News archive for 13th December 2018

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Limit teaching days to help commuter students, says report - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities accepting more students with low grades - Times Higher Education | THE Collaborate to innovate: funding for business-academic projects - GOV.UK Oxford University: Surveillance Camera Code Compliant - GOV.UK State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Open University issues warning over £30 million deficit - Times Higher Education | THE Multi-academy trusts: summary evaluations - Ofsted Primary school accountability - DfE MAT summary evaluations: Damian Hinds writes to Ofsted - DfE Statistics: key stage 2 - DfE Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE Key stage 2 and multi-academy trust performance, 2018 (revised) - DfE Sustainable improvement in multi-school groups - DfE Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2018 - DfE Pupil nationality, country of birth and proficiency in English: 2018 - DfE Statistics: performance tables - DfE National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2017 (revised) - DfE Prevent and counter-extremism in general further education colleges - DfE Approaches to assessment without levels in schools - DfE Ofqual reports relating to GCSEs, AS and A levels in summer 2018 - Ofqual Gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers narrows - DfE Blazing a Trail with National Apprenticeship Week 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Prevent referrals from education rise 24% - Schools Week Secondaries asking for pupil data every two weeks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most MATs 'won't be assessed by Ofsted' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Low-performing MATs most likely to tell teachers how to teach - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Have support-staff numbers dropped? Who knows?’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poorer primary school students narrow Sats test gap - Guardian Oxbridge's pledge to support estranged students is a step forward for inclusivity - HuffPost Poor primary-school pupils to lag richer classmates until 2070 - Times Fife Council to become first in Scotland to scrap controversial P1 tests - Mail Decline in Scotland’s teacher numbers ‘hidden’ by scheme - The Educator To smile or not to smile? - Teacher Toolkit Reach 2 pledges ‘significant changes’ at Sprites academy after DfE threatens funding termination - Schools Week World's best teacher award sees three UK candidates on shortlist for $1m prize - Mirror New primary school data for England has been published by the government - BBC IfA consulting on content for five new T-level pathways - FE Week How can primaries offer a broad curriculum and still get literacy right? - Schools Week England's worst primary schools revealed - Mirror Scrapping ‘levels’ led to confusion between schools, warns new research - Schools Week England's best and worst primary schools - Mail Hinds urges Ofsted to ensure new MAT evaluations aren’t ‘undue burdens’ - Schools Week Scotland: Council scraps controversial tests for five-year-olds - Herald Scotland Exeter University law society disbanded after students posted ‘racist’ WhatsApp messages - Independent Mother's anger after her nine-year-old son is left without education for four months - Mail Big drop in exam security breaches despite high-profile social media leaks - Schools Week Apprenticeships policy risks ‘spinning out of control’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Secret Supply Teacher: 'I don't miss much about full-time teaching' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Ofsted is the biggest bully in our playgrounds' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds sets limits for Ofsted MAT inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES T-level content consultation launched - Times Educational Supplement | TES What ‘burnout’ taught me about being a happy teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES End of national curriculum levels has 'undermined' teacher confidence - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early phonics achievers three times more likely to ace KS2 reading test - Schools Week Primary school tables: Poor pupils won't catch up for 50 years - BBC Maths scores up in GCSE national reference test - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils penalised for phones in GCSE and A-level exam rooms up 22% - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 350 primaries below Sats floor target - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reviews challenging GCSE marks up by 4% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly third of phonics 'failures' go on to reading success - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of 11-year-old pupils achieving expected standards rises again - Mail Free infant meals could have cost primaries £67m in pupil premium - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Surprisingly few’ MATs have strategy to cut teacher workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam social media activity doubled in 2018 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Teachers’ mental health under ‘immense pressure’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school league table 2018: Search and compare the best primary schools in your area - Telegraph Call for clarity on apprenticeship levy brokerage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual reports 23% decline in GCSE grades changed at marking review - Schools Week Exam malpractice: Drop in penalties for staff as mobile phone breaches soar - Schools Week Fewer primary schools below floor standard, but more are coasting - Schools Week National Reference Test results: Maths scores rise but no change for English language - Schools Week Mum's despair as son, 9, out of school for six months after moving house - Mirror Pupil nationality data: Controversial collection misses data for more than million pupils - Schools Week Uni places for 80% of pupils with DDD grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three UK teachers in running for Global Teacher Prize - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges told to improve access for HE students by 2038 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lords debates challenges facing young people - UK Parliament Campaigning for #BetterApprenticeships - Sutton Trust MillionPlus welcomes new HEPI report ‘Homeward Bound: Defining, understanding and aiding ‘commuter students’ - MillionPlus Regulating access and participation - Russell Group More support needed for ‘commuter students’, says new report - HEPI Homeward Bound: Defining, understanding and aiding ‘commuter students’ - HEPI How OfS will regulate access and participation - Wonkhe The uncomfortable truth of access evaluation - Wonkhe Driving home for Christmas? Commuting as a symptom of student disadvantage - Wonkhe Students who commute to university are getting a raw deal | David Morris - Guardian Bradford music teacher shortlisted for $1m global education prize - Guardian University acceptance rates for students with lower grades on the rise - Guardian England's primary school league tables to be published - BBC More students with lower A-level grades admitted to university, figures show - Independent Who is Andrew Moffat – one of three teachers shortlisted for ‘world’s best teacher’ prize? - Independent With three D grades at A-level, 80% got university places - BBC Record proportion of English and Scottish 18 year olds accepted into university - UCAS Fee-hungry universities lower bar to entry - Times There’s nothing funny about student censors | Naomi Firsht - Times