News archive for 7th December 2018

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New IOE research centre aims to improve children’s lives through pedagogy - IOE London Blog Parental engagement - keep your plans simple, clear and focused - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Effective engagement - Research Schools Network Is Ofsted blaming schools for DfE problems? - Times Educational Supplement | TES November GCSE resit entries up by over 50% - Times Educational Supplement | TES £20 million to boost creative industries across England - GOV.UK In the news 7 December 2018 - UCU AELP appoints its first Devolution Director - AELP School funding remains Ofsted's elephant in the room - NAHT The ​government's autism strategy has been extended to cover children and young people - NAHT Cambridge gives role to academic accused of racist stereotyping - Guardian Private schools are 'socialism in action', conference told - Telegraph Finding young people’s voices in EHCPs - LKMco End of the lullaby as younger parents eschew the bedtime ritual, survey finds - Telegraph Hundreds of academics demand Cambridge investigate researcher accused of publishing 'racist pseudoscience' - Independent The Institute for Apprenticeships appoints Paul Cadman as permanent chair for Quality Assurance Committee - FE News New hope for Cardiff's threatened Glan-yr-Afon Primary as council reviews closure plans - Wales Online ESFA names 9 organisations to roll out £2.3m cost-cutting consultant expansion - Schools Week Tomsett returning to headship after escaping ban over affair with ex-pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Letters: Further education sector has been failed across the board - Guardian Parental engagement ‘terrifying’ for many families - Times Educational Supplement | TES A glimpse into the post-calculator world. Could an adult pass KS2 SATs? - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Tomsett will return to Huntington School after misconduct inquiry - Schools Week The TES Podcast: Off-rolling, TAs and parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils sent home after saying they were made ill by fumes on school bus - Wales Online Who is really benefitting from apprenticeships? - Times Educational Supplement | TES IfA appoints Dame Asha replacement as chair of subcommittee - FE Week Let's be honest about why so many teachers quit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE Podcast: How to prevent college dropouts - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA extends Schools Resource Management Adviser pilot - Education & Skills Funding Agency Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 7 December - Pearson Ofsted watch: Three providers improve to 'good' - FE Week South Wales nursery group expands - Nursery World Trailblazer group alarm over funding band reviews - FE Week Conference to address early years recruitment crisis - Nursery World Oxbridge needs to guarantee places for the best state school pupils - Guardian 'Unacceptable' 26% ethnic minority pay gap at Russell Group universities must be tackled - UCU AELP appoints a devolution director to represent independent training providers - FE Week NAHT holds crisis summit on SEND funding - Nursery World The apprenticeship levy is public money that needs priorities – before it runs out - FE Week Asian Apprenticeship Awards: the winners - FE Week Damian Hinds reacts to concerns that spend on apprenticeships is soaring - FE Week Call for early years student researchers - Nursery World Access to Advantage - Russell Group Beyond the gate: Addressing gang violence - Teacher Toolkit New guidance report published: Working with parents to support children’s learning - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF 8 schools send as many pupils to Oxbridge as three-quarters of all schools - Sutton Trust Mental health in English preschool children - EPI Just 8 'top schools' win more Oxbridge places than 2,900 others - Times Educational Supplement | TES Weekly texts and 7 other ways for schools to engage parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND funding crisis 'close to risking school safety' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Surge in pupils seeking help over anxiety - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister owned shares in firm recruited for DfE schools deal - Times Educational Supplement | TES First ever drop in TA numbers a 'serious problem' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trust praised by ministers tops suspensions tables in Ofsted’s areas of concern - Schools Week Teachers are having to fund clothes, shoes and travel costs for pupils in need - Financial Times ‘This is about social mobility’: Academy trust boss defends exclusions record - Schools Week A mercenary academic produced dodgy data to sabotage my case | Anonymous academic - Guardian The teachers asking pupils to make the case for Christmas have a lesson for us all | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Ethnic minority academics earn less than white colleagues - BBC Analysis: Expanding grammar schools will still ‘lag behind’ in support for poorer pupils - Schools Week Top-rated schools and grammars pocket the most in parental donations - Schools Week Wonkhe Weekly – E11. New minister, student rent, racial harassment - Wonkhe The all new 2019 fictional universities ranking - Wonkhe A radical rethink on student accommodation - Wonkhe Other people’s children – Hinds on technical education - Wonkhe Why the MadeAtUni campaign matters - Wonkhe Thousands of children miss more than 14 school days a year in hospital - Mail Eight top private schools dominate Oxbridge admissions - Schools Week Oxbridge 'over-recruits from eight schools' - BBC Eight of Britain's most elite schools sent 1,310 students to Oxbridge in three years, while 2,894 schools combined only sent 1,220 - Mail Kids upset after Christian charity worker 'said Santa was not real at assembly' - Mirror Slump in apprenticeships is a disaster, bosses warn - Times Rooms with a loo woo most students as NUS hits out on rents - Times Eton and Westminster among eight schools dominating Oxbridge - Guardian Cambridge dons revolt over ‘racist’ fellow’s role - Times Eight schools send more to Oxbridge than 2,800 rivals - Times Rise in children seeking help to kick Xanax habit - Times Third of children exercise for less than 30 minutes a day - Times Rooms with a loo woo most students as NUS hits out on rents - Times GCSE students deserve results they can trust | Julian Thomas - Times Scotland: Schools told to cater for vegans or risk court - Times Murdered lecturer John Dowling ‘would hate Le Pen’s reaction’ - Times Elite schools send more students to Oxbridge than 2,900 schools combined - HuffPost