News archive for 19th January 2020

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Pupils as old as 13 cannot tell the time and need to be taught at school how to read an analogue clock face - Mail Why you can't teach teachers the same way as children - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than half of BAME teachers face racism in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Girls held back by sexism in school, survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers want to teach, the system is stopping them - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than a third of girls say they have been sexually harassed at school, charity survey finds - Telegraph Podcast 67: Flexible working hours for parents - Teacher Toolkit 3 reasons why schools are abandoning lesson gradings - Teacher Toolkit Paramedic students will get £5,000 support payment each year - GOV.UK Rewards and rapid recall - UKEdChat Gambling companies used schools data on 28m children - City AM Montessori education could reduce the advantage gap between rich and poor, but it's only available to the rich - Guardian My school is holding mock deep dives - Times Educational Supplement | TES PiXL founder Sir John Rowling dies after short illness - Times Educational Supplement | TES Girls feel boys are treated better than they are, report finds - Mail Ofsted needs to embrace online learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wellbeing: 5 ways to cope with mean student comments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gambling companies access data for 28 million children - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE English: How to fix 3 common student problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Part-science lab, part-playground’: how kids made museums take fun seriously - Guardian Betting firms were granted access to database of 28 million children - Mail Fury as school forced to leave £4m extension unused and empty - Herald Scotland It’s time for Boris to tackle the tyrannical silencing of free speech on our campuses - Telegraph Finally, kids will now get free period products at school - HuffPost How we gave Oxford University applicants a level playing field - Guardian Ex-SFA deputy director slams funding management ahead of Ney review - FE Week Spending ‘weaknesses’ at trust where trouble-shooter boss resigned - Schools Week More Scottish 18-year-olds means tighter university squeeze - Times How Scottish universities are failing our young - Times