News archive for 14th November 2017

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Weston College takes two gongs at the AoC Beacon Awards - FE Week 'Politically-correct fascism': Catholic school forced to ban words mother and father - Express Teen killer plotted to murder pregnant teacher's unborn baby in class and stab another - Mirror Plans to further boost teacher recruitment and development - DfE Teacher shortages see hundreds of unfilled posts in key subjects - Herald Scotland Jeremy Corbyn interview - FE News Podcast with Ofsted's Paul Joyce - FE News Catholic primary school is forced to drop references to 'mothers' and 'fathers' from its admission forms after a parent complained it 'discriminated against gay couples' - Mail Amanda Spielman speech to Association of Colleges annual conference - FE News Summit to launch ‘skills revolution’ with employers - FE Week Headteachers hit out at funding formula for schools - Financial Times Spielman: 'Too many' college students 'do not get the education they deserve' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NCTL being abolished in bid to boost teacher recruitment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman: Ofsted to begin hunt for ‘scandalous’ apprenticeship providers - FE Week Teacher reprimanded for sending sex emails using school IT - Times Educational Supplement | TES New web tool launched to promote university-business collaboration - HEFCE Longfield calls for action to tackle informal exclusions - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 14 November: School funding; universal credit, and counter-terrorism - CYPN | Children & Young People Now BBC Panorama, 13 November 2017 - Ofqual Early years census 2018: technical specification - DfE Literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies - DfE International students contribute $37bn to US – NAFSA - PIE News No sanction for teacher who made 'inappropriate' comments about staff to vulnerable student on Facebook - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jobs threat at University of Southampton - UCU Over 70,000 to attend sixth annual Skills Show this week - FE Week ASCL comment on school minibus guidance - ASCL University-school partnerships driving social mobility - Universities UK BookTrust names great books for birth to five-year-olds - Nursery World AoC's Annual Conference - day one - AoC | Association of Colleges Minister for Skills and Apprenticeships speaks at AoC Conference - AoC | Association of Colleges UK: Special investigation exposes student loans ‘fraud’ - PIE News Transgender awareness week - ATL The 'ACT for Youth: RUN HIDE TELL' campaign - Voice British Council - modern languages - Russell Group Eastern European pupils 'more likely to experience racism' after Brexit vote - Times Educational Supplement | TES EPI 2017 Annual Lecture: Presentation from Andreas Schleicher - EPI Hobbies such as beekeeping or model building are the key to a technical career, study finds - Education Media Centre | EMC Senior academics ‘take too much credit’ in co-authorship - Education Media Centre | EMC Boys could benefit from greater numbers of girls in schools - Education Media Centre | EMC Gender discrimination faced by ‘nearly half of female teachers’ - Education Media Centre | EMC British Council opens English centre in China - PIE News Corbyn: Esol in 'dangerous state of disrepair' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Church of England release updated bullying guidance - The Staffroom University challenges: Vice Chancellors give evidence to the Committee - UK Parliament Tackling anti-Semitism on university campuses - UK Parliament Goodbye NCTL, hello Teaching Regulation Agency - Schools Week Jeremy Corbyn at the AoC Annual Conference - FE News Headteachers call on chancellor to boost school funding in next week's budget - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC's David Hughes discusses Brexit and GCSE's at the AoC Annual Conference - FE News Maths and English student teacher numbers fall well short of targets - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prominent academy chains form 'Northern Alliance' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher suspended for accidentally calling transgender student ‘girl' - Independent Ofqual's statement on alleged malpractice at training centres - FE News Write to schools about their behaviour policies, Children’s Commissioner tells DfE - Schools Week University explores benefits of speaking Gaelic in business - Scotsman Sir Gerry Berragan to join the Institute for Apprenticeships as the new Chief Executive - FE News Social media, mental health and 5 other issues which need action, according to the children's commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES Firm plans for compulsory PSHE needed ‘urgently’, says Children’s Commissioner - Schools Week A mum says her son is being penalised at school lunches for being a coeliac - Wales Online What young Britons really think about Brexit and their prospects outside the EU - IOE London Blog Institute for Apprenticeships appoints board member as chief executive - FE Week Sir Gerry Berragan appointed CEO of Institute for Apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills Minister, Anne Milton's AoC opening speech - FE News School teachers will need licence for minibuses - BBC Post-16 funding inequality has consequences - FE Week Milton: government must take 'active role' in improving FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC Conference: Milton pleas for renewed ‘partnership’ with colleges - FE Week Hundreds of pupils have missed out on a place at a prestigious high school - Wales Online Planning a KS3-4 Curriculum Model: Walking through the thought-process. - Teacherhead Use Budget to end 'damaging' cuts, Corbyn to urge chancellor - Times Educational Supplement | TES New university tops green table as Oxbridge lags behind - Guardian History in the making: children use clay in class to rejuvenate the Potteries - Guardian Of Magic Bullets and Black Boxes – the role of evaluation in WP outreach - Wonkhe Understanding student contracts - Wonkhe Late teacher's book republished to raise awareness of mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can teaching be simplified? - Best Evidence in Brief Outcomes of a single-session intervention for teenage anxiety and depression - Best Evidence in Brief Montessori preschool boosts academic results and reduces income achievement gap - Best Evidence in Brief Take heart – the monstrous academy system is running out of road | Fiona Millar - Guardian Defining chronic absence - Best Evidence in Brief We need to talk about careers advice in the UK - FE News St Paul's Girls' School reveals former pupils have alleged 'sexual abuse' - HuffPost Heads complain of having to ask parents for school funds - BBC UK universities warn of exodus by EU academics post-Brexit - Guardian AoC Conference day one: Jeremy Corbyn’s key FE pledges - FE Week Language skills 'must be a priority for schools as Brexit approaches' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police produce lesson plans on how to survive a terror attack - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ann Maguire’s killer, 15, offered his friend £10 to murder the teacher - Times Staffordshire schools told to offer virtual tours of mosques after parents ban children from visits - Times Do not waste time taking photos if you are caught up in a terror attack, children told - Telegraph Queen Mary University creates Paris campus to counter Brexit - Times Gender guidance not about sexual ethics, says Welby - Times Scotland: Teach First pulls out of bid to win schools contract - Times