News archive for 14th March 2018

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The DfE publishes resources for schools to tackle workload - NAHT Universities UK planning more talks with UCU to end pensions dispute - Universities UK Forgotten learners: age should never be a barrier to higher education - MillionPlus MillionPlus report calls for a fresh approach to mature students in post-18 education review - MillionPlus ASCL comment on strengthening teacher-examiner safeguards - ASCL Ofsted's Chief Inspector signals some positive changes for teachers and school leaders - NAHT Secretary of State makes a commitment to stability: no new tests, no curriculum changes, no qualification reform in this Parliament - NAHT BBC game challenges young people to spot "fake news" - BBC Oxford colleges embroiled in row over the 'inelegant and bulky' re-design of St Hilda’s - Telegraph Oxford University set to feminise curriculum by requesting inclusion of women on reading lists  - Telegraph Majority of councils have no men working in their nurseries, as parents assume they pose risk to children - Telegraph Schools must identify teachers with 'conflicts of interest' in the wake of exam cheating scandal - Telegraph Five reasons to ditch Ofsted grades - Teacherhead Illegal schools: Ministers promise crackdown - BBC Good governance essential to 'make FE wishes come true' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Failing private schools to get three months to improve or close - Schools Week Back to school - BBC Lib Dems launch lifelong learning commission - FE Week Royal college director attacks 'steady decline' of music in state schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to pilot schemes to tempt teachers back into the classroom after career break - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers who help set exams face tough new regulations - BBC Vince Cable announces major commission on Lifelong Learning - FE News US students protest against gun violence – in pictures - Guardian Department for Education government consultation - Strengthening Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and improving career progression for teachers - NFER Globalisation – Is it shaping national curricula? - NFER Voice welcomes EPI report on early years workforce - Voice Higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies - Education & Skills Funding Agency High needs funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate - Education & Skills Funding Agency Regulating independent schools - DfE Consultation into strengthening teacher-examiner safeguards - Ofqual Association of Colleges Governance Summit - DfE Schools to support teachers' return to the classroom - DfE Churchill Fellows unveiled - SecEd National anthems and teaching competitions: School leaders get insight into Shanghai’s education system - SecEd Teacher training bursary targets troops - SecEd Union sets out arguments against regional consortia model - SecEd Jisc changes to hit FE sector - SecEd Academies: ‘Group-think’ is leading to high CEO salaries - SecEd Help us to investigate independent alternative provision - Education Datalab Almost 30,000 sign petition to save £650,000 annual SLCN funding - SecEd Ofsted chief: ‘Don’t be afraid to challenge inspection teams’ - SecEd Royal College of Music head criticises decline in provision in schools - Guardian ESFA update: March 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 Bursary Fund guide: 2018 to 2019 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency What can be done about the teacher workload crisis? - The Educator National Numeracy Day - National Numeracy New research highlights too many adults struggle with basic financial tasks - National Numeracy Global: How technology can help us educate the 263m children in the world who currently are not in education - Independent Head Non-EU applications hit ‘record high’ - PIE News Moving forward on integration - Policy Exchange Future graduate pay is no way to rank degrees | Letters - Guardian Cambridge colleagues pay tribute to 'inspirational' Hawking - Guardian Supporting care leavers in further education - Learning & Work Institute Evaluation of Community Based English Language (CBEL) provision pilots - Learning & Work Institute Government’s Integrated Communities Strategy green paper – Our response - Learning & Work Institute When feedback is forgettable - Learning Scientists Commuter students: how to survive studying from home - Guardian NEU comment on EPI report on early years workforce - National Education Union Scottish secondary school teacher numbers rise in most subjects, after years of decline - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland's curriculum undermined by new exams, warns expert - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers to face tighter rules for setting exams to avoid cheating - Guardian MP calls for pupil premium to be extended to 18 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Life is fraught with danger. School playgrounds should be too | Tom Bennett - Guardian Girls using toilet roll because they ‘can’t afford’ tampons, pads - Scotsman Stephen Hawking: Student tributes to Cambridge professor - BBC Teachers still allowed to set exams in own subjects despite private school cheating scandal, regulator says - Independent Ofqual clamps down on teacher-examiner cheating - Schools Week Check results of pupils taught by teacher-examiners for cheating, exam boards told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why does Ofsted pay an overwhelmingly female group of inspectors less than their colleagues? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four things Ofqual says exam boards can do to clamp down on teacher-examiner cheats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship levy income down by £100m this year, warns OBR - Times Educational Supplement | TES Integrated Communities Strategy green paper - FE News Nine things schools need to know about the government’s integration green paper - Schools Week The Open University calls for apprenticeship shake up - FE News Lack of investment in ESoL will hinder integration strategy, AoC warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES USA: It's ironic, but under Trump abstinence-only sex education is back | Jessica Valenti - Guardian Tuition fee value - BBC Jobs at risk at Warrington and Vale Royal College - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police inquiry over Bath school 'mock slave auction' - BBC Minister acts following Tes investigation into plight of children in care - Times Educational Supplement | TES Opposition parties win childcare voucher extension - Nursery World White pupils at Bath school ‘tied up and whipped black student for mock slave auction’ - Independent Spring statement: apprenticeships, T-levels and business rates - Nursery World Watch Professor Stephen Hawking praise the inspirational maths teacher who changed his life - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damian Hinds censured by stats watchdog over school funding claims - Schools Week Levy revenue forecasts downgraded by the best part of a billion - FE Week Government preparing new ESOL strategy - FE Week Watchdog forces Hinds to admit school funding increase claim was wrong - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister says 777,000 people settled in UK ‘do not speak English’ - Scotsman Schools could be forced to ensure pupils mix with children from different backgrounds - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK's ex-integration tsar says £50m pledge not enough to 'heal nation' - Guardian 10:00 a.m. Children and Families Minister Nadhim Zahawi MP to be questioned by Education Committee - Commons Select Committee Drowned in sound: how listening to music hinders learning - Guardian National Student Survey optional banks cognitive testing 2016: Phase 3 - HEFCE National Student Survey optional banks cognitive testing 2017: Phases 1 and 2 - HEFCE I’m a black academic – that doesn't mean I want to be an expert on race | Jennifer Chisholm - Guardian David Robertson: Children are being indoctrinated over gender – they should find identity in Christ - Scotsman The early years workforce: a fragmented picture - EPI Early years sector 'increasingly relying on volunteers' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Parents ‘paying for counselling’ to help pupils cope with stress - Herald Scotland Specialist teacher numbers fall despite rise in dyslexia and autism - Herald Scotland Plan for schools to ensure pupils mix with children from different backgrounds - Herald Scotland Male nursery teacher: 'Men don't have to be macho' - BBC West Lothian Council plans to cut instrument tuition - Herald Scotland Tuition fee value for money: 'I feel ripped off' - BBC 'Wasted potential' of mature students - BBC Men can be nursery teachers too - BBC El Salvador: Family help that's bigger than aid budgets - BBC Textbooks 'pay for themselves' in four and a half minutes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost one in six Reception staff 'are unpaid volunteers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plan for schools to ensure pupils mix with children from different backgrounds - Mail Qualification levels among early years staff are falling - Nursery World Exams suffer as university strike deal fails - Times White pupils ‘tied up black boy for mock slave sale’ - Times Home-schooling register to stop children going ‘missing’ - Times British values, faith schools and integration | Letters - Times Scotland: Specialist teacher numbers plummet - Times Ireland: Students test Trinity with resit fees protest - Times Reception staff ‘increasingly unpaid and underqualified’, warns EPI - Schools Week