News archive for 25th April 2018

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Leading literacy in schools - The Learning Spy Tories quietly drop 'guarantee' no school would see its funding cut - Mirror Initial teacher training: public relations - DfE MPs debate school funding and social care - UK Parliament Funding allocations to training providers: 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: April 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - Education & Skills Funding Agency School improvement monitoring and brokering grant allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency YouTube Kids to give parents more control over output - BBC Teenagers to appear in court over claims of ‘racist’ chants in Nottingham Trent student halls - Independent The Guardian view on analogue clocks: their time has not run out | Editorial - Guardian Children spend 100 million minutes reading in a month - Nursery World Struggling to afford CPD? Charge parents £1 a week, says leading head - Schools Week Employment data reveals added 'value' for graduates - Universities UK What will the technical and professional education provider of the future need to be successful - Collab Group Free schools policy under fire as yet another closure announced - Guardian Being a first-generation CEO - Ambition School Leadership Are universities in loco parentis? The good old days or the bad old days? - HEPI Government ignored root causes of teacher recruitment and retention crisis - National Education Union New Internship Programme being launched - Leeds Beckett University Teachers say children can’t tell time on analogue clocks any more - Metro Factors promoting physical activity in childhood - UKEdChat Children are as fit as endurance athletes - UKEdChat Starting great… finishing strong - UKEdChat European Agenda for Adult Learning - Learning & Work Institute Baroness Wolf: Review of post-18 education funding 'isn't just about HE' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I've always been a sort of maverick principal' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Household names launching apprenticeships 'lends legitimacy to reforms' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to make a lesson plan? - The Educator When is a school funding ‘gain’ not a gain? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Art doesn't get the recognition it deserves' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'On practically every measure, the teaching profession is in deep water' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils ‘failed’ by educational psychologist shortages - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Education given a backseat by a government fixated on Brexit' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Testing has become like crack cocaine to the government' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Judge schools on former pupils' performance at age 25, says Sir David Carter - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs to press government to honour funding commitment for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tory grandee challenges Damian Hinds over school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Schools, please don't ditch rote-learning just because Pisa's boss tells you to' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Target new teachers for pay rises – call - The Educator Are you looking for some quick revision tips for teachers? - Teacher Toolkit How much of your lesson should be teacher talk? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'should be bold enough to ask parents for money' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'If enough parents "home educated" their children in Sats week, it could finish off the tests' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What to tell your students about sleep and exam success - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Every school should have a defibrillator' - Times Educational Supplement | TES LSE retains place as London’s top university - London School of Economics | LSE Daily roundup 25 April: Social mobility, Muslim foster carers, and advert ban - CYPN | Children & Young People Now EPI report on teacher labour market: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Over two fifths of UK children worried about air pollution near their school - Primary Times Lord Storey: Making Multi Academy Trusts do the right thing - PoliticsHome USA: Fewer US jobs for international MBA candidates - PIE News Social media ‘fair game’ in admissions process - Times Higher Education | THE Guardian University Award for LSE IQ podcast - London School of Economics | LSE GCSE and A-level students cannot tell time on traditional analogue clock, teachers suggest - Independent The Guardian University Awards 2018 – the night in pictures - Guardian Before banning fast food shops near schools, give pupils a reason to dine in - The Conversation GSCE exams: Revision techniques and tips for students and how parents can help - Wales Online Government should prioritise teacher retention over recruitment – with financial incentives for subjects in short supply - FE News No, Jeremy Corbyn didn't 'go back on his promise' about student debt - and Theresa May is misleading people about it again - Mirror Apprenticeship payments system breakdown finally ‘resolved’ - FE Week Cambridge University named best in UK in annual league table - Independent Artificial intelligence in education - the potential - Montrose42 UK universities use business schools as cash cows - Financial Times Teacher who ‘gave pupils cigarettes’ and ‘boasted about sex and drugs use’ struck off - Scotsman Sir David Carter: Attainment gap is the ‘civil rights challenge’ of our time - Schools Week Nursery campaigners march on Westminster - Nursery World Help us develop support for BME apprentices - Unionlearn How Wales' universities rank according to leading university guide - Wales Online Cambridge beats Oxford to top university guide's table - BBC Nottingham Trent University 'racist' video pair face charges - BBC New website resources to support children's communication - Nursery World Business start-up grants available for new childminders - Nursery World Commons Chamber: Opposition Day Debate on schools - Parliament Target extra pay at new teachers in shortage subjects, says EPI - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: Teacher labour market pressures - EPI Universities’ evolving role in the ethics of data and artificial intelligence - Wonkhe ASCL comment on teacher labour market report - ASCL 'Inadequate' £4.2 million free school to close 16 months after Tory schools minister cut ribbon - Mirror Schools sought for MELT carbon footprint project - SecEd Youth Sport Trust unveils national strategy to halt decline in physical wellbeing - SecEd Wales focuses on closing the gender gap in STEM study and careers - SecEd MPs launch cross-party SEND inquiry - SecEd Schools axe traditional clocks for digital ones - The Sun Four in 10 students in year 7 are being held back by limited vocabulary - SecEd Some inspectors are still asking to see evidence not required by Ofsted - SecEd Is selection and school choice hindering our work to close the education gap between rich and poor? - SecEd The school that shows good food is not just for posh kids | Aditya Chakrabortty - Guardian Top five ranking for St Andrews University in UK league table - Scotsman Schools scrapping traditional clocks because so many children can't tell the time - Mirror Would banning fast-food outlets near schools help tackle childhood obesity? - City AM St Andrews University among top five in UK - Herald Scotland Schools ‘teaching pupils part-time’ to cope with lack of support - Herald Scotland Parents who pursue right for extra classroom support for their children 'seen as troublemakers' - Herald Scotland Food and farming groups attack plans for veggie days in schools - Herald Scotland Deputy head and science teacher resign after ‘pupil caught them having sex’ - The Sun Minister pledges to do 'everything I can' to save the Open University - Mail Sexual violence guide created for Scottish universities - BBC Bell tolls for the old-fashioned school clock - Times Scotland: Third Gaelic school planned for Glasgow as demand surges - Times Scotland: Prizewinning pupils build bridges between UK and Russia - Times Ireland: Social media body-image obsession fuels school bullies - Times New teachers in shortage subjects ‘should be first in line’ for pay rises - Schools Week