ISC Daily News Summary

Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Daily Mail
Successful schools will be forced to take a share of disruptive pupils to prevent them from monopolising the best-behaved children, the Government announced yesterday. Ed Balls, the Children's Secretary, said that schools which excluded pupils would have to accept the same number that had been expelled by another school. This "one out, one in" policy would prevent oversubscribed schools from dumping badly behaved children on to their less successful neighbours.
Schools to be forced to keep quota of problem pupils (Times)
Schools must take in badly behaved pupils (Daily Telegraph)
Schools 'must take expelled pupils' (Independent)
Top schools forced to take on tearaways (Daily Mail not online)
School fury at ‘one out, one in' rule over louts (Daily Mail not online)
Balls flunks the chance to get tough on school yobs (Daily Mail not online)

Times
Making education compulsory to the age of 18 will lead to alienation and disaffection of large sections of young people, a leading academic claims. Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham, argues that many of those who leave school at 16 with few or no qualifications will have opted out of formal education long before then by playing truant. That there are already 68,000 persistent absentees aged 16 on school rolls suggests that the sanctions used to enforce compulsory schooling below the age of 16 are spectacularly ineffective, he said. "It is more likely that the imposition [of compulsory education or training after 16] will lead to further alienation and disaffection," he said.
Compulsory classes until 18 are pointless, expert argues (Times)

Daily Telegraph, Independent
Teachers are threatening industrial action after claiming that they are being forced to work illegally long hours. The NASUWT union said yesterday it would ballot members on a work-to-rule because of the "flagrant abuse" of their rights.
Teachers threaten industrial action over hours (Daily Telegraph)
Teachers to vote on work to rule (Independent)

Daily Telegraph
Children are reading celebrity gossip magazines such as Heat and Bliss instead of books, especially if the novels stretch to more than 100 pages, a study shows. The National Year of Reading study found Shakespeare was given short shrift by the children questioned, as were "books I am made to read by my teachers".
Children read gossip magazines over books (Daily Telegraph)

Financial Times, Independent
Ministers' decision to cut off £100m of funding for second degrees has been lambasted by a parliamentary committee. Government policy on the issue is attacked as "inadequate" and "inconsistent" in a report published today by the cross-party Commons select committee on innovation, universities and skills.
Cut in degree funding attacked (Financial Times)
MPs attack university cutbacks (Independent not online)

Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail
Video games must be given cinema-style age classifications to stop children accessing graphic images of sex and violence, a Government adviser will announce today. Computers should also be kept in communal areas of the home such as the living room rather than youngsters' bedrooms so that parents can monitor what they are viewing, says Dr Tanya Byron, a television psychologist. Her proposals for a strict and legally binding classification system for video games, similar to that used for films, form the centrepiece of a 224-page report to help parents prevent their children buying and watching unsuitable material in the home.
Parents to be shown how to protect children online (Guardian)
Curbs on computer games to protect children (Daily Telegraph)
Computer games may get tough new age restrictions (Daily Mail not online)

Guardian
Faith
Further instructions on faith schools (Guardian)

Times, Daily Telegraph
Army
The Army teaches more than many classrooms (Times)
Schools and the services (Daily Telegraph)

Times
Teacher training
Teacher "training" (Times)

Independent
Class sizes
Class sizes (Independent)

Independent education supplement
Today's Independent education supplement includes:
Alan Smithers on ‘why teachers are their own worst enemy'
A feature on Newall Green in Manchester, which is facing a battle for survival
An interview with the actor and former Harrow pupil Edward Fox.
Independent education supplement

Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph interviews soul singer and former Bilton Grange pupil, Taio Cruz.
Taio Cruz: the public school soul sensation (Daily Telegraph)