News archive for 22nd June 2017

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Only 50% of FE learners feel prepared for the digital workplace - FE News Barclays UK CEO responds to today's Ofqual Computing/ICT Figures - FE News Education and Training Foundation launches Advanced Teacher Status - FE News Let’s inspire more young women to fall in love with engineering | Letters - Guardian More grammar schools could open despite Tory U-turn, campaigners say - Guardian Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against 'no shorts' policy - Guardian Heads say baseline assessments should not be formal tests of 4-year-olds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why ranking universities on graduate job prospects is a step in the right direction - The Conversation The Tef won't improve teaching – universities will just play the game - Guardian Universities in 2027: how will the teaching excellence framework shape them? - Guardian Heads worried tuition fee pledge for teachers to be dropped - BBC More teachers leaving profession than joining for second year running - Independent Daily roundup 22 June: Careers advice, DCS misconduct, and skirts - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Inspectors praise counselling support for SEND pupils in Cambridgeshire - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Under-privileged teenagers more likely to give up their university ambitions - IOE London Blog Family and Childcare Trust responds to the High Court’s ruling on the Revised Benefit Cap - Coram Family & Childcare Higher Education Academy comments on the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF2) - HEA Education for Sustainable Development – a vehicle for socially and environmentally responsible interdisciplinary learning, teaching and assessment? - HEA LSE response to Teaching Excellence Framework classification - London School of Economics | LSE OFFA comment on Teaching Excellence Framework Year Two results - OFFA The Telegraph Festival of Education 2017: Brexit and grammar schools are the talk of the festival - Telegraph Academies budget forecast return 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding: maths and English condition of funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 22 June 2017 (issue 175) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Universities rated in Teaching Excellence Framework - DfE National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2016 (revised) - DfE Statistics: school workforce - DfE DfE unable to say whether £50m-a-year plan to expand existing grammars will still go ahead - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bane of the postgrad lecturer – teaching students your own age - Guardian TEF/LEO results show young people should be seriously exploring higher or degree level apprenticeships as an alternative to a traditional degree - AELP The awkward truth about primary progress measures - ATL We can and must do better for our primary children – ATL responds to primary assessment consultations - ATL ATL comment on rise in teacher vacancies - ATL Education and childcare must not be pushed down the political agenda to 'any other business' - Voice More teachers are joining than leaving the profession, but will it be enough to meet demand? - NFER If the Government remains committed to UTCs it needs to do more to help them establish themselves and thrive says new research - NFER University Technical Colleges: Beneath the headlines: NFER contextual analysis - NFER TEF outcomes - Russell Group Teaching Excellence Framework: what can we learn from the results? - Universities UK Rise in teacher vacancies is tip of iceberg - NAHT DfE figures show recruitment crisis continues, says NAHT - NAHT Less privileged teenagers & university expectations – expert reaction - Education Media Centre | EMC Under privileged teenagers more likely to give up their university ambitions - Education Media Centre | EMC England lagging behind when it comes to teaching English - Education Media Centre | EMC Policy briefing – making sense of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) results - Education Media Centre | EMC Teaching Excellence Framework results hold some surprises - PIE News USA: International students at risk if H-1B salary threshold raised - PIE News Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) results announced - AoC | Association of Colleges High Court rules benefit cap unlawfully discriminates against lone parents with young children - Nursery World UCU comment on Teaching Excellence Framework results - UCU TEF: 3 things you need to know - Russell Group Magna Academy seeks ‘strong disciplinarian’ to become ‘director of detentions’ - Huffington Post Schoolbench unveiled at Moray school in memory of pupil - Scotsman Britain's most controversial school makes children attend 'boot camp' to train them to walk faster - Independent Kezia Dugdale: Further education drop-out numbers have doubled since 