News archive for 26th June 2017

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Schools' bid to sway the election: Headteachers sent out letters attacking Tory policies during the campaign - Mail AELP's Mark Dawe discusses non levy funding and procurement (video) - FE News ESFA release additional guidance about 20% off the job training - FE News Ofsted and the harm done by school league tables | Letters - Guardian London heads warn of 'slashing' staff as 70 per cent report their budgets have already been cut - Times Educational Supplement | TES AELP Annual Conference – day one - FE Week Fun with flags (pt 2): How did metrics work in TEF outcomes? - Wonkhe Soft TEF, hard TEF, or a Gold, Silver and Bronze TEF? - Wonkhe TEF results – A missed opportunity for progress on equality - Wonkhe On balance, the good in TEF outweighs the bad - Wonkhe Protests at Birmingham Metropolitan College over job cuts - UCU SEND: Possible impacts of the shifting political scene - NAHT Sally Hunt says employment report must afford flexible workers better protection - UCU JCQ announce changes to the special consideration process 2016-2017 - NAHT Update on procurement for non-levy paying employers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofqual statement on alleged exam leaks - Ofqual Apprenticeships: off-the-job training - DfE Full of beans: A Starbucks case study - Training Journal Big Brexit questions still remain for European students - PIE News Daily roundup 26 June: Ofsted, teacher recruitment, Barnardo's - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Toolkit released to bust stigmas about autism - IOE London Blog Autistic young people struggle to access mental health support - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Exam board makes last-minute changes to two A-level papers after leak - Guardian Secondary school locked in Islamic headscarf row - because new uniform is not modest enough - Telegraph Gordon Marsden: ‘The government haven’t put their money or their mouth into traineeships’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher's tribute leads Philip Pullman to name character after pupil Grenfell fire victim - Times Educational Supplement | TES USA: Housing Anywhere nods to early US interest - PIE News China: new rules for int’l students include customs and language classes - PIE News New non-levy procurement round announced - UVAC Academies Enterprise Trust stripped of two more schools - Schools Week Celebrating digital innovation at the THELMAs - Jisc Private Jewish school fails third Ofsted inspection for not teaching LGBT issues - Independent Ormiston academy chain appoints former Ofsted director as interim leader - Times Educational Supplement | TES Feeling blue about the state of teaching? Here are reasons to be optimistic - Guardian What is driving so many young teachers out of the profession? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I was drawn to help out at Grenfell, and it turned out the skills I'd learned in the classroom were much-needed' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted says non-stop testing is bad for kids. Too late, mate - Guardian 'Primary and secondary teachers need each other — and we need to start viewing each other in a more positive light' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warnings on exclusion levels in Norfolk - BBC USA / Hungary: New York governor says progress in Hungary university talks - BBC Father taken to court over a term-time Disney World holiday says he should have just paid the £60 fine - Mail Children born prematurely able to perform equally as well at school as their peers, research shows - Independent Open University wants to hear your Lifelong Learning story - Unionlearn Edinburgh vet student killed in crash awarded posthumous degree - Scotsman Tell us what you think about Nursery World - Nursery World Education charity partners with Cardiff Met and Bath Spa to train teachers for Welsh schools - Teach First Anne Milton promises 'clarity' over apprenticeship reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level exam 'leaks': Fury after maths and economics papers are 'disclosed' hours before tests - Evening Standard Oxford University students call for ban on ‘discriminatory’ scholars’ gowns - Huffington Post Update on procurement for non-levy paying employers - FE News Ofsted seeking views on improved approach to short inspections - FE News Merger collapse makes it a dozen area review failures - FE Week How employers and training providers should meet the 20% off-the-job training requirement for apprentices - FE News New skills minister brings welcome news as apprenticeship reforms suffer slow start - FE Week Phonics test pass mark published today - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE publish long awaited off-the-job training guidance - FE Week Apprentice recruitment practice survey launched to help get most from the levy - FE News With Westminster in political turmoil it’s time for FE & Skills to present a vision for renewal - FE News 'It was a revelation': why I did a degree in fundraising | Brogan Rehill - Guardian Is Harry Potter the boy who saved reading? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman warns sixth form colleges about drop in Ofsted grades - Schools Week Movers and Shakers: Edition 213 - FE Week Where apprentices go, unions are - FE News APPG eyes launch - Nursery World 'Boring' image of teaching blamed for the struggle to attract thrill-seeking graduates - Herald Scotland Student teachers are stressed before they even reach the classroom - Herald Scotland Middle-class parents contributing to teen addictions by 'handing over bottles of vodka', warns top therapist - Independent Grenfell fire pupils start classes at Hugh Grant’s former school - Times Old girls’ club will give private pupils a leg-up - Times Oxford students in row over length of scholars’ gowns - Times Ireland: BizWorld initiative in schools with Dragons’ Den’s Gavin Duffy - Times Ireland: Gaelscoil an Ghoirt Álainn in Cork allowed to stay despite protest - Times