News archive for 30th November 2017

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Milton’s mission – An interview with the Apprenticeships & Skills minister - FE Week Anne Milton 'not worried' by apprenticeships drop - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Bath Vice-Chancellor defends her pay - BBC Nick Gibb: 'Teachers will lead the move back to textbooks' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bath students and staff protest over vice-chancellor's exit package - Guardian Academy chain gives up control of school after campaign by parents - Guardian Universities need to shift power and money from top to bottom | Letters - Guardian Y6 and Y11 take too much strain: up the ante from Y3 and Y7. - Teacherhead DfE announces £29m to help councils implement SEND reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dictionary spanning 1,000 years of words scoops prize for Glasgow uni - Scotsman DfE MATs defence ‘a grotesque parody’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in six children are now given extra time in public exams, official figures show - Telegraph Middle-class teenagers hoovering up best apprenticeships - Times Daily roundup 30 November: Autism, children's centres, and Christmas tour - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Bright Tribe to give up struggling Whitehaven Academy - Schools Week Government pledges £45 million to ‘fully embed’ SEND reforms - Schools Week Inclusive Skills Competitions - Showcasing skills to employers - Education & Training Foundation Teaching apprenticeship grants for schools revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Access gap to best apprenticeships - Sutton Trust As BBC drama The A word shows, mainstream schools can make special needs pupils feel isolated - The Conversation £45m boost for young people with SEND - FE News Ofsted report on the Reception Year: a hit and miss affair - Early Education New UK ‘Industrial Strategy’ has STEM focus - PIE News Disadvantaged youngsters ‘less likely to start the best apprenticeships’ - Sutton Trust Social mobility in Great Britain: Fifth state of the nation report - The Staffroom Another lost decade – challenges for the adult skills system in the UK - The Staffroom Incentives for course evaluations - Learning Scientists Results of the 5 minute snapshot survey on HE confidence in delivering apprenticeships - UVAC Skills partner statement of action for government and employers - DfE Apprenticeships must not simply accredit existing knowledge - Conor's Commentary Academies' pre-conversion grades to be made public under Ofsted plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher trainee shortfall is ‘deeply concerning’ - ASCL The Industrial Strategy: a step (but not a leap) forward - MillionPlus Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Reception - a missed opportunity for too many children - Ofsted £45m boost for young people with SEND - DfE Justine Greening: Speech at DfE Skills Summit - DfE Implementation of T level programmes - DfE Institutes of technology prospectus - DfE T level panels membership - DfE Erasmus+ - Russell Group Comment on Ofsted report on reception education - National Education Union Comment on Initial Teacher Training - National Education Union Comment on Multi Academy Trusts - National Education Union Comment on Primary Assessment - National Education Union Government gets it right on work experience element of T levels but it must recognise level 2 attainment - AELP Overhaul of university pensions could leave staff £200,000 worse off in retirement - UCU Global: IGA leads universities in pledge to tackle refugee crises - London School of Economics | LSE Research finds earnings gaps between genders, shortages in apprenticeship quality - IOE London Blog Government urges training drive to curb restraint of disabled children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now AoC comments on T Levels - AoC | Association of Colleges The launch of the T level consultation - FE News AAT senior leaders named on panel for Legal, financial and accounting T level - FE News Budding data scientists offered placements to help expand sector in Scotland - Scotsman Greening: 'Industry experts' needed to teach T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government sets out plan to see more disabled people in work - FE News Teaching apprenticeship grant funding only available in ‘priority subjects’ (including classics) - Schools Week Justine Greening: Speech at DfE Skills Summit - FE News Grammar schools to make 'formal' commitment to admitting poorer pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer foreign teachers awarded QTS - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools with deprived pupils less likely to improve, Ofsted figures show - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government launches 10-week T-levels consultation - FE Week Almost 200 T-level panel members announced - FE Week Gap between disadvantaged children and their peers remains at the end of reception - Nursery World The day of data: What we learned from a deluge of government statistics and announcements - Schools Week ‘We’re preparing our army for the last war’: why the academic-vocational divide must fall - IOE London Blog Teacher training target missed for fifth year in a row in England - BBC Speed-read: Nick Gibb’s ‘Grammar School’ response to MPs - Schools Week Members for first six T-level