News archive for 20th May 2019

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Dr Miriam Stoppard: PTSD is a big problem in teens - and universities need to act on it - Mirror Labour Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips furious row with Muslim parent protestors outside school - Mail School students hospitalised after inhaling 'dangerous' e-cigarette substance - Mirror 'A national shame': headteachers voice anger about pupils' hunger - Guardian Short-term contracts a plague on academia | Letters - Guardian College testing insolvency regime seeks speedy buyer for park and unfinished mining museum - FE Week The 19 winners of the Liverpool City Region AEB tender - FE Week Head teacher is also caretaker, dinner lady and gardener at cash-strapped school - Mirror 'Around 600' children taken out of school during campaign against LGBT lessons - Mail GCSE study leave (or not) and what goes on in the afternoon at primary school - Teacher Tapp Where is the value in meta-analysis? - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Share, connect and collaborate – higher education without borders - Advance HE More guidance needed to make strategic special educational needs professional development decisions - IOE London Blog Call for reform of system treating children with SEN as mental health inpatients - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Step up 'health check' to help trusted edtech startups stand out from the crowd - Jisc UK & German HEIs showcase research & collaboration - PIE News Early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers - DfE Education Secretary announces £2.5m boost to Careers Hubs in 20 areas - DfE New support for trainee teachers - DfE The graduate employment paradox – and how thinking locally might unlock it - Office for Students England’s computing curriculum: A clash of values, beliefs and purpose - BERA Spring clean of standards underway as IfA reveals outcome of digital review - FE Week Teachers expose the hidden scandal of 49,000 'unteachable' children forced out of schools to improve exam results - The Sun The experts updating teacher training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools question 'heaps' of plastic used for Sats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we must make governors’ workload sustainable - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils surviving on two hours' sleep due to 'phone addiction' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The evidence against Ofsted is overwhelming! - Teacher Toolkit Are university open days closing doors to access? - Wonkhe Institute ensures apprenticeships fit for a modern workforce - IfATE Vice-chancellor who spent more than £1,000 of university money on pet dog faces opposition from students and academics over potential job cuts - Independent Grads behaving badly: yet more honorary degree revocations - Wonkhe Sam Twiselton to lead advisory group to review initial teacher training - Schools Week Birmingham LGBT school protest: '600 kids kept home' after street attacks - Mirror Anti-abortion society approved by Aberdeen University following legal action over ‘discrimination’ - Independent Ofsted slams large employer provider with no apprenticeship passes - again - FE Week Headteacher on £260,000 a year killed himself after being ousted from job - Mirror Why colleges should be optimistic - Times Educational Supplement | TES College merger: 'An organisation afraid to innovate will stagnate' - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGBT protest: '600 pupils' taken out of primary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Joint classification commitment - Russell Group A solution-based approach to cyber safety - Teacher Toolkit How to detect plagiarism? - The Educator If we oppose every existing method of assessing the quality of university courses, we should propose some new ones of our own - HEPI For too long, further education has been considered the ‘cinderella sector’ - PoliticsHome If we don't protect arts education, we'll lose the next generation of performers | David Ruebain - Guardian Tackling skills gap ‘harmed by short-term politics’ - BBC Beware ‘lazy typecasting’ of working-class pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds announces £2.5m for 20 new careers hubs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for new body to oversee skills and education policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers and Shakers: Edition 281 - FE Week Working out what’s the right thing to do - Schools Week Children stuck in mental health hospitals for too long - Mail Too many prisoners may still fall through the education net - FE Week Grade inflation: English universities asked to report next year - Times Higher Education | THE The sector needs clarity over mandatory subscriptions - Wonkhe Wonkhe 360: an introduction - Wonkhe Wonkhe 360: learning from leaders & the end of the sector - Wonkhe Too many children in mental health hospitals, says report - BBC City and Guilds calls for new quango to oversee skills policy - FE Week The 19 areas splitting £2.5m in careers hubs funding - Schools Week Universities vow to stop grade inflation after huge rise in top qualifications - Mail The 19 areas splitting £2.5m in careers hubs funding - FE Week Trusts should avoid one-size-fits-all approach to retention, report warns - Schools Week Pupils dish out parking tickets to polluters at school gates - Times Universities join forces to reduce grade inflation - Times Come in, children, and tear this outdoor classroom to pieces - Times Good Ofsted rating can mean parents become complacent - Times Health fears stop Scottish pupils’ school walk - Times Scottish students playing lottery, university staff say after cuts - Times Bursaries for poor students to honour Ireland's 11 Nobel laureates - Times