News archive for 22nd January 2018

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12 rules for schools – Rule 2 treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping - The Learning Spy ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Education Secretary opens Education World Forum - DfE Damian Hinds Launches Global Celebration of Education - DfE University staff overwhelmingly back strike action in USS pensions row - UCU University pensions strike update: Universities to be hit with 14 strike days if USS row not resolved - UCU Joint union call for a 'blank sheet of paper' approach to inspection - NAHT Free anti-abuse poster for your school - NAHT Joint union call for a 'blank sheet of paper' approach to inspection - National Education Union Lessons for higher education from private – and quasi-private – schools - HEPI Spotlight on multi-academy trusts: Teachers and schools - NFER Five top tips for new teachers - The Educator Schools should do more to warn about sharing sexual content - The Educator Results of UCU ballot on possible strike action - Universities UK Students’ unions in a changing world - HEPI Hinds says schools face digital challenge - BBC Racism is creeping back into mainstream science – we have to stop it | Angela Saini - Guardian Schools should teach children resilience to help them in the workplace, new Education Secretary says - Telegraph Top London school plans new wing in underground car park - Guardian 'English national pupil database one of the most impressive in the world' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher barred from profession – for second time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revealed: RSC’s links to school with severe safeguarding failures - Schools Week British academics set to strike over pension changes - Financial Times National maths centre to double staffing as mastery roll-out continues - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We need to prepare the next generation of college principals' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What Teachers Tapped This Week #17 – 22nd January - Teacher Tapp Skills for the North: Devolving technical education to cities - The Staffroom England shunning global skills test because pupils are 'not ready for it' - Times Educational Supplement | TES TEF panels announced as assessment phase begins - HEFCE UK colleges targeted for Saudi Arabia expansion - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education secretary focuses on 'soft skills' in first big speech - Guardian Revealed: 73 schools, trusts and councils to split £25m improvement funding - Schools Week TEF confusion need to be addressed – QS - PIE News Inspection freeze 'undermines' children's centres, charity warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 22 January: Child abuse, gender, and foster parent - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Oxford University student disciplined after attending 'dress as your degree' party as Stephen Hawking - Telegraph Further Education Commissioner Richard Atkins questioned on challenges facing colleges - Commons Select Committee Cornwall College gets £3.5m to help cashflow problems - FE Week When the relationship with your PhD supervisor turns toxic - Guardian University staff plan walkouts in bitter pensions row - Mail Gang 'carrying weapons' targeted pupils at city school - Wales Online Nothing soft about learning workplace skills - Education Secretary - Mail Yorkshire school to stop teaching Latin after 600 years - Guardian Damian Hinds gives first speech as education secretary - Schools Week Damian Hinds: Technology will ease teachers' workloads, not steal their jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK universities face disruption as staff back industrial action - Guardian Damian Hinds Launches Global Celebration of Education - FE News Universities could face lectures and exams disruption as workers vote for action - Herald Scotland Top universities face strike action over pension changes - BBC Oxford University gives women more time to pass exams - Telegraph Academic freedom at risk at Hong Kong's universities, says report - Guardian Nearly 1,000 children's centres not inspected - Nursery World Beyond Prevent: helping students to think critically is a better way to discourage extremism - IOE London Blog Fine art students work on Tudor-themed art exhibition for Durham Cathedral - FE Week Seventh Bristol university student takes his own life - Guardian Schools 'should teach children about the dangers of online sexual content' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Least fit primary pupils from 20 years ago would be fittest today - Times Educational Supplement | TES We’re all special snowflakes now - Wonkhe No platform? 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The case against free speech hysteria - Wonkhe Charity law and free speech: a cleft stick for universities? - Wonkhe Better research through better infrastructure - Wonkhe Hearts must have courage for the changing of the WP guards - Wonkhe ‘We feel unwanted’: an ‘orphan’ school at the sharp end of academisation - Guardian How can we ensure the Year of Engineering is a success? - FE Week SEND experts demand review of high-needs funding rules - Schools Week £10 million pledge for outdoor learning not enough to make a difference, warn critics - Schools Week Global: Malala and Apple launch partnership to get at least 100,000 underprivileged girls into school - Independent Need to know: Secondary league tables - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools seek to broaden pupils’ horizons and life chances - Financial Times Scottish headteachers to meet fast-track training body Teach First - Herald Scotland Children's centres undermined by ministers, says charity - BBC Call for schools to teach ‘sexting’ dangers - Herald Scotland Least fit children 20 years ago would be among fittest today, says study - Mail Children `should be taught about the dangers of online sexual content´ - Mail Survey reveals barriers to training and employing EYTs - Nursery World Seventh Bristol university student suicide in year and a half - Times Students’ filter turns internet into safe space for the sensitive - Times Scotland: Kelvinside school for innovation may fall foul of ‘registered teacher’ rule - Times