News archive for 17th January 2018

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Sexual assault at universities: #itsrevolting - Times Higher Education | THE USA: Where were the authorities? Calls for tighter checks on home schools. - Mail Scotland faces severe accommodation shortage for university students on campus - Scotsman Fresh approach needed to make English skills reform last - CBI School at base of Grenfell judged outstanding in all categories - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Committee Chair writes to Secretary of State for Education on Carillion - FE News MPs call for overhaul in oversight of England's academy school chains - Guardian Oversubscribed UTC offers hope to troubled sector - Times Educational Supplement | TES India: Delhi parents to watch government schools via CCTV - BBC Reducing teacher workload - DfE Anne Milton: speech at Sixth Form Colleges Association conference - DfE Two-thirds of Scottish teachers do not get ‘sufficient’ mental health training - Scotsman Register of apprenticeship training agencies - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: January 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding allocations supporting documents for 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Register of end-point assessment organisations: how to apply - Education & Skills Funding Agency Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 5 - Ofsted Early years anger over Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report 'impossible to reconcile' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Do government regulations inhibit freedom of debate at universities? - UK Parliament What is the sector’s best kept secret? - Education & Training Foundation Jayne visited Kingswood Secondary Academy for a Career Footsteps event - Edge Foundation Delivering STEM skills for the economy - The Staffroom USA: House of horrors doubled as a private school but was never inspected by education chiefs - The Sun Everyone who works in a school should be trained in mental health, report finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland HE and FE bracing for Brexit impact - PIE News Information regarding Carillion - NAHT Fresh approach needed to make English skills reform last - CBI Year of the dog - primary teaching resource - NAHT Exploring different approaches to teaching in higher education in China - HEA New fund will test different ways to improve Science teacher retention - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Drawing the future - findings from the largest survey of primary children’s career aspirations - NAHT The arts – at the heart of a great school - The Educator Teaching unions call for urgent review of teachers and school leaders’ pay - NAHT Daily roundup 17 January: Child victims, vasectomies, and SEND cuts - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted 'needs more money' to monitor apprenticeships - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Has the doctoral thesis passed its sell-by date? - Wonkhe Higher education reform in Australia: a land far, far away? - Wonkhe DfE nationwide teachers’ jobs site set for April launch - Public Technology Private school fee hikes “have not put off parents”, research finds - IOE London Blog DfE under pressure to explain how Carillion collapse affects schools - Schools Week Carillion collapse: MPs call for regional breakdown of impact on schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Judges explain backing for coroner's decision not to call pupils at murdered teacher Ann Maguire's inquest - Times Educational Supplement | TES Which Scottish schools could be closed tomorrow due to snow? - Scotsman Failing academy trusts asset-stripping schools, MPs warn ministers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two thirds of teachers lack mental health training, survey suggests - Herald Scotland Second Education and Childcare qualifications panel set up - Nursery World Can you take your children on holiday during term time and what’s the fine if they miss school? - The Sun Parents and children wanted for university reading study - Nursery World Teachers with Northern accents are being told to ‘posh up’, here’s why - The Conversation MPs on the warpath over academy trust accountability - Schools Week Quarter of schools in deficit at country's biggest MAT - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bold Beginnings: how NOT to write an Ofsted report - Schools Week Bullying is still rife in schools. Here's how teachers can tackle it - Guardian Prisons careers advice contracts ‘termination’ fears - FE Week New research shows University and College leaders recognise sustainability as a priority but fail to deliver - FE News Independent school fees treble but social mix is unchanged - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why do black students quit university more often than their white peers? - Guardian Commercial ideas in cyber security: £500k academic funding - FE News SatelLife Challenge - SecEd Teaching Awards 2018 - SecEd Research urges PE focus - SecEd Headteachers given 101 suggestions to help manage the pressure of Ofsted - SecEd Government brands 2018 ‘Year of Engineering’ in bid to inspire young people - SecEd Many school catering staff are facing low pay and debt - SecEd STEM Insight - SecEd Skills for the North: Devolving technical education to cities - IPPR Heavy snow causes closure of all schools in Scottish borders - Scotsman All the facts you need to answer tricky questions about higher education - Guardian 'Outstanding' school excluded illegally and forced pupils to stay in isolation rooms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Creativity can be taught to anyone. So why are we leaving it to private schools? | Rufus Norris - Guardian Government efforts to boost UK's tech and science "STEM" skills are "muddled", warns National Audit Office - City AM 'A cut disguised as kindness’ – concerns over free school meal reforms - SecEd New year, new opportunities? - FE News Why 2018 should be the year of inclusivity for further education - FE News Thousands of Brits buy fake degrees from multi-million pound Pakistani ‘diploma mill’ - The Sun Is social mobility really about school cash? - BBC Britain’s ‘oversupply’ of biology graduates risks skill shortage for vital jobs, report reveals - The Sun Private school fees treble in 30 years but parents are still paying up - Mail UK university could get EU funds post-Brexit - BBC University chief paid £475,000 is told she must quit immediately after row about her salary led to motion of no confidence - Mail Milton attempts to reassure SFCs’ cash concerns - FE Week Brexit uncertainty prompts employers to cut graduate jobs - Guardian Delivering STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills for the economy - FE News Women with Stem skills 'lost to the economy because of A-level gender gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES No sixth-form funding increase is imminent, Milton warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fresh approach to skills needed, says CBI - Times Educational Supplement | TES UTCs have ‘failed to establish their position’, spending watchdog says - Schools Week NAO report on STEM skills: 7 important findings for schools - Schools Week Universities luring millennials to communism, leading don warns - Times Anne Milton's keynote address at the Sixth Form Colleges Association conference - FE News Learndirect ‘blocked critical report to keep funding’ - Times Private school fees treble but middle classes get help to pay - Times Go now, Bath tells Dame Glynis Breakwell, highest paid university chief - Times Fewer graduate jobs amid Brexit fears - Times Fake degrees from Pakistan sold to doctors - Times Religious teacher at London mosque ‘lured boys to join death squad’ - Times Russia: Temperatures of -55C are too cool for school - Times Scotland: Collapse of school wall injures boy - Times What are the most lucrative careers for graduates? How working for a supermarket could pay more than law or banking - Telegraph Letter from the Education Committee to Damian Hinds re the impact of Carillion's demise on the sector - Commons Select Committee Letter to Lord Agnew from the Education Committee re lack of transparency and accountability within the MAT system - Commons Select Committee