News archive for 17th December 2018

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Job shaming’ rife as 10 million Brits admit to lying about their job - Teach First What teachers tapped this week #64 – 17th December 2018 - Teacher Tapp Engaging students in the TEF - Office for Students EPI response to ONS decision on student loan accounting - EPI ETF launches new film to inspire potential teachers and trainers into FE - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Better accounting of student loans to increase headline measure of the government’s deficit by around £12 billion - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS It Just Grinds You Down - Disruptive behaviour in schools is damaging children’s learning and causing an exodus from the teaching profession - Policy Exchange Give children more legal rights over mental health treatment, urges review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Extra SEND funding insufficient, warn children's services leaders - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ONS announcement on accounting treatment of student loans - Universities UK UCU response to ONS decision on student debt reclassification - UCU MillionPlus comment on the ONS decision on its treatment of student tuition fee loans in the government’s accounts - MillionPlus Mobile learning and cognition - BERA Scottish teachers' pay claim 2018/19: update - Voice Russell Group responds to ONS - Russell Group HEPI response to the ONS announcement on student loans - HEPI Why we will all still need to go on talking about international students in 2019 - HEPI NEU survey: Teachers witnessing distressing new levels of child poverty this winter in schools - National Education Union ONS: Nothing has changed but everything has changed - Wonkhe Raising school attainment is vital, but it shouldn’t be zany - Wonkhe It’s Christmas crackers being a teacher - Teacher Toolkit The 30-day behaviour challenge - Teacher Toolkit Growing numbers of pupils going hungry, say teachers - The Educator Best books to encourage thinking in the classroom - The Educator The best books I’ve read since June - The Learning Spy Alternative provision census 2019: technical specification - DfE Teacher Recruitment Bulletin - DfE Rural primary schools designation - DfE School capital funding allocations - DfE Residential special schools and colleges: support for children - DfE High needs funding arrangements: 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schools block funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency High needs funding arrangements: 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Top trusts ‘resist’ standardising curriculum, and 6 more MAT research findings - Schools Week It's 'crazy' to build schools in polluted areas, ex-education minister says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student loans must be added to deficit, Office for National Statistics says - Telegraph Too many heads couldn't watch BBC2's School because it made them feel sick - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK’s student funding is overdue radical reform - Financial Times Daily Mile gets £1.5m to boost fitness in English primary schools - Guardian The fiscal illusion has gone – but what has replaced it? - Wonkhe Student loan ruling adds £12bn to government borrowing - BBC Barring learners with fewer than three Ds ‘access to student loans’ is ‘retrograde step’ - FE Week Warning letter after Highlands school pupils drink vaping liquid - Scotsman OECD report recognises importance of union learning - Unionlearn Barring pupils with fewer than three Ds ‘access to student loans’ is ‘retrograde step’ - Schools Week National deficit rises by £12,000,000,000 because of student loans - Metro Primary school to teach children boys ‘can have periods too’ - Scotsman East End boy whose family fled Bangladesh conflict wins £76k scholarship to Eton - Evening Standard Are teachers' Christmas gifts getting out of control? - BBC 'Touchy-feely' PE teacher banned for inappropriate conduct with pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: Parents stage march against plans to move pupils to another primary school - Wales Online Student loans change blows £12BILLION hole in public finances in blow to Tories - Mirror Student loan debt worth £12 billion officially written off - Mirror Disruptive behaviour 'endemic in schools', teacher survey warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES It's 'crazy' to build schools in polluted areas, ex-education minister says - Times Educational Supplement | TES 8 reasons to ditch the holiday homework - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secretive DfE academy committees finally publish agendas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student loan changes to add £12bn to deficit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Manufacturers 'prefer apprentices to graduates' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could student loan changes be good news for FE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Does good subject knowledge make a good teacher? - Times Educational Supplement | TES No one would benefit from no-notice inspections' - Times Educational Supplement | TES A post-18 education revolution is coming - Times Educational Supplement | TES Standardised tests a waste of time and effort - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers, thank you for the joy you give us this (and every) Christmas - Times Educational Supplement | TES School social media has been terrible at engaging parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Struggling with disruption is seen as weakness - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student loan shake-up puts £12bn hole in public finances - Guardian How can people protest about a grammar school taking in more poor pupils? | Melissa Benn - Guardian 'We are buying them coats on a scale never seen before': teachers share 'Dickensian' instances of child poverty - HuffPost Edinburgh voted best city for students to live and learn - Scotsman Improving the recording of student loans in government accounts - Sector Response - FE News Arbitrary minimum grade thresholds are ‘morally wrong’ - Times Higher Education | THE Poverty as bad as Charles Dickens era as hungry kids go without winter coats and sleep in uniform - Mirror National deficit increases by £12bn as watchdog rules student loans count as government spending - Independent The failure to train teachers how to keep control puts the future of our schools at risk - Telegraph Need to know: Are nearly half of GCSE and A-level grades wrong? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Long term outcomes: Does school quality matter? - FFT Education Datalab More children will go hungry this Christmas, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disruptive behaviour 'endemic in schools', teacher survey warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Many teachers consider quitting over pupils´ bad behaviour survey finds - Mail Movers and shakers: Edition 265 - FE Week Scotland: Parent councils join forces to oppose 'damaging' school cutbacks - Herald Scotland School-wide behaviour issues prevent me from teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES School leaders join forces to launch staff absence insurance - Schools Week Phones in classrooms are fuelling 'serious' levels of disruption, a report claims - Mail Teachers ‘buy pupils winter coats’ as union claim ‘Dickensian’ poverty shames UK - The Sun Ministers face legal challenge over DfE child nationality data - Times Many pupils in England hungry and badly clothed, say teachers - Guardian Student loan changes wipe out chancellor’s £15bn Brexit buffer - Times Student funding now faces a triple threat - Times Pupils' bad behaviour causing teachers to quit, survey finds - Independent Policy Exchange: Deny top Ofsted grades to schools that fail to demand good behaviour - Schools Week You’re hired! Apprentices answer new industry call - Times Teachers' poll highlights rise in child poverty - Nursery World Scotland: A small school can make a huge difference - Times Teachers witnessing 'distressing' new levels of child poverty in schools this winter - Independent