News archive for 1st January 2020

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Primary schools are searching children for knives at the gates with metal detectors - Mail Bristol students told to study at SS Great Britain due to overcrowding - Guardian Coram deputy CEO awarded OBE in New Year Honours - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Decade of decline in adult learning with four million ‘lost learners’ since 2010 - Learning & Work Institute Is it brave to teach teenagers? - UKEdChat Five teaching ideas to bin in 2020 - Teacher Toolkit Adult Participation in Learning Survey 2019 - Learning & Work Institute Pupils carrying knives at school escape conviction - Times Educational Supplement | TES Return-to-work blues? Become a teacher, says charity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Loan system overhaul to benefit millions of students and graduates - GOV.UK Nine-year-old 'shocked and sad' at racist abuse - BBC Exclusions for racism in primary schools in England up more than 40% - BBC Adults in training plunge to record low in a decade - Guardian SNP cap on university places attacked after more than 14,000 Scots miss out - Telegraph Ministers urged to back, not bash, English northern universities - Times Higher Education | THE Working after hours? It’s academic - Times Higher Education | THE Nearly one in 10 pupils miss lessons to go on holiday without school's permission, figures show - Mail The full list of Wales’ most troubled secondary schools according to inspectors - Wales Online Focus on school tests sooner, says curriculum expert Keir Bloomer - Times Instagram hit for Cardiff student who posts revision notes - BBC Adult learning ‘real cause for concern’ as participation hits record low - FE Week