News archive for 11th December 2018

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Legal challenge to Outwood Grange over use of 'consequences room' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lesson plans that bring engineering to life - Teacher Toolkit PISA for development: Results in focus - OECD 6 tips for end of term wellbeing - Teacher Toolkit Primary schools score poorly on curriculum quality - The Educator A graduate tax: the right solution for the wrong problem? - Wonkhe To cap it all off: Graduation decoration excitement - Wonkhe High potential landscapes: higher technical education in the UK - HEPI Integrating a parenting education programme into the primary and secondary school curriculum in Nigeria - BERA Tackling hate crime in higher education: lessons from Auschwitz - Universities UK Strike ballot at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University in row over job losses - UCU Latest information and updates from the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) - NAHT Robots and AI to replace doctors, lawyers and drivers - Leeds Beckett University Report on the CREATE curriculum framework in Studio Schools - Edge Foundation British Council muses on market volatility of global higher ed - PIE News Research team joins UNESCO plenary panel - Education Development Trust | EDT Employment Minister welcomes new UK employment record - GOV.UK SMC relaunch with 12 new commissioners and bigger research budget - GOV.UK Dstl tackles tech skills shortage - GOV.UK UK Hydrographic Office is Highly Commended at 2018 National Apprenticeship Awards - GOV.UK Struggling UK universities warn staff of possible job cuts - Guardian ESF funding rules - Education & Skills Funding Agency Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies accounts return - Education & Skills Funding Agency Curriculum research: assessing intent, implementation and impact - Ofsted SNP making little headway closing attainment gap between rich and poor pupils, official figures suggest - Telegraph Comedians asked to sign 'behavioural agreement' for Soas gig - Guardian A graduate tax: the right solution for the wrong problem? - Wonkhe Outwood Grange Academies Trust faces legal challenge over isolation booths - Schools Week Union urges Catholic school teachers to resist academy plans - Schools Week Scotland: Three in every ten pupils not at required literacy level - Scotsman Don’t diss private schools over Oxbridge entries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Redesigned RoATP to open tomorrow despite no delivery from 1 in 3 approved providers - FE Week Scotland: Treat national test results ‘with caution’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greening says 'no quick fix' to teacher shortages - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE figures reveal colleges hit hardest by move to apprenticeship levy funding - FE Week Scotland: Poorest pupils 'being failed badly’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fury over Harry Potter and the KS1 Sats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primaries rate poorly in Ofsted curriculum inspection trial - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman: 'New Ofsted inspections will not raise the bar' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Seven key findings on how Ofsted will inspect curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted research paves the way to a sunnier upland - Schools Week International students: universities must lead fight against intolerance of migrants - The Conversation Teacher supply and school funding on the agenda for new Social Mobility Commission team - Schools Week Three ways to engage parents in pupil wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Where's the public outcry over prison education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Southampton University vice-chancellor keeps £423k salary despite backlash from thousands of students - Independent Adult education budget (AEB) devolution - Education & Skills Funding Agency Technology 'could end summer exam season' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Move over, Calendar Girls: male college staff bare all - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Poor pupils lagging behind richer classmates in literacy and numeracy - Herald Scotland Amanda Spielman: Commentary on curriculum research - phase 3 - Ofsted Accountability measures and marketisation at odds with developing employability skills says new report - Edge Foundation Why women who go to university are winning - Financial Times Pupil brings legal action against school's isolation units - Guardian Self-explanation may be more effective than presenting pupils with an explanation - Institute for Effective Education Parental engagement programme has mixed impacts in early education - Institute for Effective Education Planning ahead for summer - Institute for Effective Education Do pupils benefit from longer school days? - Institute for Effective Education Spielman: Curriculum research shows we won't be fooled by leaders 'talking a good game' - Schools Week Scotland: Teacher numbers hit highest level this decade - Times Educational Supplement | TES New publication: Apprenticeships for existing staff - Unionlearn Annual Enrolments at grant aided schools in Northern Ireland 2018/19 - Department for Education (Northern Ireland) Making Horrible Histories - Guardian Ofsted research finds schools in poorest areas have best curriculum - Schools Week Nearly half of primaries score poorly on curriculum quality, new Ofsted study shows - Schools Week Jisc to merge with Eduserv - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jisc and Eduserv to merge and form UK public sector tech powerhouse - Jisc Fourth Industrial Revolution and the role of education examined - Commons Select Committee Bohemian private school in area of child poverty divides residents - Guardian ‘Hardest time of the year’: the students who will spend Christmas alone - Guardian VAT on fees would be nail in the coffin for small independent schools - FE News Peter Scott: Who’s the minister who could kill or save a university? Oh dear, a Thatcherite - Guardian Lauren Brown: You’re hired! An apprenticeship can be just as good as uni - Scotsman Buying Christmas gifts for teachers - Financial Times The financial plumbing of university education - Financial Times Young highly sceptical of social mobility - BBC Only one in seven young people think they have best chance of social mobility, survey finds - Independent Schools 'doing too little on social mobility' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Relaunched Social Mobility Commission finds 'deep unease' about gap between rich and poor - Nursery World Social Mobility Commission to relaunch with £2m research budget - Schools Week