News archive for 15th November 2017

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Schools in Theresa May's constituency are begging parents to pay for pens and glue to combat Tory cuts - Mirror Top private school denies welfare risk over bullying - Scotsman Top private school rapped for failing to safeguard pupil against bullies - Herald Scotland Screen time in the classroom must be shared, says tech expert at global summit - Schools Week Oxbridge must 'stop blaming schools for lack of diversity' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Clear as mud': Teachers react to KS2 writing assessment changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students take to London streets in tuition fees protest - Mail DfE boss: Failed National Teaching Service done in a 'hurry' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges do not have a strong brand identity, says FE leader - Times Educational Supplement | TES Failed National Teaching Service was developed ‘in a hurry’, admits DfE boss - Schools Week ESFA update: November 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 'Very different' approach needed to GCSE resits, Milton admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE rejects call to publish salaries of all high-paid academy trustees - Times Educational Supplement | TES National teacher vacancy website trial coming in spring - Schools Week Tax-free childcare roll-out delayed for parents with 7 to 12-year-olds - Mirror Flagship tax-free childcare scheme delayed - BBC #FreeEdNow: students march for free education – in pictures - Guardian Five ways to take the hassle out of homework - HuffPost Podcast with Alastair Campbell on improving the PR and reputation in FE - FE News London student march calls for rich to be taxed to fund free education - Guardian Six principles that have a real impact in the classroom - The Staffroom Supporting transitions from ESOL to apprenticeships - Learning & Work Institute Language about ability, mindset, and motivation and performance - Learning Scientists Higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies - Education & Skills Funding Agency How you can earn thousands as a private tutor - Telegraph Colleges and higher education institutions notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: current notices of concern - Education & Skills Funding Agency Thousands of higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies announced - Education & Skills Funding Agency LRS: monthly headline report - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding: planned hours in study programmes - Education & Skills Funding Agency Amanda Spielman's speech at the Association of Colleges - Ofsted “The outrage over free speech on campus is a distraction”: NUS president Shakira Martin - New Statesman Is freedom of speech restricted on university campuses? - UK Parliament School loan schemes: implementation of changes - DfE Tier 1 visas - Russell Group Safeguarding students and changing the culture - Universities UK Almost half of trans pupils have attempted suicide — schools must do more to challenge gender stereotypes - The Conversation Tax-Free Childcare full roll-out delayed - Nursery World AoC Annual Conference - day two - AoC | Association of Colleges NASUWT comments on secondary school reorganisation proposals - NASUWT NAHT meets the new apprenticeship and skills minister about Primary Futures - NAHT UCU welcomes Jeremy Corbyn's call for investment in FE - UCU Are secondary free schools really achieving what they’re supposed to? - NFER DfE taking over teacher recruitment functions from NCTL - National Education Union Chief executive standing down from troubled college group - FE Week How Ofsted are changing their approach to ‘requires improvement’ providers - FE Week The transition from secondary to higher education - why do we provide such little support to young people? - Montrose42 Survey of ULRs and union reps supporting learning and skills - Unionlearn Harris Federation approached to take on troubled Durand Academy - Schools Week St Paul's Girls' School sent sexual abuse claims by ex-pupils - BBC Public accounts committee asks DfE to show its working - Schools Week Scot maths crisis as too few students choose teaching - Scotsman DfE wants Harris to take over Durand Academy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Music in the early years 'helps children learn to listen and speak' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police warn of a rising number of sexting cases among young people - SecEd Bullying: Young people admit to a fear of ‘being different’ - SecEd Research casts doubt on US observation approach - SecEd Wales plans cash incentives to boost teacher recruitment - SecEd Poetry to sustain NQTs through chalkface highs and lows - SecEd Work experience linked to better exam results, teachers claim - SecEd 'Fragile’ computer science hit by CPD and recruitment woes - SecEd Correspondence from the Permanent Secretary regarding the Academies Sector Annual Report and Accounts (download) - UK Parliament Why do parents get their children maths tutors? - Telegraph Why private tutoring for your child is time well invested - Telegraph The Chancellor must use the Budget to broaden the remit of the Apprenticeship Levy - FE News Colleges celebrate at national AoC Beacon Awards - FE News DfE under fire from MPs for delay in seeking to cut cost of free school sites - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to choose the best 11-plus tutor? - Telegraph 'Self harm and a boiling self-hatred' A teenager describes how school bullying affected her - Wales Online Schools: how did ‘accountability’ become a synonym for punishment and control? And can we change its meaning? - IOE London Blog Africa: From $50 in his pocket to $500,000 prize - BBC Six UK universities break advertising rules with pitches to students - Guardian Global education stakes rise for a system threatened by skills crisis - Financial Times Pressure on UK schools to tackle mental health grows - Financial Times University branding needs a radical gear shift - Wonkhe How apprenticeships can help productivity and social mobility - Wonkhe Why can't a university claim to be in the top 1%? - BBC Are modern apprenticeships working in the north? - FE News Schools still struggling to recruit new headteachers - Herald Scotland Call for new university rankings on fair access - Herald Scotland School children wear odd socks for anti-bullying awareness - BBC Brexit threatens UK's reputation for scientific research, watchdog says - Guardian Recruitment crisis: Two-thirds of school leaders aware of staff 'quitting prematurely’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Six universities told to change advertising claims - BBC Thinktank research questions 'unaffordability' of lifting teacher pay cap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head of Student Loans Company ousted for public criticism - Times Oxford votes to ban elite gowns at debates - Times Teacher’s killer ‘had planned second attack’ - Times Students ‘being misled by boastful ads’ - Times Oxford women pass up a University Challenge place - Times Ex-pupils of top girls’ school say they were sexually abused - Times Scotland: Pupils’ futures at risk from maths teacher shortfall - Times Scotland: Lawyer Kenneth Mure leaves £3.5m for education on Tiree - Times Ireland: Row over scale of school run at city primary - Times Six university adverts that misled undergraduates about career prospects, rankings and student satisfaction are banned by watchdog - Mail