News archive for 18th December 2018

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Teachers buying food and topping up gas meters for poorest pupils - Mirror English Baccalaureate (EBacc) - DfE 16 to 18 qualifications, discount codes and point scores - DfE Trends in school spending: 2002 to 2016 - DfE 30 hours free childcare: autumn term 2018 - DfE Free schools: application information for wave 13 - DfE School census 2018 to 2019: technical information - DfE Statistics: childcare and early years - DfE Initial teacher training (ITT) bursary: funding manual - DfE Early years initial teacher training: 2019 to 2020 funding guidance - DfE School Direct (salaried): funding manual - DfE Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2019 to 2020 - DfE Postgraduate teaching apprenticeships: funding manual - DfE Review of end of year 16 to 19 study programmes data - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 data and management information (MI) reports - Education & Skills Funding Agency Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Review of end of year 16 to 19 study programmes data for 2016 to 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding allocations supporting documents for 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schools hired 6,300 apprentices last year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stop blaming schools for the results of austerity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Generational gap on apprenticeships revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES League tables and five other school *things* that should be in panto - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: 'Mystic Meg' consultants are trying to cash in on inspection changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bursary boost after teacher-training targets missed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lesson observations are pointless - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish schoolgirl, 16, who died was 'terrorised by shameful bullies' - Mirror Wes Streeting asks urgent question re the ONS decision on the treatment of student tuition fees - Parliament ESFA announce changes to 16 to 19 funding rules from August 2019 - FE Week International staff vital for UK’s future STEM success - Universities UK Improving access, success and progression in English higher education - Universities UK Poor behaviour by pupils leads to teachers quitting - The Educator New GSA president says confidence vital in rapidly changing world - GSA A tariff threshold for HE admissions? - HEPI The university mental health charter: a preview - Wonkhe Sink or swim for national curriculum - Education matters Solutions looking for problems - Teacher Toolkit Aspirations, expectations and rethinking outreach - BERA Private school fees: how much does it cost to send your child to an independent school in Scotland - Scotsman Education team to tackle increasing mental health problems - Leeds Beckett University Tackling racial inequality in universities - Leeds Beckett University Boys with good motor skills excel at problem-solving - UKEdChat MPs reminded of int’l students contribution to UK economy – HEPI - PIE News Generating evidence is the start, scaling evidence is the goal - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Available to read online now: our 2018 Annual Report - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Big Lottery Fund reviews £500,000 grant to transgender children charity - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Multi-Academy Trusts implement different teaching approaches depending on how well they perform - IOE London Blog Free research and data resource: Analysing qualitative data - Advance HE University World News - UK and Global edition - University World News Proposals to demolish Cardiff's Cantonian High School put forward - Wales Online Parents' fury after freezing schoolchildren are forced to huddle around a heater - Mail Inspection finds Cardiff primary school's safeguarding arrangements are 'serious cause for concern' - Wales Online The latest plans to rebuild and expand Cardiff secondary schools - Wales Online How about this for a New Year's resolution: bin the word 'snowflake' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Areas with greatest SEND support demand will ‘lose out’ on high needs cash injection - Schools Week What would the post-16 curriculum look like without exams? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Children attending early learning and childcare sessions to be given free meal - Mail This one small change by the Office of National Statistics has big political consequences - New Statesman Gibb: All primaries should join Daily Mile scheme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is the SEND Code of Practice only appropriate for primaries? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Secretary says kids must toughen up and learn how to lose like Harry Kane - The Sun Scotland: Budget cuts’ impact on schools will be profound - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: SEND co-ordinator who allowed pupil to take too much medication - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pressure mounts on Hinds to explain £500m apprenticeship ‘alleged overspend’ - FE Week Student loans review presses reset button on English policymaking - Times Higher Education | THE Why are high-flying state school pupils less likely to apply to Oxford or Cambridge than their private school peers? - Guardian DfE scrapping need for costly post-16 dyslexia assessments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools help social mobility' says new girls’ schools’ leader - Times Educational Supplement | TES A tariff threshold for HE admissions? - HEPI Gap widens for poor 5-year-olds in half of England - Times Educational Supplement | TES Russell Group vice-chancellors’ pay averages £355K - Times Higher Education | THE Marilyn Hawes, a teacher whose sons were sexually abused, is working to change how schools warn children about grooming - Guardian Super grasses: exciting new green uni ranking flies in - Wonkhe Laura McInerney: Degrees for the rich, apprenticeships for the poor – that’s not a world of parity - Guardian Do ‘second-chance colleges’ still have a future? - Times Higher Education | THE Shivering schoolchildren pictured huddled around electric heater in icy classroom - Mirror Accounting revamp means student loan write-offs will add £12billion to the budget deficit - The Sun Who wants to be crippled by student debt? - Financial Times Schools tell pupils boys can have periods too in new guidelines on transgender issues - Mirror Britain's annual deficit to increase by £12billion next year after a shake-up of how student loans are recorded - Mail Schoolchildren safety fear over fewer lollipop men and women - BBC UK student loan changes to add £12 billion to budget deficit - Mail Poorer children in half of areas across England falling further behind peers for communication skills - Independent Scotland: Cuts threaten classes and lesson time, parents warn - Times Student loan debt blows £12 billion hole in government finances - Times Unconditional offers ‘will lead to degree overhaul’ - Times Social media is turning a generation of children into liars, leading headmistress warns - Telegraph British employers value social skills over academic qualifications - Mail Accounting revamp means student loan write-offs will add £12billion to the budget deficit - The Sun Employers prefer candidates to be socially adept and punctual than have academic qualifications, UK study reveals - Mail