News archive for 14th December 2017

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Scotland private schools face splashing £5million a year more in taxes - Express Number of 11-year-olds in England reaching the government's expected standard in reading, writing and maths increases - Mail Focus on raising aspirations and attainment in all parts of the country is welcome - CBI National health and social care workforce strategy - Universities UK ASCL comment on GCSE appeals - ASCL MillionPlus comment on the final wave of UCAS End of Cycle 2017 data - MillionPlus New guidance from the DfE on peer-on-peer sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools - NAHT ASCL welcomes DfE advice on dealing with sexual violence and harassment - ASCL Analysis: KS2 assessment results in England, 2017 (revised data) - NAHT Cat Smith MP to meet prison educators at Lancaster Farms Prison - UCU Teachers warned not to dismiss sexual harassment as ‘banter’ - Guardian Social Mobility Action Plan - Russell Group The revised careers strategy: is it enough to ‘address the issue of variable quality’? - NFER UCAS End of Cycle report 2017 - Russell Group Scottish Budget 2017: Private schools hit with £5m rates hike - Scotsman Brexit: UK in Erasmus student scheme until at least 2020 - BBC Social mobility - National Education Union How can research truly inform practice? It takes a lot more than just providing information - IOE London Blog Leader comment: Axing of private schools’ charitable status a bad move - Scotsman 16 to 18 minimum standards - Education & Skills Funding Agency Justine Greening: our ambition is to leave no community behind - DfE Ofsted, faith schools and ‘British values’ | Letters - Guardian Plan to boost social mobility through education - DfE UK Industrial Strategy: a leading destination to invest and grow - GOV.UK Ofqual publishes reports relating to 2017 GCSEs, AS and A levels - Ofqual Local area SEND inspection outcome letters - Ofsted 16 to 18 data and management information (MI) reports - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teachers should not dismiss harassment as 'boys being boys', as Government issues first ever guidelines on sexual misconduct in schools - Telegraph Ofqual criticises exam boards for flouting new rules on remarks amid huge spike in GCSE grade changes - Telegraph Costume dramas trivialise history, Cambridge professor says - Telegraph DfE guidance on tackling sexual violence and harassment - National Education Union Poor primary school pupils increasingly left behind by peers - Guardian It's time to debunk the myth surrounding two-year degrees - Telegraph Exam boards ‘in muddle’ over students challenging GCSEs - Guardian Social mobility: all the reaction as Justine Greening sets out her 'action plan' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leadership groups focus on improving lives affected by poverty in Scotland - Scotsman DfE: Schools must not put victims of sexual abuse in same classroom as their attackers - Times Educational Supplement | TES New guidance urges schools to look out for sexual harassment ‘online and offline’ - Schools Week Reviews of marking and moderation for GCSE, AS and A Level: summer 2017 exam series - Ofqual Method of travel to/from school by pupils in Northern Ireland, 2016/2017 - GOV.UK Primary school performance tables: 2017 - DfE Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2017 - DfE LA and school expenditure: 2016 to 2017 financial year - DfE National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2016 (revised) - DfE National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2017 (revised) - DfE Summary of Annual Examination Results (SAER) 2016/17 - DfE Early years settings to receive £50m to improve social mobility - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government considers U-turn on 30 hours for foster carers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 14 December: Welsh nurseries, digital relationships and citizenship - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government policies fail to reduce school segregation - IOE London Blog Pupils taught well in Reception Class do better in their GCSEs - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring KS2 performance tables 2017: Ofsted ratings and floor standards - Education Datalab KS2 performance tables 2017: Three things from this morning’s data - Education Datalab KS2 performance tables 2017: The reason schools ended up below the floor standard this year - Education Datalab Amanda Spielman speech on the launch of Ofsted’s Annual Report 2016/17 - The Staffroom Key facts and areas of concern from Ofsted’s Annual Report - The Staffroom Do lessons in music, chess, or “brain training" cause students to do better in school? - Learning Scientists 16 to 18 accountability headline measures - DfE Apprenticeship funding: how it works - DfE Improving social mobility through education - DfE Higher Education and Research Act: impact assessments - DfE AoC responds to DfE plan on social mobility - AoC | Association of Colleges Government social mobility plan prioritises early language - Early Education Europe: University public funding recovery is “slow and fragile” says EUA - PIE News UCL forced to apologise for 'dreaming of a white campus' tweet - Independent Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges - DfE Keeping children safe in education: proposed revisions - DfE Primary league tables: Special-needs pupils struggle with new tests - BBC Understanding the myths that new students hold about sexual violence and domestic abuse is key for prevention - The Conversation Vice chancellors' pay: