ISC Daily News Summary

ISC has warmly welcomed changes announced yesterday by the government to the Education and Skills Bill. Andrew Adonis, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools, announced to Parliament that the government has reviewed its plans for the registration and inspection of independent schools and other private education providers. The Minister was speaking during a debate on the Education and Skills Bill in the House of Lords. To read the full ISC press release, click here.

Education Guardian, Guardian, BBC News Online, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express

Further coverage of the Sats marking crisis, including an interview in the Education Guardian supplement with the chair of Ofqual, Kathleen Tattersall, and a comment piece in the Guardian by Shadow Children's Secretary, Michael Gove. The Guardian also reports that David Cameron has appointed Sir Richard Sykes - former rector of Imperial College - to carry out an assessment of Britain's examination system.

Declaring independence (Education Guardian)
Minister, you failed the test (Guardian)
Cambridge exam chief warns interference by ministers is undermining qualifications (Guardian)
Cameron calls in A-levels critic to assess state of system (Guardian)
Tories review whole exam system (BBC News Online)
Ofsted says tests narrow learning (BBC News Online)
Pupil casualties of Sats (Daily Telegraph letters)
Sats fiasco bosses to test immigrants (Daily Express not online)

Guardian, Daily Mirror, BBC News Online

Letters and additional coverage of the news that the government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project is on course to produce billions of pounds worth of 'mediocre' facilities.

Building schools for the future - slowly (Guardian)
7 in 8 new class plans fail grade (Daily Mirror)
School design labelled 'mediocre' (BBC News Online)

Independent

The Independent reports that more than 20,000 graduates were overcharged on their student loan repayments last year, according to figures given to MPs for the first time.

20,000 graduates overcharged for student loans (Independent)
Student's 8p overdraft costs £800 in charges (Daily Telegraph)

Daily Telegraph

The campaign group Action for Children's Arts (ACA) has warned that children are being denied the right to a cultural life because the government is not doing enough to promote music, art and drama.

British children denied the right to cultural life, says arts group (Daily Telegraph)

Pay rises for teachers are in the offing (Independent letters)

Today's Education Guardian includes articles on a university in Saudi Arabia, how head teachers cope with a pupil's murder and construction apprentices.

Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Sun, Daily Mirror

Ice-cream vans in Worcester have been ordered to silence their jingles after four seconds because they are considered to be noise pollution.

Council puts freeze on ice-cream jingles (Times)
Ice cream vans threatened by new noise restrictions (Daily Telegraph)
Council killjoys rule 'annoying' ice-cream van jingles can only last for four seconds (Daily Mail)
Council calls chime on the ice cream van jingle (Daily Express)
Red tape is ice-cream crackers (Sun)
Ice cream van sellers told to turn the chimes off (Daily Mirror)