News archive for 20th April 2018

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Students do not trust exam officers to look after their mobile phones during GCSEs and A levels, Ofqual boss suggests - Independent Primary school headteacher quits over government's curriculum reforms with emotional letter - Independent Testing P1 pupils causes “stress and anxiety” - Scotsman Employers confused by new GCSE grading system as a quarter think bottom grade is the best mark - Telegraph Employers are confused by GCSE grades - Times Urgent action needed to prevent loss of Early Years Teachers - Voice Bright Horizons buys Zoom - Nursery World In the news: 20 April 2017 - UCU Edinburgh Napier academic leads landmark World Olympians Association research project - MillionPlus LRS latest release guidance - Education & Skills Funding Agency Daily roundup 20 April: School funding, Snapchat, and plastic cups - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Decline in uptake of early years teacher training due to poor pay, study finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now IOE academics deliver papers at international education conference - IOE London Blog New childcare investment helping families - but high earning couples gain the most - Coram Family & Childcare Colleges should register students to vote, says Lords committee - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprentices: they’re not just a number - Times Educational Supplement | TES Understanding research is key to improving teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Court rules looked-after children will be exempt from two-child cap on benefits - Nursery World Whatuni Student Choice Awards - AoC | Association of Colleges Leave no girl behind - Education Development Trust | EDT Funding boost for Commonwealth scholarship scheme - PIE News Education Committee unveils school and college funding inquiry - The Educator Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: The impact of adult learning across the UK - Learning & Work Institute Virtual training just stepped up a gear - Training Journal School workforce census 2018: business and technical specification - DfE Initial teacher training: self-evaluation and improvement planning advice for providers - DfE New school proposals - DfE Funding boost for cross Commonwealth scholarship fund - DfE Do schools need to take the teaching of manners more seriously? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ungraded GCSE computer science coursework to continue despite teachers' concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes podcast: Gibb quizzed on funding, hungry pupils and exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Children’s heads can’t be filled if their stomachs are empty' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greening speaks out against DfE plan to lift faith school cap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Imogen Stubbs laments 'awful treadmill' of UK education system - Guardian Oxford University tips off police in attempt to end the 'inconsiderate and entitled' tradition of 'trashing' - Telegraph Ofsted Watch: Tough week for providers inspected for first time - FE Week Early Years Teachers 'doing more work for same pay' - Nursery World Universities Minister questioned - UK Parliament Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 20 April 2018 - Pearson DfE consolidated annual report and accounts 2016 to 2017 - DfE Why Britain is helping poor girls get better education: article by Boris Johnson - GOV.UK GCSE computer science assessment arrangements - Ofqual Best extracurricular activities for students - The Educator Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 20 April 2018 - Pearson Row over £10m Gaelic school opening on Isle of Skye - Scotsman School denies charging pupils for water in heatwave - BBC Secret RoATP application window revealed - FE Week Teacher apprenticeship providers get fast-track treatment - Schools Week USA: Blackface is free speech but anti-Bush tweet is not at California university - Guardian Computer science GCSE to be exam-only until 2020 - Schools Week Underpaid and undervalued: the reality of childcare work in the UK - The Conversation Boy trapped in escalator on school trip after shoe ‘gets stuck’ - Scotsman New fund sees appointment of 80 new teachers to reduce class sizes - Welsh Government Apprenticeship end-point assessment crisis exposed - FE Week Why is the IfA silent on end-point assessment concerns? - FE Week 'FE must be trusted to develop organically' - Times Educational Supplement | TES IfA boss likens reforms to ‘building an aircraft already in flight’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES What it's like to study at the strictest school in Britain - Time Magazine Boris Johnson pledges more than £200m to boost girls’ education across the world - PoliticsHome Women pick medicine in Scottish university gender divide - Scotsman Scrap 'cruel' testing of five-year-olds, say Scottish campaigners - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes Schools Awards 2018: The nominees revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor pay and status risk exodus of qualified early years teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Grandparents, not teachers, are key to preparing pupils for new economy' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School cuts will have 'life-changing negative impact on a generation’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Mum didn't have any food' - the rise of pupil hunger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Russia tells students & graduates living in UK to work in Siberia - Express For academics on insecure contracts, it's hard to not feel undervalued | Anonymous academic - Guardian Charity Commission steps up safeguarding scrutiny at private schools - Schools Week The Levy is a step forward, it's time to take the next step - FE News The introduction of the levy has diminished the quality of apprenticeships (part 5) - FE News The first year of the apprenticeship levy - a balanced and constructive assessment - FE News School inspection changes will save Ofsted £2.3 million - Schools Week GDPR: Is the DfE failing to prepare schools for the new data future? - Schools Week Pupil mentoring to go nationwide - Herald Scotland 'I want to be the first in my family at university' - BBC Schools are hiring Michelin-starred chefs in new campaign backed by Prue Leith - Telegraph University hopes women with arts A levels will flock to engineering - Times French students and workers unite against Macron reforms - Times Italy: Pupils bully teacher for Facebook videos - Times USA: students worry about being shot - Times Flawed apprenticeship levy needs reform, employers demand - Times Scotland: Top academic set to leave UK over Brexit - Times Scotland: English-speaking students ‘treated as second class’ after Gaelic school opens in Skye - Times Ireland: Primary school bans smartphones and social media to ‘protect’ pupils - Times