News archive for 13th March 2018

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Spring Statement - National Education Union ASCL comment on spring statement - ASCL UCU rejects proposals jointly agreed at ACAS - Universities UK New training for governors and clerks - NAHT SEND Tribunal: single route of redress national trial - NAHT NAHT influences government’s responses to child safeguarding consultations - NAHT Strikes at 12 colleges confirmed for late March - UCU NAHT in the news – February 2018 - NAHT Local MP "shocked and concerned" at college U-turn that will close campus and cost jobs - UCU University strikes remain on as UCU rejects proposals - UCU ‘Shocking’ that students don’t get enough info about costs - OFFA Local authorities: adult education budget and apprenticeship funds return 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 4 - Ofsted Head teacher at £16,000-a-year girl's school is considering gender-neutral toilets - Mail Only one in three students think their tuition fees are good value for money, survey suggests - Independent White teenaged pupils who chained black boy to lamppost and whipped him in 'mock slave auction' - Mail Tories just voted to cut children's free school meal eligibility in move that 'could deprive a million kids' - Mirror Analysis: Renewed focus on exams raises likelihood of ‘teaching to the test’ - Herald Scotland Student officer in charge of ensuring people behave on nights out is punched in face after confronting topless man - Telegraph University strikers reject pension deal - BBC Labour loses bid to give free school meals to all universal credit claimants - Schools Week Ofsted backs school that banned 'meet me at McDonald's' haircut - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost half of recent graduates believe they will never be able to pay back their student loan in full - Telegraph School governors reject expulsions over 'mock slave auction' - Guardian Apprenticeships minister has 'absolutely no idea' where 3 million target came from - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears over ‘middle-class grab’ on apprenticeships are valid, minister admits - FE Week Fewer schools applying to be academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES University strike talks fail putting exam season under threat - Wales Online University strikes to continue after staff reject pension offer - Guardian Call for teachers to be freed from administrative tasks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free school meal changes 'pull the rug' from under poor families, says Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gender-neutral toilets planned at all-girls school in case any pupils decide to transition - Telegraph Return of the apprentice? Hammond injects £80m to build army of small business apprentices - Express Reporting the evidence: what research can tells us about how assessment data is used - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Leeds Beckett Academic helping shape physical activity policy and practice - Leeds Beckett University Spring Statement – our response - Learning & Work Institute ‘Better Work London’ network will help Londoners improve their careers and earnings - Learning & Work Institute Stepping up: learning ‘what works’ to progress low paid workers - Learning & Work Institute UK university strikes to continue as academics reject pensions deal - Financial Times Colleges should pay for annual inspections by Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supporting pupils with SEND - 3 key messages for schools - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Solidarity and determination on the PhD picket line - BBC Lecturers' strike will continue as union members thwart deal in pensions dispute - Telegraph Tell us what you think about introducing children to the world of work in primary school - Education and Employers Using whole child development to grow emotional intelligence - Edmodo Analytical research questions effectiveness of Mindset as an educational intervention - UKEdChat Shaping the new retraining scheme - ERSA Primary staff 'frustrated and angry' at lack of help to steer children from gangs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 13 March: Celibacy, poverty, and age checks - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Poland ready for internnational children – minister - PIE News University strikes to continue after deal collapses - Mail Spring statement: Schools will ‘subsidise businesses’ under apprenticeship levy - Schools Week Feeder schools plan for Cardiff set to be dropped - Wales Online 'Some families are too shady to work with': meet the tutors of the ultra-rich - Guardian Twelve-year-old schoolboy has higher IQ than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking - Wales Online University strikes to continue despite proposed deal between union leaders and employers - Independent How to master KS2 maths SATs revision - Schools Week Ofsted reveals it pays inspectors bonuses for 'challenging' inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spring Statement 2018: Sector Response - FE News 'Debt for life': only 38% of students say tuition fees are good value - Guardian Spring statement: £80m to help small firms recruit apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES University strike: How big is the pension black hole? - BBC Ministers speak to only 'a few favoured academy CEOs' – school autonomy leader - Times Educational Supplement | TES HE collaboration possible? Launch of new practitioner led investigation into the teaching and learning and assessment of apprenticeship standards - UVAC Learning and Work Institute responds to the Government's Spring Statement - FE News Spring Statement comment - despite investment in UK education, the skills gap continues to be an issue - FE News UCU college strike – dates set for a second wave of action - FE Week Further strike dates in 12 colleges confirmed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chancellor announces £80m to support small businesses with apprentices - FE Week Spring statement: Chancellor hints at future increase in funding for public sector services - Times Educational Supplement | TES Just how good are academy schools? A new database makes it easier to tell - IOE London Blog Tackling sexual violence and harassment in schools and colleges - FE News Scrap GCSEs and prepare students for life after 16 - HuffPost University strikes: Angry staff call for proposed deal on pensions to be rejected - Independent Head in talks over gender-neutral toilets… at top London all-girls’ school - Evening Standard ‘Outrageous and unjustifiable’ subcontracting has become a ‘money-maker’, experts tell MPs - FE Week Civil service fast stream favours private school applicants, says MP - Guardian Meet the mum and son learning construction together - BBC One million children could go hungry under new plans for free school meals | Sam Royston - Guardian New route into teaching in Scotland attracts just two bids - Times Educational Supplement | TES School inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Archbishop calls for churches to open their doors to rough sleepers - Guardian 9:45 a.m Quality of apprenticeships and skills training inquiry: Education Committee to question training providers and policy experts - Commons Select Committee ‘I was Claire at home, then Mr Birkenshaw the headteacher. It was challenging’ - Guardian Death of the school staffroom – lack of space or divide and conquer? - Guardian A cynic’s eye view of “teaching excellence” - Wonkhe When is a subject not a subject? - Wonkhe Harsh but fair analysis - Wonkhe Staff and students in struggle: One approach to reform - Wonkhe The Lib Dems have come up with detailed education policies. Why can’t Labour? | Fiona Millar - Guardian Back to the classroom: How do we encourage more women in to STEM? - FE News Sweden's Finns fear minority language rights are under threat - Guardian Scottish universities ‘reliant’ on international student fees in wake of public funding cuts - Herald Scotland University lectures’ strike is off as both parties walk back pension demands - The Sun University strike chaos is expected to end as union leaders and employers 'reach an agreement' - Mail Schools should teach pupils the importance of avoiding sex before marriage, says Church of England - Mail The National Retraining Scheme ‘should not be run by employers’ - FE Week Deal offered in university pensions row - BBC Spring statement: Increasing high-needs funding is a 'moral duty', heads say - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Retraining Scheme could result in millions missing out, warns report - Times Educational Supplement | TES University strikes could be called off after breakthrough in talks over pensions dispute - Independent Hope for end of university strike action as stalemate ends in pension dispute - Telegraph Winchester pupil Nicholas Elger ‘tried to kill’ when he firebombed M3 - Times Lecturers suspend strike action after pension deal - Times USA: Owner of Oregon nursery Little Giggles drugged children and went to gym - Times Scotland: Worsening school results are a huge worry, says Sir Tom Hunter - Times Scotland: Action is under way to close the gender gap at universities - Times Spring statement: Unions demand more SEND funding - Schools Week