News archive for 13th April 2018

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Modern playgrounds 'have become sanitised by nanny state and snowflake parents' - Telegraph Selfies are the greatest threat to childhood, Dame Jacqueline Wilson says - Telegraph The Tes podcast: Teacher workload, EAL pupils and the data deluge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Helpful apps for high school and college students - The Educator Apprenticeship levy report: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges ETF report on teacher training:AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Brexit to worsen EU-student distribution in UK - PIE News EEF launches new grant-funding round - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Latest updates to the Teaching and Learning Toolkit - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF A Head Teacher’s experience of her school’s first Primary Futures event - Education and Employers Upset at primary school offer? Keep mum or your child may feel like they’re going to jail - Evening Standard Alternative education provision and apprenticeships examined - UK Parliament Cross-Atlantic event explores unemployment and social deprivation challenges and opportunities - Learning & Work Institute Evaluation of Liverpool City Region Youth Employment Gateway - Learning & Work Institute ETF report shows quality of initial teacher training for FE profession is high - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE UCU response to Open University vice-chancellor's resignation - UCU UCU members vote in record numbers to accept proposals in pensions dispute - UCU Ballot result on Joint Expert Panel - Universities UK Learning from 'experts by experience' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Eligibility for 30 hours childcare passes 375,000 mark - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 13 April: Amazon, apprenticeships, and contactless payments - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'High price' paid for narrowly missing C grade spelled out - Times Educational Supplement | TES Degrees with real impact - Russell Group Additional Research England funding - Russell Group UK university strikes called off after UCU members accept pension proposals - Independent Numbers of trainee FE teachers with SEND specialism rockets - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK university strike action to end after staff vote to accept offer - Guardian University staff suspend strikes over pensions - BBC Ofsted saves £400k with longer grade 2 inspection gap - FE Week Families crowdfund legal action against special needs budget cuts - Guardian Weak schools will get longer breather between Ofsted inspections - Schools Week Parents going to 'extraordinary lengths' to secure first-choice primary school, poll finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extending FSM to all families on Universal Credit would cost +£3billion more per annum - Parliament Across borders: The apprenticeship levy and the Scottish funding restrictions - FE News Open University vice-chancellor Peter Horrocks resigns - BBC Ofsted watch: RNN Group criticised for poor oversight of subcontractors - FE Week Catholic sixth-form colleges demand academisation protection - FE Week Open University vice-chancellor resigns after controversial comments about academics not teaching - Independent Continuing struggle for parents to find a 30 hours place - Nursery World Open University vice-chancellor resigns after staff revolt - Guardian Wales is struggling to get pupils to study science, technology, engineering and maths, minister warns - Wales Online ‘Last resort’ IfA quality assures almost half of all apprenticeship standards - FE Week Quality of FE teacher training is ‘high’ but falling numbers are ‘a challenge’, research finds - FE Week Beleaguered head of Open University resigns with 'immediate effect' - Telegraph Student suicide increase warning - BBC Topslice criticism for college given extra £1.6m adult education funding - FE Week Fixing the madness of the teacher transfer window - Schools Week Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 13 April 2018 - Pearson Students paying a high price for failing their English GCSE, warns report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school offer day 2018: how to appeal a decision - Telegraph £73m unspent adult education budget funding is absurd - FE Week £73m adult education budget left unspent by 441 providers - FE Week How can the higher education sector regain the educational high ground? - Wonkhe UK university strikes over summer exam period called off - Financial Times Why are students faking attendance? They feel cheated by the system | Anonymous academic - Guardian Troops to Teachers: Quarter of all trainees quit course without qualifying - Schools Week Music education should be inclusive. So where are the disabled teachers? - Guardian Principal’s £300k salary at £30m college causes furious reaction - FE Week Government is ignoring schools 'buckling' under funding pressures, ex-DfE official warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Progress 8 ‘penalises schools in white working class communities’, study shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most locked-out trainee teachers have failed their QTS skills test resits - Schools Week Government under pressure to reveal plans for free teacher vacancy service - Schools Week Firms relabelling low-skilled jobs as apprenticeships, says report - BBC Former adviser to two skills ministers blasts apprenticeship levy - FE Week Poor quality apprenticeships set to waste £600m, says think-tank - Financial Times £600 million a year could be wasted on poor-quality apprenticeships, warns Reform - FE News Calls to scrap courses that are 'apprenticeships in name only' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministerial interference is derailing success of FE sector - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland's poor education image blamed on 'wild misreading' of research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Managers sent on degree courses as ‘apprentices’ - Times Universities urged not to dumb down - Times Students more likely to kill themselves - Times St Hugh’s College, Oxford investigates past sex claims - Times Home-schooling and the exclusion of pupils - Times Scotland: Aberdeen University’s free student halls plan ‘is flawed’ - Times Ireland: ‘Rape list’ scrawled on wall of school toilet in Cork - Times