News archive for 12th December 2018

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University vice chancellor with £433,000 salary spends 30 days a year doing other paid jobs - Mail UKEdMag: What can I offer as a governor? - UKEdChat Studying abroad gives graduates an edge in the job market, says new research - British Council How much Pupil Premium funding are primary schools missing out on? - FFT Education Datalab Second round of £5 million Taking Teaching Further opens - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Sutton Trust respond to Social Mobility Commission relaunch - Sutton Trust Independent Commission highlights urgent need to focus on skills and lifelong learning in a changing economy - Pearson FastFeedback questions: A new teaching method - Advance HE Google to fund charities to tackle youth violence - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Apprenticeship End Point Assessment - teething problems or looming car crash? - NFER When the levy breaks - HEPI AELP throws weight behind trailblazer’s Business Administration level 2 apprenticeship standard - AELP A beginner’s guide to medical education - Wonkhe Job cut fears at struggling universities - The Educator Making the most of staff meetings - Teacher Toolkit Things supply teachers should be given by all schools - The Educator Powerhouse praise for Sellafield apprenticeships - GOV.UK Ofsted could give schools just 150 minutes' notice - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We have a chance to build a truly integrated system' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Attainment in Scottish Higher exams falls for third straight year - Scotsman Thousands protest against grammar school plans to prioritise poorer pupils and local children - Independent Provider to challenge ‘inadequate’ grade after Ofsted found copy and paste assignments - FE Week Ofsted Early Years Pedagogy and Practice Forum members announced - Ofsted ESFA Update: 12 December 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: update - Education & Skills Funding Agency School teachers and university bosses issue Budget warnings - Herald Scotland Funding for academic year 2019 to 2020 for students and learners aged over 16 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Post 16 funding arrangements published for 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 19+ funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Formula protection funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 education: funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Register of apprenticeship training providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency The collapse of democracy in England’s schools | Letters - Guardian Teachers' leaders say Scottish budget 'disappointing' on education - Mail Raheem Sterling is right, newspapers are fuelling racism – but education can change that - HuffPost The class divide in Oxbridge interviews | Letters - Guardian Trying to improve racial diversity in the media | Letters - Guardian Second round of T-levels teacher programme opens - FE Week ESFA finally launches ‘tougher’ apprenticeship provider register - FE Week Three UK teachers shortlisted for million dollar ‘world’s best teacher’ prize - Independent Global profession. Global message. - Headguruteacher Second round of £5 million Taking Teaching Further programme open - DfE Sixth form funding rates to remain unchanged in 2019-20 - Schools Week 16 to 18 funding to remain frozen for seventh year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Evidence of grade inflation in applied generals, says Ofqual - Times Educational Supplement | TES What did I learn at private school? They should be abolished - Guardian What price Nick Gibb as the next education secretary? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 16-19 funding rates to remain unchanged in 2019/20 - FE Week Banned: Teacher who sent sexual email to former pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exams boards told to ‘strengthen controls’ after ‘unwarranted’ rise in BTEC grades - Schools Week Strengthening vocational and technical qualifications - Ofqual Post 16 funding arrangements published for 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Awarding bodies told to ‘strengthen controls’ on applied generals after ‘unwarranted’ rise in grades - FE Week Teachers don’t understand the depth of dyslexia - The Conversation Sturgeon accused of failing Scottish children: Shocking failure of SNP primary curriculum - Express Ofsted must remember that primaries and secondaries operate very differently - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK loans review set to dispel ‘fiscal illusions’ and hike deficit - Times Higher Education | THE Bradford blames ‘market-driven’ woes for £12 million deficit - Times Higher Education | THE Caroline Henshaw: Will Brexit hurt UK private schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Storal Learning nursery group adds three settings - Nursery World UK universities must recruit more white working class students or face the punishment, education secretary warns - Mail The 50 academy trusts that cut chief executive pay - Schools Week The experts on Ofsted's early years forum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted Early Years Pedagogy and Practice Forum members named - Nursery World Will Gompertz on art, education and creativity - Montrose42 Scottish culture ‘put at risk’ by fees for music lessons, industry warns - Scotsman ‘Our pupils are the triumph of Scottish education’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three ways to transform our skills system - Times Educational Supplement | TES School attainment gap between rich and poor could take decades to close in Scotland - Herald Scotland Scotland: Children from deprived areas struggling to meet literacy and numeracy targets - Mail Literacy scheme ‘hides decline in teacher numbers’ in Scotland - Times Scots shy away from sex education - Times Council prosecuted parents after pupil, 15, couldn't attend classes due to anxiety - HuffPost