News archive for 1st November 2017

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Furious mum 'forced to take disabled daughter out of school' over specially made uniform row - Mirror Making data meaningful in inspections - SecEd Kingswinford parents brand school toilet cameras 'creepy' - BBC Apprenticeship approval process to be reviewed - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Evangelist vs the Pragmatist: two DfE ministers, two very different attitudes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted plans MAT inspection changes from 2018 - Schools Week When teachers spend more time on planning than the teaching, we know we have a problem - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further education outcome-based success measures: 2014 to 2015 - DfE Rival wings set for election battle over teaching union's future - Times Educational Supplement | TES Distance is an unfair criterion for school admission - Schools Week ESFA weekly round-up - Issue 378 - FE News Black and Asian parents make more ambitious school choices - Schools Week Teaching is tough, but it's a huge privilege – here's how to find the joy in it every day - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford colleges to appoint new transgender representative - Daily Mail Teaching is 'one of the most stressful jobs in Britain' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What will schools of the future look like? - Telegraph Ofsted inspections don't actually engage with the most important thing of all – what we teach - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three in four children miss out on support for mental health - SecEd Schools urged to install air pollution monitors - Mail Tom Bennett: let's stop relying on hunches – it's time to use evidence to fix behaviour in schools - Guardian Academy accounts under fire for fifth year running - SecEd ESFA plans new ‘trusted provider status’ for employer levy account management - FE Week New academies minister: MAT sweet spot is 12 to 20 schools - Schools Week Multilink and fraction wheels: are you making the most of primary maths apparatus? - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in five teenagers has been threatened online - SecEd Insular' schools failing to promote British values, says Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CONEL) joins Capital City College Group - FE News Pupil given an unauthorised absence after going home when school locked down during shooting - Mirror Phil McDuff: Oxbridge may be unfixable. Perhaps it should be abolished - Guardian 120 children put in isolation for wearing the wrong shoes to school - Metro NEU and British Lung Foundation launch air pollution health advice for schools - National Education Union UK's status as leading knowledge economy under threat - UCL Institute of Education FE Choices employer satisfaction survey 2016 to 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 2VCs on ... how do we stop part-time numbers dropping further? - Guardian Linking up with schools in Malawi has a lot to teach Scottish kids - Scotsman Warning over lower university entry grades for poor students - Herald Scotland Poorest university students "borrowing the most" to fund studies - Herald Scotland We must change attitudes of less privileged pupils - Herald Scotland One-size-fits-all quality system ‘forces private colleges to lie’ - Times Higher Education | THE Every teacher must be trained in mental health first aid, academy chain says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student loans totalling £3.7bn to be sold off - Daily Mail London’s biggest college group just got bigger - FE Week 'Toxic air is poisoning our children' – new guidance issued to schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES CONEL joins London's biggest college group - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish Government launches quality childcare action plan - Nursery World Focus on the brightest and they can bring the others along with them - Times UK government revives landmark student debt sale - Financial Times