News archive for 19th September 2017

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Less than half of young teens play outdoors, survey shows - Scotsman Half of secondary schools are bursting at the seams or over capacity, shock report warns - Mirror Rise in 'over-capacity' secondary schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than half of secondary schools either full or over capacity in Year 7 - Independent Achieving change through partnership – what does success look like for the National Collaborative Outreach Programme? - HEFCE Ofsted criticises lack of action to prevent domestic abuse - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 19 September: Mental health, toy guns, and robots - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Conservative conference could be a launch pad for new education policy - PoliticsHome University education makes you a better citizen - The Conversation The path to higher education: is there a London effect? - EPI Does increasing time spent in class improve pupil performance? - Best Evidence in Brief Implication of subject choice on university entry - Best Evidence in Brief Government announce new training opportunities for thousands of teachers - The Staffroom Academies payments information: remittance advice notes - Education & Skills Funding Agency Invitation to tender: Understanding the evaluation of outreach interventions to widen access to higher education for under 16 year olds in England from disadvantaged backgrounds - OFFA Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: early termination of funding agreement - list of organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Revenue funding: payments to academies - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schools financial efficiency: the role of the school governor - Education & Skills Funding Agency Prevention and repair essential in domestic abuse cases - Ofsted Reducing regulatory burden: the Ofqual handbook and more - Ofqual Open academies and academy projects in development - Times Educational Supplement | TES Alternative provision census 2018: guide - DfE Universities, Brexit and European Structural Funds – what next? - MillionPlus DfE offers new deal to help schools save cash on computer equipment - NAHT Fire safety in schools - NAHT Public Health England launch Rise Above for Schools - NAHT National reference test 2018 - information for schools - NAHT DfE announce new National Funding formulae for schools and high needs - NAHT Why the current higher education debate is aiming at the wrong target - HEPI Could we get the best teachers into the most deprived schools? - IOE London Blog The top universities that do and don't accept the Welsh Bacc - Wales Online Private school pupils should be taught how lucky they are, says London headteacher - Evening Standard Poorest London children face health risks from toxic air, poverty and obesity - Guardian Fettes College pupil expelled from £30,000-a-year school after turning up to chapel service on ecstasy - Telegraph Boy in court over West Lothian school knife slashing - Scotsman Schoolgirls aged 12 get highest IQ score possible - Wales Online Cable backs lifelong learning accounts at Lib Dems conference - FE Week 'I have a volcano inside of me': film helps children talk about mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Domestic abuse: Focus more on children, says Ofsted - BBC Bilingual Mandarin-English nursery opens second site - Nursery World Mouldy cheese and minibeasts: tips for teaching science in primary schools - Guardian Scotland:Boy expelled after just one week at school for turning up to mass high on pills - Metro Freshers' week: don't fall for a dodgy unofficial event - Guardian Edu-Twitter rules OK - Teacherhead The F-word: feminism must be reclaimed by today’s teens – they’re our future - Guardian Parents being held back in their careers by lack of childcare - Nursery World A very modern marriage: super-union leaders plan to ratchet up school cuts fight - Guardian School trousers or skirts for all: ‘Children should experience equality’ - Guardian Historians will laugh at us when they look back at our university application system - Guardian Fettes pupil expelled after taking ecstasy - Scotsman BookTrust: Parents side-line storytime for social media - Primary Times Time to open the door on sector diversity - Wonkhe Yet more dumb university rankings - Wonkhe Unpacking the evidence on cognitive load theory - Best Evidence in Brief Effective reading programmes for secondary pupils - Best Evidence in Brief It’s judgement time for the ESFA on degree apprenticeships - FE Week Improvement planning: get it write - FE News Primary schools devote under 90 minutes a week to science - Mail Parents choose 'screen time' over reading to their child - Nursery World Most primary classes 'get less than two hours of science a week' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Robots can help, but it is teachers who inspire pupils - Times Scotland: Childcare failings ‘damaging 90% of parents’ careers’ - Times China: Inside my son’s elite Chinese school - Times France: French textbook uses migrants to calculate maths puzzle - Times USA: Police officers shoot Scout Schultz dead at Georgia campus - Times Cutting tuition fees would just benefit wealthy graduates - Times