News archive for 14th February 2018

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France to revamp baccalaureate to improve standards - Financial Times 95% of UK university heads could attend committee that sets their pay - UCU Plea for evidence to support John Swinney’s school reforms - Scotsman ESFA update: February 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies general annual grant allocation guides: 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Multiplication tables check trials to begin in schools - DfE Individualised Learner Record (ILR) - Education & Skills Funding Agency ILR specification, validation rules and appendices 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency A practical guide to course approval and validation for degree apprenticeships - UVAC ASCL Ethical Leadership Commission: Objectivity and justice - ASCL MillionPlus calls on the government to outline its immigration plan for higher education post-Brexit - MillionPlus New ‘campus identifier’ paves way for Ofsted changes in 2019 - FE Week Why Erasmus is important for students - Russell Group Moving forwards – career moves for teachers - The Educator Times tables tests to be trialled in primary schools - The Educator Minister Nick Gibb refuses to answer times table question on TV - Scotsman College thrown £3m lifeline ahead of second attempt at merger - FE Week Government's T-level plans flawed, says NEU - Times Educational Supplement | TES Good vocational qualifications are needed, but Government’s T-level plans are flawed - FE News Canadian firm set to take over school contracts from Carillion - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools minister Nick Gibb refuses to answer 'what is 8 x 9?' on TV - Guardian AoC responds to UCU data on college strike pay - AoC | Association of Colleges HEASTEM18 - Creativity in STEM education - HEA Daily roundup 14 February: Times tables, tax-free childcare, and Barry Bennell - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The apprenticeship levy: Better guidance can unlock its business potential - Training Journal Round-table discussion: - Making the grade? Exam accuracy and its implications - EPI FE qualification reviews could impact on sector, Ofqual warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: PE teacher who had sex with pupil in her parents' house - Times Educational Supplement | TES Too much TV at age 2 makes for less healthy adolescents - UKEdChat STEM education around the world - UKEdChat Back-and-forth exchanges boost children’s brain response to language - UKEdChat Countries with greater gender equality have a lower percentage of female STEM graduates - UKEdChat Gender equality surprise revealed by Leeds Beckett University research - Leeds Beckett University ‘Law should be changed to require schools to interview black teachers’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES National tests and focus on disadvantaged 'could be bad for special needs pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Good vocational qualifications are needed, but Government’s T-level plans are flawed - National Education Union Trims for tales: The barbers offering children a free haircut in exchange for a story - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stuck in the past: the UK needs to produce creative thinkers not exam-passing machines - The Conversation Ofqual’s turn to raise T-level worries - FE Week Schools minister Nick Gibb refuses to answer maths question on TV as he launches times tables tests - Independent Ofsted has ‘agreement in principle’ that more resources needed to deal with inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Slovenian schools closed as thousands of teachers strike - Mail My disability can mean my son is late for school. Fining me solves nothing | Michelle Harris - Guardian Acclaimed composer tells of sexual abuse at Carmel College - Guardian T levels should be delayed, says CBI - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nursery World Awards 2018 open for entries - Nursery World Flagship college in financial crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister celebrates 5,000 opportunities created by Lift - Welsh Government Only college created in 20 years hit with financial notice - FE Week Times-tables tests: What do schools need to know? - Schools Week The new times-tables tests will get no love from teachers - Schools Week To foster a love of art in children, we must teach it at primary school - Guardian 'Baby PISA' study to go ahead in autumn - Nursery World Oxbridge offering apprenticeships? What the latest news means for you - FE News Manchester residents oppose Gary Neville's redevelopment plans - Guardian Schools minister refuses to take his own times tables check (video) - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Guns and survivalists, but no school until I was 17' - BBC University College London head denies fall in standards - Financial Times Minister Nick Gibb refuses to answer times tables questions on Good Morning Britain and Sky as he launches new times tables policy - Evening Standard Year 4 pupils in England to be tested on times tables - UKEdChat KEF: the missing HE accountability link, or an unnecessary distraction? - Wonkhe The role of students in regulation, notes from Scandinavia - Wonkhe Ministers to bring back compulsory times table tests for primary school children - PoliticsHome If the UK is to produce world class mathematicians, we must start with the basics - Telegraph We cannot let London outstrip other regions on social mobility | Iain Martin - Guardian Government trials times table checks for primary schools ahead of full roll-out - Mail Parents of West End Matilda star Lilian Hardy 'face legal action in row over 12-year-old's home schooling' - Mirror City universities are the new global brands - Financial Times The essential school guide to GDPR - Schools Week Teacher who described new GCSE Grade 4 as 'a Poundland pass' is slammed by the retail firm - Mail Fax machines, floppy discs and paper. The future of work and adult skills isn’t what it used to be. - FE News ‘Education opens up opportunities’: Bill Gates hails teaching prize finalists - Herald Scotland Bill Gates announces UK teacher in global top 10 - BBC Times table check trialled ahead of rollout - BBC Times-tables tests for 8 and 9-year-olds to start at 290 primary schools next month - Schools Week Government trials times tables test for eight-year-olds despite opposition from teacher unions and parents - Independent USA: Professor cancels hate speech course after students object to use of racial slur - Guardian London teacher in contention for million-dollar Global Teacher Prize - Times Educational Supplement | TES School trials of times tables check to begin in March - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bill Gates hails power of teaching, as Global Teacher Prize shortlist is announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Education opens up opportunities': Bill Gates hails teaching prize finalists - Mail London community school teacher in last 10 for $1m global prize - Guardian Times table tests to be trialled in primary schools in March - Guardian Times tables tests return for pupils, 8 - Times Gordonstoun GCSE boot camp offers £1,500 of fresh air and exercise - Times Teacher who says hello in 35 languages could win $1m - Times Scotland: Teaching the teachers: charity wants new role for children - Times Scotland: Childcare workforce training gets boost - Times Scotland: Cross-country and cramming: Gordonstoun’s revision camp - Times Ireland: Educational charity told it must cut places to protect Catholic schools - Times Ireland: Raise digital age of consent to 16, say cyber experts - Times Ireland: Mental health services for children get a D+ - Times British teacher could get $1,000,000 prize announced by Bill Gates - Metro Children will sit mandatory times tables tests in Year 4, Nick Gibb announces - HuffPost