panels announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nick Gibb responds to MPs on grammar schools - Schools Week Welcoming foreign students to the UK builds trade and allies - Financial Times Colleges prove size doesn’t matter when it comes to tackling global challenges - FE News Large fall in advanced learner loan applications - FE Week New teaching standards for further education and work-based learning workforce - Welsh Government Pioneer schools report shows journey of improvement - Welsh Government Summer-born children twice as likely to miss early years benchmark - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary assessment: Government Response to the Committee’s Eleventh Report of Session 2016–17 - Commons Select Committee Multi-academy trusts: Government Response to the Committee’s Seventh Report of Session 2016–17 - Commons Select Committee Evidence check: Grammar schools: Government Response to the Committee’s Fourth Report of Session 2016–17 - Commons Select Committee Exiting the EU: challenges and opportunities for higher education: Government Response to the Committee’s Ninth Report of Session 2016–17 - Commons Select Committee English GCSE resits surge as overall number of retakes plummets - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted statistics shake-up will drop ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ rate by 2% - Schools Week Ofqual reports 26% rise in exam papers modified for access - Schools Week Number of pupils requesting extra time in exams rises, Ofqual data shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government misses teacher training targets in all EBacc subjects except history - Schools Week Teacher-training targets missed in all secondary subjects except history and PE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Initial teacher training: trainee number census - 2017 to 2018 - DfE Maintained schools and academies inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2017 - Ofsted GCSE entries in England: November 2017 - Ofqual Access arrangements for GCSE and A Level: 2016 to 2017 academic year - Ofqual Sector response to first ever DfE Skills Summit, hosted by Justine Greening - FE News Resits in GCSE English language rise by a third after first year of reformed exams - Schools Week The UK is turning back the clock on the education of disabled children | Jonathan Bartley - Guardian Bournemouth and Poole College becomes latest Collab Group member - FE News TSM and initial teacher training allocations: 2018 to 2019 - National College for Teaching & Leadership Charities are asking interns to work 252 hours unpaid. That's a scandal | Leon Ward - Guardian 'We help them flourish and bloom': using nature to keep students in education - Guardian Government responds to four Committee reports - UK Parliament Supporting part-time students in Scotland - Wonkhe Edtech: what works? - Wonkhe Tom Peterkin: Tax hike on private schools will alienate middle class - Scotsman Glasgow’s new Clinical Innovation Zone fuels medical advance - Scotsman On average, graduates have few reasons to regret obtaining a degree and more reasons to be cheerful - HEPI UCU response to Sutton Trust apprenticeship report - UCU Reflections on a forthcoming careers strategy - FE News Priorities for ensuring quality in degree apprenticeships - FE News Recessions have a lasting impact on employment and pay of young adults – but parents can provide an important safety net - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Do apprenticeships pay? - Sutton Trust Access gap to best apprenticeships - Sutton Trust Mind the skills gap: A plan to future-proof the UK workforce - City AM Teach Reception children how to grip a pencil, says Ofsted - BBC From 2:1 degree to zero-hours contract - BBC First year of school can be a waste of time, says Ofsted because basic reading and maths are not taught well enough - Mail Apprenticeships must not accredit existing knowledge - FE Week Two thirds of apprenticeships ‘convert’ existing employees, report warns - FE Week Ofsted reception curriculum report: The 15 recommendations - Schools Week The teenage maths genius from Lebanon - BBC Bidding process for Institutes of Technology to be launched - Times Educational Supplement | TES Many apprentices 'treading water', warns Sutton Trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most teachers 'lack confidence in assessing pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Reception year a 'false start' for too many children - Times Educational Supplement | TES External quality assurance of end-point assessments - FE News OFSTED Report: Reception curriculum in good and outstanding primary schools: bold beginnings (31 Nov 2017) - UCET DFE: Initial Teacher Training: trainee number census - 2017 to 2018 (30 November) - UCET Call for phonics check to be scrapped - Nursery World Ofsted finds Reception class teaching 'failing' a third of five-year-olds - Nursery World Teachers ‘should have to pass assessment test’ to qualify - Schools Week Reception teachers are failing a third of five-year-olds, major Ofsted report finds - Telegraph Schools chief says third of pupils are failed in first year - Times Teacher who sold drugs to class is jailed - Times Academics step up protest over chief’s golden goodbye - Times Scotland: Confused teachers struggle to put curriculum into practice - Times Scotland: Mentoring can transform the lives of young people - Times