News archive for 9th February 2018

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Ofsted head to be questioned over backing for hijab ban - Guardian Floreat Brentford Primary free school to close - Schools Week Boost for UCU strikers as MP cancels lecture due to take place strike day - UCU Tes Independent School Award winners demonstrate the best of the sector - GSA UK produces world-leading research - Universities UK Vocational degrees are best route to highly skilled jobs, study finds - Guardian Office for Students consultation responses - Russell Group Scottish teachers' pay claim 2018/19 - Voice Vocational studies and T-Levels: what will be different this time around? - NFER How should we use technology in assessment and qualifications? - ATL Education unions back fact-based relationships and sex education - Voice The University Show – Season 1 Episode 1 (podcast) - Wonkhe Time to move past the obsession with leadership - Wonkhe How to choose a primary school for your child? - The Educator PSHE and SRE should both be compulsory for all school children - National Education Union The feedback that makes you a better teacher - UKEdChat It’s easy to criticise the apprenticeship levy – but we need to give it a chance - feCompare MP calls for answers in police apprenticeship levy dispute - feCompare Dexter signs up for #10kTalks - Edge Foundation Over 200,000 Further Education professionals complete Prevent duty training - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Sector welcomes U-turn on qualifications in apprenticeships - FE Week The fight against sexual misconduct at universities must go on | Lola Olufemi - Guardian Sally Hunt warns time is running out to stop USS pensions strikes at 61 universities - UCU HEFCE introduces first ever measure of vocational degrees - HEFCE Daily roundup 9 February: Care leavers, lollipop man, and unpaid internships - CYPN | Children & Young People Now More than 25,000 parents yet to receive confirmation of 30 hours childcare place - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Celebrating FE: New FE college category introduced for this year’s Whatuni Student Choice Awards - AoC | Association of Colleges Indian universities to offer online degrees - PIE News Putting evidence to work in your classroom - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Yeovil’s St Michael’s Academy hit with financial notice to improve - Schools Week Institute for Apprenticeships brings together experts from all sectors - FE News Durham student death: witness tells of 'shambles' of nightclub queue - Guardian Ofsted decides to dtich self-evaluation form - Nursery World Campaigner wants school absence contact procedures changed - Schools Week Ofsted Watch: Delight for colleges but despair for community learning provider - FE Week Setting more exams to combat stress among school students is utterly absurd - The Conversation FE data library: apprenticeship vacancies - Education & Skills Funding Agency Edinburgh school fills maths teacher vacancy - Scotsman The trouble with teaching British values in school - Independent Pressure mounts on Student Loans Company over learner loan scandal - FE Week Schools causing concern - DfE Ready reckoners and transition matrices for key stage 2: 2017 - DfE How to register as a PCDL learning provider - Education & Skills Funding Agency National Careers Service satisfaction and progression surveys: 2015 to 2016 report - Education & Skills Funding Agency Battle of the schools: which one gets closed? - Schools Week Thousands of students set to join #10kTalks for National Apprenticeship Week 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Public sector apprenticeship target - DfE FE data library: apprenticeship vacancies - Education & Skills Funding Agency DfE monthly workforce management information: 2017 to 2018 - DfE Academies financial notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted’s use of Artificial Intelligence: how smart is it to automate risk assessments? - IOE London Blog Ofqual to audit awarding organisations amid concerns with provider relationships - FE Week How to prevent abuse in teenage relationships - The Conversation Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Finalists for 2018 AAC Apprenticeship Awards announced - FE Week Let’s maintain the upward Ofsted trend for colleges! - FE Week Adult education budget climbdown cost £16m - FE Week The 12 colleges surviving on government bailouts - FE Week Stoke-on-Trent College received a half-million bailout - FE Week Sweet-talking the government worth six figures to struggling trusts - Schools Week HE Network: Generous maternity leave has made me a better academic - Guardian Some very risky student behaviour. Trigger warnings required? - Wonkhe Uniformly panned: Japan Armani school kit sparks storm - Mail Workload warning over flagship proposals for Headteachers’ Charter - Herald Scotland Girls school holds off negative Ofsted report with legal threats - Schools Week It’s great that the first cohort of degree apprentices has graduated, but there should be more of them - FE News Majority of grammar schools favouring children from poorer families - Mail Haute furore: Japanese public school criticised for $700 Armani uniforms - Guardian Elite universities attack ‘disproportionate’ plans to force them to publish salaries of staff earning more than £150,000 - Mail Schools struggle to get mental health help, says survey - BBC Almost half of headteachers find it difficult to commission mental health services for pupils - Independent Lack of understanding hampers heads’ ability to help pupils with mental health - Schools Week Four-in-10 heads struggle to know which mental health support to provide pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary heads call for faster processes to deal with bad teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly half of school leaders struggle to commission mental health services - Mail T levels rejected by some of Britain’s top universities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Durham University student Olivia Burt crushed to death outside nightclub - Times Scotland: Watchdog to investigate claim Swinney blocked Charles FoI - Times Schools lie to parents of vulnerable children and say they have no room amid league table pressures, report claims - Independent