News archive for 3rd December 2018

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Wales: Parents queue from 4am in freezing weather to get children breakfast club places - Mirror George Soros-backed university 'forced out' of Hungary - Mail Fifteen children 'stabbed with needle' by fellow pupil at school in Wales - Mirror School inspections: Nick Gibb letter to Ofsted - DfE English Baccalaureate (EBacc) - DfE New guidance to help parents avoid unsafe out-of-school settings - DfE Thousands of new places created in Outstanding schools - DfE Selective Schools Expansion Fund: successful applications, 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Register of apprenticeship training agencies - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: Inform - Education & Skills Funding Agency French high school students blasted with tear gas in protests - Mail Avoid ‘uncritical use’ of PISA scores, researchers warn ministers - Schools Week Student activists object to NUS plans to get rid of diversity officers - Guardian ESFA handed over £250,000 AFTER disgraced training provider went bust - FE Week Michelle Obama revisits London school that inspired education drive - Mail Final Say: Two-thirds of students demand referendum on Brexit deal - Independent French schoolkids tear-gassed by cops as firefighters clash with riot police a day after ‘worst Paris riots in 50 years’ - The Sun ‘Back-office staff as important as teachers’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE wants Ofsted to inspect more outstanding schools – but won’t drop exemption - Schools Week What Macbeth can tell us about data use in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Michelle Obama sprinkles pupils with her magic dust - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police urge private schools to run Google checks on 'suspect' parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: Amanda Spielman - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gibb tells Ofsted to inspect 10% of outstanding schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted accused of moving towards 'telling schools what to do' - Times Educational Supplement | TES If education funding isn't in crisis, it's still heading for a catastrophe - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE wants Ofsted to inspect more ‘outstanding’ colleges – but won’t drop exemption - FE Week Education’s value to society is lost amid focus on graduate salaries | Letters - Guardian Orban’s Hungary drives out university founded by George Soros - Times Ofsted finds no off-the-job training at care sector apprenticeship provider - FE Week UK Government announces 2019 Marshall Scholarship winners and largest class in scholarship history - GOV.UK Visits to English schools by the Secretary of State - Teacher Toolkit Investigative science lesson plans for Northern Ireland pupils based on TIMSS 2015 - NFER Why 17 December will be a crucial day for UK higher education - HEPI The challenge of researching dialogic interactions in digital classroom contexts - BERA BERA in 2018 (infographic) - BERA What teachers tapped this week #62 – 3rd December 2018 - Teacher Tapp Children perform better when parents are involved in school life - UKEdChat Lord Porter: Without new funding, we face a looming crisis in supporting children with SEND - PoliticsHome Closing legal loophole will help protect children from harm - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government proposes voluntary safeguarding code for out-of-school settings - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UCU partners with university to improve disabled scientists' careers - UCU Why do we treat early years teachers as second class? - NAHT Evidence session on Horizon 2020 after Brexit - UK Parliament Plymouth university students' union votes to leave NUS - BBC Cardiff University is cutting jobs as it faces a £21m deficit caused by funding cuts and rising costs - Wales Online Campaigners criticise £50m fund for grammar schools expansion - Guardian Private schools should tell police if parents try to pay fees in cash, NCA chief says - Telegraph ScotRail ends free travel for school children after Christmas - Scotsman Another batch of apprenticeship standards up for funding band reviews - FE Week Levy budget bust: Government agency warns of imminent apprenticeship over-spend - FE Week 'Dark day for freedom': Soros-affiliated university quits Hungary - Guardian University 'forced out' from Budapest - BBC Sixteen grammars win funds to expand - BBC Government gives 16 grammar schools in England a share of £50m funding pot to expand - Independent London nurseries to trial air filtration systems - Nursery World Careers and Enterprise Company ‘ludicrously wasteful’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mother of Kyle Tolley, 22, who died by suicide criticises Brunel University over 'failure' support - HuffPost Do children succeed despite or because of what we do? - The Learning Spy Five things grammars say they will do to improve access - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted criticised for 'unreliable' wellbeing survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES What will happen to Erasmus+ funding after Brexit? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher pay strikes could target key SNP figures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two reasons why your feedback sessions aren’t working - Times Educational Supplement | TES The DfE must rise to the challenge of the teacher recruitment crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds gives 16 grammars funding to expand - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar schools ease entry rules for share of £50m building fund - Times Wales: Inclusive action plan to increase apprenticeship opportunities for disabled people - Welsh Government Sajid Javid says attack on Jamal reminded him of racist abuse he received at school - Mirror Scotland: Teachers plan to go on strike in Nicola Sturgeon’s Glasgow Southside constituency - Express DfE names 16 grammar schools that will split £50m expansion cash - Schools Week Halfon blasts Careers and Enterprise Company for their ‘magic money tree’ - FE Week School closed after 60 pupils and 5 staff stricken by mystery illness - Mirror School bullies attacked me too, says Sajid Javid - Times What is engineering? - Teacher Toolkit How to improve student vocabulary - The Educator Need to know: Amanda Spielman - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police urge private schools to run Google checks on 'suspect' parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Duvet days boost retention, says academy trust CEO - Schools Week Movers and shakers: Edition 263 - FE Week How hostile rhetoric at the top leads to playground bullying | Nesrine Malik - Guardian How DfE can better support colleges in crisis - FE Week Grade inflation? Don’t do a disservice to our determined new generation of students - FE News Skills priorities and challenges in Scotland: Tom talks to Aileen Ponton for Skills World - FE News Exam board marking league tables delayed by monitoring concerns - Schools Week The OfS data strategy: a coming of age? - Wonkhe The imp in the machine - Wonkhe The authority to close a university or bail it out? - Wonkhe Scotland: Warning over future of music exams as schools face new fees - Herald Scotland Cost of accommodation at top universities soars by up to 77% during the past decade - HuffPost Careers advisers condemned for wasting money - Times Stop potty shaming us, parents tell Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman - Times Pupils dig deep to turn the tide against plastic - Times Fee reform is crucial if universities are to retain their global standing | Mark Littlewood - Times Scotland: Universities reject straight-A Scottish pupils - Times Sixteen grammar schools to get 4,000 extra pupils - Mail