News archive for 19th October 2016

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Now that’s what I call grammar - Capita SIMS Bridging the gap between primary and secondary school - Capita SIMS Making the Send Reforms Work - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Early Years Teachers launch campaign to demand teacher status - Nursery World Does sleep deprivation make children fatter? - Nursery World Raising aspirations among the North East’s most vulnerable - HEFCE Should governments of OECD countries worry about graduate over-education? - IOE London Blog Government u-turns on year 7 resit manifesto pledge - Schools Week Justine Greening announces primary assessment changes - Schools Week Sir David Carter: Claim that trusts failed because they grew too quickly is a “myth” - Schools Week Nottingham schools cap teacher workload at ‘2 hours per night’ - Schools Week Make it easier to create new exam boards, says new report - Schools Week Free childcare expansion at risk from 'recruitment crisis' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Further education area reviews: due diligence framework - DfE Further education area reviews: funding to restructure colleges - DfE Further education area reviews: guidance for providers - DfE Further education: letters to FE and sixth-form colleges - DfE Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - DfE Area reviews: FE Commissioner letter (October 2016) - DfE Primary education - DfE Primary education - DfE Primary school accountability - DfE Progress 8 school performance measure in 2016, 2017 and 2018 - DfE Further education area reviews: guidance for LEPs and LAs - DfE Further education area reviews: guidance on restructuring - DfE Convert to an academy: guide for sixth-form colleges - DfE Post-16 education and training institutions: list of area reviews - DfE This bonfire of the A-levels is torching our culture and history | Letters - Guardian Primary education - DfE SFA update: October 2016 - SFA Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - SFA “Promise of light at the end of the tunnel”: Voice welcomes statement on primary assessment - Voice Why would headteachers wish to take on the responsibility (and workload) of teacher accreditation? - ATL The Stand Alone Pledge: helping students without a family network - Universities UK ASCL welcomes Justine Greening’s common sense approach - ASCL NASUWT comments on Welsh Government's draft budget - NASUWT Changes to primary assessment welcome but will only make a difference if the Government ensures compliance - NASUWT School capability procedures - NAHT NAHT comment on government changes to assessment - NAHT Justine Greening announcement on primary assessment - NUT Hull College strike off as redundancy dispute resolved - UCU Government scraps plan to make year seven pupils resit exams - Guardian SFA approve just 13% of apprentice assessment organisation applications - FE Week U-turn on secondary school Sats resits - Telegraph Durham teaching assistants vote overwhelmingly to strike over pay cuts - Guardian The Prevent Strategy Isn't Working - Huffington Post 'It's not a victimless crime' – the murky business of buying academic essays - Guardian Plans to make pupils resit Sats axed - BBC Secondary school Sats resits scrapped - BBC Five things we learned when Nick Gibb was quizzed about teacher shortages today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats: Greening ditches Year 7 resits and promises two years without new tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir David Carter spoke about school improvement today. Here are five things we learned - Times Greening – 'I am listening to teachers on Sats' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats: Unions welcome primary assessment review but want to see more details - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats analysis: five ways for ministers to prove they are really listening to primary teachers on assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Durham teaching assistants vote to strike over pay deal - BBC Long-awaited area review guidance finally published - FE Week PE 'Cinderella subject' for too long, says report - BBC Thousands Of Irish Students March On Dublin Over Income-Based Student Loans - Huffington Post Why I won’t be issuing trigger warnings to student - The Conversation Halfon calls UTCs 'incredible' despite one in 10 already shut - FE Week 11 ways to stop periods from disrupting girls' education - Guardian Area reviews will result in 50 fewer colleges, predicts FE commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES Robert Halfon: 'We must stop pretending that the government knows better than industry' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outrage over ’child' migrants who will now sit with children in school classrooms - Express Major SATs U-turn as resits for children who fail primary school tests are scrapped by Education Secretary - Mirror Ministers scrap controversial plans for compulsory exam resits for 11-year-olds who fail maths and literacy tests - Mail Police disperse Cape Town student protesters with rubber bullets - Mail Minister for School Standards questioned on teacher supply - UK Parliament Pledge to crack down on apprentice 'exploitation' - Times Educational Supplement | TES London mayor Sadiq Khan calls for government rethink on apprenticeship funding rates - FE Week Which elite universities have the highest offer rates? - Telegraph Ditching classics at A-level is little short of a tragedy | Natalie Haynes - Guardian Why I refuse to pay my university rent - Guardian Archaeology Is A Subject That Teaches Us What It Is To Be Human - Scrapping The A-Level Is Devastating - Huffington Post Instead of fighting terror, Prevent is creating a climate of fear | Amrit Singh - Guardian Nurseries' recruitment crisis could worsen after Brexit, says charity - Guardian May defends grammars and plans for universities' role in state schools - Guardian CV and cover letter examples for teachers - Guardian