News archive for 5th March 2018

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Tories ditch plan to jail teachers who fail to report child abuse in new U-turn - Mirror A new apprenticeship programme kicks off National Apprenticeship Week 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency National Apprenticeship Week 2018 - as it happens - Education & Skills Funding Agency Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academy trust accounting officer letters from EFA and ESFA - Education & Skills Funding Agency Letter to academy trusts: March 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Government outlines strengthened plans to tackle child abuse - DfE Inspirational words for learners from minister at start of National Apprenticeship Week - FE Week University strike talks suspended without agreement - BBC Anne Milton to take on schools who fail to let in FE providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Apprenticeship Week 2018 - as it happens - FE News Sponsor found to take over Whitehaven Academy from Bright Tribe - Times Educational Supplement | TES Expanding teacher education places in Scotland amounts to 'fiddling while Rome burns', union warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES U-turn over plan to jail teachers for failing to report child abuse concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES UTC students six times more likely to secure higher level apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cumbria Education Trust lined up as new sponsor for Whitehaven Academy - Schools Week Author Jon McGregor cancels university appearance over pensions row - UCU The power of organisational values - Education & Training Foundation What teachers tapped this week #23 – 5th March 2018 - Teacher Tapp World Book Day: Every teacher is an English teacher - UKEdChat Pension strike talks end with no resolution as employers say no more talks until Wednesday - UCU Provisional June 2019 examination timetable - NAHT Universities use casual staff for a quarter of teaching - UCU NASUWT comments on the expansion of teacher training places - NASUWT ASCL Ethical Leadership Commission: Optimism - ASCL What employers want - Collab Group Employers willing to meet at any time or place to resolve pensions dispute - Universities UK Daily roundup 5 March: Homelessness, energy drinks, and Facebook - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government rejects case for mandatory reporting - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Growing your own talent: an employer’s perspective of degree apprenticeships - HEFCE National Apprenticeship Week 2018 – what’s on offer in the NHS? - ERSA Getting learners engaged with student-generated rubrics - The Educator Regional winners of inaugural Annual Apprenticeship Awards announced - FE Week College leaders to swap places with apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Apprenticeship Week: Showcasing how apprenticeships work - FE News DfE demands three-year budget forecasts from academy trusts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government joins unions and industry to thrash out a ‘National Retraining Scheme’ - FE Week End point assessment – value added or will it become a commodity - FE News BBC targets learners from low-income families for apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jason Holt to chair Apprenticeship Ambassador Network - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are too many graduates getting good degrees? - The Conversation Liberal Democrats: ‘Ditch Ofsted and school league tables’ - Schools Week Troops to be offered £40,000 bursaries to train as teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oscar win for film highlighting struggles of deaf children at school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lib Dems want to abolish Ofsted, Sats and league tables - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why students should think carefully about supporting the UCU strike - HuffPost Transport ‘returning to normal’ but some schools remain shut following cold snap - Scotsman A new apprenticeship programme kicks off National Apprenticeship Week 2018 - FE News National Apprenticeship Week 2018 – what’s on offer in the NHS? - Unionlearn Generation Apprentice: Changing attitudes to apprenticeships as students, parents and employers see more value - FE News Jason Holt named Apprenticeship Ambassador Network chair - FE Week Getting pregnant isn’t easy. Young people should at least be taught this | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - Guardian Movers & Shakers: Who’s new this week? - Schools Week South West & North West best places to find an apprenticeship – new figures show - FE News UCAS refreshes its strategy - UCAS Government announces £1.5 million fund to help tackle the gender pay gap - FE News National Apprenticeship Week 2018 celebrates best of earning and learning - FE Week 'Never retreat': all-female band Yegna bring girl power to Ethiopia (video) - Guardian Unionlearn says you need to know your rights as an apprentice - Unionlearn Three million apprenticeship starts is the wrong target - Wonkhe The death of irony - Wonkhe A beginner’s guide to the USS dispute - Wonkhe HEFCE history: The birth of widening participation - Wonkhe Getting in and getting on: access and participation in the Office for Students - Wonkhe Student contracts: protection or distraction? - Wonkhe School closures for Monday, March 5: Find out if your school is open after weather chaos - Mirror Need to know: What is behind Ofsted's rash of surprise school inspections? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Report schools that don't let you talk to pupils, minister tells colleges - Schools Week 5 cost-free ways to improve school governance - Schools Week Universities act to tackle student mental health crisis - Financial Times Universities balk at the tyranny of anonymous feedback - Financial Times Straight-A pupils 'could be better off shunning Oxbridge for an apprenticeship' - Mail Shifting attitudes will see rise in apprenticeships, says new research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships benefit from 'changing attitude' - Mail Apprenticeships seen as the Cinderella option for young people - FE News 'Play and joy' in the snow - Nursery World NDNA Workforce survey: sector reaction - Nursery World Ofsted says settings are 'not physical enough' - Nursery World Pupils vulnerable because change in mental-health services 'too slow', warn heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Manchester seeks end to more lecturers’ strikes - Times Start teaching children the real facts of life - Times Home education and the role of the state - Times Fears over apprenticeship targets as numbers fall - Times The ‘huge reform’ yet to prove that it is up to the job - Times We faked our beliefs to get our daughter into a church school - Times Scotland: Men ‘left behind’ as women dominate university places - Times Scotland: PC brigade don’t care why fewer men apply for university - Times