News archive for 31st January 2017

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60 private schools to be investigated by child abuse inquiry - Scotsman Term-time holiday ban would criminalise parents, supreme court told - Guardian Parents whose high-flying children win prizes and play sports could be criminalised, Supreme Court hears  - Telegraph John Swinney rejects powers for teachers to search pupils - Scotsman 2017 Festival of Learning award nominations now open - FE News Corbyn backs UCU campaign for 15,000 more FE teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES British school children could be guinea pigs for controversial new tests despite other nations rejecting them - Telegraph From ‘overlearning’ to going barefoot: how to learn better - Guardian More Welsh schools move into top 'green' annual rating - BBC Teachers in Scotland will not be handed extra power to search pupils for weapons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers urged to tackle league table 'gaming' as study finds schools 'manage out' pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual: security industry plagued by 'assessment malpractice' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual takes action after concerns of malpractice in security industry qualification - FE News First ever procurement process for adult education budget contracts finally launched - FE Week How to write for the Teacher Network - Guardian Focus on 3 million apprentices by 2020 leads to policies aimed at quantity, rather than quality - FE News Andy McNab says joyless education is damaging poor children's literacy - Guardian Term-time holidays must be made illegal, Supreme Court told - Independent League tables 'mislead on school success' - BBC How wearing slippers at school could improve performance - BBC Government to rebroker Manchester free schools founded by charity boss - Schools Week Wales school colour codes 2017: These are the schools ranked amber - Wales Online Wales school colour codes 2017: These are the schools ranked yellow - Wales Online A week's term-time holiday without school's permission can't be lawful, court told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can I still get into law with a 2:2 degree? - Guardian Derbyshire pupils wear slippers at school to get 'better grades' - BBC Nick Gibb insists school funding changes are all about 'fairness' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales school colour codes 2017: These are the schools ranked red - Wales Online Carlisle College to join NCG - Times Educational Supplement | TES Michaela Community School set to hire £35,000 detention director to be school’s ‘sergeant major’ - Huffington Post Wales school colour codes 2017: These are the schools ranked green - Wales Online Nick Gibb ‘comfortable’ with schools’ approach to cost cutting - Schools Week America should be welcoming Muslim students not turning them away - Huffington Post The reality of budget cuts in schools – survey - Guardian Shoeless education: Primary school allows pupils to wear slippers to improve grades - Independent Ofsted rates Birkenhead Sixth Form College as outstanding in all areas - FE Week Electrical inspections at some Cardiff schools need to be updated, council admits - Wales Online School governors threaten 'strike' over funding 'too low for even very basic education' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents want more voice in school policy - BBC Primary school encourages pupils to wear slippers in class - Guardian National school exercise scheme launched in bid to tackle childhood obesity  - Telegraph Term-time holiday case heard in Supreme Court - BBC DTP Solutionpath and Excelsoft joined forces with Jisc to launch learning analytics partnership at BETT 2017 - Jisc Diana Johnson MP: Compulsory sex education will protect our children from misinformation and predators - PoliticsHome Karen Buck MP: 'Horrifying' new funding formula risks undermining hard-fought improvements in education - PoliticsHome This is what headteachers say about Wales' colour-coded schools ratings - Wales Online Levelling the playing field - Capita SIMS ILR guides and templates for 2016 to 2017 - SFA Individualised Learner Record (ILR) - SFA Everything you need to know about fake degrees and the ‘universities’ awarding them - The Conversation Robert Halfon: careers speech at Westminster Academy - DfE Lords examines Higher Education and Research Bill - UK Parliament Take part in The Big Assembly for Children’s Mental Health Week - NAHT MPs must challenge ministers on the sufficiency of school funding, says NAHT - NAHT Secondary accountability update - NAHT New measures to help schools save £1 billion a year on goods and services - NAHT Safer Internet Day 2017: Be the change: unite for a better internet - NAHT Review of The Big Shout Conference: A clarion call to action - NAHT 5,500 schools face years of financial misery - NUT Joint statement on the review of higher education sector agencies - ECU UK's least transparent universities named and shamed - UCU Review recommends changes to higher education sector agencies - Universities UK Changes to higher education mean sector agencies must adapt - Universities UK Submission: #36 HM Treasury: 2017 Budget - AELP Nursery schools: ‘What society gives children less chance than their parents?’ - Guardian ‘We’re not hippies, we’re punks.’ School that has projects, not subjects, on the timetable - Guardian Dear Justine Greening, whatever happened to ‘eradicating illiteracy’? | Michael Rosen - Guardian Joint statement by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU), Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) in response to Universities UK (UUK) press release “Review recommends changes to higher education sector agencies” - HEA Target of 3 million apprenticeships and new funding system risk poor value for money - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS College initiatives could be huge boost - Scotsman Turning a tanker – in a perfect storm - Teacherhead Review recommends changes to higher education sector agencies - Universities UK The sector and its agencies must pull in the same direction - Wonkhe Jobs for all, and the university with a money back guarantee - Wonkhe School term-time holiday case reaches Supreme Court - Financial Times Wales' 2017 colour-coded school tables are published today and are expected to show big improvements - Wales Online Multi-academy trusts swap data systems for Progress 8 - Schools Week Apprenticeship targets 'poor value for money', says IFS - BBC West Sussex governors threaten 'strike' on school funding - BBC Term-time holiday case to be heard in Supreme Court - BBC University lecturers to receive compensation after unlawful redundancy - Herald Scotland IFS calls for minimum public sector workforce apprenticeship target to be scrapped - FE Week This is what each of Wales' colour codes for schools means - Wales Online Over a third of parents asked for school donations, survey finds - Schools Week Apprenticeships policy puts quality at risk, says IFS - Times Educational Supplement | TES Over a third of parents asked for school donations, survey finds - Schools Week College budget cuts hit women students far harder than men - Times Apprenticeships policy puts quality at risk, says IFS - Times Educational Supplement | TES