ISC Daily News Summary

All national newspapers
A pupil at Eton College was diagnosed with swine flu yesterday. The school is currently closed for half term, but health authorities have advised the school to remain shut until 7^th June.
Eton College forced to close as pupil is diagnosed with swine flu (Daily Mail)
Eton shuts as boy hit by swine flu (Sun)
Eton closed after pupil gets swine flu (Daily Mirror)
Swine flu does what the Nazis couldn't - close Eton (Independent)
Take another week off, pupils told as swine flu hits Eton (Times)
Swine flu alert as Eton boy falls sick (Daily Express)
Eton forced to close (Daily Telegraph)
Swine flu shuts Eton as UK cases pass 200 (Guardian)

TES
The TES magazine features an article on boarding schools that are providing an education for vulnerable children. Melvyn Roffe, Chairman of BSA, and Hilary Moriarty, National Director of BSA, are quoted.
From bored to board (TES)

BBC - 5 live
Hilary Moriarty, National Director of the Boarding Schools Association, took part in a debate on Radio 5 Live last night on the subject of boarding.
To hear the discussion, visit this link: BBC - 5 live and click on the 'listen again' tab for Thursday, then skip to 2:09:50.

Guardian
The Guardian reports that there are new delays to the marking of this year's Sats, a year after the system collapsed in disarray. Markers have contacted the paper to report last-minute recruitment drives and delays in the system of quality checking. One experienced examiner described this year's marking scheme as "complicated and ambiguous".
Teachers report new delays in marking Sats (Guardian)

Daily Telegraph, Independent
The Conservative party has attacked Labour's record on social mobility following figures that suggest children from the poorest families are missing out on university places. Fewer than one person in every 25 aged under 21 go to university in the country's most deprived neighbourhoods.
Social mobility 'falls under Labour' (Daily Telegraph)
University unlikely for poorest youngsters (Independent)

Financial Times
Undergraduates are being forced to abandon their preferred career choices as the recession hits job prospects and graduate recruitment programmes are scaled back, say the heads of university careers services. Their comments come in the wake of this spring's annual Graduate Careers Survey of students in which 84 per cent of respondents said competition was much tougher this year than last.
Time to look at Plan B for careers (Financial Times)

Daily Telegraph, Independent
Cambridge University scientists have claimed that hundreds of thousands of children with autism have not been diagnosed. Research suggests the number of autistic primary school age children is 12 times higher than 30 years ago.
One in every 64 children could have autism, Cambridge researchers find (Daily Telegraph)
Autism: study finds 12-fold rise in cases (Independent)

Times
A poll for the Times has found that parents have become significantly more willing to allow their children to own a mobile phone in the past year. Widespread acceptance of the technology is allaying health fears and concerns over bullying and inappropriate use that previously dominated debate on children's use of mobile phones.
Parents happier for children to have mobile phones as health fears diminish (Times)

Times
A US-pioneered course called Resilience is giving children the ‘emotional intelligence' to become attuned to other's needs and feelings, as well as their own. An interim report on the scheme found a significant impact on pupils' wellbeing as measured by depression and anxiety symptom scores.
Pupils bounce back with ‘happiness lessons' (Times)

Here is a selection of articles from the THE:
Go public to prevent extinction (THE)
Hunt to urge unity at union's annual meet (THE)
Heaven or haven? (THE)

Here is a selection of articles from the TES:
Alcohol abuse leaves toxic school legacy (TES)
Plea to PM to keep Balls at DSCF (TES)
MP demands urgent action as new data reveals race-bully exclusions are soaring (TES)
Single-sex schools boost girls' science, study finds (TES)
Boys get a raw deal and their needs are ignored in schools, claims expert (TES)

Daily Mail
Britain is set to bask in long spells of sunshine with barely a cloud in the sky the entire weekend. Forecasters predict unbroken sunshine on Saturday and Sunday with plenty of blue sky and soaring temperatures across most of the UK.
Britain set to bask in weekend of sunshine - without a cloud in the sky (Daily Mail)