News archive for 29th January 2018

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The digital skills gap: teacher knows best - New Statesman Carillion apprentices face having pay stopped in next few days - Mail LRS latest release guidance - Education & Skills Funding Agency Using the register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ASCL Ethical Leadership Commission: Honesty and trust - ASCL Planning for the live dragons…. preparing for 2018-19 and beyond - AoC | Association of Colleges Race discrimination continuing to blight our schools - NASUWT An opportunity missed on restraint and restrictive intervention - NAHT UCU announces 14 strike dates at 61 universities in pensions row - UCU Rona Tutt's SEND summary (January 2018) - NAHT Diversity and ambition - Russell Group International students inquiry - Russell Group What do school league tables show us about school standards? - The Educator University entry exams highlight 'class divide' - The Educator NFER Vice President David Whitbread dies after long and distinguished career in education - NFER Exploring Ofsted inspection data with Data View - Ofsted DfE external data shares - DfE AoC demands colleges are omitted from ‘misleading’ school progress data - FE Week Australia: Uni students must pass sex consent module - Mail Universities to strike over pension changes - Scotsman Academy accounts hearing: 7 things we learned - Schools Week Primary school becomes first in UK to cut working week to four-and-a-half days to tackle budget crisis - Mirror No right to fully-funded digital skills training until 2020 - FE Week Primary headteachers embrace plans to 'empower' Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Pisa recipe for succeeding with disadvantaged pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Carillion apprentices will 'stop being paid' later this week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher strikes 'in nobody’s interest', warns Scottish minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills minister says she will put on tin hat and battledress to fight for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two thirds of academy trusts forced to justify high salaries lack 'reasonable' explanation - Times Educational Supplement | TES The children who spent a day with a dead body - BBC Milton promises to find ‘the right solution’ for ‘precious’ Kensington and Chelsea College - FE Week The IQ test wars: Why screening for intelligence is still so controversial - Independent Shoreline lessons - how beach trips boost learning - BBC More schools going into deficit, top DfE official tells MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lord Hutton: Should financial education be a part of the primary school curriculum? - PoliticsHome Schools key to successful integration of child refugees - UKEdChat Teacher trainers ordered to rethink entry standards to 'maximise recruitment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Daily roundup 29 January: Refugees, grooming alerts, and second-hand toys - CYPN | Children & Young People Now What Teachers Tapped This Week #18 – 29th January 2018 - Teacher Tapp UCU confirms 14 strike dates over USS pensions row - Times Higher Education | THE Merging single sector agency announces new name as Advance HE - HEA History A-level's 'Conservative bias'? - BBC Damian Hinds: Schools have 'more money than ever before in the history of the country' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools need more money, says former No 10 chief Nick Timothy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damian Hinds is ‘carefully considering’ lifting the faith-based admissions cap - Schools Week Colleges criticised for asking job applicants which political party they support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Carillion apprentices will not be paid after January, report claims - FE Week Geldof condemns England's opt-out from Pisa global understanding tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Welsh universities face 14 days of strikes over pensions row - Wales Online University to open apprenticeship hub - Times Educational Supplement | TES St Stephen's head Neena Lall likened to Hitler in spoof video as row over hijab ban escalates - Evening Standard The Presidents Club, David Meller, and the rise of the education philanthropist - New Statesman Glasgow University wins share of £14m data science award - Scotsman MPs agree that Apprenticeship Levy and target must change - FE News Why is the performance of MATs so extreme? - Education Datalab Carillion collapse: apprentices won't be paid once January ends, ministers confirm - HuffPost Greening says 'wrong' to scrap student grants - BBC Number of fast-food shops close to schools rises by two-thirds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hate crime linked to schools in England and Wales soars - Guardian Chief executive of Capital City College Group to retire - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social mobility top priority at Damian Hinds' DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Strike action to hit Scottish universities - Scotsman Heard the one about the standup showing academics how to be interesting? - Guardian Hate crime in schools up by 62% in a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Network for Early Years Teachers launches next month - Nursery World Children could get online grooming 'alerts' - NSPCC - BBC Working-class teenagers more likely to apply for university with vocational qualifications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research round-up 29 January 2018 - NAHT Academics under pressure: the invisible frontline in student mental health - Wonkhe It’s time to reset the Teaching Excellence Framework - Wonkhe Taking on grade inflation in UK higher education - Wonkhe Universities must revisit BTECs as a route to higher education - Wonkhe Teaching quality enhancement in England: the commemorative teatowel - Wonkhe Are today’s degrees really first class? - Wonkhe What works? examining the evidence on evidence-informed practice - IOE London Blog Institutional UCAS end of cycle 2017 statistics – visualised - Wonkhe ‘I found it a privilege’ – Greening gives first interview since reshuffle - Schools Week 'Class divide' in university entry exams - BBC BETT 2018 goes global and finally FE gets a platform - FE News Sales apprentice buys her own home aged just 20 after working five jobs rather than going to university - Independent Half of white working-class and black British students in England get into university with vocational qualifications such as BTECs - Social Market Foundation | SMF Ten Scottish pupils caught with knives at school each month - Scotsman Free schools: do their outcomes justify the cost? - Schools Week Need to know: Pupil mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES What next for careers following the publication of the careers strategy? - FE News Securing our digital future: fuelling the digital revolution from the classroom - FE News Pupils offered mental health support for being sent to different school - Herald Scotland Criminals apply for 6,000 jobs in the classroom - Mail Half of pupils from poorer backgrounds who get into university did so by studying alternative qualifications to A-levels - Mail Teaching assistants: We are kicked, spat on, hit and sworn at - BBC Social media firms told to crack down on grooming - Times Firsts no longer make the grade, says Cambridge - Times 50,000 absent pupils at risk of exploitation - Times Huge rise in fast food shops a short walk from schools - Times Ireland: Lack of mental health services is ‘failing teenagers’ - Times Strengthening QTS and Improving Career Progression for Teachers: Breakout Session Slides - UCET