News archive for 13th June 2019

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Birmingham LGBT lessons row: 'Children worried about protests' - BBC Teacher from health scare schools’ campus threatens legal action - Herald Scotland The Student Academic Experience Survey sheds light on the importance of teaching in contributing to a positive academic experience - Advance HE Ofsted Chief Inspector repeats call for outstanding school exemption to be lifted as more schools lose top Ofsted grade - Ofsted 30 hours free childcare: summer term 2019 - DfE Continued success in parents securing their top picks of school - DfE Teachers’ pension scheme - DfE STEM and MFL: teacher supply and recruitment programmes evaluation - DfE Secondary and primary school application and offers: 2019 - DfE State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 March 2019 - Ofsted How do we support 'the missing middle' in FE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES New figures add fuel to subject choice debate - Times Educational Supplement | TES School’s ‘four-year bedbug infestation ordeal’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leading EAL in your primary school - Headteacher Update AoC president faces challenger for the top job - FE Week What have we learned from National Offer Day 2019? - EPI College starved of cash shuts award winning training restaurant - FE Week More than four in five ‘outstanding’ schools lose top grade after reinspection - Independent European scientists must defend European values - Times Higher Education | THE Skidmore: top-up funding ‘absolutely’ needed if fees are cut - Times Higher Education | THE Getting louder about good governance - Advance HE Eat, sleep, revise, repeat: part 3 - Teacher Toolkit Improving Behaviour in Schools report - Research Schools Network Assessment tips - UKEdChat Students who undertake a work placement are more likely to go on to study a STEM course at a Russell Group university - Nuffield Foundation Learning in a museum - Learning Scientists Unleashing the power of parents - Wonkhe Agnew: Don't pour money into 'inefficient' schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Did pupils see 'plagiarised' GCSE question before exam? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Watershed moment for TLPD - Education & Training Foundation Scottish exam board staff set to strike on results day - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor pupil behaviour drives away overseas teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kicked, bitten and pushed down the stairs - the shocking abuse teachers in Wales have to deal with - Wales Online Should universities contact parents / guardians when students face mental health challenges? - HEPI Worthless? & HTRT 12-point letter to Ofsted’s HMCI (6 June 2019) - Headteachers' Roundtable Lost leaders (the sequel) - Headteachers' Roundtable ASCL comment on school place offers - ASCL Anti-equality protests must be stopped by the end of term - NAHT SBLs are leading the way - NAHT Improved student satisfaction built on goodwill of staff, union warns - UCU Student experience, safeguarding, mobility, Tories (podcast) - Wonkhe Phonics training company to run literacy centre - Nursery World More poor youngsters must be admitted to Scottish universities even with 'hard cases' of middle-class pupils missing out, ministers told - Telegraph Investigation launched after pupils given question ‘copied’ from textbook - Schools Week We'll build trust in our school funding stats, says DfE chief - Schools Week New school food regulations aim to reduce children's consumption of red meat - Nursery World My Catholic, trans child is living proof of how wrong the Vatican is on gender | Anonymous - Guardian Fifth of pupils in England miss out on first-choice secondary - Guardian Scottish Tory leader challenges First Minister over subject choice figures - Mail Forest schools: how climbing trees and making dens can help children develop resilience - The Conversation Washing machines installed at Scottish primary school to kill bed bugs - Scotsman Teachers don’t need more money – we need more time - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in five pupils miss out on first-choice secondary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats: Could this one change fix the tests? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted downgrades 84 per cent of top-rated schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gove: I will give clear backing to primary LGBT lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Disappointing' progress on FE to HE progression - Times Educational Supplement | TES International teachers struggle with poor pupil behaviour in English schools - Schools Week Scottish universities praised for improving access for deprived students - Mail Ofsted downgrades hundreds more ‘outstanding’ schools - Schools Week Water at Scottish schools assessed to be safe, John Swinney insists - Mail First choice offers fall for both primary and secondary schools - Schools Week Universities told they must change attitude to schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 100 settings achieve London's healthy early years award - Nursery World One in five pupils denied first choice secondary school, new figures show - Independent Community effort praised after bedbug outbreak at Glasgow school - Herald Scotland Scotland's ancient universities urged to do more to attract disadvantaged students - Herald Scotland One in four girls say they are not clever - Times Educational Supplement | TES Smoothies banned as part of school meal shake-up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Put counsellors in schools, say four in five parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES NI teachers pay dispute: 'Agreement reached' to end industrial action - BBC Second consecutive year of students reporting better value for money - HEPI Student Academic Experience Survey 2019 - HEPI Second consecutive year of students reporting better value for money - Advance HE How to make your international school appeal to candidates - Independent Head Making opportunities visible to some, visible to all - Sutton Trust Fruit juice and ham off menu in Scotland's school meal overhaul - Scotsman Girls less likely to say they are clever despite better exam results, study finds - Independent University students more anxious amid increased assignments and challenging courses, survey suggests - Independent More UK students see university as good value for money - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Internet crashing is main barrier to school Stem lessons - Herald Scotland Scotland: Delay fears over exam results as first ever SQA strikes announced - Herald Scotland Processed red meats to be limited in schools across Scotland in bid to boost pupil health - Herald Scotland Scottish primary teachers ‘should have qualification in science’ - Herald Scotland Scotland: Reliable internet and modern computers a priority for schools - Herald Scotland Research intelligence: how to deal with the gruesome reviewer 2 - Times Higher Education | THE Universities must embrace technological solutions to climate change - Times Higher Education | THE Drive for working-class vote could push next PM to change HE stance - Times Higher Education | THE Is the Haldane Principle obsolete? - Times Higher Education | THE Students want parents to be told in mental health crisis - BBC UK one of 'least family friendly' countries in Europe - BBC Students support disclosure of mental illness to parents - Guardian Scotland to introduce new healthy eating regulations on school meals - Mail Students more anxious than other young people, survey suggests - Mail Roma translator boosts pupils' learning and health at 38-language school - BBC SQA staff to strike on exam results day - BBC Scotland: Dumfries pupil travel time has 'no impact' on learning - BBC Proofreading services for students are often paid-for essay factories in disguise - Times Contact our parents to help with mental health, say students - Times Scottish school safety review over ‘toxic site’ fears - Times Losing tax relief could kill us, warn small private schools in Scotland - Times