Universities to sign new 'fair pay' code - BBC Number of schools struggling to make ends meet is highest in six years - Times Educational Supplement | TES More 11-year-olds meeting Government targets in three key tests - Mail Greening wants social mobility to 'unlock talent' - BBC Social mobility plan promises £50m for school nursery places - Nursery World Children finish their education unable to read or write in English, Ofsted chief warns - Mail Number of GCSE and A-level grades changed on review rises by 40% - Times Educational Supplement | TES New free school wave in 2018 to be targeted in ‘challenging areas’ - Schools Week Greening: £23m fund for bright pupils who ‘could do with extra help’ - Schools Week Exams watchdog admits that THAT semi-colon question 'didn't function' #satsshambles - Times Educational Supplement | TES Recruiting a headteacher - FE News We're one step closer to solving the social mobility conundrum - Schools Week GCSE grade changes increase by 52% – mostly due to GCSE English - Schools Week Watchdog says stronger safeguards needed to prevent teachers leaking exam papers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research reveals parents to spend almost $45,000 on their child's education - FE News Number of maintained schools in deficit up 46% - Schools Week Ofqual reports on difficulty of new ‘fat maths’ GCSEs - Schools Week Ofqual to consult on reducing cheating by teacher-examiners - Schools Week Improving social mobility through education - FE News 511 primary schools under floor standards (or 546 if you’re picky) - Schools Week Fall in absenteeism from primary schools over the last decade - Welsh Government More than 500 primary schools below floor target - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social mobility: Action plan to target free schools at underperforming areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are not instilling fortitude - Express Social mobility action plan: DfE vows to rebuild relationship with FE sector - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social mobility: £120m pledged to tackle early years 'word gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are the ACTUAL new policies in Greening’s action plan? - Schools Week Greening: ‘Coasting’ schools will only change leadership in ‘rare cases’ - Schools Week Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential, the Government’s social mobility action plan - sector response - FE News UCAS End of Cycle Report shows “pleasing signs of progess” – OFFA - OFFA OFFA welcomes launch of social mobility action plan - OFFA What happened to the independent review of student support? - Wonkhe Dirty word? Thinking about customers - Wonkhe Christmas books to inform and inspire your work in universities - Guardian Social mobility action plan response - Sutton Trust UCAS undergraduate end of cycle report - Sutton Trust Universities are bastions of privilege. They have to change | Simon Jenkins - Guardian Hundreds of new secondary school classrooms need to cope with pupil roll - Scotsman Religious schools are actively undermining fundamental British values, slams Ofsted chief - Express Schools are washing poor pupils clothes and taking parents to food banks - Mail Record numbers of disadvantaged students secure a Scottish university place - Herald Scotland Middle class fears ‘eroding support’ for university access drive - Herald Scotland Britain ‘is falling behind other EU countries’ in teaching adults new skills in time for Brexit - The Sun Number of white teenagers gaining a place at university falls further behind other ethnic groups - Mail History teachers are helping to foster resentment by presenting the subject as the struggle of minority groups, warns Cambridge don - Mail Greening pledges £23m to help poor pupils with talent - BBC Wealthy students tighten grip on university places - BBC Furious parents say school’s ‘stupid’ decision to ban coats is making their kids ill - The Sun Concerns over Learndirect first raised 3 years ago - Financial Times The six main findings from the NAO’s report into Learndirect - FE Week Prof Mary Beard backs school Classics funding appeal - BBC Ofsted chief warns of growing number of ‘highly conservative’ faith schools after inspectors find ‘sexist’ books and ‘squalid’ conditions - The Sun English and Scottish 18 year olds from disadvantaged backgrounds more likely to enter higher education than ever before - UCAS Justine Greening unveils strategy to increase poor children's opportunities - Guardian Poorest school-leavers half as likely to attend university as their peers - Guardian ‘Unlocking talent, fulfilling potential’: Greening to launch social mobility action plan - Schools Week Skills to be at the heart of social mobility plan - FE Week Greening unveils four 'ambitions' to help improve social mobility - Times Educational Supplement | TES Millions given to inadequate Learndirect 'disgraceful', says PAC chair - Times Educational Supplement | TES University access gap widens, and five other findings from today's Ucas report - Times Educational Supplement | TES NAO report: So which minister signed off on Learndirect’s special treatment? - FE Week Universities accused of making a 'mockery' of A-levels following huge increase in unconditional offers - Telegraph Jump in unconditional offers as universities fight for fees - Times Some faith schools not teaching English, says Ofsted chief - Times University College London in ‘white campus’ row - Times It is unfair that foster children are excluded from 30 hours free childcare - Times Scotland: Ancient universities told to lead efforts to attract poor Scots - Times