News archive for 14th September 2017

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SATs for pupils aged seven will be scrapped - Mail Tories refuse to reverse school budget cuts as new funding formula is announced - Independent Superhead researchers reveal 9 indicators of a successful ‘turnaround’ headteacher - Schools Week Governors! Here’s how to tell if your turnaround head is effective - Schools Week Eight university chiefs see their pay rise by over a third - Mail Laker and Hill: Replace at least a third of staff to fix failing schools - Schools Week SATs for seven-year-olds scrapped from 2023 - BBC KS1 SATs will only be scrapped if baseline works - Schools Week Dozens of university vice-chancellors getting pay rises over 20%, figures show - Guardian Government scraps places limit for teacher training courses - Schools Week Daily roundup 14 September: Holiday hunger, lateness fines, and Instagram apology - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Education select committee 'to prioritise social justice and productivity' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Are UK universities on track to meet open access requirements? - HEFCE Early Education condemns government decision on baseline assessment - Early Education University vice-Chancellor handed 67 per cent salary increase as pay row intensifies - Telegraph Progress on GCSEs? - Sutton Trust Government under fire over ‘jaw dropping’ move to dodge opposition day votes - PoliticsHome Nick Clegg: No room for complacency in battle against ‘pernicious’ social immobility - PoliticsHome New report on retaining and developing the teaching workforce - The Staffroom Consultation of reformed subject content of functional skills announced - The Staffroom Education Select Committee: The quality of apprenticeships training and sub-contractors - feCompare Combining effective learning strategies - Learning Scientists Parent attacks ‘North Korea’-style school uniform policy after daughter sent home over bag - Evening Standard ESFA row-back on plans to increase apprenticeship performance threshold - FE Week SEND: DfE scraps P-scales for assessment of pupils working below national curriculum level - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fairer funding system to end 'postcode lottery' for schools - DfE ESFA e-bulletin: 14 September 2017 (issue 187) - Education & Skills Funding Agency FE data library - Education & Skills Funding Agency Justine Greening statement on national funding formula - DfE New training opportunities for thousands of teachers - DfE Schools update: National Funding Formula - UK Parliament The government is listening to school leaders’ concerns about assessment policy, says NAHT - NAHT New funding formula for English schools is 'recycling', say heads - Guardian September 2017 school leadership podcast - NAHT Let’s invest in the new funding formula to deliver for all schools, says NAHT - NAHT NASUWT comments on primary assessment proposals - NASUWT NASUWT comments on launch of teacher workload initiative - NASUWT NASUWT comments on national funding formula announcement - NASUWT ASCL Cymru welcomes initiative to cut teacher workload - ASCL Primary assessment overhaul is good for children and schools - ASCL Prime Minister and Chancellor must act on school funding - ASCL Schools national funding formula - National Education Union NEU Cymru welcomes reducing teacher workload initiative - National Education Union NEU Cymru welcomes plan to cut classroom bureaucracy - National Education Union Sats for seven-year-olds in England to be scrapped - Guardian New tests are of no educational benefit to children - National Education Union Always look on the bright side of life? Universities after Brexit - HEPI P-levels will be scrapped as government accepts Rochford Review - Schools Week What does it take to win at the Tes FE Awards? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy chains received £7 million to take over ‘schools no one wants’ - Schools Week Academy chains received £7 million to take over ‘schools no one wants’ - Schools Week Qualification achievement rates 2016 to 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Primary assessment in England - DfE Primaries to get £3,500 minimum per pupil, under new formula - Nursery World 'Historic' schools funding change confirmed - BBC Labour's plan to halt tuition rise passes unopposed - BBC 'Slave auction' for Loughborough freshers leads to outcry - Guardian Horrid or hero? - BBC Revealed: The £16m cost of transferring academies to new sponsors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Innovation Series begins with fresh minds to tackle educational inequality - Teach First Greening: New “teacher-mediated” baseline tests for 4-year-olds - Schools Week Anger at ‘outrageous’ 17 per cent pay hike for Scottish college chief - Herald Scotland THE debate: Andrew Adonis and David Willetts - Times Higher Education | THE V-c pay: Are vice-chancellors worth their salaries? - Times Higher Education | THE New baseline check for Reception and revised early learning goals - Nursery World Key stage 1 SATs scrapped from 2023 - Schools Week Sats for seven-year-olds to be scrapped from 2023 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greening confirms times-tables check for year 4 pupils - Schools Week Nicola Sturgeon attacked for failure to fast track teachers - Scotsman School funding at record levels but 'I am not complacent', insists Greening - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE launches its fifth consultation on apprenticeship funding reform - FE Week Funding formula should mean £3,500 for every primary pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Row as school demands Rastafarian boy cut off dreadlocks as part of uniform policy - Evening Standard Tutoring prevents pupils working out own problems for themselves, warns top London headteacher - Evening Standard Will Government change its ‘one size fits all’ funding structures as they force students out of the system? - Jisc Primary schools to get minimum funding of £3,500 per-pupil - Schools Week Nicola Sturgeon: Ruth Davidson has 'lost the plot' with teacher shortage claims - Herald Scotland 'Worrying rise' in number of children with autism being expelled or suspended from school - Independent Rastafarian mum slams school for 'religious discrimination' after teachers order son to cut dreadlocks or face suspension - Mirror Labour considers legal challenge over tuition fees increase - Guardian 'I have worn lots of uniform': primary pupils on their first day of school - Guardian Rising tuition fees could price out college students, report warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers ‘too nervous’ to stand for board elections - Schools Week This is how to stop students dropping out of university - The Conversation New plans to reduce teachers' workload and cut red tape in Wales' schools - Wales Online How can universities help solve the creative arts crisis? - Guardian Civil service fast stream 2017 – in numbers - Guardian Why we need an agriculture GCSE - Telegraph Government cannot tackle the issue of digital exclusion alone, says Digital Minister Matt Hancock - PoliticsHome The golden triangle of retention - Wonkhe How is the demand for part-time higher education affected by changing economic conditions? - Wonkhe Teachers must speak out - Scotsman Schools facing major crisis as teachers reach breaking-point - Scotsman Headteacher introduces bizarre new rule ordering pupils to shake teachers' hand every time they enter class - Mirror Sir James Dyson vows to tackle shortfall of female engineers with new university - Mail Why the future of skills is more than digital - FE News Plans to scrap private schools' charitable status ditched - Mail Pre-school will fine parents £1 every minute they are late - Mail Exam chiefs to review ban on Scottish pupils seeing their marked papers - Herald Scotland College bosses warn over affordability of £117m pay harmonisation - Herald Scotland Bullying survey findings at a glance - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's like fighting a losing battle' – teachers on how bullying affects pupils' lives - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bullying so bad a quarter of secondary teachers would not send own child to their school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Edinburgh school begs parents to teach maths - Times Scotland: Businesses to set own tests after confusion over National 4 exams - Times Ireland: Children left vulnerable to online bullies - Times