News archive for 7th December 2017

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Giulio Regeni murder: Cambridge tutor agrees to speak to Italian investigators - Guardian Non-levy £650m tender results finally shared - FE Week Preparing for adult funding devolution - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 7 December 2017 (issue 198) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Pupils from across the country celebrate Mandarin success - DfE LRS: schedule for uploading ILR/NPD achievement data - Education & Skills Funding Agency Education Secretary expands UK-China internship programme - DfE School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) reports - DfE Teachers' pension scheme payments: 2017 to 2018 - DfE Early education and childcare workforce: level 2 qualifications - DfE School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) remit letter for 2018 - DfE Study of early education and development (SEED) - DfE Early years provision quality - DfE Pupil nationality, country of birth and proficiency in English - DfE Lords debates role of education in society - UK Parliament How can widening participation best be achieved? - Times Higher Education | THE Correspondence from National Schools Commissioner - UK Parliament Secularists claim Floreat merger could lead to ‘faith schools by stealth’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES University pay will be brought 'under control', says Jo Johnson - BBC SEED: Early years quality on the rise across the country - Nursery World PSHE education supports academic success, says major evidence review - PoliticsHome SEED research shows quality linked to staff qualifications and CPD - Early Education Daily roundup 7 December: Legal challenge, Grenfell Tower, and child obesity - CYPN | Children & Young People Now International panel members needed for REF 2021 - HEFCE Pre-16 schools funding: guidance for 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency LRS: LRB user guide and learning providers list - Education & Skills Funding Agency Council bans schoolchildren from giving teachers Christmas gifts - Telegraph Social mobility after Milburn - Conor's Commentary Plans to replace teaching watchdog risks 'insertion of cheap labour' into schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES MillionPlus comment on the Student Loan Book sale - MillionPlus UCU response to Jo Johnson's promise to rein in vice-chancellors' pay - UCU Only a third of students think university is good value for money - UCU Apprenticeship service registrations and commitments to October 2017 - DfE Register of end-point assessment organisations: how to apply - Education & Skills Funding Agency UCU comment on student loan book sale - UCU Protests at University of Birmingham over workloads and senior pay - UCU Students should declare mental health problems on applications, Universities UK wellbeing chief says - Telegraph Lecture attendance, lecture recordings, and student performance: a complex, but noteworthy relationship - Learning Scientists What makes a good reader? International findings from PIRLS 2016 - The Staffroom MPs pledge to help inspire next generation of engineers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for evidence on employer engagement activities for learners - Learning & Work Institute Cambridge don accused of sexual harassment under investigation again - Guardian No sign of hoped-for levied apprenticeships surge in latest statistics - FE Week Preparing for adult funding devolution - FE News For the first time in 14 years, the best university in the world isn't in America - Independent Calls to boycott new baseline assessment trials – which won’t even start until 2019 - Schools Week Will the government's Mandarin scheme be more than a Chinese whisper? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top pay in universities is rising – but most staff aren't seeing any benefits | Sally Hunt - Guardian Reception baseline tests: 'Parents could boycott the trials' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vice chancellor pay - FE News University food banks are monuments to the obscene pay of vice-chancellors | Kehinde Andrews - Guardian Prince Charles admits he lobbied Alex Salmond over Teach First - Guardian ‘Incredibly hard’ vocational courses will exclude students from university, Harris boss warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greening: Review body should consider 'affordability' of teacher pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers strategy needs funding, says shadow skills minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES NCG looks to broaden opportunities for students with Capita - Capita FHE Record-breaking 'E for Education' campaign by Citi raises over £665,000 for our work - Teach First Greening reminds teacher pay body to be ‘flexible’ on rises - Schools Week Podcast with IPPR’s Michael Jacobs on alternate ways to increase productivity - FE News Yoga therapy for children with SEN celebrated - Nursery World PM places the blame for problems with 30 hours on local authorities - Nursery World 'Stretched' health visitors concerned children will slip through the net - Nursery World Consultation on Level 2 early years qualifications launches - Nursery World Bath Spa University slammed as departing chief trousers £808k - The Sun Only a third of EAL pupils are fluent in English - Schools Week Welsh Government launches drive to improve science and technology via improved teaching skills - Welsh Government Drive to improve science and technology in schools begins - Welsh Government Schools fail to ‘obtain’ nationality data on quarter of pupils - Schools Week Findings from a study of early years provision quality within the larger study of early education and development (SEED) project - DfE Schools can get £500 to offer undergraduate internships in maths and physics teaching - Schools Week Statistics on vocational and other qualifications (excluding GCSEs, AS and A levels, the Diploma and its components) - Ofqual Statistics from the apprenticeship service including registered apprenticeship services accounts and commitments, reported to 31 October 2017 - DfE Certificates awarded for all vocational qualifications (excluding GCSEs, A levels and the Diploma) - Ofqual Reading aloud might boost students’ memories - The Learning Spy LGBT lessons to stop bullying should be compulsory, say Scottish group - Scotsman Call for archbishop to head inquiry into UK vice-chancellors' pay - Guardian The apprenticeship levy: will employers be short changed? - Wonkhe Up, up and away: the era of high tuition fees - Wonkhe New research indicates that improved job satisfaction is the main driver for teachers who leave the profession - NFER After Milburn - Sutton Trust The school for bullied and traumatised children - BBC The teachers who pay cash to keep their pupils in school - BBC School attendance and absence: The facts - BBC 'School's dead, it's the same lessons every day' - BBC Teachers urged to tackle discrimination against pupils with learning disabilities - Herald Scotland School reforms ‘forcing’ powers on headteachers - Herald Scotland Parents body backs mandatory LGBT lessons for school pupils - Herald Scotland Westminster School to set up branches in China to teach Chinese curriculum - Guardian Should the state provide free childcare for non-working parents? - City AM Westminster School to teach Chinese curriculum in China - Financial Times Now one in three British teenagers is already overweight - Mail Hallelujah! Reading standards are up. It shows what can be achieved when liberal dogma is defeated | Stephen Glover - Mail Vice Chancellor's £808,000 pay packet - Mail Alzheimer's risk 'falls by 11% for every year spent in education' - Mail Estate of sound pioneer Ray Dolby donate £85m to Cambridge university - Mail Westminster to open six schools in China - BBC New research: Unhappy teachers will take 10% pay cut to escape profession - Schools Week PSHE lessons improve pupils' grades, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers who quit make less money but are happier, research finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Andrew Soper, former abbot of Ealing Abbey, guilty of raping boys - Times Bath Spa University chief paid more than £800,000 in final year - Times Can she fix it? BBC seeks gender balance in cartoons - Times Westminster School to open in China - Times A fifth of children are obese by 14 - Times Facebook must do more for children’s mental health - Times Scotland: SNP’s ‘named person’ child protection policy close to collapse - Times Scotland: Legal threat to University of Aberdeen over dormant South Korea campus - Times Obesity crisis: More than one in three British teenagers now overweight - Express