News archive for 2nd February 2018

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Theresa May softens stance on migration and foreign students - Guardian Universities launch drive to support refugees around the world - Times Higher Education | THE Why developing leadership in learning and teaching is vital to transform higher education - HEA Daily roundup 2 February: Fire safety, internet groomers and autistic children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How to become an approved training provider and bid for funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency ILR guides and templates for 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ready reckoner and transition matrices for 16 to 18: 2017 - DfE Department for Education launches Commonwealth education pack - DfE Using the register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Local authority interactive tool (LAIT) - DfE NAHT respond to UCAS’s annual qualification provision survey - NAHT In the news: 2 February - UCU Government jeopardising fire safety in schools - National Education Union NEU calls for a significant increase in teacher pay - National Education Union Enterprise in higher education - HEPI Spotlight on multi-academy trusts: A glimpse into performance - NFER East Meets West - Strengthening ties and exchanging knowledge with China - Russell Group How to be a confident teacher? - The Educator Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at 30 June 2017 - Ofsted Banned: Teacher who cheated in Sats and put a sock in a pupil's mouth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Information on how to become a provider of apprenticeships published - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC responds to project on boosting diversity in apprenticeships - AoC | Association of Colleges Let’s give teachers the information they need to improve children’s academic outcomes - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Less-advantaged students outperform peers thanks to long-term education charity programme - Villiers Park Educational Trust Positive attitude toward maths predicts maths achievement in children - UKEdChat Teaching students to teach themselves - UKEdChat GSE: Wanted: collaborative problem solvers! - Edmodo World leaders unite in $2bn drive to tackle 'global learning crisis' - Guardian The Tes podcast: School funding, teacher recruitment and developmental language disorder - Times Educational Supplement | TES Maths teacher who organised wrestling sessions for pupils loses ban appeal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social justice and the needs of disadvantaged pupils examined - UK Parliament Analysis: Should pupils be able use their own computers in the exam hall? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted must defend creative subjects | Letters - Guardian Before Selfies: Fred Jarvis’s retrospective of politics, education and photography intertwined - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plans for children and young people's mental health provision examined - UK Parliament Lack of tech in exams is denying pupils their ‘normal way of working’ - Schools Week Mum demands answers as school children dropped two miles from home - Scotsman Written evidence published for inquiry into Alternative Provision - Commons Select Committee Long read: Do classrooms need standing desks? - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK announces 50 per cent funding boost for schools in the developing world - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC welcomes bid to increase diversity in apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted watch: Top grade for independent learning provider - FE Week Enforcement measures proposed to keep kids in education until 18 - FE Week Ministers questioned about implementation plans for children and young people's health - Commons Select Committee Carillion update: £1.4m apprentice rescue package - FE Week Swansea Council considers parking charges for teachers - BBC It’s important we talk to pupils in schools about grief - Metro Policy Eye: highlights of week ending Friday 2 February 2018 - Pearson Ofqual: Teachers who leak exam questions corrode confidence in the system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gove was forced to create UTCs - FE Week How Gove was forced to create UTCs - Schools Week Policy Tracker: keeping track of what happened in the world of education in January 2018 - Pearson Nearly £25m in non-levy cash went to new providers - FE Week Non-levy apprenticeship funding process was as fair as possible - FE Week Learndirect enters redundancy talks - FE Week Firefighters and teachers attack government's 'cavalier' attitude to school fire safety - Times Educational Supplement | TES 12 rules for Schools – Rule 5 do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them - The Learning Spy Don’t judge colleges on Progress 8! - FE Week Unions slam plan to rebuild burned-down school without sprinklers - Schools Week Free National Literacy Trust membership for early years settings up for grabs - Nursery World Colleges ditch 14-16 provision to save their reputation - FE Week Qualifications will be allowed for apprenticeships - FE Week How school leaders can be sucked into dodgy dealings - Schools Week Update: transforming children and young people’s mental health provision inquiry - Commons Select Committee Give apprenticeship levy more time, says Abta and leading firms - feCompare Total of 468 new apprenticeship training providers approved - feCompare Social media 'provides important support for children in care' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now HESA widening participation 16/17 – visualised - Wonkhe The end of history? The future of regulation in England - Wonkhe The new approach to university planning: Fun with sharks and dragons - Wonkhe Bright Tribe relinquishes all but one of its northern schools - Schools Week Nagging university students for feedback is like pestering for TripAdvisor reviews - Guardian Global: Hundreds of millions of children in school but not learning - Guardian Scotland: The SNP short of ideas? We are more radical than ever | John Swinney - Guardian Army of teaching assistants continued to expand even as funding squeeze began - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brian Wilson: Music of hope falling silent because of SNP cuts - Scotsman T-level occupational maps must be flexible - FE Week SENCOs voiceless as IT glitch hits ‘invaluable’ online forum - Schools Week Lords prepare law to monitor home-schooled pupils - Schools Week Investigation: How a 17-year funding boom left schools at financial breaking point - Times Educational Supplement | TES Maths chief calls for new slimline resit-only GCSE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two in five universities have seen a drop in the proportion of students from state schools - The Sun Theresa May told to invest in North as school report reveals kids in South are one GCSE grade ahead - The Sun NSPCC calls for immediate action on children's online safety - BBC Another university pay row as chief gets £400,000 package - Mail School online safety recommendations from a decade ago still unmet, warns NSPCC - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGBT students still face ‘shocking’ treatment in schools, report finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford Uni don says 'peer pressure' is stifling debate - BBC UK raises overseas education aid by 50% - BBC Even the safest apps put pupils at risk, parents told - Times ‘Wasted decade’ in drive to protect children online, say NSPCC - Times Skills gap must be plugged to hit construction target - Times Pupils in the north are being failed, says George Osborne - Times Government must act now to prevent online grooming | Tanya Byron - Times Scotland: University heads feathering nests with salary top-ups, claims union - Times Scotland: Taxpayers will still foot bill for EU students after Brexit - Times