News archive for 13th December 2017

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USA: Republican higher education bill clears first hurdle - Mail Public Accounts Committee to call Learndirect hearing in wake of NAO investigation - FE Week Vice chancellors' pay: Universities agree new rules - BBC Ofsted Annual Report: What does it mean if your child is in a failing school? - HuffPost Universities minister demands restraint over vice-chancellors' pay - Guardian Spielman: Ofsted report into Reception curriculum is 'as controversial as custard' - Times Educational Supplement | TES University College London apologises after 'dreaming of a white campus' tweet was deemed racist - Telegraph Academy trusts to be named and shamed for late and missed financial returns - Schools Week DfE to publish naughty list of academies that fail to file financial statements on time - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are British values? And are faith schools really undermining them? | Catherine Pepinster - Guardian Ofsted apologises for mistakenly naming schools on list of underachievers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Multiculturalism causes tensions with British values': Ofsted chief warns of rising number of 'highly conservative' faith schools - Mail ASCL comment on Ofsted annual report - ASCL Differential fees would undermine social mobility, argues MillionPlus - MillionPlus ASCL comment on EPI primary report - ASCL NASUWT comments on 1% pay award announcement - NASUWT Let’s end inequality once and for all, says NAHT - NAHT NAHT comments on today’s Ofsted annual report - NAHT Meet the sponsor - Lyfta - NAHT Academy trust accounting officer letters from EFA and ESFA - Education & Skills Funding Agency Condition Improvement Fund - Education & Skills Funding Agency ILR standard file specifications and reference data - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: December 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Letter to academy trusts: December 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency The children educated in isolation - BBC Sixth formers to move to site of UTC that never opened - Schools Week Barriers for BTEC students to fit in at high-tariff universities - HEFCE Graduate wellbeing: measuring more of what matters - HEFCE Teenage girls set their sights on lower paying jobs than boys, new research finds - IOE London Blog New Collaborative Social Science Domain launched - IOE London Blog Ofsted slams treatment of SEND pupils across mainstream schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 13 December: Child protection, global competence and city design - CYPN | Children & Young People Now University senior pay - Russell Group Ofsted Annual Report - National Education Union Comment: EPI on Primary Education - National Education Union ‘Why wipe out good or outstanding apprenticeship training providers after latest Ofsted findings?’, asks AELP - AELP Entries and late entries for GCSE and A level: 2016 to 2017 academic year - Ofqual Ofsted Annual Report 2016/17 - Ofsted Ofsted Annual Report 2016/17: education, children’s services and skills - Ofsted Ofsted Chief Inspector launches her first Annual Report on state of education and children’s care in England - Ofsted Amanda Spielman on the launch of Ofsted's Annual Report 2016/17 - Ofsted Universities Minister calls for stronger oversight of senior pay - DfE Economic value of GCSEs: region and disadvantage - DfE ESFA procurement of non-levy apprenticeship provision – snapshot - UVAC Lords debates the number of vulnerable children in England - UK Parliament Ofsted inspections of multi-academy trusts: outcome letters - Ofsted Outstanding providers - Ofsted ESF 2014 to 2020 programme – list of contracts - Education & Skills Funding Agency The Hidden Story: Understanding knowledge exchange partnerships with the creative economy - The Staffroom Centre to challenge LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Education launched at Leeds Beckett - Leeds Beckett University Ofsted annual report interview: Joyce backs campaign calls for more 16 to 18 funding - FE Week Bett 2018: The EDUCATE collaboration - SecEd Test reliability, and why it matters for primary school performance tables - Education Datalab English education: world class in primary? - EPI Ofsted warns schools against 'disadvantage one-upmanship' - BBC Online tutoring websites bring tuition to the mass market - Telegraph What has happened to the ideal of “research-led teaching”? - HEA NASUWT comments on Ofsted's annual report - NASUWT Sir Kevan Collins comments on the Ofsted Annual Report - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF A career in engineering offers the chance to innovate and make a real difference – Transport Minister - PoliticsHome Sex and relationship education should be about rights and equity not just biology - The Conversation Scottish access Commissioner response - Sutton Trust AoC responds to Ofsted’s annual report - AoC | Association of Colleges Ofsted signals focus on curriculum and GCSE hothousing - SecEd Private faith schools are 'spreading beliefs that clash with British values and equalities law', Ofsted warns - Independent Learndirect set to lose rights to run Home Office citizenship test - FE Week Scots universities told to drop entry grades for poor students - Scotsman NUS Scotland welcomes Commissioner for Fair Access’ report - FE News Ofsted annual report: EYFS does not prepare children for Year 1 - Nursery World Some nurseries will benefit from business rate relief from April - Nursery World Progress on HE access in Scotland 'not spectacular', says commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES 130 English schools fail to gain ‘good’ rating in 10 years - Financial Times Ofsted chief 'taken aback' by criticism of Reception report - Nursery World Almost a third of Scottish 12-year-old pupils fail to hit writing benchmark - Times Educational Supplement | TES Accountability, growth mindset and women who are going to hell: 8 things we learnt from the Ofsted annual report - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE content 'unmanageable', say majority of history teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 9 interesting things you might have missed in Ofsted’s annual report - Schools Week Research finds academies still too tied up by exams and inspections to adopt best practices - The Conversation Sector response to Amanda Spielman's first Ofsted Annual Report - FE News Rogue faith schools spread 'non-British' values, says Ofsted - Evening Standard Closing GCSE gap could mean £110k boost for disadvantaged pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teenager dies after Lewis school 'tragic incident' - Herald Scotland Critical thinking - Can it be taught? - Montrose42 Ofsted Annual Report: 65 inadequate schools still not converted after 17 months - Schools Week AELP urges Greening to review ‘controversial’ non-levy tender - FE Week Ofsted annual report: Religious schools increasingly ‘flouting’ British values - Schools Week Tackling sexual harassment on campus is about more than naming and shaming | Alison Phipps - Guardian No provider is too big to fail, warns Ofsted annual report - FE Week FE will struggle without more funding, warns Ofsted's Spielman - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: More challenging KS2 SATs are leaving poorer pupils behind - Schools Week Ofsted annual report: RI schools fail to improve at record levels - Schools Week No provider is too big to fail, declares Ofsted as it launches Annual Report - FE News 13 thoughts all teachers have the week before breaking up for Christmas - Metro The two-year degree shows education has become just another commodity | Phil McDuff - Guardian Pupil Development Grant considered "invaluable" by schools, says new report - Welsh Government Wales passes Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Bill - Welsh Government Private faith schools are resisting British values, says Ofsted chief - Guardian Ofsted annual report: colleges' performance drops – but signs of improvement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted annual report: 130 schools not rated ‘good’ for over a decade - Schools Week Accountability ‘stick’ is taking us to the brink: Time for radical change. - Teacherhead 130 schools have shown no improvement for 10 years, Ofsted reveals - Telegraph Ofsted finds 130 schools showing no signs of improvement in ten years in damning report - Independent Why keeping our countries open to international students matters - Wonkhe The industrial strategy highlights OfS’s contradictions - Wonkhe How much will OfS cost institutions? - Wonkhe English education: World class in primary? - EPI Weakest schools struggle with teacher 'burnout' - BBC Inspectors need new powers to tackle faith schools where teachings 'clash with British values', major Ofsted report to find - Telegraph Leader comment: Let’s build a sporting nation - Scotsman Social media "abuse" leading to rising disruption in Scottish primary schools - Herald Scotland Poorer pupils "falling behind" wealthier classmates as they get older - Herald Scotland Number of vulnerable children reaches record high - Herald Scotland Teacher numbers hit a seven-year high amid increase in overseas registrations - Herald Scotland Primary school heads under pressure from unions to get pupils to celebrate trans community - The Sun Parents fume as schools close for second day over snow – but unions defend closures - The Sun Accounting firms urged to improve social mobility in the industry - Financial Times Spurs player in global teacher prize shortlist - BBC Children forced to walk to school without coats in freezing temperatures - Mail School cancels Christmas service so non-Christians are protected from ‘preaching’ - Express 'Link pay of vice chancellors to the size of their university' - Mail Tech groups accused of failing to protect online users from abuse - Financial Times Global education rankings to measure tolerance - BBC Primary school headteachers told to 'celebrate' transgender issues in the classroom to combat prejudice among pupils - Mail EPI: Primary pupils have ‘long tail of underperformance’ in maths - Schools Week Ofsted: Around 130 schools fail to reach 'good' grade in last ten years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the 4 amazing British teachers who are on the shortlist for a $1m prize - Times Educational Supplement | TES England has one of the world's largest gaps between highest and lowest performers in primary maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grenfell fire fundraiser shortlisted for $1m global teacher prize - Guardian Gender pay gap is perpetuated by teenage girls who want jobs that pay less, study finds - Telegraph Primary schools should use books that feature transgender parents, Government-backed guidance says - Telegraph England has one of the biggest gaps between high and low performing pupils across developed world - Independent Which? survey reveals gap in understanding about apprenticeships compared to university - FE News Put transgender books in primary schools, teachers told - Times Link pay to university size, says Office for Students watchdog - Times England’s maths attainment gap ‘among largest in world’ - Times Students don’t want value for money — they need fairness - Times Scotland: A third of pupils falling behind at primary school, say teachers - Times Scotland: ‘Scandalous’ rise in child obesity levels - Times