News archive for 9th January 2018

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Top grammar school bans teachers from calling its pupils 'girls' in case it offends transgender children - Mail Cabinet reshuffle hits both education and universities - The Staffroom Boosting metacognition and executive functions in the classroom - Learning Scientists Open academies and academy projects in development - DfE Become a childminder: pre-registration briefing - Ofsted Qualification achievement rates 2016 to 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency LARS: learning aim reference application hierarchy file - Education & Skills Funding Agency Qualification achievement rates and minimum standards - Education & Skills Funding Agency LRS latest release guidance - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding: funding for academic year 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency UCU comment on resignation of Toby Young - UCU Damian Hinds is appointed new education secretary - NAHT Industrial action suspended at University of Manchester - UCU Apply for grant funding to co-ordinate school-led equality and diversity projects in your region - NAHT Ofsted confirms new arrangements for inspection of good schools - NAHT Appointment of new universities minister - Universities UK Committee of University Chairs consultation on senior staff pay - Universities UK Comment on change of education secretary - National Education Union NEU comment on resignation of Toby Young - National Education Union Jexit leaves a mixed legacy in higher education - Wonkhe Happy new regulatory regime - Wonkhe The major review of HE finance must focus on the real problems - Wonkhe Sam Gyimah’s in-tray - Wonkhe Jo Johnson loses job as universities minister after botched Toby Young appointment - Telegraph Universities will have to justify excessive senior pay under new rules - Guardian Concerns over Catholic church's 2014 donation to Damian Hinds - Guardian Local authorities collecting sensitive pupil data without consent - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four more deputy FE commissioners - FE Week Robert Goodwill out, Nadhim Zahawi in at DfE - Nursery World Teaching abroad can help earn some money and bolster the CV - Times Higher Education | THE Theresa May's reshuffle increases the proportion of privately educated Cabinet ministers - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE disappoints as it rejects a 16-to-18 funding-rate rise - FE Week Toby Young: how barrage of nudges made OfS position untenable - Guardian Former 'super-head' banned over £30,000 false expenses claims starts own teacher training scheme - Evening Standard Anne Milton stays as minister in latest government reshuffle - FE Week AoC responds to new Education Secretary announcement - AoC | Association of Colleges New UK education secretary appointed - PIE News Toby Young quits role on universities watchdog after storm over offensive tweets - PoliticsHome Ministerial reshuffle, Greening, Hinds and Gibb - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dear Education Secretary – The Blob is out to get you. Don’t let it - Policy Exchange University of Birmingham hosts American Fulbrighters in the UK for Forum 2018 - Fulbright Commission Daily roundup January 9: Sick leave, youth services, and smacking - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New Education Secretary's track record highlights early years interest - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Robert Goodwill sacked as children's minister - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Engaging students in pedagogic innovation: learning from small-scale innovation projects - HEFCE Anne Milton set to stay as apprenticeships and skills minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most teachers struggle to balance work and personal lives, research shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let them eat cake that they have cooked from scratch - Financial Times Top five questions for education new boy Damian Hinds - BBC Former apprenticeships advisor Nadhim Zahawi appointed DfE minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reshuffle: Nadhim Zahawi added to DfE line up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plans to widen access to grammar schools delayed by reshuffle - Schools Week Nadhim Zahawi becomes education minister - Schools Week Nick Gibb remains schools minister following reshuffle - Schools Week Nick Gibb - champion of phonics and Spag tests - stays at DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Australia: Are selective schools too exclusive? - Mail Jo Johnson moved from universities job in reshuffle after Toby Young row - HuffPost Sam Gyimah is new universities minister, replacing Jo Johnson - BBC Damian Hinds replaces Justine Greening as education secretary - Nursery World NUS president Shakira Martin the 'antidote' replacement for Toby young at universities watchdog, MP says - HuffPost How universities replied to that Brexit letter - BBC Toby Young resigns from university regulator - BBC Justine Greening’s departure is bad news for anyone who cares about education | Melissa Benn - Guardian Best Evidence in Brief: the latest education research news from the Institute of Effective Education - Institute for Effective Education Mayor launches early years hubs to boost childcare for disadvantaged families - Nursery World Voice comments on change of Education Secretary - Voice Toby Young resigns from universities regulator: 'Forced out by Twitter mob' - Express Teaching union questions Toby Young's future at New Schools Network - Times Educational Supplement | TES Joint Committee on human rights surveys student unions on free speech - FE News FE sector sad to see Justine Greening go - Times Educational Supplement | TES Toby Young resigns from the Office for Students after backlash - Guardian Robert Goodwill – minister for SEND, early years and school sports – sacked - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unionlearn supports mid-life skills with The Rainbow Years European project - Unionlearn University Awards 2018: entries now open - Guardian Who is Toby Young and why has he resigned from universities watchdog amid a Twitter row? - Express Children's minister Robert Goodwill sacked - Schools Week Sector response to the cabinet reshuffle: Damian Hinds into DfE and Esther McVey back at DWP - FE News Young's appointment was a serious mistake, at least he has realised - Cable - FE News School leavers say careers advice remains ‘insufficient’ despite Government commitments - FE News USA: The tax on university endowments is anti-intellectualism and cultural resentment masquerading as fiscal policy - Financial Times Toby Young quits government education role to avoid ‘distraction’ - Financial Times Damian Hinds replaces Justine Greening as the new Secretary of State for Education - FE News Young people at YOI 'unnecessarily missing education and therapy' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Toby Young resigns from Office for Students regulator with apology for sexist tweets and remarks - HuffPost Toby Young resigns from universities regulator role over string of sexist and lewd tweets - Mirror Toby Young quits Office for Students to ‘get on’ with free schools work - Schools Week Who is Toby Young? Journalist and free schools campaigner whose appointment to university watchdog role sparked controversy - The Sun Toby Young resigns from universities regulator - Express Justine Greening quits as Theresa May Cabinet reshuffle descends into chaos - Express Toby Young quits role on universities watchdog after Andrea Leadsom sparks Cabinet row over his ‘unacceptable’ tweets - The Sun Toby Young quits government education role - Financial Times A visionary to save the Open University – or the man who will run it into the ground? - Guardian The universities’ Faustian pact of 2010 gave us Toby Young | Peter Scott - Guardian Anxious about exams? There’s an app for that - Guardian Toby Young resigns from Office for Students regulator with apology for sexist tweets and remarks - HuffPost Take the kids to … the Ragged School Museum, east London - Guardian Time to ‘reset’ curriculum for excellence, say Scots Tories - Scotsman More than 70 years on, the technical education sector is still in flux - FE News One fifth of pupils achieving National 4 after failing more advanced exams - Herald Scotland Call for Scotland’s school curriculum to be ‘reset’ - Herald Scotland Analysis: Tribulations over National 4 qualification are refusing to go away - Herald Scotland Teachers in Iraq's Mosul learn to cope with traumatised pupils - Mail New university watchdog in free speech storm after recruiting adviser who lobbied against a former Archbishop of Canterbury over gay marriage - Mail Scottish Conservatives call for SNP to 'get a grip' on curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Princess Charlotte starts first day at Willcocks Nursery School in style - Times Justine Greening quits in shambolic Tory cabinet reshuffle - Times Bingley Grammar School charges pupils £5 a week to take their music GCSE - Times HMP Parc hosts school parents’ evenings - Times Scotland: Universities face £1m cash threat for missing teacher training targets - Times Scotland: Edinburgh principal Peter Mathieson accused over student protests in Hong Kong - Times Scotland: Tories urge relaunch of curriculum - Times