send more ethnic minority students to Cambridge than all comprehensives combined - Telegraph Oxford and Cambridge reject Adonis proposal for 'access' colleges - Guardian Beacon grammars could take more poorer pupils - Times Grammars ‘are vital for social mobility’ - Times Apprenticeship levy millions go unspent - Times Scotland: Swinney under pressure to drop tests for P1 pupils - Times Ireland: Rugby coach faces trial for indecent assaults on pupils - Times Government should appoint a minister for hunger to tackle growing crisis, MPs say - HuffPost