News archive for 14th December 2018

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Council survey: 30 hours offer limits disadvantaged two-year-old places - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scotland: ‘Scrapping our national tests for 5-year-olds makes little sense’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Ofsted, and how to teach spelling - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'The university admissions system belongs to a different era' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the woman making 'The Difference' for vulnerable pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Consented addresses for childminders and domestic childcare - Ofsted Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 March 2018 - Ofsted Condition Improvement Fund - DfE School capital funding allocations - DfE Academy sponsor contact list - DfE Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE Key stage 2 and multi-academy trust performance, 2018 (revised) - DfE Colleges and higher education institutions notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: Inform - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies financial notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: current notices of concern - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA funded adult education budget 2019 to 2020 illustrative allocations issued - Education & Skills Funding Agency EEF publishes new evaluation reports, including two focused on improving maths - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF The importance of poetry and reading between the lines | Letters - Guardian Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 14 December - Pearson Don’t write off academic slow-starters | Letters - Guardian In the news: 14 December 2018 - UCU What to do at level 2? A reflection on Ofsted's Level 2 Study Programme research - AoC | Association of Colleges How universities can help solve the UK’s shortage of nurses - Universities UK The power of … pausing - UKEdChat Scotland: Council attacked for ‘political games’ over P1 testing - Herald Scotland Beyond the gate: The challenges of youth violence - Teacher Toolkit The worst primary schools in England revealed - The Educator Is family support essential to getting into selective universities? - Wonkhe The past, present and future of higher technical skills - Wonkhe Haldane and the birth of the modern HE sector - Wonkhe Why all students should do some Accounting - HEPI How RE teachers see religion – and why it can be bad for pupils - The Conversation Cheating university students face FBI-style crackdown - BBC Cuckoo Hall Academy threatened with funding termination - Schools Week The roots of Rosenshine’s Principles - Teacherhead Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 14 December - Pearson We’ve got the degrees, so why do Muslim women struggle to get jobs? | Aina Khan - Guardian Ofsted Watch: Three providers rated ‘good’ in first inspections - FE Week AoC fears college apprenticeships market share will shrink further - FE Week FC Barcelona teams up with Edinburgh University to offer online courses - Herald Scotland Tes FE Podcast: The FE leadership challenge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher talk: ‘Why we need to talk better, not less’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Surge in parents appealing over special needs provision - Times Educational Supplement | TES Check ‘consistency’ when considering reviews of coursework marking, schools told - Schools Week The ESFA may regret rejecting the IfA’s levy budget concerns - FE Week Cash-strapped council plans to axe children's centre teachers - Nursery World Bailout cash will still be available under new insolvency regime - FE Week ESFA insists the apprenticeship budget is not under pressure - FE Week MBA apprenticeships defended by their biggest provider - FE Week 'Racist' law society disbanded by University of Exeter - BBC England's worst primary schools revealed - Express 3aaa police enquiries continue as DfE ‘has not yet completed its work’ - FE Week ‘Focus on sharing resources’, academy trusts told - Schools Week Wonkhe Weekly – E12 Access, UCAS data, commuters, social mobility - Wonkhe Supporting children with autism - The Educator School info website 'encouraging racial segregation' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education's crisis needs teacher status 'revolution', says Gordon Brown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Commissioner calls time on seclusion in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northern heads warn 300,000 parents budgets are at 'breaking point' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School heads urge parents to sign petition on funding - Mail Scotland: Use of restraint and seclusion in schools largely unmonitored, report claims - Mail Why do so few university graduates start their own businesses? - Guardian DfE rejects 7,000 requests by schools to wipe pupils’ GCSE scores - Schools Week DfE abandons Easter holiday hunger pilot after summer trial - Schools Week Revealed: How two businessmen left a trail of insolvency and debt in the apprenticeship market - FE Week John Swinney hits out at Fife council for scrapping P1 tests - Scotsman Investigation: The schools that slip through the council finance net - Schools Week School uses ‘nurture room’ to calm pupils at risk of misbehaviour - Schools Week More new qualifications? Hold on – T-levels aren’t off the ground yet - FE Week The neglect of practice - BERA Parents angry over more places for disadvantaged students at Birmingham grammar schools - Mail ‘Ungoverned’ use of restraint and seclusion in Scottish schools criticised - Guardian Headteachers write to more than 300,000 parents over school budgets at ‘breaking point’ - Independent Oxford University students back ‘racist’ scholar Noah Carl’s appointment to Cambridge fellowship - Times Parents fight to stop grammars prioritising poor local children - Times Scotland: Two councils vote to end Primary 1 tests - Times