News archive for 30th August 2018

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England's schools face 'severe' teacher shortage - BBC School places shortage will affect thousands of kids over next five years amid population boom - Mirror Ofqual ‘closely monitoring’ investigation by awarding organisation into ‘copy and paste’ assessments - FE Week DfE to spend £2.3m on new army of cost-cutting consultants - Schools Week Skills minister on hunt for apprentice but excludes applicants with GCSE grade 4 (a pass) - FE Week Physics teachers should be paid more to attract and retain talent – report - Guardian Scotland: Teachers accuse councils of ‘procrastination’ over pay - Herald Scotland CBI Scotland and STUC join forces to highlight upskilling and retraining needs ahead of Programme for Government - CBI Major step forward in NASUWT campaign to protect children from energy drink harms - NASUWT Grammar and creativity in the English national curriculum - BERA Schools are facing a ‘severe teacher shortage’ - The Educator Behaviour management for NQTs: Term 1 - Teacher Toolkit Further education and skills inspection handbook - Ofsted Ofsted calls for early years experts - Ofsted DfE announces national unit to tackle child exploitation - CYPN | Children & Young People Now In the September edition of CYP Now: Civil Society Strategy; training guide; and focus on exploitation - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government to ban sale of energy drinks to children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now IfA funding band review: Healthcare standard set for 67 per cent funding increase - FE Week Coming full circle - Sutton Trust Education secretary visit buoys ELT sector - PIE News ‘Wake-up’ call for Edinburgh as pupil spending is hit hard - SecEd Investigation after school holiday asbestos discovery was forgotten - SecEd All SET for teaching success! Why Ellie swapped engineering for the FE classroom - Education & Training Foundation | ETF The results are in… so what next? - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2019 to 2020 - DfE National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2018 to 2019 - DfE Report reveals regional variation in teacher quality - Schools Week 'Our young, talented pupils are addicted to energy drinks' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted calls for early years experts - Nursery World ‘I wouldn’t accept college place even if I was offered it’, says dwarf learner at centre of rejection row - FE Week Will there be an energy drink ban in the UK and how old do you need to be to buy Red Bull and Monster? - The Sun Quarter of students know someone at university who they believe is an alcoholic, survey finds - Independent EAL learners – five facts, five things you need to know and five things you can do to support them - The Bell Foundation The power of apprentices as a route to business growth: 5 reasons why apprentices make good business sense - FE News 'Mock slave auction' at Bath school 'instilled fear' in locals – charity - Guardian Students distraught after college blames T-level preparation for last minute decision to dump all A-level courses - FE Week Ofsted calls for early years experts - FE News Children banned from buying caffeine-laden energy drinks - Times Union admits 'massive hurdle' over pay action - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are you ready for new safeguarding legislation? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's an unspeakable privilege to be a teacher' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Easing the retention crisis is about CPD – not pay Instead of higher salarie - Times Educational Supplement | TES GDPR and exam results: What do schools need to know? - Schools Week University students with mental illnesses are falling through the gaps - The Conversation Energy drink ban plan ‘long overdue’ - Schools Week Term dates 2018-2019: When do kids go back to school, plus half term, Christmas and Easter holiday dates - Evening Standard Salary supplements 'could halt teacher shortages in England' - Guardian Calls for cancer symptoms to be taught in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary pupils harassed with naked adult images - Times Educational Supplement | TES Class sizes rise as recruitment crisis bites - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds offers schools no hope of extra funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES How not to spend it – DfE advice for skint schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Why the NUS supports a People’s Vote on Brexit' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Caution over drop in numbers sitting language exams - SecEd The teacher labour market in England: shortages, subject expertise and incentives - EPI ‘Flawed policy’ excludes Shetland’s poorest - SecEd Addressing the needs of the teacher labour market: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Public asked for views on banning energy drink sales to children - GOV.UK New funding package means less cash and higher debts for Welsh students - HEPI HEPI Policy Note 8 Is ‘progressive universalism’ the answer? The new student funding arrangements in Wales - HEPI Jonathan Wood: Pilot scheme will include mental health training for student teachers - Scotsman John Swinney: Boys’ Brigade helps Scotland be best place in world for kids - Scotsman Behaviour management: Teaching pupils emotional intelligence - FE News ‘Posh boys’: How English independent schools still run Britain - FE News Brexit expected to boost UK apprenticeship programme - Financial Times Talks to ban sale of energy drinks to children - Express Quarter of students know someone at university who they believe is an alcoholic, survey finds - Independent England's schools face 'severe' teacher shortage - BBC England faces growing challenge to recruit enough highly qualified teachers, report says - Independent The epidemic of sexual assaults in our schools - Mail England struggling to find teachers as soaring numbers quit profession – with 17 pupils for every teacher - The Sun Children in England to be banned from buying energy drinks such as Red Bull and Monster amid health concerns - HuffPost 7 things we learned from EPI’s ‘Teacher Labour Market in England’ report - Schools Week Hand out bonuses ‘further and faster’ to get teachers into shortage subjects and deprived areas, says EPI - Schools Week Poorest students in Wales to get less financial support and debts to rise, study says - Independent Children banned from buying caffeine-laden energy drinks - Times Pupils aged 5 sent to referral unit where gang stabbed boy - Times Teachers will keep leaving unless schools change | John Blake - Times A child in every classroom has received a naked image - Times Apps help self-harming teenagers ride out waves of emotion - Times Scotland: Schoolfriends join protest against deportation of Pakistani Christians - Times One child in every primary school classroom has received a nude image from an adult - HuffPost