News archive for 10th April 2018

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Data matters - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Find out more about Operation Encompass in schools - NAHT Ministers must act to help the 'invisible children' in our schools - ATL Home schooled children could face compulsory registration, government consultation suggests - Independent Home education compulsory registration? - BBC After 29 months, DfE drops plan to regulate all out-of-school education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Moulton College principal resigns after Ofsted warns students are at risk - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children with special needs lose out as schools reach 'breaking point' over funding cuts, says teachers' union - Independent Principal resigns after Ofsted brands Moulton College ‘unsafe’ - FE Week DfE considers closing loophole allowing schools to keep funding for 'off-rolled' pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Open University council fails to back vice-chancellor - Guardian Ministers responsible for pupils’ poor mental health, says teaching union - Times Repayments deferred to next April for loans scandal victims - FE Week Performance reporting: FE college groups and multi-site colleges - DfE Apprenticeship funding: legal agreement to enable spending - Education & Skills Funding Agency Letters to academy trusts about levels of executive pay - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeships: subcontracting - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies funded on estimates - Education & Skills Funding Agency Funding boost for the arts to support talented pupils - DfE Measures to deliver quality education across all settings - DfE Academy trusts with multiple staff on £100k+ told to justify pay - Schools Week More academy trusts told to justify paying leaders over £100k - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research England’s Connecting Capability Fund should help demystify commercialisation - Wonkhe DfE announces review of home schooling regulations - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 10 April: Arts funding, nationality data, and royal wedding gifts - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Loneliness more likely to affect young people - BBC LSE IQ: Are we seeing a new gender equality revolution? - London School of Economics | LSE New spin-out generator receives £5 million - London School of Economics | LSE Later school start times really do improve sleep time - UKEdChat School-based yoga can help children better manage stress and anxiety - UKEdChat Kenya / India: School improvement to take away - Education Development Trust | EDT Inspiring Wakefield continues to broaden children’s horizons - Education and Employers Why new tests will help teachers give extra support to those pupils that need it - Policy Exchange Schools no longer have to collect data on pupils’ nationality and country of birth - Independent FE and skills: management information showing in-year and most recent inspection outcomes - Ofsted Out-of-school settings won’t be forced to register – for now - Schools Week Mary Bousted's call to arms on teacher workload: the full text - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE considering compulsory register of home-educated children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding cuts have forced education into a 'straitjacket', teachers warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools struggling to provide SEND support - Schools Week SEND cuts 'putting children at risk of exclusion' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dwecks mindset ideas - open to challenge? - Montrose42 Shirley-Anne Somerville: STEM careers should be open to all - Scotsman Teachers' talent and commitment 'wasted on industrial scale with job undoable' - Mail Schools could be fined if pupils are removed to home education - Schools Week Call for young children's dental care to be prioritised - Nursery World Teachers are at breaking point. It's time to push wellbeing up the agenda - Guardian Arts education should be the entitlement of every child - Telegraph Carole Stott to step down as chair of WorldSkills UK - Times Educational Supplement | TES MATs are misusing public money while Ofsted and RSCs bicker, union leader warns - Schools Week Mary Bousted: ‘If the government won’t act on workload, NEU will’ - Schools Week Carole Stott to step down as WorldSkills UK chair - FE Week Mary Bousted speech to ATL conference 2018: The full text - Schools Week School pressures 'making pupils suicidal’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Key questions every college leader and governor should ask - Jisc Pupils self-harm and express suicidal feelings due to exam stress and school pressure, warn teachers - Independent NEU: The government is ‘responsible’ for the school mental health epidemic - Schools Week Individual college campuses could be included in performance reporting - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third early monitoring report a success – but provider targeted isn’t ‘new’ to apprenticeships - FE Week DfE launches consultation ahead of college campus performance reporting - FE Week Lack of transparency around 'shadowy' RSCs 'could open door to corruption' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How much burden does the OfS registration process bring? - Wonkhe Are we nearly there yet? Apprenticeship reforms at the half way stage - FE News Britain’s bullied universities should be speaking truth to power | Jonathan Wolff - Guardian ‘Every lesson is a battle’: Why teachers are lining up to leave - Guardian Tap an app to tackle the teaching crisis - Guardian 35% rise in teachers calling helpline for emotional support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers grappling with surge in pupil violence as students ‘throw objects, cut car brakes and smash windscreens’ - Independent The Open University must be saved - Mail Men who fail to equal parents' achievements 'suffer mental distress' - Guardian DfE spending £100m on sending pupils to independent schools and arts centres - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government extends private art school grants, but unions demand funding ‘for all pupils’ - Schools Week Cambridge University questioned over data misuse - Times Private school teachers tire of pushy parents’ unrealistic demands - Times Schools can stop listing nationalities of pupils - Times Vile abuse is now tolerated in our universities - Times Scotland: ‘Disgusting’ school meals push pupils to takeaways - Times Ireland: Crèche in Louth closed over rodent infestation - Times