ISC Daily News Summary

Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph reports on the difficulties facing overseas students applying for visas to study at British independent schools. ISC Chief Executive, David Lyscom, is quoted.
Five-year-olds must declare that they are not terrorists (Daily Telegraph)

Scotsman
Peter Sutton, headmaster of Ardvreck School in Crieff, has said that he would like to take on state pupils as boarders if funding could be provided for their education. He believes boarding should be an option to all and he would like to expand his school to take more children.
'State should fund school boarders' (Scotsman)

Most national newspapers
Thousands of undergraduates will be facing financial difficulty next year when student grants and loans will be frozen, while tuition fees will rise. Ministers have announced that financial support for students would be capped because of “difficult economic times”.
Student grants frozen as fees rise (Daily Telegraph)
Student grants frozen as tuition fees rise (Guardian)
Student grants frozen (Independent)
Students' debt blow as fees rise while loans are frozen (Times)
Frozen grants a ‘kick in the teeth’ for students (Daily Express – not online)
Uni kids’ fees hike (Sun – not online)

Independent
The Independent examines the savings that will have to be made in education after the next general election.
Schools are safe - but universities are not (Independent)

Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph features a comment piece claiming that the new licensing system for teachers will not bring any benefit to the profession.
There are three kinds of appalling teacher... (Daily Telegraph)

Daily Telegraph
The Liberal Democrats have blamed Labour’s “nappy curriculum” for pre-school children which sets numerous developmental targets, for the sharp decline in the number of childminders.
Nappy curriculum blamed for drop in child minders (Daily Telegraph)

Independent
Government support for the flagship academies programme is waning, heads have told MPs. Leaders of the privately sponsored schools said there was “ambiguity” within Whitehall over continued support for the programme.
Academy schools 'stagnating' (Independent)

Daily Telegraph
A schoolgirl has been told not to wear a Christian cross to school for health and safety reasons, whilst Sikh girls are allowed to continue wearing bangles as a part of their faith.
Elsewhere, a 14-year-old boy has been banned from school for refusing to shave off the beginnings of a moustache.
Boy banned from school for refusing to shave (Daily Telegraph)
Church school orders girl to remove crucifix (Daily Telegraph)
Cross ban for church schoolgirl (Daily Express)
Cross ban for church schoolgirl (Sun – not online)

Independent
Here is a selection of articles from the Independent education and careers supplement:
Hello play, goodbye long division and times tables (Independents)
We are heartily fed up with being spun to (Independent)
Red tape prevents Iraq's scholars from entering the UK (Independent)
Degrees of comfort (Independent)

Times
Recorders in schools could soon be a dying breed, as ukuleles with more ‘street cred’ are quickly becoming popular. A decision by a primary school to use ukuleles rather than recorders to teach music to pupils has proved surprisingly sucessful. The instruments have a lower pitch than recorders and the children have been encouraged by their quick progress.
School abandons recorders in favour of ‘more tuneful’ ukuleles (Times – not online)