News archive for 22nd February 2018

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Outrage as university chiefs’ pay hits £290k - Express University strikes: Academics warn pension reforms could push 'large numbers of people into poverty' - Independent University strikes: What do students think? - BBC USA: Teachers in West Virginia stage walkout over wages and benefits - Guardian Lecturers stage mass walkout in pensions dispute with universities - Wales Online Arts on the cheap? Time for a return to evidence-based policymaking - HEPI Urgent government action needed as apprenticeship numbers continue to fall - AELP Strike action on this scale has never been seen before on British university campuses - Telegraph Disruption to students is regrettable but we must not become the latest high-profile pension scheme to fail - Telegraph Statistics: further education and skills - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 22 February 2018 (issue 208) - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - Education & Skills Funding Agency Measures announced to ensure talented trainees get into teaching - DfE New members announced for Ofqual board - Ofqual Annual Qualifications Market Report - Ofqual Teachers analysis compendium 3 - DfE Independent school inspection fees and standards - DfE Apprenticeship and levy statistics: February 2018 - DfE Standards for official statistics published by DfE - DfE Teacher workforce statistics and analysis - DfE Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - DfE UK revenue from education related exports and TNE activity 2015 - DfE Warning notices to independent schools - DfE University strikes turn violent as protesters storm academic building - Telegraph Strike for USS - UCU UCU says it remains ready for talks in university pensions row - UCU Newcastle vice-chancellor backs striking lecturers and calls for talks in pension row - UCU The new education secretary needs to stop seeing "outstanding" schools and start visiting those judged "coasting" - NAHT Jeremy Corbyn tells universities to get back to the negotiating table in pensions row - UCU ASCL comment on NAO’s academisation report - ASCL The new education secretary needs to stop seeing "outstanding" schools and start visiting those judged "coasting" - Universities UK Union leaders must talk with employers to protect pensions and young people’s futures - Universities UK USA: Educators say no to 'arms race' in schools - Mail Student migration and value of HE as a major export - Russell Group Two-thirds of students reject differential tuition fees for different courses - HEPI Differential tuition fees: Horses for courses? - HEPI Academy conversions - National Education Union A tour of UCAS end-of-cycle data 2017 - Wonkhe England's GCSE awards increase by 2% - The Educator The Guardian view on the lecturers’ strike: a deficit in thinking | Editorial - Guardian New Cambridge Assessment CEO withdraws from role for 'personal reasons' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Senior DfE official: Teacher supply problems 'very severe' and getting worse - Times Educational Supplement | TES Questions over future of 'stressed' virtual heads who support looked-after children - Times Educational Supplement | TES New Cambridge Assessment CEO backs out for ‘personal reasons’ - Schools Week USA: Giving guns to teachers? That's an army we don't need – or want | Ross Barkan - Guardian Smartphones are bad for some teens, not all - UKEdChat An approach to learning and teaching - UKEdChat Colleges awarded Queen’s Anniversary Prizes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Calls for university bosses and unions to get back to talks - Mail Lack of part-time apprenticeships denies training opportunities to thousands - ERSA How Catalyst funding helped put the ‘growth’ into the Growth Hub in Gloucestershire - HEFCE Zahawi rules out ringfencing school SEN funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 22 February: Reading, child protection, and haircuts - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Rhodes expands scholarships to global students - PIE News University strikes: Nearly 100,000 students sign petitions demanding compensation for classes lost due to absent lecturers - Independent British lecturers go on strike over pension changes - Mail Union claims success at start of strike by UK university lecturers - Financial Times Which should come first: problem-solving or instruction? - Learning Scientists Exploring models for part-time and flexible apprenticeships - Learning & Work Institute Leeds Beckett offers fully-funded PhD courses - Leeds Beckett University Pupils could help exam board to spot errors in its GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government confirms 638% hike in small private school inspection fees - Schools Week Generation Gifted: the statistical data behind the personal stories - IOE London Blog Charles and Camilla award prizes to leading universities and colleges - Mail Secretive private school warning notices published for the first time - Schools Week College boss joins Ofqual board - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs criticise university vice chancellors over 'immoral' salaries amid high levels of student debt - Independent Outdoor learning in early years boosted in bid to improve attainment - Times Educational Supplement | TES University pension boss's £82,000 pay rise - BBC Trainee teachers in shortage subjects not guaranteed jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK university staff strike over pension changes – live - Guardian The solution to university pensions? Better fund managers | Anthony Hesketh - Guardian Student loans review won’t help those at university today - Financial Times Thousands of Scottish pupils still sitting tests reserved for 'exceptional circumstances' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prince Charles steps into Queen's shoes to host academic prize ceremony with