News archive for 12th April 2018

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CIPD report calls for greater investment in Careers advice and a more flexible "training levy" - FE News External quality assurance of end-point assessments - FE News Shortlist revealed for Professional Teaching Awards - Welsh Government Wales could lead the way in attracting women into industry, says Eluned Morgan - Welsh Government Theresa May's former Oxford college probed over claims of misconduct and sexual harassment - Mirror The Open University is about more than who is in the top job | Letters - Guardian Revealed: Secret rightwing strategy to discredit teacher strikes - Guardian Parents pull children from RE lessons to stop them learning about Islam, teachers warn - Express Staff at two West Yorkshire colleges balloted on strike action - FE Week Allegations against teacher 'dealt with in-house as he was success story' - Mail The role of apprenticeships in the UK economy | Letters - Guardian UK business schools’ reliance on int’l funds “concerning” - PIE News Daily roundup 12 April: Free bus travel, homelessness, and religious education - CYPN | Children & Young People Now School inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Handbook for short, monitoring and unannounced behaviour school inspections - Ofsted Annual parents survey - Ofsted School inspection handbook - Ofsted UKEdChat magazine – Issue 48 - UKEdChat 30 hours free childcare: eligibility codes issued and validated - DfE GCSE new grading scale: factsheets - DfE When should academics speak out, and when should we listen? - HEPI What’s in a university name? - Wonkhe Hungry like the Woolf? – the first blockchain university - Wonkhe More notes from Scandinavia: who really pays? - Wonkhe Why we need a Real-Time REF Review to plan for 2027 - Wonkhe Strike ballots at two West Yorkshire colleges over job cuts - UCU ESFA e-bulletin: 12 April 2018 (issue 215) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academy trusts plan to link executive pay to NQT salaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Traveller children overlooked and overrepresented in the youth justice system - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Teens today are more sensible than their boozy parents ever were - Express Exploring what it means to be ‘evidence-rich’ in practice - IOE London Blog Physics teacher banned for life over 'sexually motivated relationship' with pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to inspire girls to do well in maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching unions call for action as Edinburgh assault cases soar - Scotsman Labour suspend serving Rochdale councillor who 'lied' to child sexual abuse inquiry - Mirror Child abuse at residential school lasted for decades, panel finds - Mail Ex-Rochdale council leader lied to us, child abuse inquiry finds - Guardian Top tips for student tenants: spot the red flags before you move in - Guardian Upset at primary school offer? Keep mum or your child may feel like they’re going to jail - Evening Standard 30 hours programme is hitting two-year-old places, finds report - Nursery World Teachers blast 'racist' parents pulling children from RE classes because they don't want them to learn about Islam - Mirror Former ESFA boss Peter Lauener to chair CITB - Times Educational Supplement | TES NUS: Corbyn's bus pass pledge removes barrier for FE students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former ESFA boss Peter Lauener to chair CITB - FE Week Unite: 90 per cent of construction learners on 'dead end' courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Institute for Apprenticeships boss hits out at FE 'vested interests' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fall in number of parents who trust Ofsted judgements - Times Educational Supplement | TES Written answer re protecting pupils from new psychoactive substances - Parliament Democratising apprenticeship access - Sutton Trust EdTech fails to pay, again - Financial Times Apprenticeships that Work for Everyone: The future of England’s apprenticeships policy. - FE News Leading MPs unite and join Lord Blunkett's call to help save the Open University - Mail 'My pupils all know someone who's been stabbed' - BBC Teacher accused of sex with pupil ‘tried to befriend his mother’ - Times Scotland: Free year in halls for deprived students - Times Scotland: Improvement by degrees - Times Scotland: Let schoolchildren contest Holyrood polls, say Lib Dems - Times Ireland: Sammon says school work will be done - Times