News archive for 9th May 2017

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Labour pledges £25bn schools spending under new National Education Service - Schools Week Labour makes £5 billion school funding pledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jeremy Corbyn promises to halt Tory school cuts and reduce class sizes in £20bn education manifesto - Huffington Post Labour pledge to stop adult learner fees would mean scrapping FE loans - FE Week Election delay for results of first adult education budget procurement - FE Week Labour pledges £6bn annual boost to school budgets - Guardian Education funding is vital to success of post-Brexit Britain - ASCL Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teacher supply model: 2017 to 2018 - DfE Statistics: initial teacher training - DfE Initial teacher training allocations: academic year 2016 to 2017 - DfE UCU election manifesto calls for more investment in education - UCU Manchester Metropolitan University staff back strike action in jobs row - UCU Assessing pupils engaged in subject specific learning - P4 and above - NAHT National Association of School Business Management (NASBM) to become “Institute of School Business Leadership” - NAHT Latest advice on authorised term-time pupil absence - NAHT School leaders need a national strategy for teacher recruitment and retention, says NAHT - NAHT Analyse School Performance: the RAISE replacement service - NAHT Apprenticeship standard: registered nurse degree apprenticeship approved for delivery - FE News In the few weeks left until the election, here are five things we can all do - ATL MillionPlus launches general election manifesto - MillionPlus Stopping students cheating: mission impossible? - Wonkhe Time to get real about grammatical terminology | Letters - Guardian Unions call for AET to halt £2.6m caretaker cuts - Schools Week Teacher training shifts further away from universities – and five other things we learned from today's DfE figures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lib Dems would give free sanitary products to school pupils to stop hidden problem of 'period poverty' - Mirror Can we improve school interviews? Part 1 - The Learning Spy Free sanitary products should be available in schools, say Liberal Democrats - Times Educational Supplement | TES A third Welsh university has announced huge job cuts - Wales Online Does playing chess make you smarter? A look at the evidence - The Conversation Swinney under attack over ‘shameful’ literacy report - Scotsman My degree couldn't prepare me for the harsh realities of work in law - Guardian Britain’s brutal asylum rules allow a little girl to be uprooted with a day’s notice | Jess Phillips - Guardian Lib Dems to provide free sanitary towels at school to fight 'period poverty' - Guardian Highest paid primary head suspended pending investigation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Expert who inspired Labour's free school meals policy warns its impact is 'uncertain' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Justine Greening, Angela Rayner and John Pugh to take part in Tes general election hustings - Times Educational Supplement | TES France: What will President Macron mean for UK universities? - University World News Inspectors give a Cardiff high school in a deprived area a rare 'double-excellent' rating - Wales Online Unions claim caretaker cuts at UK’s largest MAT ‘will put pupils at risk’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free tours of Parliament offered to young people ahead of general election - Huffington Post A bitter-sweet anniversary: will Brexit end access to Erasmus for British students? - Huffington Post Literacy levels drop among Scots pupils - Scotsman One down, many more to go: Essex students’ union disaffiliates from NUS - Huffington Post #getsmyvote: East Bergholt High School on election issues (video) - BBC Country’s best-paid primary head Sir Craig Tunstall suspended - Schools Week IFS: Labour’s free meals plan will cost £950m and breakfast clubs might be more effective - Schools Week A school bus driver who took pupils to Greggs before class has been reprimanded - Wales Online This Mental Health Awareness week, let’s look at the bigger picture - Huffington Post Anti-grammar schools campaign launches crowdfunding drive - Schools Week Paying training bills by Direct Debit could be key to apprenticeship levy success - FE Week More teacher trainees needed just as applications fall - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer than half of pupils in S2 performing well in writing - Herald Scotland Figures show drop in Scottish pupil literacy rates - BBC Thousands of staff to be axed from classrooms because of cash crisis - with more cuts to come - Independent The changing role of the assessor in apprenticeships - FE News Where is Labour’s big thinking on education policy? | Fiona Millar - Guardian Battle on the adverbials front: grammar advisers raise worries about Sats tests and teaching - Guardian Unionlearn eNote helps apprentices know their rights - Unionlearn Roll up! Universities embark on big push to boost student vote - Guardian 13 things the next government needs to do to improve children’s mental health - Huffington Post The 20% rule - good intentions & dire consequences - FE News Jeremy Corbyn promises to end education spending cuts with Corporation Tax hike - PoliticsHome Australia: NZ students in Australia face huge rise in fees - Times Higher Education | THE Australia: Most Australians 'disapprove' of funding cuts, fee rises - Times Higher Education | THE Afghanistan: Taliban teachers: how militants are infiltrating Afghan schools - Guardian Daily roundup 9 May: Schools funding, foster care inquiry, and homework - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Charity sets out children's mental health priorities for next government - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Free school meals for all primary pupils: Projections from a pilot - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Charity offers free music therapy training - Nursery World Every Reception child to be given picture book 'The Bumblebear' - Nursery World The Apprenticeship Levy is an investment, not a tax - FE News 'Incredibly rare' William Caxton print discovered - BBC Careers guidance provision inadequate and patchy - FE News School staff from headteachers to trainees warn over 'gruelling' classroom experiences - Herald Scotland Universities have caved in to dogma and thuggery - Times Pressure of tests 'making children physically sick' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DFE finally publishes details of 2017 ITE allocations - UCET