Camilla - Express The most popular books in Wales' schools ahead of World Book Day - Wales Online Exercise is more precious than ever. So let’s stop scaring kids off PE | Anna Kessel - Guardian USA: Donald Trump says gun-free schools are a "magnet for bad people" and armed teachers could 'fire back at savage sickos' - Mirror Apprenticeship levy: five myths busted - FE News Emotions run high on university pickets - BBC How 1950s parents were forced to fight for children with cerebral palsy’s right to education - The Conversation Principal's harassment ordeal by pupil's parent - BBC Academy trust CEOs among Ofqual board appointments - Schools Week FE commissioner forces merger at Guildford College - FE Week Oxbridge universities ‘given greater say than other institutions’ on pensions cuts driving higher education strike - Independent Six fresh facts about teacher supply - Schools Week Apprenticeship starts continue to fall in the short term - FE News FE Commissioner tells Guildford College to merge by the end of this year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we should aspire to China's approach to skills - FE Week The strange economics of the university strikes - Financial Times The extent of trainee teacher shortage laid bare by DfE research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jeremy Corbyn sends 'solidarity and thanks' to lecturers and other university staff who begin a month of walkouts over pensions - Mirror 'The whole university system is broken': your best comments today - Guardian Global: Teachers around the world outraged by Trump's call for guns in the classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES New unionlearn leaflet encourages ESOL support at work - Unionlearn Is your university affected by the pensions strike? Full list of walkouts as 1m students face disruption - Mirror GCSE awards up two per cent as schools respond to league table changes - Schools Week What the university staff strike reveals about our broken higher education system - New Statesman Apprenticeship starts slip further behind as November flops - FE Week Apprenticeship starts continue to fall - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers strike over job cuts at two schools in Wales - Wales Online More academics and students have mental health problems than ever before - The Conversation An analysis of employment and mobility within the state-sector teacher workforce - DfE Overview of the qualifications market and a single reference point about participants in the market (2016 - 2017) - Ofqual Latest monthly apprenticeship starts, registrations, commitments, and apprenticeship levy info - DfE UK revenue from education related exports and transnational education activity (2015) - DfE FE chartered status membership hits double figures after six years - FE Week What will wellbeing look like in a workplace dominated by insecurity, gig work and intelligent machines? - FE News Do tariff points mean prizes? - Wonkhe By 2030, will universities ‘walk fast and alone – or walk far and together’? - Wonkhe Disadvantaged children need a break – not a system stacked against them | Frances Ryan - Guardian I’m striking with university colleagues as our pensions are being destroyed | Vicky Blake - Guardian Scots secondary school pupils choosing same novels as under-12s - Scotsman Digital skills crisis? It’s not just about the economy - FE News Top UK universities disrupted by worst ever strike - Financial Times Analysis: Teachers defy guidance in pursuit of National 4 safety net for pupils - Herald Scotland Literacy fears as secondary pupils ‘read the same books’ as primary children - Herald Scotland Leader comment: Don’t be a literary wimp - Scotsman Strikes to begin at Scottish universities in pensions dispute - Mail 'Little student support' for varying tuition fees - BBC New ‘meet me at McDonalds’ hairstyle is causing classroom chaos - The Sun DfE doesn’t check whether academy leaders are ‘fit and proper’ - Schools Week National Audit Office academies report: The key findings - Schools Week Set aside 15 minutes of dedicated reading time, secondary schools told - Schools Week DfE's plans to convert schools to academies stalled in many areas – report - Guardian Progress in reading stalls at secondary school. It should be a priority - Guardian A £745m bill and 15 other National Audit Office findings on academisation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Future of academisation in doubt, spending watchdog warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE pupils are spurning challenging books and reading novels aimed at 13-year-olds - Mail Students oppose differential fees, report says - Mail Harry Potter remains pupils' favourite - Times Educational Supplement | TES Many GCSE pupils have reading level of a 13-year-old - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three colleges join Chartered Institution for Further Education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for more part-time apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northern Ireland: Lecturers would face impoverished retirement under pension changes - union - Mail £745 million spent on turning state schools into academies - Mail Commonwealth countries must ensure that each child has 12 years of quality education - Telegraph Failing schools turned into academies at a cost of £745m - Times Lecturers keep students in dark on strikes to increase disruption - Times USA: Donald Trump calls for teachers to be armed after Florida school shooting - Times Fear of eight times nine equals national failure - Times Your books turn teens into twits, David Walliams is told - Times Scotland: Swinney faces questions over education row - Times Ireland: Ministers press tech giants to protect children online - Times ‘Deeply worrying’ Pupils aged 16 have reading age of only 13, experts warn - Express Teenagers aren’t reading enough tough books – here’s why they should worry - The Conversation