News archive for 16th March 2018

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University students face disruption thanks to strike action - but this is why many support their lecturers - Wales Online Buddy syndrome: Parents who try to be their children’s best friends are 'doing more harm than good' - Telegraph King’s College London shuts its own lecturer's talk on free speech - Telegraph British contender for Global Teacher Prize says the arts have the power to transform young lives - Times Educational Supplement | TES College graduates almost as likely as university peers to be employed five years on - Times Educational Supplement | TES Liverpool trusts face losing their only academies after poor performance - Schools Week The Guardian view on schools and austerity: more than just a funding crisis | Editorial - Guardian Period poverty campaigners attack 'superficial' DfE research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Written answer re whether ESFA is required to consult local communities on plans for a new free school - Parliament In the news: 16 March 2018 - UCU DfE Written Statement re school condition funding allocations - DfE The Tes Podcast: Workload, accountability and the case for curiosity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Written question re work experience opportunities for secondary school students from deprived communities - Parliament Daily roundup 16 March: School deficits, serious case review, and youth club closures - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Transforming education in Rwanda: Building Learning Foundations launch - Education Development Trust | EDT AoC Chair to leave at the end of her term - AoC | Association of Colleges Comment on EPI report on Schools in Deficit - National Education Union If student numbers are set to grow, then isn’t it about time we ensure we will have the staff to teach them? - HEPI All Change - challenge or opportunity? - AoC | Association of Colleges ECU’s response to the open letter regarding the USS pensions scheme and ECU’s equality charters - ECU ASCL comment on EPI school funding report - ASCL Seeking your views on parental engagement support - NAHT School funding still in crisis: regional school summits - NAHT UCU calls on Home Secretary to address academics' immigration concerns - UCU A woman is suing her university for providing a 'Micky Mouse degree' - if she wins it will set a dangerous precedent - HuffPost The availability heuristic - Learning Scientists Student nurses will struggle to pay rent after loan overpayment error, nursing leaders say - Independent Minister writes to IfA with degree apprenticeship guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Committee to question Secretary of State for Education Damian Hinds MP - FE News Single academy trust told to improve or face closure - Schools Week Ofsted Watch: Five providers improve to grade ‘good’ - FE Week Government to open new wave of alternative-provision free schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Review of Children in Need - DfE Inspecting registered early years providers: guidance for inspectors - Ofsted Graduate outcomes (LEO): 2015 to 2016 - DfE Alternative Provision Innovation Fund - DfE School exclusions review: call for evidence - DfE New action to improve outcomes for children with additional needs - DfE Academies funding allocation packs: 2017 to 2018 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schools need more money or they’ll have to start cutting staff - Schools Week How to overcome the stratification of higher education - Wonkhe Of mice and May: the huge risk posed by variable tuition fees - Wonkhe Why we must come together to ensure students can study abroad - Wonkhe How parental engagement can help their children succeed at school? - The Educator Damian Hinds faces first education committee grilling - Schools Week Teach First opens leadership programme for struggling schools - Schools Week Selection and cap numbers for faith schools in England - BBC Written answer from Sam Gyimah re steps DfE is taking to improve HE & FE participation of students from under-represented areas - Parliament Written answer from Nick Gibb re plans to strengthen the position of siblings in school admissions policy - Parliament Policy Eye: highlights of the week ending 16th March 2018 - Pearson Subcontracting changes blamed for West Notts College job cuts - FE Week Hundreds of nurses 'hit by student loan errors' - BBC DfE to invite bids for wave of AP and special free schools - Schools Week Teacher recruitment problems hit efforts to close Scotland's attainment gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Review launched into educational outcomes of children in need - Schools Week Durham University academics given two weeks to leave UK - Guardian DfE backs HMRC’s crackdown on VAT in subcontracting - FE Week College students could “solve” teacher shortage crisis - Scotsman What do students want most? To be treated with respect | Anonymous academic - Guardian What's it like to work in the civil service if you're working class? - Guardian 20% subcontracting cap guidance already in trouble - FE Week Ofsted is vital to good apprenticeship provision – now more than ever - FE Week IfA ‘concerns’ revealed over quality assurance conflict of interest - FE Week School science clubs can encourage poorer pupils to study the subject, say researchers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boss of Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College to step down - FE Week Marian Docherty: History of learning that helps to transform lives at Newbattle Abbey College - Scotsman Major Catholic academisation plans held up by doubters - Schools Week Government unveils plans to improve education for children with additional needs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Frank Mitchell: It’s essential that we get the country’s young bright sparks interested in engineering - Scotsman Dr Paul Kelley: Pupils are losing vital sleep - Scotsman School exclusions should be a last resort, not an easy way to push out difficult children - Telegraph Investigation: Another school set to close as accountability system crumbles - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is your university degree barely worth the paper it’s written on? Discuss | Sonia Sodha - Guardian Can further education change to be a successful tool to solve the skills gap problem in the UK? - FE News Do the maths: Cost of new times-tables tests to top £5.2m - Schools Week We may never prove reliability of inspection, warns Ofsted research chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revealed: The top 50 state schools in Scotland for 2017 - Herald Scotland Analysis: Publication of annual school league tables divides opinion - Herald Scotland ‘Marginal’ progress on closing attainment gap between rich and poor - Herald Scotland Schools across the social divide working hard to give pupils the best possible chance in life - Herald Scotland School funding pressures in England - EPI England's top school - BBC Number of secondary schools in deficit has 'trebled' - BBC Secondary school pupil numbers will rise by more than 600,000 by 2023 due to baby boom driven by migration - Mail University strikes split student opinion - BBC Training providers could cash in by exporting apprenticeship services - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Inequity for students’ as secondary subject options narrow - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE pledges to 'transform' alternative provision - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE investigates why some children are more likely to be excluded than others - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of schools will be unable to afford teacher pay rise, warns think-tank - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondaries in deficit have trebled, and four other school funding facts we learned today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of secondaries in deficit has trebled, report says - Mail Review launched into school exclusions amid 'inconsistencies' in education - Mail Proportion of English secondary schools in deficit almost trebles - Guardian More than one in four secondary schools running at a loss, study finds - Independent Graduations could be delayed as external examiners are urged to resign at striking universities - Telegraph Childcare shortage excludes over 870,000 mothers from the workplace - Nursery World Exclusions review and £4m ‘alternative provision fund’ unveiled - Schools Week Debt gap widens between LA schools and academies - Schools Week Turning universities into businesses ‘caused strikes’, says Cambridge vice-chancellor Stephen Toope - Times Women graduate straight into gender pay gap - Times Scotland: Schools in wealthier areas dominate top of the league - Times Scotland: Facts of education - Times Scotland: Security staff left shaken by student row - Times Ireland: Trinity College backs down on plan to charge for resits - Times