News archive for 31st January 2018

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Bullying HQ: The NUS orders officers to stay away after investigation launched - HuffPost Cambridge University and Greggs among 354 organisations added to register of apprenticeship training providers - FE Week Tories cut pupil premium cash for poorest schools by £140m despite promising to protect it 7 months ago - Mirror Subcontracting: using funding to offer education and training - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: January 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA funding claims and reconciliation - Education & Skills Funding Agency Alternative provision census 2018: guide - DfE PM to set out ambitious new approach to UK-China education - DfE New members announced for Ofsted board - Ofsted Strategic School Improvement Fund - DfE Further Education Commissioner: annual report 2016 to 2017 - DfE Early years census 2018: guide - DfE ASCL Ethical Leadership Commission: Integrity and wisdom - ASCL ASCL comment on PAC teaching workforce report - ASCL Another damning report on teacher supply - NASUWT Joint health and education select committee session on mental health - NAHT New guidance on Schools Causing Concern published by DfE - NAHT The hallmarks of a successful university - HEPI Voice comments on ‘Retaining and developing the teaching workforce’ report - Voice How to handle returning to school after an absence from work - The Educator Academy boss earns half a million pounds - Mail Students defend right to brand Winston Churchill a racist during cafe protest - Express Attacks on teachers and school staff rocket 25% with victims suffering brain damage, amputation and even death - Mirror NUS president Shakira Martin accused of bullying at union HQ - Guardian Teacher 'cried every day' working at troubled school where pupils 'come in armed with knives and nails' - Mirror Vice-chancellors fear for financial outlook of UK higher education - Guardian FE Commissioner’s annual report encourages colleges to use £700m bailout fund while they can - FE Week The timeless wisdom of sitting in rows - Teacherhead New Scottish budget deal promises boost to thousands of teachers' pay packets - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bonus and extra day-a-week means 33-47% pay boost for CEO of largest primary MAT - Times Educational Supplement | TES Harris Federation's Sir Dan Moynihan becomes first £500,000 academy boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy system heading for 'insolvency' as more schools beg from parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bright Tribe pays £680k in related-party transactions - Times Educational Supplement | TES New research into using phonics in teaching basic English - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trusts demanding extra millions from DfE to take on struggling schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES In the February edition of CYP Now: Mental health special; 30 hours childcare; and adoption investigation - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 31 January: Folic acid, teacher retention, and Paddington Bear - CYPN | Children & Young People Now IOE celebrates success of young readers in London - IOE London Blog New HEA and Jisc collaboration on joint international surveys package - HEA Teaching leaders to address NQT conference - Leeds Beckett University Fall in apprenticeships may force ‘radical rethink’ of UK policy - feCompare Does the Apprenticeship Levy need fixing? - feCompare International student mobility to grow more slowly to 2027, says British Council - British Council Research into adult phonics launched as part of Functional Skills Reform - Education & Training Foundation UK PM announces new China education deal - PIE News Struggling schools 'less likely to advertise for specialist science teachers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greater capacity, resources and focus needed to accelerate improvement, says FE commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eight-year-old boy caught with knife in Aberdeen school - Scotsman Trustee of largest academy chain – and ex head – joins Ofsted board - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research into adult phonics launched as part of Functional Skills Reform - FE News Colleges in Northern Ireland hit by £50 million cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister sees how Welsh Government schemes are helping people into work - Welsh Government PM to set out ambitious new approach to UK-China education - FE News NUS president Shakira Martin engulfed in ‘bullying’ row - FE Week Mending the Gap: Are the needs of 16-18 year olds being met? - FE News Ofsted inspectors enter hijab row school - Schools Week Inadequate providers can continue training existing apprentices, ESFA confirms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly half of primary children overweight in parts of the country - Nursery World Stafford MP Jeremy Lefroy wades into non-levy row - FE Week The schools that blew £10million - and had to shut down because they were so bad - Mirror Scrap tuition fees. Graduate tax is a win-win for students – and everyone | Peter Hain - Guardian Teacher Alexander Eldridge guilty of child sexual offences - BBC Specialist schools pioneer Sir Cyril Taylor dies aged 82 - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE checking up on teacher trainers after fears over assessment-only QTS 'loophole' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School defends decision to remove boys' toilet doors after pupils 'skip lessons and smoke in the area' - Mirror Almost 50,000 children missing from education - SecEd Funded Mental Health First Aid courses on offer - SecEd Online safety survey launched - SecEd Universities embrace city schools to offer key qualifications - SecEd Resource offers ideas and materials to help tackle Islamophobia - SecEd OCD students suffer from widespread memory problems - SecEd Child poverty warning as benefit freeze bites - SecEd Sharp fall in Apprenticeship take-up sparks debate over Levy - SecEd New Edinburgh University Principal gets to work - Scotsman Teacher shortages: 'Where the DfE got it wrong and how it can put things right' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learning from complaints - Wonkhe Changing behaviours across the data landscape - Wonkhe Government failure on teacher numbers adds to pressure on schools - UK Parliament Why schools need to talk about periods - BBC 2VCs on ... what does 2018 look like for universities? - Guardian Education reforms ‘could lead to headteachers being sued’ - Scotsman University lecture theatre renamed in honour of MND campaigner - Scotsman Teacher retention: Government 'failing to get a grip' - BBC Property rationalisation and mergers in FE colleges - FE News Headteacher Charter plan ‘simplistic and populist’ - Herald Scotland New powers for headteachers 'makes them target for legal action' - Herald Scotland Apprenticeship levy: where are all the apprentices? - FE News Secondaries face teacher shortage crisis, say MPs - Mail Public accounts committee report on teacher supply: The 7 recommendations - Schools Week The very middle class mob that stormed Churchill cafe - Mail 50,000 children were ‘missing’ from education last year - Schools Week Government fails to take action over high number of teachers leaving education, say MPs - Independent Secondary school teacher shortages set to continue for the next eight years threatening children’s education - The Sun Teacher shortage leaves English schools in crisis, watchdog says - Guardian Plans to give headteachers more power could 'do more harm than good' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE's 'sluggish and incoherent' approach to teacher shortage 'crisis' slammed by MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Unions critical of plans to give headteachers more power - Mail ‘Get a grip’ on teacher supply crisis, government told - Schools Week Africa: 'I was 12 when I married a 35-year-old' - BBC Education workers suffer increased levels of serious injures, new figures show - Independent Just 6% spent on training and developing existing teachers, compared to new teachers - FE News Class sizes set to swell Government report warns of 'growing sense of crisis' in teacher recruitment - Telegraph Screen-addicted children spend 16 minutes a day outside - Times MPs condemn ‘sluggish’ response to teacher exodus - Times Scotland: SNP reforms ‘risk creating autocrat head teachers’ - Times Scotland: Victim sues over abuse by monk at school - Times Classroom crisis looms as failure to retain teachers bites, say MPs - Mail Teachers attacked and knocked unconscious as school assaults rise 24% - Express