News archive for 12th February 2018

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Mum saddened by 10-year-old daughter's SATs stress which has left her friend 'suicidal as she's not getting right marks' - Mirror The Government has admitted cutting bursaries risks putting women and mature students off becoming nurses - Mirror PE and sport premium: funding allocations for 2017 to 2018 - DfE Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from December 2015 - Ofsted Measures announced to ensure talented trainees get into teaching - DfE Higher education student finance, 2018 to 2019: equality analysis - DfE Transferring apprenticeship service funds - Education & Skills Funding Agency Section 96 - Qualifications - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency National learning entitlement could be worth £10,000 - The Educator Cash cuts undermining 30-hours childcare policy - Guardian When being a school business leader really sucks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students campaign for cat to become Scottish university rector - Scotsman SENCO Forum finally fixed three months after DfE error - Schools Week Damian Hinds appoints special advisers - Times Educational Supplement | TES College staff vote to go on strike - Times Educational Supplement | TES Staff vote to strike over pay at more than a dozen colleges - FE Week Web-based teaching can improve science understanding for struggling pupils - UKEdChat Before-school physical activity programme helps improve body weight and overall wellness - UKEdChat What teachers tapped this week #20 - 12th Feb 2018 - Teacher Tapp Marking: Why, What and How? - UKEdChat Disruption to hit 16 colleges as staff overwhelmingly back strikes over pay - UCU Strike goes ahead as school rejects Acas intervention - NASUWT Scottish councils cut education spending by up to a fifth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Joint union letter to Secretary of State - teacher recruitment and retention - Voice QTS rule change means 9,000 prospective teachers can retake skills test - Schools Week Panel members appointed for the first year of piloting TEF at subject level - HEFCE Every 18 year-old should be offered £10,000 to spend on courses of their choice, paper says - IOE London Blog Daily roundup 12 February: Care applications, parental leave and Peter Rabbit - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Teachers can now fail multiple English and maths tests before entering job in effort to ease recruitment crisis, minister announces - Independent Everyone should get £10,000 when they leave school, study says - Metro Apprenticeship levy transfer policy explained - FE Week Cambridge University students forced to remove 'overly sexualised' May ball promotional video - Independent ‘No restrictions’ over who apprenticeship funds can be transferred to - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five ways the DfE has damaged teacher recruitment - Schools Week New bursaries unveiled as Strathclyde MSc gets a revamp - Scotsman Dozens of Scottish schools closed after heavy snow fall - Scotsman Fall in apprenticeship starts was 'calm before the storm' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our greatest challenge: what is the best way to support the most challenged schools? - IOE London Blog Sex-education campaigners lay out vision for effective curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Give school leavers £10,000 to spend on education - study - Mail Teaching is on the road to hell – the story of the national curriculum proves it - Guardian Transgender child: 'I think I'm a girl in a boy's body' - BBC Hope and inspiration: so many brilliant school leaders driving change. - Teacherhead Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information as at 31 January 2018 - Ofsted DfE allows unlimited resits for teacher entry tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trust boss: ‘Schools should be able to leave MATs after five years’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES As systems diverge, we must remember our responsibilities across UK HE - Wonkhe Has the time has come for responsible metrics? - Wonkhe QTS skills test: Lock-out period and retake charges scrapped - Schools Week There is only so much uncertainty universities can take | Alistair Jarvis - Guardian Yoga for South African school children – in pictures - Guardian What makes a great teacher - The Educator BBC series tracks lives of six underprivileged and gifted 13-year-olds - Guardian Need to know: Chartered College of Teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Under the bonnet of end-point assessment - FE News A beginner’s guide to the English regulatory transitional period - Wonkhe Confidence and support – the life of an “only student” - Wonkhe How will OfS do policy when its levers are broken? - Wonkhe Dorset schoolgirl 'lost confidence after fat letter' - BBC Every adult should get £10,000 for education and training, influential report claims - FE Week Parents whose children's schools receive the least public money urged to complain - Wales Online Apprentices will be top source of talent in 2018, says 37% of businesses - FE News ‘Give every 18 year-old £10,000 to spend on their education,’ say academics - Times Educational Supplement | TES £10,000 'national learning entitlement' proposed for post-18 education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why suicide prevention is at the centre of our mental health strategy - Times Scotland: Ban mobiles to stamp out upskirting, schools urged - Times Professor Polly Arnold calls for girls‑only science and maths lessons - Times