News archive for 21st June 2018

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Why we must ban phones in school now...whatever the demanding little wretches might say - Mail Scotland: Scalding of children at Fife school may lead to legal action - Express Families of white working-class children 'lack drive' of migrants - Guardian Ex-Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw slams Love Island: 'I saw five minutes of it and was absolutely appalled' - Mail Ofsted chief says poor white communities lack 'aspiration and drive' - BBC Ruth Davidson: SNP are ‘rigging education stats’ - Scotsman Opposition attempts to block Suffolk’s free school transport cuts - Schools Week King's College racism row: Students support doctor - BBC First-class degrees: cause for celebration or mark of trouble ahead? - Times Ex-schools minister proposes DfE shake-up to stop schools and HE favouritism - FE Week Is there a teacher pension timebomb in DfE's budget? - AoC | Association of Colleges The hard truth about grade inflation: Testing some hypotheses - HEPI Jisc Collections: inside the sector’s infrastructure - Wonkhe EU settled status scheme - Russell Group Reflections on five years of widening participation research and evaluation - Wonkhe An end to graduation name reading misery? - Wonkhe A posthumanist, materialist perspective on artmaking processes may shed a new light on the practices of social inclusion and exclusion in early years settings - BERA Daily roundup 21 June: Zombie knives, 30 hours childcare, and forced marriage - CYPN | Children & Young People Now SEN employment initiative set to expand - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Outdoor learning opportunities - UKEdChat Transition to secondary school: 5 tips to help parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Compulsory PSHE 'in line with public mood' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We must be more imaginative about skills' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Behaviour sanctions are set by teachers, not politicians' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to keep 'outstanding' grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman: 'White working class lack migrants' drive' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher Recruitment Bulletin - DfE Brexit youth: 'I am angry and the future scares me' - BBC UK’s EU settled status plan offers ‘serious challenge’ on study leave - Times Higher Education | THE Schools in white working-class areas are worse because they 'lack the aspiration and drive' of migrant communities, Ofsted boss says - Independent One year of school comes with an IQ bump, meta-analysis shows - UKEdChat Tackling bullying could help reduce depression in autistic teens - UKEdChat Number games make maths fun for preschool children - Nuffield Foundation Amanda Spielman rules out changes to Ofsted’s grading system - Schools Week Ofsted will keep its four-point grading system – for now - FE Week Parliamentary Reception celebrates Festival of Learning award winners - Learning & Work Institute Revolution! Can we build a system that helps everyone? - Learning & Work Institute Taking Teaching Further: Scheme to help experts retrain as teachers - The Educator LEO’s star ascendant in 2018 - Wonkhe ETF commissions ICAEW for second year to deliver its CFO leadership programme - Education & Training Foundation | ETF OECD “World Class” book launch - Education and Employers Opening up worlds: the power of extreme personalisation - Jisc Free childcare to be extended to foster carers for the first time - DfE Data revolution for students - DfE OfS response to Reform grade inflation report - Office for Students Secretary of State for Education questioned - UK Parliament Thousands of students missing from secondary schools before taking GCSEs, report warns - Independent Teachers from across Wales gather for the NASUWT Cymru Conference - NASUWT School leadership podcast June 2018 - NAHT Special educational needs audit resource - Teacher Toolkit Applications open for largest ever intake of Data Lab MSc students - Scotsman ‘Not all teachers do their best’, and 7 other things Sir Michael Wilshaw said at the Festival of Education - Schools Week Seren opens the door to Yale University’s Yale Young Global Scholars summer programme - Welsh Government The future is super intelligent, not artificially intelligent and education must respond - IOE London Blog Ex-Ofsted chief Michael Wilshaw demands ban on phones in all schools - Schools Week Thousands of children have disappeared from school registers in England - HuffPost Foster carers eligible for 30 hours from next term - Nursery World Meeting former pupils: a time for vengeance? Or forgiveness? - Times Educational Supplement | TES NCG rated 'requires improvement' by Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Autism: ‘Better support will mean fewer exclusions’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It’s time for the academy sector to grow up' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universal Credit families denied help with 'sky high' upfront childcare fees - Nursery World Help the Government to design a new training offer for adults - Unionlearn Oxford don is branded 'disgraceful' for calling out young man with Down's syndrome as sexist - Mail Grade three Ofsted ratings confirmed for NCG and Intraining - FE Week IET launches new campaign to get more young people into STEM - FE News £20 million government boost for culture and creative industries in England - FE News Lifelong learner Hilary prepares for graduation - FE News Observation lesson preparation tips: advice for teachers on passing the final stage of recruitment - FE News What drugs are students taking and why are they taking them? - The Conversation Major new funding to attract world's best in science and innovation - GOV.UK A degree of uncertainty: an investigation into grade inflation in universities - Reform Need to know: what's the state of college finances? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sharp rise in missing pupils fuels 'off-rolling' fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES The focus on university access AND success is welcome, but let’s not repeat past mistakes - Wonkhe Who’s Left 2018, part four: Our methodology - FFT Education Datalab Who’s Left 2018, part three: The impact of reweighting on London and the regions - FFT Education Datalab Who’s Left 2018, part two: What impact would reweighting school league tables have for multi-academy trusts? - FFT Education Datalab Mum removes sons from school after teachers 'breach their human rights' putting them in isolation because of haircuts - Mirror Who’s Left 2018, part one: The main findings - FFT Education Datalab Writing lines and mobile bans: Ofsted chief's behaviour blitz - Times Educational Supplement | TES Musical youth: the UK school turning teenagers' lives around - Guardian Matt Piper: Former Leicester and Sunderland winger spent months drinking two litres of whiskey everyday but now runs his own school and YouTube channel - The Sun Attainment gap widens in Scotland’s colleges - Scotsman Do we need apprenticeship gender quotas to get more women into male-dominated sectors? - City AM Apprenticeships – is it a boom or bust journey for training providers? - FE News Watchdog backs call to ban pupils using their mobile phones during the school day - Express Struggling to recruit apprentices? The importance of social media - FE News Pay hike ‘absorbs’ £50m college merger savings - Herald Scotland Ban phones in schools and bring back old fashioned punishments like lines and litter picking, Ofsted chief demands - Mail Where can UK students study for free? - BBC 'Should I stay or should I go now?' - BBC Too many firsts risk universities' credibility, says think tank - BBC Students should sit national assessments for degrees to stop ‘rocketing’ grade inflation, report says - Independent Ofsted to investigate rumours of schools hiding unruly students from inspectors on 'conveniently timed school trips' - Independent Ofsted chief backs calls to ban mobile phones in schools - Mail Students leaving university with a First almost quadruples over the past 20 years - Mail Spielman: Writing lines as punishment is ‘entirely appropriate’ - Schools Week FFT Education Datalab: Almost 8,000 pupils disappeared from schools last year - Schools Week Set up ‘Teach First-style’ scheme for school mental health specialists, says report - Schools Week Clean Air Day 2018: How kids are getting involved in reducing air pollution - HuffPost Ofsted chief inspector backs ban on phones in schools - BBC Chief inspector backs calls for mobile phones to be banned in schools - Telegraph Grade inflation 'race to the bottom' as first class degrees quadruple over eight years at some institutions - Telegraph Researchers to study effect of indoor air pollution on children - Nursery World Increase in first-class degrees as universities fight over students - Times Air pollution harms one in three children - Times School prize has parents bemused - Times Ofsted backs return of old-school punishments - Times Schools beg parents for help to buy equipment with Amazon wish lists - Times Stop sanitising children’s books, author Ann Pilling urges publishers - Times It’s time to do away with the gender stereotypes for apprenticeships - Times Are we in danger of failing our apprentices? - Times Scotland: Pupils left in tears over shinty ban - Times Scotland: Glasgow School of Art managers ‘must share blame for both fires’ - Times Scotland: Mentors help pupils in care - Times Ireland: Metro route may change to avoid schools - Times