News archive for 6th March 2018

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Politicians and faith leaders call on Education Secretary Damian Hinds to drop plans to lift faith cap in free schools - Independent USA: West Virginia teachers' strike ends as lawmakers accept pay demands - Guardian Schools dominated by single race or religion must teach British values, under new Government strategy - Telegraph Oxford University blocks staff attempts to challenge pension cuts - Guardian Duchess of Cambridge visits primary school putting emotional health top of the curriculum - HuffPost New Schools Network must win two bids to maintain current role - Times Educational Supplement | TES Accountants examining Wakefield City Academies Trust find no evidence of financial wrongdoing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ombudsman: Transfers of SEND pupils to EHCPs delayed by 90 weeks - Schools Week Authorities to receive almost £1 million to help implement adult skills devolution - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fights break out at King’s College London as masked anti-fascist protesters storm talk - Independent South Korea bans English up to third grade - PIE News Singapore: Majority of int’l student applicants get residency - PIE News Jisc's FE subscription announcement: AoC's response - AoC | Association of Colleges University strike talks resume after Twitter skirmishes - BBC Alternative provision for pupils outside school system examined - UK Parliament New school proposals - DfE Race Disparity Audit - DfE New bursary to get veterans into teaching - DfE T levels: next steps for providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Find apprenticeship training: how to submit data - Education & Skills Funding Agency Department announces details of the new 'Advanced Maths Premium' - NAHT Update from JCQ: consultation on exam timetable 2019 - NAHT Support the Children’s Society campaign to ensure that all families on universal credit are entitled to a free school meal - NAHT SEN: Fighting the system - NAHT 30 hours childcare policy - have your say - NAHT Moderation of writing assessment: know what the moderators have been told - NAHT Universities urged to do more on widening access - Mail University pension strike talks now on today and Wednesday - UCU Union calls for overhaul of pay and perks at University of the West of England - UCU NASUWT comments on teacher training bursary for veterans - NASUWT A recipe for the perfect apprenticeship - Collab Group National Apprenticeship Week 2018 - as it happens - Education & Skills Funding Agency Lib Dem education spokesman praises Ofsted a day after party calls for watchdog to be scrapped - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools where pupils share same cultural background must teach 'pluralistic British values' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former soldiers offered £40,000 to train as teachers - The Educator Sixth form college teachers’ pay for 2017-18 - ATL ETF supporting National Apprenticeship Week 2018 - Education & Training Foundation Apprenticeship update 2018 - Training Journal Delivering digital change - Jisc Doubling in pupils with visual impairments sparks 'urgent' call for extra support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Daily roundup 6 March: Apprenticeships, teacher attacks, and child abuse - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'Austerity to blame' for many children's mental health problems - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Degree apprenticeships: Beyond the boiler suits and blowtorches - HEFCE Director of Fair Access addresses MPs on remaining challenges in fair access - OFFA Teachers, pedagogical skills, and the obstacle of intuition - UKEdChat Best Evidence in Brief: Issue #157 - 6 March 2018 - Best Evidence in Brief Why degree apprenticeships are vital to the local economy - HEFCE The rise in home education – and eight other things we learned today about pupils outside mainstream schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES A brief history of dyslexia and the role women played in getting it recognised - The Conversation National literacy award for primary where most teachers study children's literature at MA-level - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stable hand, beekeeper … trainee spy: the unorthodox apprenticeships filling a niche - Guardian School uniform: Headteacher on what boys and girls wear - BBC Colleges to pay for ed tech previously funded by the DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers say Wales' school improvement service isn't working - Wales Online Jisc cuts leave colleges paying a high price for essential IT services - FE Week Interested in working in healthcare? An apprenticeship could be for you - Guardian How apprenticeships moved out of the workshop - Guardian Universities and the allure of capital markets - Financial Times Anne Milton accused of betraying students left in debt - Times Educational Supplement | TES Changes to Jisc funding for FE colleges - FE News Refugees are being offered free Welsh lessons to help them feel at home - Wales Online Ofsted gunning for 'voodoo consultants' peddling 'vampiric' mocksteds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banning teachers’ preferred method of baseline assessment will relieve 'burden', says minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government seeking sector views in run-up to T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools that don't take pupils back from alternative provision should not be rated 'outstanding', MPs told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further education: why we will be introducing a subscription - Jisc From Barclays to Boots, apprenticeships are transforming management training - Guardian Violence against teachers: secondary staff three times more likely to be attacked than average - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nursing associates: will they become a cheap substitute for nurses? - Guardian Lifting faith cap 'would betray schools' duty to be inclusive', Damian Hinds is told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Progress 8 ‘is forcing schools to ask for more PRU places’ - Schools Week Nursery group expands in South Wales - Nursery World Faith leaders and politicians write to Hinds about faith cap - Schools Week Ofsted ‘disappointed’ by Liberal Democrat pledge to scrap it - Schools Week Written answer re the adequacy and extent of the provision of safeguarding training provided by supply teacher agencies - Parliament Written answer re the number of pupils entitled to free school means in England in each of the last 10 years - Parliament Written answer re steps being taken to ensure the provision of trained counsellors in schools and colleges - Parliament Written answer re funding for all schools to appoint a named careers leader to lead a careers programme - Parliament Written answer re why observational assessment is not part of the criteria for the incoming early years baseline assessment - Parliament Written answer re when the DfE next plans to publish information on the capital costs of individual free schools - Parliament Launch a British Sign Language GCSE, MPs urge - BBC Nursery owners borrow money to cover delayed 30-hour payments - Nursery World Government must deliver on its manifesto pledge and lift the faith cap - HuffPost Technology should not replace human contact, NUS president warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES New apprenticeship schemes catapulting us into the future - FE News New-style apprenticeships: are they living up to expectations? - Guardian Edinburgh University under fire over plans to try and break pensions strike with out of date recorded lectures - UCU Apprenticeships are a European rite of passage – what can the UK learn? - Guardian Scottish university accused of using recorded lectures to 'break' bitter strike over pensions - Herald Scotland Media makeover: how TV turned to apprenticeships - Guardian Hull College Group to shed over 200 staff - FE Week The nail in growth mindset’s coffin? - The Learning Spy Businesses missing out on funding for leadership training due to misconceptions around apprenticeships - FE News Benefits of union learning recognised in government report - Unionlearn Majority of small businesses realise the value of apprenticeships - FE News Dolls are for girls and Lego is for boys - FE News DfE wants teachers and heads to explain how pay is affecting recruitment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Saving for school fees - City AM Free school meals - UK Parliament Ministers drop move over mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse - Independent Manufacturers split on the benefits of the apprenticeship levy according to new report - FE News National Apprenticeship Week: is the government delivering? - EPI Just one in five MPs think the apprentice minimum wage is enough to live on, finds Young Women’s Trust - ERSA ‘Dear Michael Barber’ – the letter of the law - Wonkhe Our friends in the North would also like some stability - Wonkhe Classroom pay: ‘My male colleague was paid £7,000 more than me’ - Guardian Don’t let this university wrecking government masquerade as reformers | Peter Scott - Guardian University offers fully fledged science degree online for £5,650 - BBC Brexit brain drain: elite universities say they are losing future research stars - Guardian Plucky but unwise T-level proposals - FE News Heads' union launches commission into 'high-stakes, low-trust' accountability system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school staff suffer work attacks - BBC How to get the most out of university recruitment events - Financial Times Protesting sexual assault - BBC £40k bursaries for veterans to replace doomed £10m Troops to Teachers scheme - Schools Week Turning troops into teachers: 6 key questions answered - Times Educational Supplement | TES How the Office for Students will drive change - FE News Plan to tempt veterans into teaching with £40K bursary will barely touch recruitment crisis, unions warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers will not have to report abuse suspicions - Times College chief steps aside for Oxfam inquiry - Times I trained as a bricklayer but we need more than warm words about apprenticeships - Times One school that won’t settle for second best - Times Scotland: Autistic girl bruised by teachers’ restraints, says mother - Times Scotland: Men fall behind in schemes meant to make university more accessible - Times