News archive for 10th February 2017

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John Swinney ‘deliberately delayed’ EU student funding pledge - Scotsman Building on the benefits of REF - HEFCE Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 10 February 2017 - Pearson School support staff increasingly having to teach - Nursery World Blog: new student enrolment data - Russell Group Week in news: 10 February 2017 - UCU UCU general secretary Sally Hunt uses Brexit speech to urge progressives to 'take back control' - UCU Michael Gove on UTCs - NUT Geoff Barton wins election for ASCL General Secretary - ASCL Is skills education higher education's problem? - Universities UK ATL survey finds support staff increasingly having to teach lessons - ATL Staff at 'outstanding' London school suspended over alleged exam cheating - Guardian FE commissioner intervenes at Hull College over finance worries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers urge parents to lobby MPs over school funding cuts - Guardian FE Commissioner intervention report exposes financial turmoil at Hull College Group - FE Week Betsy Devos met with protesters on first school visit since confirmation as Education Secretary - Independent New tricks: teaching children magic helps with their education - Times Educational Supplement | TES The narrative on university safe spaces and no-platform policies couldn’t be further from the truth - Huffington Post Geoff Barton's jingle, league tables and body cameras – the TES podcast - Times Educational Supplement | TES More GCSE maths pupils could be denied chance of securing top grades, research suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex and relationships education set to become compulsory as 23 Tory MPs back the changes - Huffington Post Prevent is not a safety net - it is a programme designed to censor academic freedom - Telegraph This much I know about…teaching Carol Ann Duffy’s poem “War Photographer - JohnTomsett Zimbabwe: government to reverse 50% cuts to universities - University World News Mother of 11-year-old transgender pupil shot at school says teachers 'failed to combat bullying' - Independent Bethnal Green head Mark Keary suspended over exam fix claims - BBC Ofsted watch: No overall-improvement recognised in tough week for FE - FE Week Children as young as four to be taught about extremism as part of plans to toughen up Prevent strategy, leaked proposals reveal - Telegraph DfE provide info on what employers need to do to become an apprenticeship training provider. - FE News Universities must push for an 'Intelligent Brexit' - University World News Educating Essex head says, 'Education funding cuts are a choice' - Times Educational Supplement | TES In this week's TES Further: Why education is under attack - Times Educational Supplement | TES Turkey: the quest to quell opposition leads to 'academocide' - University World News Colleges in line for funding boost for teaching and student support - Herald Scotland Michael Gove: UTCs have failed - Schools Week Government to force councils to publicise UTCs as Gove admits policy has gone "Pete Tong" - Times Educational Supplement | TES Opponent of new grammar schools to lead headteachers' union - Guardian Stepping into history: how I moved my class to a museum for a term - Guardian Gove admits the UTCs experiment has failed - FE Week Geoff Barton wins ASCL leadership election by a landslide - Times Educational Supplement | TES Autistic academics give their thoughts on university life - The Conversation Staff at Bethnal Green school suspended amid claims of 'exam irregularities' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Independent schools are giving pupils more time to complete exams than their state peers, new analysis finds - Telegraph Digital Apprenticeship Service to be renamed prior to launch - FE Week 'Fragile' growth in maths entries threatened by exam reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Independent school pupils more likely to get extra time in exams than state school peers - Independent Google coding champion whose Cameroon hometown is cut off from the internet - BBC Mental health education for children - Huffington Post National Careers Week March 6th - 10th 2017 - FE News Pupils being taught in temporary classrooms in Cardiff are 'spending their time watching films and colouring in' - Wales Online Cambridge student filmed burning cash in front of homeless man - Guardian Independent school pupils more likely to get extra time in exams - Guardian Why did Oxford circulate a criminalised image of me – because I’m a black man? | Femi Nylander - Guardian I lost my job in academia after having a baby – now I'm stuck - Guardian What I wish I could tell my boss: 'Students come before meetings' - Guardian Nick Gibb: the importance of high-quality arts education - DfE SFA: qualification achievement rate 2015 to 2016 (formerly QSR) - SFA Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - DfE Apprenticeship funding bands - SFA ‘A girl aged 5 was made to watch beheadings online’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools crisis a litany of failure and complacency - Scotsman Resignations and husbands: how RSC conflicts are coming to the fore - Schools Week Booming academy transfer market pushes costs to potential £30m - Schools Week DfE held talks with Bridge International Academies to discuss controversial low-cost model - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools forced to ‘reintegrate’ pupils after UTC and studio school closures - Schools Week The case for a Scottish (Blue) Bell - Wonkhe ATL/NUT survey shows that teachers reject the PRP system that is holding down their pay - ATL True crime on campus §50: best of the best part 2 - Wonkhe Three in four classroom assistants now step in to take lessons because of national shortage of teachers - Mail Independent school students gain extra time for exams - BBC Support staff 'plugging more teaching gaps' - BBC School support staff ‘increasingly’ teaching lessons, union warns - Schools Week Call to end ban on council-run schools sponsoring academies - BBC Schools failing mentally ill pupils due to lack of support services available, heads warn - Independent Performance-related pay criticised by thousands of teachers - Schools Week Half of schools struggling to get mental health services for pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES More support staff ‘doing teachers’ work’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unqualified librarians and support staff asked to give lessons amid teacher shortage - Telegraph Opposition blame poorest children’s attainment gap on SNP teacher cuts - Times School collapse caused by poor building, report says - Times Dividing our children at 14 has not worked - Times 'Second-class citizens': apprentices denied thousands in financial support - Times Educational Supplement | TES