News archive for 21st November 2017

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Budget 2017: Schools to get £600 for extra A-level maths pupils - Schools Week Budget 2017: more than £200m for maths, science and teacher training - HuffPost Children in 'save Desborough Library' protest - BBC These are the most oversubscribed primary schools in Cardiff for 2017-18 - Wales Online Canterbury grammar school to hold Mein Kampf debates - BBC Accountants 'brought in to examine collapse of Wakefield City Academies Trust' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bath University staff plan urgent meeting over vice-chancellor's pay - Guardian Ofsted chair welcomes calls for greater scrutiny of 'outstanding' schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grenfell campaigners fight to save further education college - Guardian Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA framework document - DfE Free schools: open schools and successful applications - DfE Shaping the qualifications landscape - Ofqual School exclusion reviews data collection: guide - DfE PISA 2015: national report for England - DfE Is Government policy on free speech in universities coherent? - UK Parliament Education provision for pupils outside mainstream schools examined - UK Parliament Pupils feel they need to risk their lives to get mental health treatment, warns children's commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES Participating in social action at the Consortium Multi Academy Trust - NAHT Ethical alternative for supply teacher employment - NASUWT Advancing Access - resources for teachers - Russell Group Another referendum? - HEPI Funding bodies confirm shape of REF 2021 - HEFCE Pupils in failing schools to benefit as part of £200bn Budget boost - PoliticsHome Daily Roundup 21 November: School inspections, birth rates, and pupil selection - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Childminder numbers fall by a quarter since 2012 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'Alter league tables to reduce informal exclusions' says expert - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The biggest high school in Wales has been taken out of monitoring by education watchdog Estyn - Wales Online New research shows explaining things to ‘normal’ people can help scientists be better at their jobs - The Conversation 21st century apprenticeships for North of England youth: Are they working? - The Staffroom New OECD PISA research finds girls better than boys at working together to solve problems - The Staffroom School funding campaign lights up Parliament ahead of Budget - SecEd PhD Diary: having a bad day - Times Higher Education | THE Schools should stop addressing pupils as 'girls' and 'boys', headteachers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Study identifies gap in problem-solving among Scot pupils - Scotsman Do not refer to female pupils as 'girls' or 'ladies' because it 'reminds them of their gender', headteachers told - Telegraph DfE planning to spend £10m on Reception baseline test - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Hundreds of thousands of FE students' affected by Student Loans Company controversy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools not up to the job of finding places for excluded pupils, warns academic - Schools Week Pupils in South East as good as Japanese at science - Times Educational Supplement | TES English as a second language? Schools need to stop treating it as an obstacle to success  - Telegraph Grammar school accused of 'legitimising fascism' after it creates 'unsafe space' - Independent DfE launches 30 hours fund for councils as new rates unveiled - Nursery World Childminders continue to exit the early years sector - Nursery World Podcast with Alastair Campbell on mental health and well being for leaders - FE News What will the 2017 autumn budget have in store for schools? - Schools Week Church schools accused of ‘discriminatory’ admissions - Schools Week Picking a school: a good curriculum is as important as the teaching staff  - Telegraph Three in ten vocational qualification tests fail Ofqual standards - Schools Week Ofsted boost for college battling ‘financial crisis’ - FE Week NZ minister orders probe into 'impossible' maths exam - BBC 'We don't know how many pupils are in alternative provision,' researchers tell MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why I recommend self-report to audit teachers’ grammatical knowledge - The Learning Spy Girls 'better at co-operating on problems' - BBC The dos and don’ts of writing a personal statement for law - Guardian More children to be eligible for EYPP - Nursery World Headteacher power over staff 'will restrict subject choice' - Herald Scotland The government must use the budget to show it is serious about listening to young people - HuffPost Overseas student numbers fall in Wales - BBC Collaborative problem-solving and why it matters for learning - IOE London Blog Girls better at working together than boys, PISA study finds - Schools Week HEA report on TEF Year 2 submissions highlights the HE sector’s commitment to teaching excellence - HEA ‘Working-class children get less of everything in education - including respect’ - Guardian Poach the student: how UK universities could compete for second or third years - Guardian Increase share of UK aid to global education - UK Parliament MillionPlus welcomes the HEA’s report on TEF Year 2 submissions - MillionPlus What prospect researchers really do - Wonkhe Universities in song: not a happy tune - Wonkhe Fairness, parity, clarity: a new social contract for Scottish students - Wonkhe Pisa: UK does better than expected in collaborative problem-solving – rankings at a glance - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK teenagers better at working together than they are at maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sexual harassment: It’s not only rife in showbiz and Westminster - it’s in UK schools | Laura McInerney - Guardian University support staff launch landmark case over pay and conditions - Guardian The rules on outsourced working are rigged. But today there’s a fightback | Aditya Chakrabortty - Guardian Family-friendly working practices 'exacerbating' Scotland's teacher shortage - Herald Scotland David Benson, Principal, Kensington Aldridge Academy - Schools Week The rise of entrance exams... and the knock on impact for A-levels - FE News Advanced Higher pupils 'teaching themselves' more as school recruitment crisis bites - Herald Scotland Foreign aid bosses slammed by furious MPs for spending taxpayer cash on tablets in African private schools - The Sun At least 90 universities are snooping on ex-students - Mail Pay rise for boss 'harms university's reputation' - Mail Bigger share of aid budget for education, say MPs - BBC Philip Hammond to target young voters with rail fare and student loan measures - Guardian USCET-NASBTT Level 6 QTS Apprenticeships: FAQs (Nov 2017) - UCET Ofstedwatch: the latest Ofsted reports for FE and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Increase the share of overseas aid spent on education, demand MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Girls’ school pupils ‘more abuse-aware’ - Times Graduates will no longer be overcharged for student loan repayments - Times Cambridge student Thomas Millward died after taking legal high - Times Bath University under fire for handling of excessive pay - Times Northern cities beaten to Oxbridge by 12 schools in south - Times Helping the world’s poorest girls go to school is a moral imperative for Britain - Times Scotland: Student finance report mired in confusion hours after its launch - Times Foreign Aid: MPs urge to spend on education abroad despite funding shortfall in UK schools - Express