News archive for 1st February 2018

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Ofsted backs hijab ban for children under eight in primary school row - Express Ofsted boss attacks Church of England schools for making it harder to tackle extremism - Independent Number of state pupils attending university rises only marginally, figures show - Independent Scotland announces free university tuition for EU students after Brexit date - Independent Scots taxpayers in £93m bill for EU students post-Brexit - Scotsman New university plagiarism software to be launched in crackdown on 'contract' cheating - Telegraph Are you ready for Relationship and Sex Education? - National Education Union Edinburgh University gives new principal £410,000 deal as staff prepare for USS pension strikes - UCU MillionPlus comment on the HESA widening participation performance indicators - MillionPlus Guidance for centres on informing candidates of their centre assessed marks - NAHT National Education Union Cymru respond to school categorisation - National Education Union Northern Powerhouse - National Education Union How the rise of Asian universities is helping people move from ‘a career for life’ to ‘a lifetime of careers’ - HEPI More state school pupils enter Russell Group universities - Russell Group Religious extremists want to 'pervert education' - The Educator Doubts over future of MAT where 90% of schools predicted to be in deficit - Times Educational Supplement | TES School branded 'medieval' for telling parents to send their children in sick - Mirror School textbooks will be updated to include same sex couples in their questions, Pearson says - Telegraph Attempts to widen UK university student participation have stalled - Guardian Colleges must meet Gatsby career benchmarks or lose money - FE Week Parents warned against online gaming app Roblox - Times Educational Supplement | TES University lecturers warned they could face investigation if they award too few 2.1s  - Telegraph Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 'overlooked' by apprenticeship levy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted attacks Church of England for blocking extremism efforts - Times International student mobility to grow more slowly to 2027 - British Council Concreteness fading: A method to achieve transfer - Learning Scientists Scotland: free EU student tuition post-Brexit - PIE News Canada ups investment in global education fund with $180m commitment - PIE News Merger creates seventh largest college group - Times Educational Supplement | TES Digital skills for the future - HEFCE Daily roundup 1 February: Religious extremism, body piercing, and domestic abuse - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Australia: TEQSA tightens wellbeing and safety guidance - PIE News Lord Watson: In the age of AI and automation, lifelong learning is an economic necessity - PoliticsHome New DfE ‘5 Cities’ project launched - Learning & Work Institute Ofsted chief attacks Church for preventing inspections of Sunday schools - Telegraph Education Services Grant cut: Academies will lose £353m by 2020, DfE forecasts - Schools Week Every school needs a staff wellbeing team – here’s how to start one - Guardian Oxford University extends exam times for women's benefit - Telegraph Teens need vigorous physical activity and fitness to cut heart risk - UKEdChat Scotland announces free tuition for EU students starting university in 2019-20 - Mail New buying advice service for schools launched - Schools Week Apprenticeship levy to cost schools £110 million - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We are recruiting the teachers we need,' DfE tells pay body - Times Educational Supplement | TES Religious extremists are using school to cut children off from society, warns Ofsted head - Express Students should be offered two 'meaningful encounters' with employers a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy Transformation Trust posts £2.5m deficit - Times Educational Supplement | TES England’s worst schools exposed as 260k children attend sub-par secondaries - Express Edinburgh University principal to get 33% pay hike - Scotsman Welsh school ratings show improvement - BBC Two out of five universities see drop in students from state schools - Mail Stonewall and Pearson launch LGBT-Inclusive Curriculum Guide for UK secondary schools - Pearson Educating the North: Driving ambition through the Powerhouse - FE News Schools face difficult balancing act over cultural preferences: Ofsted head - Mail Amanda Spielman: Sunday schools must be inspected to prevent extremism - Schools Week Wales school colour codes 2018: These are the schools ranked amber - Wales Online Enjoy 'FOMO', pupils at top Wimbledon girls' school told as head introduces 'digital rules' - Evening Standard School’s creative subjects taught me the art of living | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - Guardian Religious extremists 'trying to pervert education' - BBC Total of 468 new apprenticeship training providers approved - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fast-track