News archive for 10th March 2018

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Private schools should adopt a Ucas-style application system, leading headmaster says - Telegraph 'The pupil premium doesn't work – let's spend the billions on stuff that does' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted reluctant to introduce new school check on teacher workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL General Secretary declares war on excessive teacher workload - ASCL ASCL survey reveals soaring cost of supply teachers - ASCL From research to practice - changing teacher's habits through research engagement. - Teacherhead Damian Hinds blames staff turnover for school funding pressure - Guardian More than a fifth of teachers think 'backdoor exclusions' are permitted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Graduate sues Anglia Ruskin University claiming she ended up with a 'mickey mouse' degree - Telegraph Excessive lesson planning and 'triple marking' should be abandoned, Education Secretary says - Telegraph 'Sensible policies? Teachers need a Lost Property Green Paper...' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Over two thirds of UTCs rated less than ‘good’ in the last year - FE Week Scottish education reforms branded John Swinney’s ‘power grab’ - Scotsman Ofsted chief ‘not ruling out’ judging schools on teacher workload - Schools Week 'Teachers and parents will have to be brave – it’s time to consign most marking to the dustbin' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School funding is ‘tight’, admits Damian Hinds - Schools Week Teacher workload 'unmanageable', DfE study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bolton pilots new college-university merger model - FE Week School removed references to being gay from GCSE textbook - Metro Scotland’s deaf school disappointed at inquiry decision - Scotsman Is the apprenticeship levy pricing young people out of training? - feCompare Why it's time to say goodbye to group work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir Gerry Berragan: Employers have responsibility to train workers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damian Hinds to cut workload to tackle teacher shortage - BBC Secret Teacher: the focus on exams is failing GCSE students - Guardian Where are new Catholic schools most likely to open? - Schools Week NAHT launches commission to investigate school accountability - Schools Week E teacher, 46, living with former pupil he mentored from age 12 faces disciplinary hearing - Mirror Sharp drop in subject specialists at Scottish secondary schools - Herald Scotland Teachers for pupils in care must have ‘trauma’ training - Schools Week Pupil referral units are amazing places to work - Schools Week Permanent exclusion is the punishment of last resort, but it’s sometimes necessary - Schools Week Are zero tolerance behaviour policies legal? - Schools Week Stop siphoning off children into alternative provision - Schools Week Teachers are promised less work: Education Secretary Damian Hinds seeks to recruit more staff as pupil numbers rocket - Mail Sixth-form colleges back campaign for 16-year-olds to get the vote as private member's bill goes through Parliament - Mail Teachers promised fewer hours and no new tests in charm offensive to reduce their workload - Telegraph Damian Hinds pledges action to 'strip away' teacher workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads warn of 'exorbitant cost' of teacher recruitment crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Time limits for children hooked on social media - Times British values are a poor fit with faith schools - Times Hinds to ‘clarify’ roles of RSCs and Ofsted to ease schools’ confusion - Schools Week Hinds: ‘We must strip away workload that doesn’t add value’ - Schools Week Regulate teacher recruitment agencies, ASCL urges govenrment - Schools Week Damian Hinds pledges to reduce teacher's long working hours to tackle staff shortages - Independent