ISC Daily News Summary

Today's Independent includes an education supplement focusing on independent schools. Here is a round-up of articles in the supplement:

Charitable status in Scotland

Article looking at two independent schools in Scotland which have undergone public benefit reviews through the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR), including Lomond School. The Director of the Scottish Council of Independent Schools (SCIS), Judith Sischy, is quoted, along with the High Master of St Paul's School, Dr Martin Stephen.

Good works: How Scotland's poshest school justifies its charitable status (Independent schools supplement)

GSA website

Article on a new website recently launched by the Girls' Schools Association (GSA), MyDaughter.co.uk. GSA President, Jill Berry, is quoted. Reference is also made to Principal of The Cheltenham Ladies' College, Vicky Tuck.

GSA website: Help is just a click away (Independent schools supplement)

Independent schools and the recession

Article on how the recession is affecting independent schools. Reference is made to ISC and The Bolitho School, with GSA President, Jill Berry, quoted.

In a downturn, it's survival of the fittest for private schools (Independent schools supplement)

International Baccalaureate

Feature on the increasing number of independent schools which are adopting the International Baccalaureate (IB) qualification. Quoted in the piece are: Director of IB at Charterhouse, James Kazi; Director of IB at Wellington School, David James; Headington School's Diploma Co-ordinator, James Stephenson; and Director of Studies at Red Maids' School, Ross Cameron. Reference is also made to ACS International Schools.

Leap aboard the Bacc bandwagon (Independent schools supplement)

Eton College Universities Summer School

A state school A-level student writes about her experiences at the Eton College Universities Summer School.

'My 10 days at an Eton summer school was a real shock to the system' (Independent schools supplement)

Will Young's schooldays

Singer Will Young looks back at his time at Horris Hill, Wellington College and d'Overbroeck's College.

My schooldays: Will Young, singer (Independent schools supplement)

Actor and former Bedales School pupil Roger Lloyd Pack is profiled in today's Independent Education supplement.

An education in the life of Roger Lloyd Pack (Independent Education)

Large article in Tuesday's Daily Telegraph sports section on Epsom College, which hosted the south east regional qualifying round of the National Schools Rugby Tournament. Epsom's Headmaster, Stephen Borthwick, is quoted.

National Schools Rugby Tournament south-east qualifying round gets off to a flier (Daily Telegraph)

A primary school near Cambridge has been criticised for asking its pupils to write down the rudest words they could think of as part of an anti-bullying lesson.

School pupils 'asked to grade rude words on scale of offensiveness' (Daily Telegraph)
A lesson in filth: Fury as church school pupils told to write down rudest words they know (Daily Mail)
Anger at lesson in swearing for pupils (Daily Express not online)
Fury over kids' file of filth (Sun)
Anger as church school children told to write worst swear words they know (Daily Mirror)

A national student body of atheists and secularists will be launched today to represent the interests of non-believers across the country. The National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies will support established and newly-forming atheist, Humanist and secular student groups and give them a national voice.

First were the buses. Now atheists get a student society (Guardian)

Further coverage of guidelines launched yesterday by Universities Secretary John Denham, which advises further education colleges on how to prevent students becoming drawn to violent extremism and terrorism.

Government cracks down on college extremists (Guardian)
Colleges told to monitor web (Times)

A survey of about 1,300 adults carried out by the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors (CIEA) indicates that one in three adults lies on their CV when applying for a job. The most common exaggeration is thought to be lying about degree classifications, for example turning a 2:1 into a first.

Official: one in three job applicants tells lies on their CV (is that all?) (Independent)