News archive for 16th February 2018

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16 to 19 Funding: how it works - Education & Skills Funding Agency Early years national funding formula: funding rates and guidance - Education & Skills Funding Agency Leadership equality and diversity fund: for school-led projects - DfE Early education and childcare - DfE Ofsted Parent View: management information - Ofsted Understanding student suicide - Universities UK Better pay for teachers can no longer be ignored - NAHT Relocation and refurbishment consultation insufficient, teachers say - NASUWT Research round-up 16 February 2018 - NAHT UCU calls for radical overhaul of student fees system - UCU In the news: 16 February 2018 - UCU How universities deliver skills the country needs - Russell Group Choosing the right secondary school to work in - The Educator Teacher misconduct: educator avoids ban for threatening pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Help for poorer pupils to go to university could be cut as part of tuition fee reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES I’ve never known my times tables. Frankly, who needs them? | Peter Bradshaw - Guardian T levels 'need to be awarded Ucas points' - Times Educational Supplement | TES PE 'spiralling downward' as quarter of secondaries cut classes - Times Educational Supplement | TES GSE: A conversation with Sir Michael Barber - Edmodo Raising aspirations of learners through Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment - Education & Training Foundation Pug helps teach children Chinese - British Council Fear of cheating accusations 'putting teachers off becoming examiners' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who used WhatsApp to ask 15-year-old girl for indecent photo - Times Educational Supplement | TES Literacy and life expectancy - EEF response to new report - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF AoC and ITN collaborating on programme to highlight the importance of colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges For and against students getting the crops in | Letters - Guardian 'Growing support' among Tory MPs for votes at 16 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 16 February: Year-round meals, public sector poverty, and spending habits - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The Guardian view on religious education: teach humanism too | Editorial - Guardian Creative subjects can be key to job success - Edge Foundation Action needed to address schoolboy doping vulnerability - Leeds Beckett University Trainee teachers ill-prepared to tackle pupils’ mental health in the classroom - Leeds Beckett University The Tes podcast: Times tables, prison schools and Ofsted vs the DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES University vice-chancellors questioned re value for money in higher education - Commons Select Committee Schools with low results least likely to prioritise subject-related CPD, report finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Book: How to be an outstanding primary school teacher - UKEdChat Memorizing versus Understanding - Learning Scientists US school shooting: Debate over whether teachers should be armed, or walk out - Times Educational Supplement | TES New scheme to give poor children free meals every day of the year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Theresa May to reveal details of tuition fee overhaul on Monday - Guardian Lanarkshire council to feed children during school holidays after research shows families going hungry - Independent What are the key questions on university funding and tuition fees? - Herald Scotland Policy Eye: Pearson's Steve Besley reviews the week's education news and policy - Pearson Concerns over ‘diluted’ teacher training standards - Scotsman Ofsted watch: ITP goes straight in with a ‘good’ - FE Week Salford City Council's nurseries at risk of closure - Nursery World Council plans free school meals all year to tackle 'holiday hunger' - Guardian The myth of AI – technologies that are changing work - London School of Economics | LSE Nursery World Show 2018 - What a picture - Nursery World Ofsted Parent View: management information - Ofsted Times tables tests can add to the cure for Britain’s maths phobia - Financial Times Martin Davidson: Challenge is what Outward Bound strives to do – for youngsters and ourselves - Scotsman The Ofsted cast-offs still 'inspecting' schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tips for improving staff wellbeing in schools - Schools Week UK’s life expectancy gap is widening - The Sun DfE can't say what £31m regional schools commissioners budget pays for - Times Educational Supplement | TES The apprenticeship hierarchy - Whose policy line is it anyway? - FE News Birds behaving badly on campus - Wonkhe Why we should fund the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme - Wonkhe Parents warn schools ‘out of reach’ for many families - Herald Scotland Analysis: Better parental involvement the toughest nut to crack in school policy - Herald Scotland Lack of good religious education ‘leaves pupils at risk’ - BBC Lecturers want 'radical' tuition fee review - BBC Is literacy the key to a child’s life expectancy? - Mail Year-round school meals to tackle 'holiday hunger' - BBC RE 'endangered', as teacher training applications drop by 38% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Changes to Higher exams and courses ‘go further than they had to’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children in areas with poor literacy 'have much shorter lives' - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE colleges hardly feature in LGBT inclusivity index - Times Educational Supplement | TES School rugby players sold supplements by teachers - Times Oxford student fell to death after taking ketamine - Times Primary pupils taught creationism in science lessons at Kings Kids Christian School - Times Scotland: Fears over ‘diluted’ teacher training standards - Times Scotland: Union’s leader urges Swinney to slow pace of school reform - Times Children as young as two among thousands battling obesity - Express