ISC Daily News Summary

TES
The TES reports today that ‘private schools, faced with losing their charitable tax breaks, are threatening to withdraw inside their gates and stop helping neighbouring state schools.' Matthew Burgess, ISC's acting chief executive, is quoted. An accompanying article focuses on Wellington College's summer lessons which aim to meet the demands for outreach work with gifted pupils from state schools. Dr Anthony Seldon is quoted. A separate article reports that changes to charitable status rules could herald the end of school's bursaries for musical merit, as King's School in Ely has warned that it may have to examine it's 1, 000-year-old ties with the neighbouring cathedral. Sue Freestone, head teacher at King's School, Ely, is quoted.
Independents threaten to slam gates on state sector (TES not online)
Head voices concern for Ely choristers (TES not online)

Sun
Tony Little, headmaster of Eton, has written an article in the Sun today in which he explains why Eton will from next term start preparing students to sit the Pre-U.
New Uni exam better than A-levels. Discuss. (Sun not online)

BBC News Online
Shamma Chowdhury and Ruhell Amin, students from London comprehensives, have spent 10-days at the prestigious Eton College Universities Summer School. The Summer School is for students who are academically capable of going to some of the top UK universities. It is an intensive course and the students live, as far as possible, an 'Eton life'.
A different kind of school? (BBC News Online)

Daily Telegraph
The headmaster of Eton College is boycotting next month's exam league tables because the marking of papers is inaccurate, he said. Tony Little described the tables, which are based on provisional results before the appeals process has been completed, as a "circus of misinformation". Eton, along with St Paul's School in west London and Winchester College, has decided not to submit its A-Level and GCSE results for inclusion in the ratings system.
Eton head boycotts exam league tables over inaccurate marking (Daily Telegraph)

All national newspapers, Spectator, BBC News Online
Extensive coverage today on the SATs marking debacle.
One in five primary schools still waiting for Sats results (Daily Telegraph)
SATs: Exam meltdown (Independent)
Too many exams, too much pure incompetence (Independent)
Pressure mounts over school tests (BBC News Online)
The next key stage in the SATS debacle (Spectator)
Sack Sats markers Tories demand (Guardian)
Government deal with ETS Global was hailed as an example of ‘best practice' (Times)
SATS company could avoid sack because of cost to taxpayer (Daily Telegraph)
One in five primary schools still waiting for Sats results (Daily Telegraph)
‘Sack firm in school test mess' (Daily Mirror not online)
Heads call for abolition of SATs over marking fiasco (Daily Mail not online)

TES
A thinner edition of the TES this week, as schools break up for the summer holidays. This week's top headlines include 'Academies mooted for primary sector' and 'Sixth form's cash crisis.' There are also features on age discrimination, the ‘Teach First' scheme. The TES FE section has an interesting feature on apprenticeships.
TES - Teaching jobs, resources & ideas from the Times Educational Supplement

Independent
The university degree classification system is "descending into farce", the chairman of the Commons Select Committee on Universities has said. Phil Willis was speaking as MPs questioned Peter Williams, the chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), the higher education watchdog, on degree standards. "An individual institution can award as many firsts as it wants, provided it satisfies its own criteria on what is a first," Mr Willis said.
Degree awards 'close to farce' (Independent)

Daily Telegraph, Metro, Daily Mail
A devoted headteacher was suspended from her rural primary school for working too hard - only eight days before she was due to retire. Vanessa Aldridge, 60, was shocked to be escorted from the school's premises and told to stay away because it was considered she was working too many hours. Yesterday, the day she should have been enjoying her first day of retirement after 18 years at Marshchapel Primary School, near Louth, Lincs, she told how she had been left devastated and confused as to why she had been put on "gardening leave".
Headteacher Vanessa Aldridge barred from school for working too hard (Daily Telegraph)
I was sacked for working too hard (Metro)
Devoted head teacher is escorted from school and asked to leave... for working too HARD (Daily Mail)

Daily Telegraph
The number of parents making complaints about school admissions has reached a record high, new figures have revealed. The increasing number of people taking cases to the Local Government Ombudsman suggests that the proportion of children failing to make it to the school of their choice is rocketing. It has been blamed on the "flawed" school appeals process and advice to parents from the Government to question the system if their children missed out on school places.
Record high in school admissions complaints, Ombudsman says (Daily Telegraph)

Times, Daily Mail
Boys cost thousands of pounds more to bring up than girls because of their obsession with sports and electronic games, says a survey. Raising sons costs £32,000 through their school years, £7,000 more than daughters. Parents run up a bill of £2,143.75 a year buying their sons gadgets, including computer game consoles, equipment for their hobbies and new clothes. Daughters cost £1,631.86 a year - or £24,739.03 throughout their childhood. The study, by GE Money, examined the spending habits of 2,000 parents. Boys cost more to clothe compared with girls, with £3,933.86 spent during a boy's childhood, compared with £3,173.66 on a girl.
Why boys, not girls, are more high maintenance (Times)
Why it costs £7,000 more to raise a son than a daughter (Daily Mail)

G2 (Guardian)
G2 considers how sex education should be taught.
We're still fumbling sex education (G2, Guardian)