News archive for 6th April 2018

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Rise of 'study tubers' is 'whipping up hysteria' among schoolchildren, experts warn - Telegraph Academy trusts struggle to manage ‘serious’ threat of asbestos in schools, unions say - Independent The Tes podcast: Recruitment crisis, teachers' unions and play in the classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES Army recruits: IfA boss appoints his second-in-command - FE Week Scrap 'damaging and pointless' primary baseline test, say academics - Times Educational Supplement | TES Institute for Apprenticeships boss blasts AELP for ‘inflammatory’ end point assessment concerns - FE Week ESFA Construction Framework Templates - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies financial returns: online form registration - Education & Skills Funding Agency School Buildings: ESFA Construction Framework - Education & Skills Funding Agency More than 50 asbestos exposure incidents in academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Richer data tells us more about students in higher education - Office for Students 600,000 graduates to benefit from financial milestone - DfE IoH and AI surrender Ofqual recognition - Ofqual Flexible Learning Fund: Digital Engineering Academy - Collab Group Subject knowledge enhancement (SKE): course providers - DfE Early years census 2018: technical specification - DfE “More can be done” to improve access to HE for refugees – UUKi - PIE News Freedom of information requests to Multi Academy Trusts reveal shocking disparity in asbestos management - National Education Union Alliance needed on student mental health - PIE News Why seeking promotion is not always the right thing to do in teaching - The Educator Schools struggle in 'desperate financial climate' - The Educator What’s next for the Quality Code? - Wonkhe One year on: what’s happening with the Apprenticeship Levy? - Learning & Work Institute School lunch decisions made by the child and not the parent - UKEdChat Students who study and sleep more don’t just do better in school—they’re happier - UKEdChat Which education systems are best? Look past the superficial numbers - UKEdChat Class clowns: Playful boys viewed more negatively than playful girls - UKEdChat There is no space for extremist views in Polish Saturday schools | Letters - Guardian LSE receives 5m euros to study electoral rage and women in peacebuilding - London School of Economics | LSE IOE professor announced as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences - IOE London Blog Daily roundup 6 April: Tooth decay, abuse investigation, and Fortnite - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Polish schools in UK warned over far-right connections - Guardian Apprenticeship Levy – Energy and Utilities Report Success One Year On - FE News Government urged to remove all asbestos from schools to prevent unnecessary deaths - Nursery World Ofsted watch: Private providers shine while colleges falter - FE Week Co-op plans to take over failing schools in north of England - Guardian Free school meals are changing but will children lose out? - BBC Almost 50,000 more secondary school teachers needed in England by 2024 to cope with rising pupil numbers, finds analysis - Independent Why ‘safe spaces’ at universities are a threat to free speech - The Conversation Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 6 April 2018 - Pearson Sky At Night presenter Lucie Green: girls should forget gender bias and do science - Evening Standard Yellow Dot nursery group sold to Bright Horizons - Nursery World Why a post-racial British society remains a myth – even in universities - The Conversation A proven model for a new vocational system and pedagogy - FE News Revealed: Ofsted’s second report into ‘new’ apprenticeship providers - FE Week Apprenticeships: adopting models from abroad to deliver benefits for employers in England - FE News Learndirect did not get ‘anywhere near’ winning legal battle against Ofsted, judge says - FE Week British team developing teaching without teachers in bid for $10m prize - Times Educational Supplement | TES Co-op 'turbo-charging' academies sponsorship in bid to boost the north - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Not appropriate for the 21st century': This is how sex education is failing children - Independent Apprenticeship training in England – a cost-effective model for firms? - EPI When is widening participation not widening participation? - Wonkhe My university allowed a lecturer to date students – until it all backfired | Anonymous academic - Guardian Composer James MacMillan takes aim at ‘prejudiced’ cuts to music tuition - Scotsman We need to find 47,000 extra secondary teachers by 2024 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Recruitment crisis means teaching without teachers 'will become a necessity' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘We’ve lost focus on leadership,’ says training boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish universities accused of 'ingrained sexism' over promotion prospects for women - Herald Scotland Analysis: Irony that fight for equality ‘delivered by over-worked, under-recognised women’ - Herald Scotland Back to school: We must teach AI to have a moral compass - City AM Meet the 'Study Tubers': The YouTubers making studying cool - BBC Student loan repayment threshold rises - BBC Did teachers wipe out Theresa May's majority? - BBC £1.28 billion sitting unused in apprenticeship levy accounts - FE News Apprenticeships should start at 16 and last three years, says new report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government should do more to increase 16 to 18 apprenticeships, new report urges - FE Week Calls for chancellor to clarify £80m SME apprenticeship fund - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE's reputation crucial to sector success - Times Educational Supplement | TES Concerns raised over quality of probationer teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Business groups slam apprenticeship levy as firms fail to withdraw funds one year on - City AM Angry staff call on head of Open University Peter Horrocks to resign - Times Ireland: TUI conference told of pupil’s threat to kick pregnant teacher - Times Turkey: Academics killed on campus - Times Government’s flagship apprenticeship scheme set to cost businesses millions of pounds, report finds - Telegraph