News archive for 12th June 2019

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Teacher reveals she was pestered by parents in evenings with petty emails - Mail Evaluating the progress made on tackling hate crime and sexual harassment on campus - Advance HE Catalyst for change: Advance HE evaluation of projects to protect students from hate crime, sexual violence and online harassment in higher education published - Advance HE Queen's Birthday Honours list - AoC | Association of Colleges ‘Coordinated campaigns’ against LGBT lessons multiply - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGBT protest teachers ‘at limit of what they can take’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools urged to fly new human rights flag by Ai Weiwei - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish government orders review of ‘blue water’ schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cash-strapped school appealing to Children in Need to help disadvantaged pupils - Mirror National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2019 (interim) - DfE ESFA Update: 12 June 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Review ordered into Scottish school with 'blue water' amid cancer fears - Scotsman Video of knife-wielding students sparks investigation at London school - HuffPost Ministers warned over RSE ‘loopholes’ as Charedi schools seek to block LGBT teaching - Schools Week Scottish Government launches independent review into 'toxic schools' - Herald Scotland Shocking moment young schoolboys threaten to kill while brandishing huge knife and screwdriver in bragging vid - The Sun Improving Behaviour in Schools. A word on consistency... - Research Schools Network Improved student satisfaction built on goodwill of staff, union warns - UCU Prime Minister: Teachers, who would you vote for? - Teacher Toolkit Cash strapped school asks BBC Children in Need for help - Metro What an origami swan challenge taught us about motivation to learn - Nesta Is the new draft Welsh curriculum showing the way forward? - The Educator NASUWT calls upon employers to demonstrate their commitment to teachers' safety - NASUWT NASUWT comment on health and safety review at Buchanan and St Ambrose High Schools - NASUWT A few hours of outdoor learning every week increases teachers’ job satisfaction - UKEdChat Persistent poverty affects one in five UK children - UKEdChat Welsh government to boost short-term outbound - PIE News The hits and misses from the 2019 Student Academic Experience survey - Wonkhe Boris Johnson backs FE funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish primary teachers 'get away' with not teaching computing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Has the Treasury failed our skills system? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Standing firm against 'horrific’ LGBT protests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers to strike at Essex school facing conversion to academy - Guardian Lifelong learning ecologies: The challenge of capturing emergent forms of learning - BERA Council invests £1.4m in youth service to combat austerity - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Why we need QR funding - Russell Group Augar and the four horses - HEPI Schoolboy filmed in children's play park wielding 8-inch kitchen knife - Mirror The Erasmus+ bus is leaving soon, so let’s start running - Wonkhe Student safety should be a requirement, not an optional extra - Wonkhe Support staff: Cut technicians, increase your risks - SecEd Cambridge Uni accepts more Eton grads than black men - Metro Online learning and artificial intelligence report welcomed - Jisc Transphobic leaflets sent to Catholic school pupils across UK - Independent Counting calories in a maths test? The exam board should be ashamed - Guardian Scientist is first to join the College Hall of Fame - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted is well past its sell-by-date - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why there is no such thing as an unteachable child - Times Educational Supplement | TES Behaviour a 'widespread problem' say 82% of teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM frontrunner pledges greater investment in ‘our amazing FE colleges’ - FE Week Cash-strapped school pleads for charity funding to tackle budget cuts - HuffPost Call for schools to scrap sugar from school lunches - Nursery World ‘Respect our staff’ – union posters seek to stop pupils and parents abusing teachers - Schools Week Give WCAT’s leftover cash to schools it left behind, says MP - Schools Week Hinds ‘pleased’ with level 6 and 7 inspection approach but OfS can’t say what it is - FE Week Was P1 testing review set up to 'give John Swinney the answers he wants'? - Herald Scotland Police launch investigation into embezzlement claims at Scottish college - Herald Scotland Welsh school gets 200 dresses donated for prom parties - BBC Analysis: Augar Review recommendations - EPI Pupils are told they can complain if maths GCSE calorie-counting question 'triggered' anyone - Mail School asks BBC Children in Need to cover funding gap - Guardian ‘It’s just ridiculous’: why a London school is seeking charity help - Guardian At the chalkface: Work 'til you drop - SecEd Exam boards battle to remove GCSE fake news - Times Educational Supplement | TES Augar warns against unpicking post-18 review recommendations - Times Higher Education | THE When does proofreading become plagiarism? - Times Higher Education | THE Catalyst for change: Protecting students from hate crime, sexual violence and online harassment in higher education - Office for Students A better use of qualitative data can inform policy - Wonkhe Give 16-year-olds more choice - employers - BBC Schools should ‘stay open out of hours’ to protect kids at risk of knife crime - The Sun Universities urged to hire staff to investigate sexual harassment - Guardian Education: Wales NHS bill will rise without PE lessons - BBC The teacher who inspired two trailblazers - Times Calorie question upsets GCSE pupils with eating disorders - Times Keeping schools open could protect pupils from violence - Times Scotland: Swinney defies MSPs and presses on with P1 testing - Times