News archive for 28th May 2019

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Public health warning over measles outbreak in London schools - Mirror Imagine (always) not being good enough - Teacher Toolkit The reader-friendliness of effect sizes - Best Evidence in Brief How engaged are teachers with research? - Best Evidence in Brief Interleaved practice improves maths test scores - Best Evidence in Brief SATs reform: 50 shades of playing the system (and how to reform it) - Teacher Tapp New funding priorities for research, development and analysis grants - Nuffield Foundation UK guarantees home fees for EU students in 2020 - PIE News Ofsted Parent View: management information - Ofsted EU student funding continued for 2020/21 - DfE Trade war with US driving Chinese students to Britain, study reveals - Telegraph Providing free glasses to secondary age pupils - Best Evidence in Brief Tuition fees move boosts universities and EU students - Financial Times Department for Education people survey results - DfE Too often our school system excludes and divides - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the post-18 review still matters for colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Petition claims ‘harassment’ of home educators - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will Ofsted’s new framework mean a dip in Sats results? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish college sets up £150k fund to back students' businesses - Times Educational Supplement | TES EU students will not face Brexit penalty next year - Guardian Just a third of DfE staff believe changes are made ‘for the better’ and 4 other survey findings - Schools Week Fee support extended for EU students - BBC Early years Welsh language scheme launches - Nursery World Strike ballot opens as Nottingham College threatens to impose new contracts - UCU Clarity on EU student fee status - Russell Group EU students in England guaranteed ‘home’ fee status for 2020-21 - Times Higher Education | THE Spoilt for choice? Forging productive relationships with start-ups - Wonkhe Inclusion and exclusion for Gypsy, Traveller and Roma pupils - LKMco School leaders’ parliamentary briefing on Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education - NAHT UUK response to government announcement on EU student funding for 2020/21 - Universities UK 'Less middle-class bias' in Sats reading paper this year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why schools need to be more aware of iron deficiency among teen girls - Times Educational Supplement | TES Storybooks for under-fives shortlisted for award - Nursery World Bullying over periods rife in schools, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads fear Ofsted will undermine managed moves in off-rolling crackdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Serial entrepreneur’s new provider fails to impress Ofsted - FE Week New code of practice for nanny recruitment - Nursery World Primary school pupil, 11, reveals racist abuse by classmates - Mail El-Erian to become president of Queens’ College Cambridge - Financial Times Boy, 11, reveals horrific racial abuse he receives at primary school - Mirror Colleges left in limbo by Office for Students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why ministers are letting schools down over LGBT protests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Just 4% of parents give Ofsted their view on schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES It’s ‘no wonder’ that boys are doing less well than girls - Times Educational Supplement | TES Conservative Party leadership contenders: What will they do for schools? - Schools Week Birmingham nursery schools feeding and clothing children - Nursery World ‘Short term sentence ruined my chance at a normal life’ says ex-prisoner - Metro Inside the Warwick University rape chat scandal - BBC The most oversubscribed primary schools in Edinburgh - Scotsman Secondary school league tables: Top schools for A level results - Telegraph Jisc audit assesses CERN’s cyber resilience - Jisc As a black Cambridge graduate, we can't celebrate the first black Oxbridge college master enough - HuffPost Free to choose - how ‘individual education budgets’ can revolutionise tertiary education - EDSK One in five girls are bullied because of their periods - Metro One in five girls and young women bullied about their periods – study - Guardian Fear of LGBT-inclusive lessons harks back to 80s, says Peter Tatchell - Guardian ‘It was a no-brainer’: but does a degree from abroad really make a difference? - Guardian Could you do the Sats question that made pupils cry? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Foul! Girls want to play football and rugby – so why are schools still not letting them? - Guardian Dear Damian Hinds, let’s put horrid adult experiences on the curriculum | Michael Rosen - Guardian Why Luke Sibieta is proud of his 8% IFS funding cut figure - Schools Week What will the next Prime Minister think of higher education? - HEPI Academic on 10th fixed-term contract fights for permanency - Times Higher Education | THE One of us: lecturer turned UCU leader hails ‘landmark moment’ - Times Higher Education | THE Poorer kids do the least exercise and ‘at greater risk of being obese’, study says - The Sun Forty kids are kicked out of school every day — we’re creating a generation of forgotten kids - The Sun New study finds one in five females between 14 and 21 have been bullied over their period - Mail Schools are becoming a battle of the zealots | Melanie Phillips - Times Warnings over mixed-age classes in Scotland were unheeded for years - Times