News archive for 19th April 2018

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People starting apprenticeships fall by quarter amid frustrations over government levy - Independent Robert Halfon’s views on education cause concern | Letters - Guardian Prue Leith joins project pushing for better school meals - Guardian Labour commits to introducing an additional health check for all babies - Nursery World Cyberbullies are also victims – they need help too - The Conversation NEU Comment on disadvantaged learners - National Education Union Sutton Trust report: Academy leaders sceptical about Academy freedoms - National Education Union School Cuts Weekend of Action 21-22 April: Hundreds of stalls and rallies organised across England - National Education Union Staff call for resignation of Hull College Group chief executive - UCU Rona Tutt's SEND summary (April 2018) - NAHT Research round-up (18 April 2018) - NAHT England behind other developed countries in maths performance of disadvantaged pupils - IOE London Blog MPs to probe success of government SEND reforms - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 19 April: Exploitation, breastfeeding, and vocabulary - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Gateshead College named best-performing college in the region - FE News 'FE colleges aren't Cinderella - we're Mrs Brown's boys' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sector leaders welcome FE funding inquiry by education committee - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Colleges need to cement their role in serving local communities' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Childcare providers 'struggling to stay afloat' due to lack of 30 hours funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Russia invites students in ‘unfriendly’ nations back home - PIE News Experimental UK Performance Indicators 2016 to 2017: further tables - DfE Funding boost for cross Commonwealth scholarship fund - DfE Perceptions of qualifications in England: wave 16 - Ofqual 14 to 19 technical and applied qualifications: technical guidance - DfE Apprenticeship and levy statistics: April 2018 - DfE The Apprenticeship Levy: What is it good for? - FE News Some British universities are denying female academics permanent contracts to avoid paying them generous maternity packages, researchers have found - Social Market Foundation | SMF Growth mindset and grit interventions - Learning Scientists Limited vocabulary impact on educational outcomes - UKEdChat ESFA e-bulletin: 19 April 2018 (issue 216) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Colleges: financial intervention and exceptional financial support - Education & Skills Funding Agency School and college funding inquiry - UK Parliament School and college funding inquiry launched - UK Parliament Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Students making paper aeroplanes? You should just make a better one... - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five teaching tips we all need to take from the PE department - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'The funding crisis is putting education standards at risk' - Times Educational Supplement | TES #SBL: Using Twitter to build a school business community - Times Educational Supplement | TES Finalists for 2018 ERSA Employability Awards announced - FE News Call for Education Secretary to address teacher supply crisis - The Educator Hull: a city and a university raising its head - Wonkhe A gamekeeper turned poacher reflects on the step-change to statutory regulation - Wonkhe Just Childcare acquires nursery in old school building - Nursery World UK MPs announce cross-party inquiry into school funding - Guardian Student nurses to receive hundreds of pounds after loan overpayment error - Independent Students to be hit with another 'eye-watering' interest rate rise on tuition fee repayments - Independent Hull College staff want their principal sacked after ice-cream ‘bribe’ - FE Week Big drop in uptake of UK’s ‘unfit for purpose’ apprenticeship levy - Financial Times Most and least popular first degrees in Scotland revealed - Scotsman Going private would give Oxford and Cambridge what they want: impunity | Jim Dickinson - Guardian Colleges have just weeks to prepare for new data protection regime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exceptional financial support now available for sixth form colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship starts show no sign of recovery - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE reforms see public understanding fall as criticism of marking rises - Times Educational Supplement | TES Want to teach facts? A robot could do it better, says this academic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sixth-form colleges given access to government bailout fund - FE Week MPs launch inquiry into school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should twins be taught separately? - BBC School and college funding inquiry launched by Education Committee @CommonsEd - FE News Language lessons bridge the generations - Nursery World MPs’ inquiry will look into long-term planning for FE - FE Week Children’s grades at risk because they have narrow vocabulary, finds report - Independent Written response re steps being taken to improve the educational experience for children with autism - Parliament MPs to investigate school and sixth-form funding - Schools Week Written answer from Nick Gibb re steps being taken to increase the uptake of physics and chemistry at A-level - Parliament School and college funding inquiry. Written submissions requested. Deadline, Wednesday 30th May - Commons Select Committee Dramatic pictures show bomb squad blowing up 'unstable' chemicals found in a university freezer which sparked evacuation - Mirror ASCL comment on educational disadvantage report - ASCL People are struggling to understand the new 9 to 1 GCSE grading system - Schools Week French university launches two-acre Language Centre - FE News Monthly update: Apprenticeship starts down 31 per cent in January - FE Week Apprenticeship and levy statistics: April 2018 - DfE Survey results re perceptions of A levels, GCSEs and other qualifications - Ofqual South Wiltshire UTC rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted - FE Week South Wiltshire UTC rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted - Schools Week Academy leaders sceptical about academy freedoms - Sutton Trust 138 children in Cardiff didn't get any of the primary school places they applied for - Wales Online AELP publishes its Review of Apprenticeship Standards and End Point Assessment to evidence concerns - FE News Educational disadvantage: how does England compare? - EPI What are parents’ perceptions of Ofsted? - Teacher Toolkit The world of work is changing. We need more adult education, not less - Guardian USA: Teacher uprisings harness social media in fight for funding - Mail 'No evidence that twins should be separated at school', finds research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Setting and selection 'hold back disadvantaged pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil premium cash is plugging budget gaps, say a fifth of teachers and heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leader comment: The scandal of state school fees - Scotsman Claim ‘school isn’t free’ as pupils miss out on subjects due to costs - Scotsman Half of academy bosses say autonomy 'not positive' for the classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES More children are struggling with vocabulary, teachers say - Times Educational Supplement | TES The apprenticeship levy one year on: Engagement is key - FE News Senegal moves to raise school attendance and make reforms bite - Financial Times How the levy has affected providers (part 4) - FE News Families being ‘routinely charged’ for basic classroom resources - Herald Scotland Schools who text parents about homework ‘achieve better results’ - Herald Scotland 'My teacher saved me from suicide' - BBC Graduates earning £45k-plus to pay up to 6.3% despite student debt woes - The Sun Pushy parents are ‘putting exam results ahead of their children’s health and happiness’ - Mail Poorer pupils in England are a whole GCSE grade behind their peers in maths, report finds - Independent Teachers in UK report growing 'vocabulary deficiency' - Guardian Narrow vocabulary 'hits pupils' grades' - BBC Scrap business rates for nurseries, says small business organisation - Nursery World Pushy parents ignore welfare in quest for grades, says head - Times Universities show film by academic who hit student - Times Scotland: School worker avoids jail for having child rape films - Times Scotland: Best teachers ‘should be paid more to work in deprived areas’ - Times Ireland: Student attacks force teachers to take time off - Times Funding for poorest children used to plug school budgets, say teachers - HuffPost Disadvantaged pupils’ maths attainment sees England fall behind - Schools Week