Is the internet killing our brains?
The web gives us access to endless information. What impact does this have on our memory, and our attention spans? https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/oct/08/is-the-internet-killing-our-brains
Details‘People are always too cold’: How to survive a Cambridge interview
As the deadline for Oxbridge applications looms, Sam Lucy, director of admissions at Cambridge, shares her advice for students https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/oct/06/how-to-survive-a-cambridge-interview
DetailsStudent loans ‘increasing the divide between rich and poor’
People without access to family money while at university are struggling, demonstrated by increasing demand for welfare services, says a new study https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/oct/01/student-loans-increasing-rich-poor-divide
DetailsAmber Rudd’s crackdown on foreign students will harm UK’s great universities
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/oct/05/amber-rudd-crackdown-on-foreign-students-will-harm-uk-great-universities
Mental illness soars among young women in England – survey
NHS study finds 12.6% of women aged 16-24 screen positive for PTSD, 19.7% self-harm and 28.2% have mental health condition https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/29/self-harm-ptsd-and-mental-illness-soaring-among-young-women-in-england-survey
DetailsGirls encouraged to drop Kim Kardashian for Shakespeare’s Cleopatra
A London school programme will persuade pupils to adopt Rosalind and Viola as role models instead of social media stars https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/oct/05/kim-kardashian-shakespeare-cleopatra-school-programme-role-models
DetailsSchool with guns, knives and fire on the timetable – and Ofsted loves it
Should schools be more willing to embrace danger to give students confidence? One headteacher explains why he thinks so https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/oct/04/school-guns-knives-fire-ofsted-danger
DetailsPrivate schools can’t help comprehensives with guns pointed to their heads, says leading headmaster
Independent schools chair argues the private sector already contributes significantly to charity by supporting less affluent families in education http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/private-schools-state-comprehensives-guns-pointed-to-their-heads-hmc-mike-buchanan-a7342641.html
DetailsBank of Mum and Dad expected to fork out £5.8 billion over the coming academic year
Survey findings come at a time similar research has painted a bleak picture of student finances for the 2016/17 academic year http://www.independent.co.uk/student/student-life/finances/freshers-week-2016-bank-of-mum-and-dad-to-spend-58-billion-over-coming-academic-year-a7231951.html
DetailsGrammar schools cast pupils as successes or failures, says Burnham
Shadow home secretary urges public to oppose Theresa May’s ‘major strategic error’ to bring back selective education https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/oct/01/andy-burnham-says-grammars-cast-pupils-as-successes-or-failures
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