News archive for 20th September 2017

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Why are work placements so important? - HEA School census 2017 to 2018: funding report guide - DfE Education Committee launches inquiry into Alternative Provision - UK Parliament Deal to help schools save cash on computer equipment - DfE Teaching Fundamentals 2: Be precise about what you want to be learned. - Headguruteacher ESFA update: September 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding and performance management rules 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency UCU response to 1% pay offer for further education staff - UCU Negative marketing damages reputation - AoC | Association of Colleges Choose a not-for-profit research organisation for a lower effect size? - NFER 'No regrets': Headteacher stands by decision to send home pupils with wrong school uniform every day this week - Mirror Post-results university admissions would be a step backwards | Letters - Guardian The importance of showing off and 5 other things we learned at today's SEND summit - Times Educational Supplement | TES TES FE Podcast 18th September 2017, featuring Sarah Simons and Lindsey Johnson - Times Educational Supplement | TES Good Schools Guide to examine how 'transgender-friendly' schools are - Telegraph Father accused of Trojan horse plot says Ofsted report vindicates him - Guardian Great Yarmouth Charter Academy: Parents remove children - BBC Swinney admits he added to teachers' workload woes - Times Educational Supplement | TES George Osborne takes on seventh job with Stanford University role - Guardian Pupils aged 11 to 14 in Wales are struggling in science - Wales Online Manchester United's 'class of 92' unveil plans to open university - Guardian Tearing down walls to build the future - HEFCE The price of accessing higher education - New Statesman Pay negotiations response - AoC | Association of Colleges Too much information? More than 80% of children have an online presence by the age of two - The Conversation Corbyn speaking at AoC annual conference - FE Week ETF tenders new FE training programme for future CEOs - FE Week Lord Nash stubbornly defends EBacc in the face of cross party support for curriculum change - Edge Foundation Scots teachers could face court under new Named Person plan - Scotsman Visual “noise”, distractibility, and classroom design - Learning Scientists Swinney misses ‘golden opportunity’ to reform education crisis in Scotland - Express Oxford college announces measures to boost diversity - SecEd Sturgeon hits back in teacher shortage row - SecEd Education Select Committee to investigate social justice and ‘productivity’ - SecEd School leaders say £2bn more a year is needed to off-set real-terms cuts - SecEd 'Savage’ NAO report spells out retention problems - SecEd A third of teachers say they regularly feel stressed by life at the chalkface - SecEd A quarter of schools are snubbing RE duty - SecEd New CPD £75 million fund unveiled - SecEd Public Health England launches PSHE resources to support positive health and resilience lessons - SecEd LGBT students say they feel ‘unwelcome’ at school - SecEd Workload campaign in Wales publishes dos and don’ts pocket guide - SecEd 'We are family': Nurseries celebrate the diversity of family life - Nursery World Teaching in England is not 'interesting' enough, says Pisa boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteacher told colleague to falsify records of fire drills during Ofsted inspection - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pensioner starts university degree – at age of 87 - Herald Scotland Oldest Scots student, 87, enrolls at university for 8th time - Scotsman AoC boss expresses regret over 1 per cent pay offer - FE Week Unions 'disappointed' by colleges' 1% pay offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Take our packed lunch survey - Nursery World Transgender pupils 'leaving schools over rights breaches' - BBC Private schoolgirls use ‘emotional barometer’ app to track wellbeing - Evening Standard Ratios made more flexible for childminders with 30-hours children - Nursery World Global: 10 university flashpoints over free speech - BBC Delivering quality apprenticeships - Unionlearn MPs to investigate alternative provision - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs to investigate PRUs in alternative provision inquiry - Schools Week Quarter of 14-year-old girls 'have signs of depression' - BBC Education Committee launches inquiry into Alternative Provision - FE News John Swinney to promise teachers ‘more freedom’ - Scotsman 2VCs on...how is Brexit impacting universities? - Guardian Power list: the 50 people with most influence over UK universities - Guardian Bid to make Scotland a ‘Daily Mile nation’ after pupil scheme - Scotsman Martin Davidson: Give the kids a sense of adventure – and watch them become grown-ups - Scotsman Reducing regulatory burden: the Ofqual handbook and more - The Staffroom One in four girls depressed by age 14 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily Mile should be for all - Scotsman Parents paying £121k more to get into ‘right’ school catchment - Scotsman Homes near Britain's top schools cost £415,000 on average - that's 11 times the typical UK wage - Mirror Now 150 schools introduce gender neutral uniforms so pupils can experience ‘equality’ by wearing either skirts or trousers - Mail School place crisis: More than half of the secondary schools in England are full or over capacity in Year Seven - Mail Parents facing £129,000 premium for houses near best state schools, study finds - Independent John Swinney vows to press on with controversial curriculum reforms - Herald Scotland Two-thirds of employers not using levy funds to train staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Quarter of girls are depressed at 14 in mental health crisis - Times Two in five secondary schools are overcrowded - Times Scotland: Top schools add 22% to house prices - Times Universities will crumble without freedom of speech - Times Scotland: Parents pay 'ridiculous' house prices to be near top schools - Express Mental health: one in four 14-year-old girls is depressed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents pay £129k premium to live near 'top' state school - Times Educational Supplement | TES