News archive for 30th April 2018

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Publication: HL Bill 98 (as amended in Committee) - UK Parliament School drops plans for early Friday closure after furious backlash from parents - Express Cambridge University lays bare the secrets of its library tower - Guardian ClassDojo: do we really need an app that could make classrooms overly competitive? - Guardian Employers urged to discriminate against job candidates from Eton in favour of state school applicants - Mirror Parents to receive advice on teaching nursery rhymes in bid to close disadvantaged children's word gap - Independent Leeds Beckett academic invited to help shape the way government tackles childhood obesity - Leeds Beckett University New free-for-schools magazine show for teens shines a spotlight on lesser known careers - Edge Foundation What teachers tapped last week #31 – 30th April 2018 - Teacher Tapp Mathematics early-career payments: guidance for teachers and schools - DfE 'Voting at 16 will help to build informed and engaged citizens' - Times Educational Supplement | TES College ran into financial issues after 'poor planning' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government must invest in lower-level vocational qualifications ahead of Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Join our secondary council - NAHT 30 hours' free childcare offer risks impacting quality of early years education - NAHT LA moderation of writing: moderation 'script' for 2018 - NAHT Office for Students publishes strategy and business plan - Office for Students Post-18 Review: 10 Points-of-Note on fixing the broken parts of our education and training system based on recent HEPI output - HEPI HEPI calls for an urgent reinvigoration of part-time learning before Brexit, more support for students’ living costs and a co-ordinated strategy for fighting ignorance about university life among those applying for higher education - HEPI ESFA: financial planning handbook and financial plan - Education & Skills Funding Agency High needs funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency Early years social mobility peer review programme - DfE Teachers' student loan reimbursement: guidance for teachers and schools - DfE Doubling in boarding school bursaries for disadvantaged pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can school leaders tackle teacher burnout? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Computers 'not making decisions' on Ofsted inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Weighing pupils in school isn't the way to improve children's health' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who cheated in GCSE PE controlled assessments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary drops plan to close on Friday afternoons to avoid teacher 'burnout' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to help pupils 'catch' new vocabulary and strengthen their ability to learn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish headteachers 'lack skills' to take on more powers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are happier than other professionals, research finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Daily roundup 30 April: Sajid Javid, Scottish childcare and Slough trust - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Council efforts to boost young children's literacy to be peer reviewed - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Women and girls groups to benefit from leadership programme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Calling East London Schools! Apply for free help with parental engagement - National Numeracy 5 tips to survive the exam season - Teacher Toolkit Named: The 92 academy trusts with multiple staff on £100k+ - Schools Week Open letter - Leading school organisations call for Brexit negotiators to consider impact on schools and pupils - British Council £5m fund to support early years home learning - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Perpetuating the existing order? - Sutton Trust Child poverty rise set to raise pressure on overstretched social services, research finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Did the Baby Boomers fulfil their childhood dreams? - IOE London Blog Nick Gibb responds re additional funding for the Careers and Enterprise company for expansion into SEND and primary schools - Parliament BloomsburyEd launches new online resource for early years practitioners - UKEdChat Lord Agnew responds re question about a lack of flexibility around the apprenticeship levy - Parliament Lord Agnew responds re the findings by TeachFirst that one in three children are not 'school ready' when starting primary school - Parliament Lord Agnew responds re number of children taking music subjects at GCSE since the English Baccalaureate was introduced - Parliament Schools that foster and harness staff commitment perform better - IOE London Blog John Stuart Mill: Doodles offer insight into philosopher's thought - BBC Scottish councils win extra funding for childcare expansion - Nursery World Longer deadlines and new exams to help university students hit by strike action - Evening Standard Fears of teaching differences in Scots schools - Scotsman Doomed free school handed £250k to help it close - Schools Week The top-ranking school where the kids decide what they learn - Wales Online Primary school's Friday lunchtime closure plan scrapped - BBC Industry calls for summit with Government to save Apprenticeship Levy - FE News DfE launches schemes to support early language development - Nursery World Ofsted inspectors issued with new guidance on Intergenerational co-location - Nursery World JS Mill scribbles reveal he was far from a chilly Victorian intellectual - Guardian Employers should discriminate against Etonians, Greening suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Multi-million fund to boost children's early language skills - DfE Considering the ‘leaky pipeline’- are we missing the point on leadership diversity? - Wonkhe The Office for Students’ business plan - Wonkhe Second-hand cultural capital: the role of schools in substantiating personal statements - Wonkhe Group litigation orders – separating fact from fiction - Wonkhe Vulnerable children and social care in England: a review of the evidence - EPI Need to know: Key stage 1 Sats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor children 'missing out as schools struggle to fund 30 hours childcare offer' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four in 10 manufacturers say FE providers not delivering - Times Educational Supplement | TES AELP welcomes Mayor’s engagement with providers on improving Londoners’ skills as AELP London is launched - FE News USA: Opinion today - America’s skills gap - Financial Times Schools without professional clerk are breaking government rules - Schools Week How to get young people to succeed in the world of work? Teach them how to listen. - FE News Ofsted’s new provider monitoring and subcontracting visits explained - FE Week End-Point Assessment: Crisis? What Crisis? - FE News DfE launches money-saving estate management guide - Schools Week Chance to celebrate achievements of the brightest stars in higher education - Herald Scotland Exam period under way for thousands of young Scots - Herald Scotland I used to hide at the back of the classroom, Children's Minister says - Telegraph The pupils who can't talk properly - Mail Nursery owners’ desperate measures to survive - Nursery World ‘Poor children excluded’ from nursery places - Nursery World Better. Bolder. Brighter – a new look for Nursery World - Nursery World Apprentice levy is not enough to train an engineer, say bosses - Times Scotland: Forest Kindergarten learning course for children to branch out - Times Scotland: Schools can learn a lesson from the French - Times £13.5 million schemes to help close disadvantaged children’s ‘word gap’ - Schools Week