News archive for 8th February 2018

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Tes Independent School Award winners demonstrate the best of their sector - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes' independent school of the year: Latymer Upper School - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the winner of senior school of the year award: Latymer Upper School - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cash-strapped school reveals plans for shorter week in desperate bid to balance the books - Mirror T-Levels consultation: Here’s what the sector really thinks - FE Week UUKi receives £70K for student mobility campaign - PIE News Supporting pupils to discover higher education through the National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP) - HEFCE New HEA and Jisc collaboration on joint international surveys package - HEA The new digital divide - IPPR Work-life balance survey 2018: long hours take their toll on academics - Times Higher Education | THE Sex education must be available online because some children are too embarrassed to discuss in class, charities warn - Telegraph Daily roundup 8 February: Obesity, maternity leave, and misconduct - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Tom Peterkin: SNP school shake up should be given chance to work - Scotsman Durham student dies in queue outside nightclub - Guardian Questions raised as DfE lets two MATs off £1.4m of debt - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mass brawl erupts in college with one lad hit on the head by chair hurled across the room - Mirror Bring back EMA and support FE to widen university access, says NUS - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools struggle to know what type of mental health support is needed for pupils - NAHT Ofsted: Technology is shaping boys' attitudes to women - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE report highlights FE sector's weaknesses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Educating Greater Manchester school was put on 'lockdown' after man threatened to shoot pupils - Mirror School support staff face losing jobs or seeing hours drop as cuts bite - Wales Online Can headteachers in Scotland's small schools cope with more powers? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Taylor Review and the Government’s ‘Good Work plan’: Our response - Learning & Work Institute School 21 has the key to the door of learning - Edge Foundation Raising literacy levels in overlooked school year groups - Leeds Beckett University Italian ruling on English-taught courses “out of touch with reality” - PIE News Do students utilize effective learning strategies? - Learning Scientists Apprenticeship diversity is going from strength to strength - Education & Skills Funding Agency LRS: LRB user guide and learning providers list - Education & Skills Funding Agency National Leaders of Further Education: guidance for potential applicants - Education & Skills Funding Agency Concrete cladding - monitoring building condition - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding allocations supporting documents for 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 8 February 2018 (issue 206) - Education & Skills Funding Agency London school helps to shape Relationships and Sex education - DfE Annual report of the Chief Schools Adjudicator for England - DfE HEFCE introduces first ever measure of vocational degrees - HEFCE Revised arrangements for GCSE computer science - Ofqual Higher education quality and data bodies: notice of designation - DfE Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE 30 hours free childcare: eligibility codes issued and validated - DfE Characteristics of young people who are long-term NEET - DfE Further education and skills inspection handbook - Ofsted ASCL Ethical Leadership Commission: Openness and kindness - ASCL ASCLNI: Teaching is a demanding and important profession and this should be reflected in teachers’ pay - ASCL Inside Ofsted's new approach to potentially outstanding schools - ASCL AELP exceeds 860 members! - AELP Bigger classes as teacher numbers fall - The Educator Teaching, leadership and governance in further education - DfE Free School Meals: More than one million children could miss out after Universal Credit change, says Labour - Independent ‘Surprise!’ Prince William and Professor Green join forces in shock appearance at school - Express Student loans in England: 2016 to 2017 (updated) - Student Loans Company 200,000 FE staff are now trained in Prevent - FE Week Head fined for cocaine possession and drink-driving struggled with school pressures - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE’s teaching and leadership in FE report: The five main findings - FE Week MP calls for answers in police apprenticeship levy dispute - Times Educational Supplement | TES Admissions watchdog disturbed by schools using home education to 'off-roll' pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Women account for one in four maths and engineering students - Mail Pupils with certificate signed by a Catholic priest can get school place priority - Schools Week Apprentice teachers scheme threatened by bureaucracy and disinterest - Times Educational Supplement | TES Zahawi confirms changes to two-year-old eligibility, free school meals and EYPP - Nursery World Hong Kong flu warning: UK urged to recognise signs as hundreds of East Asia schools close - Express My path to law: 'I couldn’t understand my lecturers for the first two years' - Guardian The sweet smell of success: how can we help educators develop a ‘nose’ for evidence they can use in the classroom? - IOE London Blog Councils struggling to check academy admissions and 11 other key Schools Adjudicator findings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge University to offer apprenticeship courses for the first time - Mail NUS HQ remains on lockdown as bullying probe continues - HuffPost Laser technology centre wins £5m Scottish Government funding - Scotsman St Neots Learning Partnership issued with pre-termination warning notice - Schools Week Apprentice employers commit to boosting diversity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers should ask pupils if they are thinking of suicide, says charity boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils ‘not confident’ school admission rules are legal - Schools Week Vulnerable children left out of school for too long, warns admissions watchdog - Times Educational Supplement | TES Global: What’s school like around the world? - FE News £100m to deliver 21st Century Schools - Welsh Government Research every teacher should know: self-control and learning - Guardian Anti-obesity programmes in primary schools 'don't work' - BBC Higher Education Statistics for the United Kingdom: 2016 to 2017 - Higher Education Statistics Agency Libraries set to save thousands with second wave of digital collections group purchasing pilot by Jisc - Jisc Multi-academy trust performance measures: 2016 to 2017 - DfE Ten colleges failed to secure apprenticeship funding for small employers, DfE reveals - FE Week Pulling together on social mobility - Wonkhe To platform or not to platform? - Wonkhe Anti-obesity programmes in schools unlikely to halt child obesity epidemic - UKEdChat This is why Rees-Mogg thinks freedom of speech is under threat at English universities - Express Scotland: Turning off warning lights outside school a mistake - Scotsman Schools are not the answer to childhood obesity epidemic, study shows - Guardian Scotland: SNP to rely on Tory support for its education plans - Scotsman Scotland: Sight loss must not hold our children back - Scotsman Mergers mergers everywhere! - FE News Investigation: Auditors found financial management at LLS in disarray - Times Educational Supplement | TES Investigation: Closure fears for London Challenge spin-off plagued by infighting and mismanagement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Investigation: Unanswered questions surrounding LLS - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kids should sit more exams to ‘ease stress’, says schools minister - The Sun ISIS still recruiting terrorists at UK universities – despite government orders over crackdown - The Sun Sex ed 'must cover respect and consent', say young mums - BBC What's going on in a toddler's brain? - BBC Graduate loses bid to sue Oxford University over failure to get a first - Independent Sit more exams to beat stress, schools minister Nick Gibb tells GCSE pupils - Times Graduate Faiz Siddiqui loses £1m claim against Oxford for failure to get a first - Times Social media is as bad for children as obesity, says Hunt - Times School diet and exercise regime failed to reduce pupils’ obesity - Times Children of positive mothers get better GCSE grades - Times Good time to move jobs as labour and skills shortages push up wages - Times Scotland: Face down cosy elites blocking school reforms, Swinney told - Times Ireland: Limerick pupils hurt as school bus crashes into ditch - Times