News archive for 6th June 2019

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LGBT+ lessons: Protests on both sides of debate to take place despite court injunction - Independent Julie Bindel: Feminist writer claims she was 'physically attacked' by trans activist after university talk on violence against women - Independent Contextual uni offers ‘create perception of unfairness’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must put humans at the heart of edtech - Times Educational Supplement | TES The DfE must provide clarity on LGBT+ content - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tory race may mean extra year of school funding crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Land-based college to be split to secure provision - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE Week wins loan law battle - FE Week Improving behaviour in schools: 6 recommendations in new EEF report - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Edinburgh University’s LGBT network resign en masse amid row over Julie Bindel talk - Telegraph Increasing numbers of Cambridge applicants failing to achieve three As at A-Level - Telegraph Edinburgh LGBT+ committee resigns in row over speakers at feminist meeting - Guardian Oxford makes progress on diversity – but too slowly, says university head - Guardian Teen celebrates first Oxbridge place in school's history as Wales gets record places - Wales Online GCSE pupils upset by exam question on rape story - Telegraph Teacher trainers asked to take on rejects - Times Educational Supplement | TES Record ethnic minority students at Oxford - BBC Academics’ guilty pleasures - Times Higher Education | THE Sins of admission: How university application processes impact schools and colleges - Policy Exchange Lessons aim to reduce knife crime over summer - CYPN | Children & Young People Now You can’t spell ‘Augar review’ without ‘IAG’ - Wonkhe 4 things teachers need to do to communicate better - Teacher Toolkit The big evidence debate: Introducing the 50% rule - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Edge recommends radical rethink in response to government’s level 3 consultation - Edge Foundation Dual coding and learning styles - Learning Scientists Teacher Recruitment Bulletin - UCET Improving mathematical achievement in primary school-aged children - Nuffield Foundation ASCL: Time to change our name (again)? - ASCL Tackling child poverty is key for success in education - National Education Union ‘Brave’ leadership in think tanks, politics and universities (including some new data on vice-chancellors’ tenure) - HEPI Augar’s cost, tertiary and legal action (podcast) - Wonkhe Long-term outcomes: Do grammar schools make a difference? - FFT Education Datalab Schools minister in veiled swipe at Esther McVey amid bitter LGBT teaching row - PoliticsHome Special educational needs in England: January 2019 - DfE Science Minister hails the importance of humanities to society - GOV.UK Colleges benefit from multi-million fund to drive up standards - DfE New evidence grammar system hits life chances of many - Times Educational Supplement | TES The key to good mental health? Physical activity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish school delivers four maths qualifications in one class - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher leader decries 'uncertainty' over school music - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is expert leadership harming FE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney dismisses as 'moan-fest' evidence more than 100 schools teaching different courses in same class - Telegraph Scotland: Willie Rennie challenges Education Secretary over P1 testing - Mail Sultan of Brunei's London doctorate revoked - BBC Sandwell College lecturer sacked over 'racist' poster protest - BBC Scotland: John Swinney dismisses Tory attack on multi-level classes as 'moanfest' - Mail Teachers at more than 100 schools across Scotland 'teaching three courses at the same time' - Herald Scotland Gibb condemns LGBT school protests as 'horrific' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Collaboration more useful than Ofsted, say FE teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES School leaders face huge challenges: they need support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil screen-use problems may be down to mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES If schools don’t teach LGBT+ acceptance, who will? - Times Educational Supplement | TES YouTube blocks history teachers uploading archive videos of Hitler - Guardian Troubled Easton and Otley College to be demerged and taken over - FE Week Most teachers 'working way beyond contracted hours' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils warn of 'national special needs emergency' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Strategic college improvement fund pilot: self-evaluations - DfE Workload demands force Scots teachers to work six days a week - Scotsman Angry protests prove LGBT education must start at primary school, says teacher Andrew Moffat - HuffPost Survey finds Scottish teachers working ‘extra eight hours a week’ - Herald Scotland Dundee University wins top prize at Herald’s Higher Education Awards - Herald Scotland Ex-ministers warn Treasury will not make up funding if fees cut - Times Higher Education | THE Growing PhD funding shortfall ‘requires national debate’ - Times Higher Education | THE Why abolish the foundation year? - Wonkhe Gender not children 'holds women academics back' - BBC More than half of full-time teachers in Scotland work an extra day each week, survey finds - Mail Children are to get extra lessons to steer them away from knife crime and gang culture - Mail The 17 colleges to share £2.5m in final strategic improvement funding round - FE Week Pupils must learn respect for gay love, Nick Gibb says - Times It’s time we started listening to the teaching unions on the frontline | Esther McVey - Times Soulless universities eat away at mental health | James Marriott - Times It’s wrong to protest about the teaching of gay relationships | Nick Gibb - Times Ireland: Sex education must not be steered by religion, says Harris - Times