ISC Daily News Summary

Radio 5 Live
Hilary French, Head of Central Newcastle High School, has appeared on Radio 5 Live to discuss the growing trend of caffeine addiction among children. She was also interviewed on channel 5.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00l53xd/5_live_Drive_16_06_2009/

Independent
The Independent reports that education and travel group Holidaybreak is to raise £31m through a rights issue to purchase ‘collapsed’ independent schools and turn them into children’s holiday camps.
Holidaybreak's £31m cash call to buy schools (Independent)

Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph
A select committee evidence session on allegations against teachers has revealed that some teachers have been banned from seeing their own children while claims they abused pupils are investigated. The NUT warned that teachers are becoming increasingly fearful of pupils making false allegations amid a “guilty until proven innocent culture”.
Teaching terror (Daily Mirror)
False charges of pupil abuse ‘devastate teachers’ (Daily Telegraph – not online)

Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail
Parents of children at a primary school have been told not to take photos of their children at the annual sports day, due to changes in child protection and images legislation. Parents have criticised the move and said they felt there was no legal reason why they could not take pictures for personal use. A spokesman for the local education authority said that it is a decision individual head teachers come to, usually after consultation with governors.
Parents banned from taking pictures of their own children at sports day (Daily Telegraph)
Parents banned from taking photos of their own children at school sports day (Daily Mail)

Daily Mail
The Daily Mail features an opinion piece on home schooling.
Hey parents, leave those kids alone! (Daily Mail)

Daily Telegraph
The Commons skills select committee has said that it has serious concerns that many sixth-formers would miss out on university places in September, as students are facing a scramble to get into higher education amid warnings of a further squeeze on places. The committee’s chairman, Phil Willis, last night wrote to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to ask how they would meet the demand for higher education.
Scramble for degree course places (Daily Telegraph)

Daily Mail
The Daily Mail reports on gap years gone wrong.
So will YOUR teenager survive their gap year? (Daily Mail)

Daily Telegraph
Education researchers at the University of the West of England have warned that childhood is being undermined by “oppressive demands” from ministers. They criticised policies such as Labour’s new curriculum for under-fives.
Education legislation is killing childhood, claim academics (Daily Telegraph)

Independent
The Independent has published a feature on unemployment amongst school leavers and graduates.
Youth hit hard as jobless total rises to 2.3m (Independent)

Independent
Here is a selection of articles from the Independent education and careers supplement:
Set them free to hit the ball (Independent)
Truancy: it's not just the pupils who bunk off (Independent)
Go Dutch, save money (Independent)

Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Sun, Daily Telegraph
There are no flies on Barack Obama, as the U.S. President proved when he came under attack from one during a TV interview. After telling the insect to ‘get out of here’, followed by a few failed attempts to waft it away, he struck the fly dead at his first try.
Barack Obama swats fly during CNBC interview (Daily Telegraph)
Barack Obama joins killer swat team (Sun)
Obama...swat a guy (Daily Mirror)
Obama, the one-man swat team (Daily Mail)