2011/12 - Herald Scotland Capita joins G-Cloud to move services into the cloud giving colleges more options for supporting students off-site - FE News Rise in number of headteachers paid six-figure salaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES The latest workforce data shows government should care much more about teacher retention - Schools Week Second consecutive grade four Ofsted for previously ‘outstanding’ college - FE Week Academies have failed as ‘battering ram for high standards’, argues leading education academic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schoolboys at Isca Academy Exeter wear skirts to class to protest 'draconian' uniform rules - Huffington Post Revealed: The ‘sausage-machine schools’ pushing new teachers out the profession - Schools Week Magna Academy seeks disciplinarian to lead 'behaviour correction unit' - BBC TEF: everything you need to know about the new university rankings - The Conversation Scotland's colleges could struggle to hit targets due to financial challenges, warns auditor-general - Times Educational Supplement | TES How sad that English-speaking parents are afraid of their children being taught in Welsh | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - Guardian Thousands of pupils will wear #GreenforGrenfell - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching Excellence Framework - sector response - FE News Teachers leaving faster than ever – and 10 other school workforce findings - Schools Week More than 4,000 schools sign letter urging parents to lobby Government for more education funding - Independent Who decides whether universities should be gold, silver or bronze? - Guardian Only one Welsh university won the top rating for teaching in a new rating - Wales Online More UTCs face closure without extra government support, researchers warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching Excellence Framework results: some of UK’s most prestigious universities miss out on gold ranking - Huffington Post Boys at Exeter academy wear skirts in uniform protest - BBC Teacher shortage crisis deepens, new DfE figures show - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Cambridge honorary degrees 2017 - Cambridge Network TEF results – Do the prizes still glitter? - Wonkhe TEF results – What the panel statements say, and don’t say - Wonkhe TEF results – Lies, damned lies, and press releases - Wonkhe The results of the Teaching Excellence Framework - Wonkhe TEF results – the sector spin machine gets whirling - Wonkhe Eight first lessons from the TEF results - Wonkhe US-style behaviour programme set for Scottish schools - Scotsman Government urged to do more to rescue struggling UTCs - FE Week Wonkhe introduces the Outstanding Excellence Framework (OEF) - Wonkhe TEF results – How do REF and TEF results compare? - Wonkhe Teaching excellence framework (TEF) results 2017 - Times Higher Education | THE New teacher rate at lowest in five years, while school vacancies rise - Schools Week MillionPlus comments on first Teaching Excellence Framework - MillionPlus MillionPlus comments on ‘How to improve technical education to deliver higher skills and better productivity’ HEPI report - MillionPlus Universities UK response to the Teaching Excellence Framework results - Universities UK Billy Connolly receives honorary degree from Strathclyde - Scotsman First university teaching quality ratings announced - University World News TEF results – Who moved up and who fell down? - Wonkhe HEPI Director responds to the Teaching Excellence Framework results - HEPI Mary Curnock Cook: How to improve technical education to deliver higher skills and better productivity - HEPI First graduate-level medicine school to tackle GP staffing crisis - Scotsman Leading universities rated 'bronze' under new ranking system - BBC Business environment and university sector should be key priorities after Brexit, report finds - City AM Getting to grips with the challenge of T-level work placements - FE News Nicola Sturgeon criticised by parents from Muslim primary - Herald Scotland Poor teenagers more likely to drop university ambitions, study finds - Schools Week Which universities are top at teaching? - Guardian Top UK universities miss out on gold award in controversial Tef test - Guardian Watchdogs issue warning over £19m college deficit - Herald Scotland Less privileged teenagers more likely to give up on university ambitions, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Going for gold: How did colleges fare in the TEF? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our national failings begin in the nursery - Times Scotland: Colleges battle with pay deal and falling student numbers - Times Scotland: Scottish universities win TEF UK ranking system ‘gold’ - Times Scotland: Teacher-training recruitment drive on hold despite universities struggling to fill places - Times Elite universities including LSE, Southampton and Liverpool exposed as second-rate - Times