News archive for 23rd February 2018

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Short inspections of good schools: maintained schools and academies - Ofsted Initial teacher education (ITE) inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Academies financial notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: Inform - Education & Skills Funding Agency Conference for Commonwealth Education Ministers - DfE Apprenticeship funding and performance management rules 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Using the apprenticeship service as a training provider - Education & Skills Funding Agency Non levy apprenticeship procured growth requests - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding allocations supporting documents for 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Letters to academy trusts about levels of executive pay - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeships and value for money in higher education examined - UK Parliament Committee hears from experts on apprenticeships and lifelong learning - UK Parliament Stop spinning and let's talk today to solve dispute UCU tells Universities UK - UCU University and College Union response to UUK call for talks - UCU NAHT welcomes Lord Agnew’s letter to academy trusts about executive pay - NAHT Strikes force last-minute cancellation of Cambridge lecture by Canadian judge - UCU School improvement: Capacity and opportunity - ASCL Universities seek meaningful talks with UCU about USS - Universities UK £745m spent on creating academies - The Educator All work and no play makes Miss a dull teacher - The Educator Jill Westerman wins the lifetime achievement award at the Tes FE awards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher numbers to be hit as councils examine budgets - Scotsman Universities tell striking lecturers: We will reverse pension plan changes if the economy improves - Telegraph Universities call on union to resume strike talks - Financial Times University strike: Pension plan could be reversed, say bosses - BBC Teacher accused of 'misgendering' child was told by police that she committed a hate crime - Telegraph Are they worth it? DfE orders MATs to justify salaries over £150,000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Co-operation between colleges, schools and universities essential, says Scotland's education secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers suffering ‘fatigue’ from ‘hyper-accountability industry’, wellbeing expert warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who told teenager he was 'falling deeply in love with you' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes podcast: Children in care, transgender pupils and the future of academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Committee to hold evidence sessions on quality of apprenticeships and skills training and value for money in higher education - FE News Myriad ways to learn times tables | Letters - Guardian Daily roundup 23 February: Child poverty, Presidents Club and FGM trial - CYPN | Children & Young People Now CSE review calls for government to overhaul secure protection system - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Educational impact of children's centres 'impossible to measure', Zahawi claims - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Can automated student support information management systems provide equity of attainment? - HEFCE Open access monographs in the REF - HEFCE IKEA of learning - HEA I am a PhD student who just started teaching - but here's why I'm on strike - HuffPost Stop “the drop” - Edge Foundation Low cost degree apprenticeships available to small and medium sized businesses - Leeds Beckett University Changes in education throughout the years - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Oxford International new partnership - PIE News 38% international students in NZ apply through education agents - PIE News GSE: No pain no gain – Top global teachers on risk-taking and normalizing struggle - Edmodo Research: Children see words and faces differently from adults - UKEdChat Ofsted Watch: First inspection since merger produces ‘good’ result - FE Week Rodillian MAT hit with financial notice to improve after ESFA investigation - Schools Week Rodillian Multi-Academy Trust issued with financial notice to improve - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills minister admits students remain without courses more than a year after training providers collapsed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Britain’s universities are assets, not a problem to be solved - Financial Times Don’t knock kids for rereading books. Encourage them to read, full stop | Andrew McCallum - Guardian College group giant welcomes move to campus level inspection - FE Week Teacher training providers call on government to scrap skills entry test - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted accused of waste over inspection for just 7 learners - FE Week Teachers 'work more overtime than most other professionals in Britain' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 23 February 2018 - Pearson University strikes latest: Students clash as protesters storm Sussex University lecture hall - Independent Just half of three- and four-year-olds are read to every day - Nursery World Mayors raise concerns over weak adult education budget devolution powers - FE Week Open letter from Universities UK to USS scheme members over pensions dispute - FE News Why flexible working won’t solve the workload problem - Schools Week Change is coming – but can the apprenticeship market handle it? - FE Week Adult education budget used to bail out struggling colleges - FE Week Initial teacher education (ITE) inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Recruitment events to identify skills talent for over 100 new vacancies coming to South East Wales - Welsh Government Bringing the Student Loans Company into focus - Wonkhe Time to ‘remaster’ taught postgraduate study - Wonkhe Long-term disadvantage, part five: What explains the gap between London and the north? - Education Datalab Long-term disadvantage, part six: Measuring disadvantage in the north - Education Datalab Catholics pray for free schools miracle - Schools Week Engaging parents - Sutton Trust As a gay teacher, I want to be the role model I never had - Guardian Lecturing in a UK university is starting to feel like working in a business | Academics Anonymous - Guardian Urgent safety review after Edinburgh school’s ceiling collapses - Scotsman YouTube is bigger distraction to children’s homework than television, survey finds - Telegraph Children in care forced to wait nearly a year for a school place - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I won't accept looked-after children unless Damian Hinds oversees their safety' says academy chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revealed: The 5 schools investigated over severance pay - Schools Week Manchester schools tsar condemns Education Endowment Foundation as 'dangerous' - Times Educational Supplement | TES University bosses took home an average of £268,000 as salary increased four times 1.1 per cent offered to staff - The Sun Apprenticeships in the NHS - miracle cure or bitter pill? - FE News Agenda by Liz Cameron: Why we must continue to let girls flourish at Notre Dame - Herald Scotland Calls for university bosses and unions to get back to talks - Herald Scotland Brexit: German universities among those poised to benefit if researchers and funding shift - IOE London Blog 'Fat cat' academy bosses face challenge over pay - BBC Teacher numbers and schools’ money targeted as education budgets lose special protection - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges forced to gamble almost £300,000 on apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools in the north need more resources – but not because they’re less effective - Schools Week University chiefs split as strike causes chaos - Times University pension chief got pay rise despite £6bn deficit - Times Students come to blows as staff strike divides campus - Times Levy to blame for slump in apprentices, employers say - Times Scotland: We will double free childcare hours by 2020, SNP insists - Times Ireland: Uneducated are four times more likely to be jobless - Times Ireland: Complete nonsense! Students jeered at Trinity College Dublin for changing ‘freshman’ to ‘fresh’ - Times OFSTED management information on ITE (Feb 2018) - UCET Department for Education-Supplementary Estimate 2017-18 Memorandum (pdf) - DfE Teachers' Pension Scheme - Supplementary Estimate 2017-18 Memorandum (pdf) - DfE Ofsted - Supplementary Estimate 2017-18 Memorandum (pdf) - UK Parliament