News archive for 11th April 2018

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USA: 'It's a turning point' - Oklahoma teachers buoyed by success of 110-mile march - Guardian Germany: Headscarf ban - Critics call for Merkel to deliver facts - Express Men get promoted more quickly, and 4 other findings from new school leadership research - Schools Week Prejudiced parents abuse the right to withdraw children from RE classes, say teachers - Independent Prejudiced parents 'abusing right to withdraw children from RE lessons' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher who threw 'piece of metal' at pupil is banned for dishonesty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents hit out at plans to increase oversight of home education - Guardian Rules around subcontracting under review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revealed: The colleges and local authorities allowed to keep £5m for courses that did not take place - FE Week Matching learning strategies to learning goals - Learning Scientists Reading and learning - UKEdChat Speaking Mandarin will give school leavers career advantage, say 77 per cent of business leaders - British Council Primary assessment in England - DfE Strategic school improvement fund: evaluation of round one - DfE Teacher Recruitment Bulletin - DfE Teacher workforce statistics and analysis - DfE Why do some children read more? - UKEdChat Barnfield College placed in administered status following ‘serious decline’ in financial health - FE Week Official conflict of interest warning over 'not fit for purpose' DfE school fund - Times Educational Supplement | TES College placed in 'administered status' owing to poor finances - Times Educational Supplement | TES New measure for fairer recording of primary school performance - DfE Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Higher and degree apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency A guide to apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency Further education area reviews: funding to restructure colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency Application process for strategic school improvement fund was ‘unfit for purpose’ - Schools Week What is the true value of arts and cultural education? - The Educator The 2018 REF-erendum: building the case for remain - Wonkhe Growing numbers of teachers calling support helpline - The Educator ASCL comment on Reception baseline assessment - ASCL The Office for Students responds to University and College Union pensions ballot - Office for Students Promoting small specialist health disciplines as a training and career option - Office for Students Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - Education & Skills Funding Agency Daily roundup 11 April: Loneliness, prosthetics, and baseline assessments - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Union leader says ministers 'bear responsibility' for children's mental health problems - PoliticsHome More Than A Score coalition comments on baseline announcement - Early Education Speaking Mandarin will give school leavers career advantage, say 77 per cent of business leaders - IOE London Blog Providers told to declare subcontracting fees by late April - FE Week Two-thirds of FE students 'very' or 'extremely' stressed about exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eleven-year-olds plunged into 'GCSE pressure cooker' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prejudiced parents 'abusing right to withdraw children from RE lessons' - Mail Pupils should be given information on abortion, conference hears - Times Educational Supplement | TES ATL: ‘Keep parents from selectively withdrawing pupils from RE’ - Schools Week Schools pressurising teachers to 'wildly inflate grades' - Times Educational Supplement | TES IfA to expand its panel of apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Pupils should be given abortion information’, teachers’ hear - Scotsman Teenagers should be taught abortion rights in school to counter inaccurate information from home, say teachers - Independent Government unveils controversial plans for testing four-year-olds - Guardian Teachers' leader on verge of tears as she tells how 'burnout' drove her out of the classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND children at risk of exclusion as schools are forced to cut support - Nursery World Police probe into Wakefield City Academies Trust ends - Times Educational Supplement | TES Watchdog probes BBC after presenter Andrew Neil claimed one in five Scottish schoolchildren were ‘illiterate’ - Mail NFER wins contract for controversial Baseline assessment - Nursery World The dying art of storytelling in the classroom - The Conversation OECD: Apprenticeships in England lack 'quality assurance' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA to ‘review’ rules on subcontracting fees and charges - FE Week NFER to deliver reception baseline test - Schools Week Jisc secures future of a free online maths course - Jisc Written answer re parity of pay across different schools operated by the same MAT - Parliament Global: Spend more aid on early years education for a life of opportunity | Sarah Brown - Guardian New lease of life for 11 WCAT schools - Schools Week Reception baseline assessment to be developed by NFER - Times Educational Supplement | TES Subject-level TEF’s good intentions could have unintended consequences - Wonkhe Can I home school my child in the UK, how popular is it and how does home education work? - The Sun How do we build more inclusive universities? | Kalwant Bhopal - Guardian Scottish university announced as official training partner for China - Scotsman Turkey: University crackdown raises fears for academic freedom - Financial Times Primaries need more resources to help counter radicalisation, says Prevent official - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Promote social activism' - and three other things schools can do to combat radicalisation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish university announced as official training partner for China - Herald Scotland Parents could face fines in home-school crackdown as numbers triple - The Sun Save the Open University just like Margaret Thatcher did more than 40 years ago - Mail Crackdown on 'home school' madrassas - Mail Schools that force pupils ‘off the roll’ may be fined - Times We need the Open University more than ever - Times Germany: Ministers back school headscarf ban - Times Scottish first as university gets China approval - Times