News archive for 29th June 2017

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Scottish school budgets cut by £1.2bn since 2010 - Scotsman Planned increase in academisation needs careful monitoring to protect quality and availability of early education, report warns - Coram Family & Childcare Insights on equality and diversity for the next REF - HEFCE Daily roundup 29 June: Fire safety, children's services review, and social mobility - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Warning over impact of academy expansion on school-based childcare - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Global: 67% of parents would consider a cost-saving online degree for their child - PIE News Exam teacher is struck off after allowing pupils to cheat - Express Assessing the use and misuse of Newly Qualified Teachers - Education Datalab EPI submission to primary assessment consultation - EPI Second FE college gets grade one Ofsted in two weeks - FE Week Can you protect your school from ransomware? - Capita SIMS ESFA e-bulletin: 29 June 2017 (issue 176) - Education & Skills Funding Agency OFFA publishes outcomes of access agreement monitoring for 2015-16 - OFFA Advice: funding regulations for post-16 provision - Education & Skills Funding Agency School performance: 2017 point scores for 16 to 18 qualifications - DfE Education provision: children under 5 years of age, January 2017 - DfE Participation in education, training and employment: 2016 - DfE Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2017 - DfE Higher education statistics - DfE Rising class sizes show the impact of funding cuts - ASCL ASCL Code of Ethics Project: What makes for stability and trust? - ASCL LGA’s call on school funding formula would take us back to square one - ASCL Class sizes rising due to real terms funding cuts, says NAHT - NAHT Professional trip to Berlin for British teachers of history - NAHT The Government must lift the public sector pay cap now, says NAHT - NAHT Youth Mental Health First Aid programme: what you need to know - NAHT Ofqual announces additional GCSE, AS and A level grounds for appeal - NAHT New Stonewall report publishes experiences of LGBT pupils in Britain's schools - NAHT Public sector pay - NUT Class sizes - NUT UCU on George Osborne's appointment as honorary professor at University of Manchester - UCU University professors afraid to teach controversial subjects for fear of being sacked, conference hears  - Telegraph Section 251: 2016 to 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Jo Johnson criticises leading university vice chancellor for 'sharp' pay rise - Telegraph Number of pupils in crowded classes soars to 900,000 as Tories are accused of treating kids "like battery hens" - Mirror School holds assembly for five students lost in Grenfell Tower fire - Guardian OFFA access reports - Russell Group Research intensive learning - Russell Group ATL comment on pay for education staff and pupil numbers - ATL Regulatory reform must prepare Welsh universities for Industry 4.0 - Wonkhe Getting the gang together – reflections on women in HE leadership - Wonkhe Teachers' 'exceptional work' praised at Pupil Premium Awards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hattie on Dweck: Sometimes pupils need 'fixed mindsets', argues leading academic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lords accuse ministers of having no plan on school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools warned to expect drop in rate of English literature top grades - Schools Week Children's commissioner wants 'dialogue with teachers' about children's welfare - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual warns Ofsted, RSCs and governors against 'knee-jerk reactions' to GCSE results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schoolgirls' bid to stop daily prayers in schools will be reviewed after gaining support - Express Unite and Unionlearn stall is a hit at Big Bang Fair - Unionlearn Schools spending down by £1.2 billion in seven years, Labour claims - Herald Scotland More pupils 'treated like battery hens' as class sizes rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships in the spotlight at unionlearn Conference - Unionlearn Funding guidance for young people: sub-contracting controls - FE News 'Game on' as Sir Greg Martin vows to challenge goverment over termination of Durand Academy's funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Norfolk schoolboy put in isolation for short hair cut - BBC DfE figures show more two-year-olds in schools - Nursery World Participation in education, training and employment: 2016 - FE News Why are free school meals claims at an all-time low when 'our pupils are as needy as ever'? - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA advice about post-16 funding regulations - FE News Osborne gets job number six – an honorary professorship in Manchester - Guardian The Policy Consortium's 2017 FE National Survey - FE News Academy trust broke rules over CEO’s £8,000 four-star hotel stays - Schools Week George Osborne just bagged yet another job and Twitter cannot handle it - Huffington Post Universities need to stop 'ratcheting up' vice-chancellor salaries, says minister - Independent Regional early years theatre scheme takes off - Nursery World Parents experience lack of support for premature children - Nursery World Proportion of schools newly rated 'good' or 'outstanding' by Ofsted falls this year - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE teachers' biggest challenges? Long hours and heavy workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools go ‘supersize’ to cope with population growth - Schools Week Free school meal take-up lowest on record, and 4 more census findings - Schools Week Titan primaries and rising pupil numbers: Four ways that schools are changing, according to new DfE census stats - Times Educational Supplement | TES London private school at centre of sex abuse claims after second arrest - Evening Standard How do you create a digital university? - Guardian Academy facing closure over ‘crippling’ £21 million PFI costs - Schools Week Rise in poorer students dropping out of university - BBC Now dozens of schools provoke parents' fury by threatening to cut lessons short on at least one day a week because of budget squeeze - Mail Global: Parents focus on postgraduate study and 'real life' experience for their child's future job prospects - FE News The English town that really loves a school prom - BBC Councils call for say in schools funding to protect children with special needs - Guardian Oxford and Cambridge 'need to improve access for disadvantaged students' - Guardian Poorer students increasingly more likely to drop out of university early, figures show - Independent Thailand: Is a peace scholarship worth pursuing? - BBC Glasgow University leads erosion of middle class monopoly on professions - Herald Scotland Analysis: 'Dumbing down' myths scotched by university scheme to widen access to medicine - Herald Scotland Coding the curriculum: new computer science GCSE fails to make the grade - Independent Durham, Liverpool, Southampton and York in revolt over ‘irrational’ university rankings - Times One in ten of poorer students drops out after the first year - Times Setting school budgets from Whitehall 'won't work', councils warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES University drop-out rate for students from poorer homes at highest level in five years - Mirror