News archive for 5th January 2018

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Number of teachers caught helping students cheat in exams soars - Mirror Reception curriculum in good and outstanding primary schools: bold beginnings - Ofsted New school proposals - DfE Free schools: open schools and successful applications - DfE Malpractice for GCSEs, AS and A levels: 2017 - Ofqual Careers guidance provision for young people in schools - DfE School land: decisions about disposals - Education & Skills Funding Agency Boost to get more top professionals into teaching - DfE Consistency and transparency are watchwords for primary school leaders - ASCL Helping schools to buy goods and services: regional schools’ buying hubs - NAHT In the news: 5 January - UCU A school of 'second chances' shouldn't be a last resort - National Education Union Get ready for the launch: New HEPI report on the costs/benefits of international students - HEPI UCAS data shows drop in teacher recruitment - National Education Union Every university needs a good mascot - Wonkhe Teacher recruitment crisis as applications drop by a third - The Educator Troubled free school could go to wall without DfE financial rescue - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers guidance and access for education and training providers - DfE Boost to get more top professionals into teaching - DfE Teachers and trainers urged to start 2018 by getting the recognition they deserve - Education & Training Foundation University does not suit every school leaver - Edge Foundation Top tips on how school leaders can support their teachers - The Staffroom Shadow ministers demand Theresa May 'ditches' Toby Young from university role - PoliticsHome Being bold in 2018 - Early Education “Global competence” to be tested by OECD - PIE News Subcontracting can preseve the capacity of the apprenticeship network - Times Educational Supplement | TES Subcontracting can preseve the capacity of the apprenticeship network - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs to probe impact of 30 hours free childcare extension - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 5 January: Teaching, text messages, and child bereavement - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs to examine fallout of HMRC childcare website failings - Public Technology UCL receives over £1 million for research on link between the brain and behaviour - IOE London Blog Unregistered Jewish schools prompt call for new laws - BBC Puett and the Path - are we too Eurocentric? - Montrose42 Less than half of school leavers use a careers adviser - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jamie Oliver calls on health secretary to ban under 16s from buying energy drinks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching to make children cleverer: Part 1 - The Learning Spy The Weekend Read: Are we looking at a new generation of super-selective sixth forms? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government accused of 'woefully inadequate' approach to illegal schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Toby Young: what is ‘progressive eugenics’ and what does it have to do with meritocracy? - The Conversation Ofsted watch: Bad start to 2018 for West Thames College - FE Week 'I feel completely in control': stress-busting teaching strategies for 2018 - Guardian A diverse reading list is no threat to Shakespeare – every student benefits - Guardian Government ‘complacent’ on unregistered religious schools, London council claims - Schools Week Bureaucracy to blame for sharp drop in teacher-training applicants, union claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why 'impulsive, vain' Toby Young wants us to take him seriously - Guardian More students found cheating in GCSE and A-level exams - BBC This is how hard it is to get a place at Wales' two medical schools - Wales Online Perfectionism is destroying the mental health of my millennial generation | Daisy Buchanan - Guardian Ditch Toby Young from watchdog board, top Labour figures tell May - Guardian Why it pays to take on an apprentice - FE News University league tables will not solve the problem of high vice-chancellor pay | Sally Turnbull - Guardian This much I know about…how, as school leaders, we have to solve the recruitment crisis ourselves - JohnTomsett Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 5 January 2018 - Pearson Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 5 January 2018 - Pearson Computing students account for vast majority of plagiarism penalties - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research round-up 5 January 2018 - NAHT ‘Enough, they can only do so much’ – MP's concern over teachers' mental health responsibilities - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 1,000 pupils penalised for phones in GCSE and A-level exams - Guardian MPs to scrutinise effectiveness of childcare policy on parental employment - Nursery World Nursery group wins bid to run children's centre settings - Nursery World Boost to get more top professionals into teaching - FE News Exam malpractice by school staff up by 149% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Staff exam malpractice up by 150% - Schools Week Scottish teachers threaten strike action to win pay rise - Scotsman ‘Crisis’ claims as Scots school advertises six times for new teacher - Scotsman 'We all need to be less scared of asking for help': campus security on mental health - Guardian Law flouted as pupils forced to wait more than a year for SEND support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching job advertised six times without success amid schools crisis - Herald Scotland Why availability matters - FE News Many new primary teachers lack confidence in teaching 3Rs - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Enough is enough' threat from Scottish teachers as pay talks loom - Herald Scotland Warning from councils over quality of probationer teachers - Herald Scotland Private music college is handed 36% more loan cash than the LSE after trebling its number of students in just three years - Mail Now Teach charity gets £350,000 DfE funding to expand into Hastings - Schools Week Teachers in Scotland warn of strikes without above-inflation pay rise - Guardian Almost £3m for English and maths research still unallocated - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers ready to strike over pay, union warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Now Teach will target government's social mobility 'cold spots' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for 'shared sites' to bring young and old together - Nursery World Crisis in teacher recruitment as applications fall by a third - Times British and Irish Modern Music Institute earns £25m from those about to rock - Times Build care homes by schools to mix generations - Times My son taught me a lesson about university - Times Hungary: Hardliner Viktor Orban has George Soros’s liberal university in sights - Times Scotland: Teachers threaten to strike if pay rise is insufficient - Times Classroom chaos looms as teachers warn of 'inevitable' strike action - Express