teaching students in line for £23K bursary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge Assessment exams group appoints new CEO - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales school colour codes 2018: These are the schools ranked yellow - Wales Online Latest categorisation reveals improvement in school performance - Welsh Government HMRC has paid out £40,000 in compensation to Tax-Free Childcare parents - Nursery World Wales school colour codes 2018: These are the schools ranked green - Wales Online Wales school colour codes 2018: These are the schools ranked red - Wales Online Janet Network upgrade means world-leading capacity for 18 million users - Jisc Are private schools better managed than state schools? - IOE London Blog Cambridge Assessment Group announces new chief executive - Schools Week USA: Air pollution: black, Hispanic and poor students most at risk from toxins – study - Guardian Schools are being used to 'indoctrinate' students with extremist ideology, warns Ofsted boss - Independent Can we rank social mobility? - Wonkhe Happy new regulatory regime, part 2 - Wonkhe Our friends in the north - Education Datalab Spielman warns of extremism 'perverting' education as Ofsted weighs into hijab row - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents paid £1m over 'shambles' childcare scheme - BBC Educating the North: driving ambition across the Powerhouse - Northern Powerhouse Partnership What's driving decisions in universities? - Guardian 'Disadvantaged' children in the North of England are 'falling behind' by one GCSE grade - Mail Cambridge and Oxford among worst universities for state school intake - Times 'A policy change away from collapse': universities' fears for 2018 - Guardian ‘It’s hard, but so rewarding’: Is teaching really heading for a crisis? - Telegraph Performance indicators: widening participation 2016 to 2017 - DfE School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) reports - DfE Evidence to the STRB: 2018 pay award for school staff - DfE Careers guidance for colleges - DfE New project to boost diversity in apprenticeships - DfE Education Secretary welcomes record proportion of university entrants from state schools - DfE Education Minister unveils new support for schools - DfE Amanda Spielman's speech at the Church of England Foundation for Education Leadership - Ofsted 16 to 19 funding: maths and English condition of funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 1 February 2018 (issue 205) - Education & Skills Funding Agency The problem with further education and apprenticeship qualifications - FE News Councils accuse ministers of reneging on deal for school support - Herald Scotland Scrapping teacher watchdog risks ‘irreparable harm’ to profession - Herald Scotland Religious extremists are targeting schools to ‘pervert’ education and undermine British values, says Ofsted chief - The Sun Senior Ofsted official backs headteacher over hijab ban for under eights - Guardian Extremists are 'perverting' education by using schools to narrow children's horizons under the guise of religious belief, Ofsted chief warns - Mail North-South divide in education standards affecting too many northern young people, report warns - Independent Metro mayors commit to growing BAME apprenticeships - FE Week The parenting method that lets kids make the decisions - BBC Maths and science teachers urged to make their lessons ‘LGBT-inclusive’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Measure schools by ‘success’ of pupils at 25, says George Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse Partnership - Schools Week Improving Northern schools should be 'top of Damian Hinds' in-tray' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland’s teaching watchdog warns its abolition will mean proliferation of unqualified teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprentice applicants from minority backgrounds 'less likely to be accepted' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding for 16-18 vocational spending should be devolved to Northern mayors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northern Powerhouse education report: the eight findings for FE and skills - FE Week Disadvantaged pupils achieve lower grades in north than in London - Guardian National Union of Students’ campaign has become a 'vehicle for extremist interests', report warns - Telegraph This is what each of Wales' colour codes for schools means - Wales Online We asked experts if Wales' school colour codes are working - Wales Online Extremists use schools to pervert education, says Ofsted head Amanda Spielman - Times State schools have the edge on efficiency - Times British aid gives children in the poorest countries the skills they need to thrive - Times Home-schooled children need better protection - Times Edinburgh’s £400k principal wants students to ‘judge me on my record’ - Times Scotland: The spy who snubbed me: GCHQ fails to tempt cybergraduates - Times Scotland: Teaching body GTCS attacks closure cost - Times Ireland: College spending on consultants shocks watchdog - Times