News archive for 10th December 2018

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These are the hardest weeks in the life of a teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Head who falsely told pupils their GCSE had been regraded - Times Educational Supplement | TES Justine Greening and the people's goat – we're not kidding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: 11 things we learned about teacher vacancies - Times Educational Supplement | TES What teachers tapped this week #63 – 10th December 2018 - Teacher Tapp Helping teachers encourage female learners into STEM - Education & Training Foundation The school happiness standards agency - Teacher Toolkit High needs – fix the leaking pipe in school funding - Headteachers' Roundtable Women and girls less likely to be considered for 'brainy' tasks – study - Guardian Improving school accountability: the next steps - NAHT The real ‘added value’ in FE - AoC | Association of Colleges In pursuit of a secure base? Education commentary in times of socio-political uncertainty - BERA Mary Curnock Cook responds to Damian Hinds’s call for parity of esteem between technical and academic routes - HEPI What teachers tapped this week - Teacher Tapp Opportunity lost for UK as less than 1.5% of children have the chance to try inventing at school - Nesta ‘Boys on Track’: Improving support for white FSM-eligible and black Caribbean boys in London - LKMco How to lead a successful department - The Educator Obsession with grammar schools just leaves poor children behind | Letters - Guardian Amanda Spielman letter to the Public Accounts Committee: short inspection model review - Ofsted Supporting Exams Officers - Ofqual 16 to 18 traineeships performance-management point - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advanced learner loans facility requests - Education & Skills Funding Agency Independent special schools and colleges - DfE Teacher targets missed in key secondary school subjects - Herald Scotland How to fix Oxbridge’s biased admissions system | Letters - Guardian Teachers biased against black pupils and white boys from underprivileged backgrounds, report says - Independent Let pupils help design our school systems, says Unesco envoy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inspectors will spend more time in schools during short inspections, Spielman tells MPs - Schools Week Ofsted to replace Parent view to encourage feedback - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four secrets to a successful college merger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Inspection body 'closer than ever to teachers’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'don’t believe in the job any more' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental health: Inquiry urges removal of parental power to have children detained - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DfE tells councils to prioritise educational support for children in care - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Student slams 'sexist' rental firm for advertising rooms with half-naked woman - Mirror Shortage of science savvy primary teachers ‘a disaster’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: The minimum wage for apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Schools will be left 'exposed' by Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to reform teacher training to embed research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stephen Rollett: Ofsted's new framework will be better but it's no panacea - Times Educational Supplement | TES David Hughes: Post-18 review not an attack on universities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of apprenticeships hang in the balance as Interserve rescue plan prompts share collapse - FE Week Scotland: New routes into teaching fail to hit target - Times Educational Supplement | TES Faith schools restrict rather than expand parental choice - HuffPost New DfE research shows 'lasting negative impact' on attainment of children in need - Schools Week Scotland: Teachers 'unable to support pupils’ mental health’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ferret: Hinds' hair-raising joke falls flat - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fight to save closure-threatened Cymer Afan Comprehensive School is heading for the courts - Wales Online Scotland: Teachers ‘lack training’ to help pupils with mental health problems - Scotsman Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted AELP asks the government to listen to providers before withholding completion payments - FE Week Is it time to hop off the reading carousel? - Teacher Toolkit How primary schools are the key to fixing Oxbridge inequality - HuffPost How lonely are today’s students? - Wonkhe David Hughes: Calling a truce in the sector wars over Augar - Wonkhe Need to know: The GCSE national reference test - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hundreds of schools advised to 'cut back on content' in history - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hands-on experience inspires girls to explore tech jobs - Financial Times Movers and Shakers - FE Week Five years behind and starved of cash: Why children are leaving Welsh schools lacking key computer skills - Wales Online Medway school mulls single-gender primary extension - Schools Week Hundreds of teachers struggle with spelling, maths and knowledge of the curriculum - Mail Education Secretary vows to boost vulnerable children's outcomes - DfE Hinds vows to improve outcomes for vulnerable children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: 51% of teachers say work pressure has impacted their mental health - Mail DfE to advise teachers on how to speak to vulnerable pupils - Schools Week Grammar schools given £50m diversity cash have only 2% poor pupils - Times Student loan interest ‘must be scrapped’ - Times Scotland: Bursaries stem tide of teacher vacancies - Times Scotland: Student teacher intake increases three years running - Scottish Government The Post-18 Review of Education and Funding: A review of a lifetime - Campaign for Learning Scotland: Melanie Reid - Teachers are sitting ducks on ratings websites - Times Scotland: Half of teachers suffer mental health crises amid 'pressures of the job' - Herald Scotland