News archive for 31st August 2018

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‘She deserves an education’: outcry as academy excludes 41% of pupils - Guardian Dozens of secondary schools exclude at least 20% of pupils - Guardian Essay writing services must be banned to stop cheating, say academics - Guardian Grammar school ordered to tweak admissions policy following second home row - Schools Week Colleges in uproar as CITB tries to protect management fees with ‘reverse subcontracting’ deal - FE Week Uniform supplier School Trends leaves pupils in the lurch before new school term - Schools Week The failed spacing effect 30 years later (part 1) - Learning Scientists Rewards don’t improve school attendance - UKEdChat Effective time management for teachers - UKEdChat Characteristics of Effective Learning will remain statutory, DfE confirms - Early Education Ministers urged to avert school places 'emergency' as thousands of kids set to miss out - PoliticsHome Administration of mathematics early-career payments - DfE On the eve of the controversial T-level tender – when, how and why? - FE Week Pastoral skills: how to develop? - The Educator New Government toolkit helps schools cut costs - The Educator A handy guide to the DfE’s new cost-saving toolkit - Schools Week 'Telling staff the cupboard is bare will not work' - UCU NEU comment on the Local Government Association’s (LGA) analysis into the lack of secondary school places - National Education Union NEU comment on the DfE's School Resource Management Strategy - National Education Union Data protection: toolkit for schools - DfE School places shortage 'to affect half of councils within five years' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted watch: Loans-funded provider branded ‘inadequate’ - FE Week Is studying the arts the preserve of the middle classes? - Guardian ESFA: Inform August 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency How not to solve a teacher shortage: pay more for maths and science | Lola Okolosie - Guardian Schools won’t have to contribute to early career bonuses for maths teachers - Schools Week Lord Agnew resigns as Inspiration Trust director - Schools Week Calls for action over UK's 'intolerable' child mental health crisis - Guardian Parents’ views on apprenticeships are changing…depending on which study you read - FE News Cheshire-based Elmscot expands and starts out-of-school franchise - Nursery World Independent special schools and colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency An open letter to the school that has so helped my son - HuffPost Consultation response re the administration of mathematics early-career payments - DfE Food banks offer school uniforms to struggling families - Financial Times Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in August 2018 - Pearson Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 31 August - Pearson Students in Wales are facing higher debts than ever before - Wales Online Early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers - National College for Teaching & Leadership National supply teacher agency database now available for schools - Schools Week School land: decisions about disposals - Education & Skills Funding Agency Data protection: toolkit for schools - DfE Supporting excellent school resource management - DfE Deal for schools: hiring supply teachers and agency workers - DfE Statistics at DfE - DfE Deals for schools - DfE More support to help schools with costs - DfE Risk protection arrangement for academies: join and get support - DfE Cuts in PE and PSHE prompt pupil health fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for the right to be taught in Gaelic - Times Educational Supplement | TES College leaders ‘want to boost staff pay’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding the biggest worry for college leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprentices call on DfE to reverse funding cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds - ‘Evidence shows grammars boost social mobility’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Arts slashed as core subjects take over - Times Educational Supplement | TES Majority of councils predict shortfall in secondary places - Times Educational Supplement | TES School workforce planning - DfE Ethics dumping: the exploitative side of academic research | Doris Schroeder - Guardian Apprenticeships: How will cutting rates improve quality? - FE News Why do IfA want to destroy degree apprenticeships? - FE News Employers join forces to overturn ‘highly-damaging’ funding rate cuts for popular management apprenticeships - FE Week England faces school places emergency, say councils - Guardian Employers outraged as Institute for Apprenticeships threatens crippling cuts to apprenticeship funding - FE News Trends in school spending: 2002 to 2016 - DfE Risk protection arrangement for academy trusts: membership rules - DfE Pupils could be taught in larger classes and more temporary buildings amid ‘emergency’ shortfall of school places - Independent We’ll help you cut costs, Hinds tells schools - Schools Week It’s the taking part that counts as competition gets the sack from school sports days - Times Flock and awe: King’s College wages war on geese - Times Energy drink makers accused of bending rules to target children - Times Ampleforth College, Catholic school in abuse scandal, picks first woman head teacher - Times Too few secondary places for pupils in five years - Times A low mark for education secretary’s savings tips - Times Scotland: University inquiry ordered after professor quits in cronyism row - Times Ireland: Ban children from buying energy drinks, say doctors - Times Pressure on school places: Up to 134,00 face missing out on place in the next five years as council leaders declare an 'emergency' - Mail