News archive for 21st December 2017

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Scottish Tories slam SNP for 'failings' with education targets - Express Warning after parents are conned out of thousands by hackers who send fake school bills using a Google app - Mail Scottish pupils get maths puzzles as Christmas ‘homework’ - Scotsman Scottish teacher recruitment scheme to tackle acute shortage 'not set up' - Scotsman Skateboarding to success: how half pipes are helping children caught up in the Greek refugee crisis - Telegraph DfE spends a further £1.8m on academy deficit pay-offs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents 'must teach children about dangers of smartphones before they take them to school' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted should use artificial intelligence to determine which schools will fail, report suggests - Telegraph Busy Bees gains major shareholder - Nursery World AQA admits breaking rules on exam re-marks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Priest who sexually abused boys at London school jailed for 18 years - Guardian ASCL comment on high performing schools report - ASCL University vice-chancellors given pay boost from struggling pension scheme - Times ECU board agrees to merge with the HEA and LFHE - ECU Committees scrutinise mental health provision for young people - UK Parliament Comment on EPI report on access to ‘high performing’ schools - National Education Union Why we should all care about LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education - HuffPost The hidden benefits of HE: mental health and resilience - HEFCE Blockchain – don’t ask how, ask why - Wonkhe The league table that no-one wanted - Wonkhe Have your say – consultation on improving QTS - The Staffroom More funding is needed for mental health provision in schools, new research finds - Leeds Beckett University ProtectED announces new patron - PIE News Learning Without Borders obtains A+ series funding - PIE News Two-thirds of schools without mental health champion - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Academics to assess case for votes at 16 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now NCS evaluation finds 'positive short-term impact' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now AQA have provided assurance to Ofqual - FE News AQA to review staff training after grade change debacle - Schools Week Can you solve these festive maths puzzles for 10-year-olds? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learning and Skills Policy Update - December 2017 - Unionlearn Controversial free-school move gets government go-ahead - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are classrooms calmer with a llama? - BBC Government is failing to ensure pupils are taught real-world impact of climate change, MPs told - Times Educational Supplement | TES How boys and girls are taught different things about violence - The Conversation Leaving teaching to help educate students - HuffPost Telford College merger gets the official go-ahead - FE News FE data library: apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency FE data library: local authority tables - Education & Skills Funding Agency Student support applications for higher education: November 2017 - Welsh Government Education is a long game, so league table measures should be too - Schools Week Access to high performing schools in England - EPI 2VCs on ... are women academics blocked from the top? - Guardian The costs of providing levels 4 and 5 in further education - DfE Statistics: childcare and early years - DfE Childcare and early years survey of parents: 2017 - DfE Early years foundation stage profile return: closed collections - DfE Social care commentary: hidden children - the challenges of safeguarding children who are not attending school - Ofsted School inspection handbook - Ofsted Handbook for short, monitoring and unannounced behaviour school inspections - Ofsted Inspecting secure training centres: guidance for inspectors - Ofsted Inspecting secure training centres: framework - Ofsted Early years foundation stage profile return: how to submit data - DfE EYFSP return 2018: technical specification - DfE The effects of the English Baccalaureate - DfE The English Baccalaureate and GCSE choices: brief - DfE ESFA e-bulletin: 21 December 2017 (issue 200) - Education & Skills Funding Agency 'Urgent action' needed on new school curriculum rollout - BBC Sofa surfers: The young hidden homeless - BBC Christmas party envy 'provoked by social media' - BBC USA: School ditches online learning program after parents revolt - Mail Born in the wrong place for good schools? - BBC Access to the best secondary schools ‘hasn’t improved since 2010’ - Schools Week Artificial intelligence school inspections face resistance - BBC Access to 'top' schools has become more unequal, finds research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford academics attack Professor Nigel Biggar over defence of colonialism - Times Hackers con parents with fake school bills - Times