News archive for 21st September 2017

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Planned LA and school expenditure: 2017 to 2018 financial year - DfE Ofsted seeks views on future changes to short inspections - Ofsted SMEs in line for share of £360m through apprenticeship framework - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 21 September 2017 (issue 188) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Short inspection plans recognise that improvement takes time - ASCL Ofsted: an educational supertanker that may be changing direction? - ASCL New Ofsted proposals could create a ‘cloud of uncertainty’ in schools - NAHT Isle of Man government must act to avert teaching exodus - NASUWT EPI report shows how the Ebacc is damaging the arts, say school leaders - NAHT Value for students and society - Russell Group Submission: #42 Apprenticeships as driver of social mobility - AELP Threat to social mobility posed by government’s own apprenticeship reforms - AELP Comment on arts at Key Stage 4 - National Education Union Rosie Winterton MP checking out further education at Doncaster College - National Education Union Drink-spiking spate at Bristol University during Freshers' Week investigated by police - Telegraph Babies learn benefits of hard work by witnessing parents persevering with difficult tasks, finds study - Independent Secondary school headteacher who sent home nearly 90 pupils for wearing incorrect uniform refuses to 'lower his standards' - Mail USA: Tech's push to teach coding isn't about kids' success – it's about cutting wages - Guardian Embedded Phenomena: Increasing comprehension of STEM concepts using body and space - Learning Scientists Trailblazing to….who knows where! - feCompare Two thirds of businesses are not using the Apprenticeship Levy - The Staffroom ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ or ‘ignorance’ – why doesn’t society care anymore? - Villiers Park Educational Trust Breaking the barriers to engagement: Understanding higher education perceptions through young researchers - HEFCE Daily roundup 21 September: Gender stereotypes, slouching, and chronic fatigue syndrome - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New Ofsted system would see schools graded 'good-ish', headteachers warn - Telegraph NHS ‘reviews’ Learndirect Apprenticeships’ status as a provider - FE Week Is it wrong to give Learndirect special treatment? - FE News ‘Snowflake students’ need reason and debate, not wristbands - Huffington Post Classroom at Broughton Primary closes after ceiling collapses - Scotsman This is what it's like to be Welsh at Oxford - Wales Online Per-pupil spending by local authorities falls short of 2012 high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted proposes waiting two years to fully inspect schools ‘at risk of decline’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Festival of Learning national award winners to be crowned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted sets out plans to shake up short inspections - Schools Week Freshers' week: how tutors can help students cope - Guardian What prompts parents to get their child a tutor? - Telegraph 10 ways to broaden your child's horizons - Telegraph Strathclyde Business School unveils founding leaders - Scotsman How to choose the right tutor  - Telegraph Entries to arts subjects at Key Stage 4 - EPI Government must review decline of arts subjects - ASCL The positive and mindful university - HEPI Helping students and staff by creating positive and mindful universities - HEPI HEPI mental health report - Russell Group Is there still a role for validation? - Wonkhe All well at Harwell: visiting Jisc’s cyber security hub - Wonkhe Apprenticeships as driver of social mobility - FE News Schools to be rated on how transgender-friendly they are - Mail AELP calls on government to fund level two apprenticeships in full - FE Week Private and state schools slump on creative arts GCSEs – but why? - Schools Week Festival of Learning award-winners named - FE Week Proportion of students taking arts subjects falls to lowest level in decade - Guardian Primary school teachers 'not trained to deal with mental health issues' - Guardian Global: One in four kids in the developing world misses out on a bedtime story, says UN - Guardian Girls as young as seven in UK boxed in by gender stereotyping - Guardian Schools to be rated on how transgender-friendly they are - Mail Number of pupils taking arts subjects at GCSE falls to lowest level in a decade, report finds - Telegraph Universities are turning a blind eye to freshers’ week 'excesses', vice-Chancellor warns - Telegraph Threat to social mobility posed by government’s own apprenticeship reforms - FE News ‘Superteacher’ scheme to help solve school recruitment crisis - Herald Scotland Exam entries for arts subjects 'fall to lowest level in a decade' - Times Educational Supplement | TES AELP urges government to ensure apprenticeship reforms don't hit social mobility - Times Educational Supplement | TES Degree apprentices on rise as employers lure top students - Times Sober up and look after mental health, freshers told - Times Number taking GCSEs in arts falls to ten-year low - Times Scotland: John Swinney pledges to measure progress on school attainment gap - Times Scotland: University principals in bad books for inflation-busting pay packages - Times Scotland: Named person amendments causing confusion, MSPs told - Times Primary teachers 'ill-equipped' to spot pupils' mental health problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES Girls aged seven feel pressure to conform to gender roles at school - Times Educational Supplement | TES RE should cover non-religious world views, report states - Times Educational Supplement | TES