News archive for 31st August 2017

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Government orders investigation into public school cheating scandal as regulator considers change in rules - Telegraph More London sixth-form schools face threat of legal cases for exclusion - Guardian Cambridge University student who burned £20 note in front of homeless person says he 'abused his privilege' - Telegraph What’s happening to reading under the new Key Stage 2 curriculum and assessment regime? - NFER Going to university with dyspraxia - Times Higher Education | THE Failure to invest in early years provision risks creating “lost generation” and hitting social mobility, warns senior Labour MP - Social Market Foundation | SMF Non-levy apprenticeship funding tender deadline extended to 8th September - feCompare I want to become an end-point assessor – where do I start? - The Staffroom 'Parents to face additional charges' for 30 hours childcare - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 31 August: Childcare, phobias, and second-hand smoke - CYPN | Children & Young People Now “Experts must fight back”: LSE’s incoming Director challenges rise in anti-intellectual sentiment - London School of Economics | LSE Three-quarters of extra childcare funding to benefit richest 50% - thinktank - PoliticsHome This much I know about…the folly of valuing effort over outcomes - JohnTomsett St Olave’s grammar school is tip of iceberg in a system all about delivering results | Letters - Guardian How to prepare your child for school in a few easy steps - Telegraph Public school cheating scandal sparks review into exam rules - Independent Early roll-out study shows childcare providers 'willing and able' to offer 30 hours - Nursery World School exam rules to be reviewed after cheat row - BBC Early rollout of 30 hours free childcare: evaluation - DfE Admissions appeals in England: academic year 2016 to 2017 - DfE Primary school accountability - DfE Ofsted websites maintenance work: Friday 1 September - Ofsted Review of exam setting processes - Ofqual Independent special schools and colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency 30 hours free childcare launches - DfE ESFA e-bulletin: 31 August 2017 (issue 185) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofqual to review rules in wake of exam leak allegations - Guardian NAHT comment on early data from 2017 KS2 SATS - NAHT Where next for the Teaching Excellence Framework? - Universities UK How to succeed in a new era for further education - Collab Group GCSE grade change mustn't distract from bigger priorities - CBI UCAS daily clearing updates - 31 August 2017 - UCAS School workforce census 2017: guides - DfE New Insights on WP: The Welsh tradition and contemporary challenge - HEPI The OfS should make university governance a top priority - Wonkhe Small-town campus vs the urban university – what's right for you? - Guardian Private schools face ‘serious consequences’ from rates blow - SecEd Inquiry rules on death of Edinburgh school girl - SecEd Narrow curriculum concerns overshadow exam success - SecEd Additional Support Needs guidance for 4,000 student teachers - SecEd Popular reading challenge to be tried out in early secondary years - SecEd Teach First prospect sparks debate in Scotland - SecEd AEB procurement fears for third sector providers - FE Week Serious adult education budget procurement fears for third sector - FE Week Over half of parents apply for free 30 hours' childcare - BBC Ofqual to review rules on teachers setting exams amid Eton cheating scandal - Schools Week Nine key talking points from this year's GCSE results - Wales Online Exams regulator Ofqual to review rules around teachers writing exam papers - Times Educational Supplement | TES The importance of mental health awareness in schools - Huffington Post Warning of ‘major’ teacher recruitment crisis as trainee numbers fall by 10 per cent - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats results: KS2 writing assessments 'more consistent than last year' - Times Educational Supplement | TES St Andrew’s scientists lay down million dollar chess challenge - Scotsman Shift early years spending to support disadvantaged, says senior Labour MP - Nursery World How you can claim money to help with the cost of school uniforms - Wales Online Almost two-fifths of providers think 30 hours will lead to their closure - Nursery World Failure to invest in early years for the disadvantaged will create 'lost generation' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer Welsh students at top Russell Group universities - BBC Nurseries renew calls for action on £550m business rates bill - Nursery World Ofsted to ask FE learners if they feel safe in residential provision - FE Week Primary school floor standards for 2017 - Schools Week Admissions appeals 2017: Secondary up, primary down, academies most involved - Schools Week What’s the best cheap laptop for university? - Guardian Sats: 2017 primary progress floor standards revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES The four key trends in the 2017 KS2 primary test results - Schools Week School admissions appeals fall, new DfE statistics show - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats results: Variation between local authorities shrinks – but the gap is still 'considerable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heart disease and education link revealed - are you at risk? - Express Without accessible conferences, we lose the voices of disabled academics - Guardian Report slams distribution of government's £9bn childcare spending - Guardian Just three independent schools removed from register in three years - Schools Week Education charity warns of 30 hour free childcare 'chaos' - BBC Ofstedwatch: the latest Ofsted reports for FE and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools challenged to improve grades for poorest pupils wanting to go to university - Herald Scotland More time in education associated with lower risk of coronary heart disease - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ejecting students in middle of A levels breaks law, St Olave’s grammar school is told - Times Eton pupils caught up in second exam paper leak - Times Fewer children living in homes where no adults work - Times Scottish schools short of 680 teachers - Times Having a degree helps cut heart attack risk by a third: Researchers say better educated people are less likely to smoke and do more exercise - Mail