News archive for 19th March 2018

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Lords debates free school lunches and milk regulations - UK Parliament Secretary of State questioned on the work of his Department - UK Parliament Ofsted Parents Panel - Ofsted Using Ofsted’s inspection data summary report (IDSR): 16 to 19 - Ofsted Funding boost to give more children healthy start to the day - DfE Helping providers understand implications of AEB devolution/delegation from 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency UCU response to minister's comments on university pensions strikes - UCU UCU launches campaign against university anti-union dirty tricks - UCU GSA students scoop top STEM awards at Big Bang UK - GSA Fishing in a small pool with sharp elbows and a lack of bait - Headteachers' Roundtable The regulatory challenges for university executives and governors - HEPI How to manage the stress of exams? - The Educator Growing numbers of secondary schools ‘in deficit’ - The Educator Evidence-Informed Ideas every teacher should know about - Teacherhead Bomb threats sent to hundreds of schools 'sparked by row over Minecraft in elaborate plot to get back at gamers' - Mirror Evidence-informed ideas every teacher should know about - Teacherhead More than a third of parents do not think homework is helpful for primary school children, report finds - Independent Hackers target more than 400 schools with bomb hoax - Telegraph Durham university academics saved from 'unfair' deportation after campaign success - Independent School bomb threats: Hoax sent to hundreds of schools - BBC Why the MBA is still a gamechanging qualification - Guardian Australia: 'You just take it': the students at the sharp end of Sydney's housing nightmare - Guardian DfE announces which providers will be protected from AEB devolution - FE Week Review of FE funding announced by minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Beef up SATs security to avoid maladministration claims, government tells schools - Schools Week Wanted: trainee teachers to plug the schools gap - Guardian NUT teaching union spent more than UKIP at 2017 election - BBC Alumna named best teacher in the world - IOE London Blog New resource, created by IOE academic, to improve research into school performance - IOE London Blog 'We're not struggling to find sponsors for schools' insists Nick Gibb - Times Educational Supplement | TES A researcher’s perspective on the recent event ‘The turning tide: A new culture of responsible metrics for research’ - HEFCE Government to announce £26m school breakfast club fund - PoliticsHome What teachers tapped this week #25 - 19th March 2018 - Teacher Tapp Daily roundup 19 March: Brexit, tube attack, and obesity - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sugar tax to provide £26m for school breakfast club expansion - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Hundreds of schools to rally against 'national funding scandal' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School bomb threats: more than 400 schools in England receive hoax warnings - Guardian City to set up school 'bike libraries' to encourage cycling - Times Educational Supplement | TES 92 schools are waiting for a sponsor, and 4 other things we learned at education questions - Schools Week Anne Milton announces FE funding review - FE Week School bomb threat leads to more than 400 UK schools being evacuated - Metro London college set to merge with university - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK schools evacuated after mass hoax bomb threat - HuffPost Lambeth College and LSBU merger is back on - FE Week OECD and Estyn to develop self-evaluation framework for teachers - Welsh Government Growing children's nursery market attracting foreign investors - Nursery World Pupils as young as 7 to be consulted on Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government announces major programme to tackle inequalities in youth unemployment - FE News School bomb threats: Hundreds of schools across UK sent hoax emails demanding money as some students are evacuated - Independent DfE to fund breakfast club provision in thousands of schools - Nursery World Schools are on a funding tightrope. They will inevitably fall | Lola Okolosie - Guardian Email bomb threats: How should schools respond? - Schools Week Charity Digital Skills Report 2018 - Has lack of funding and GDPR derailed progress? - FE News Eight things great teachers do differently - The Conversation Schools evacuated after receiving 'hoax bomb threats' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Immigrant pupils 'perform better in UK than most other developed countries' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NUT spent £326k on general election campaign - Schools Week Children's minister to review 30 hours effects on disadvantaged - Nursery World A third of UK Muslims report abuse or crime while studying - Guardian Robert Winston to speak at men in early years conference - Nursery World King’s Commission on London proposes solutions to the city’s complex challenges - Wonkhe We’re likely to be miss HEFCE more than we know - Wonkhe Parts of the whole: LEO and the value of public value - Wonkhe Snow school closures: Will schools be closed due to snow today? - Express What the government needs to do to promote T-levels - FE Week Is ignorance to blame for the lack of an apprenticeship surge post-Levy? - FE News Here are the schools closed due to snow on Monday, March 19 - find out if your area is affected - Mirror Need to know: Virtual school heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES How behavioural science can transform education for learners of all ages - FE News Award-winning teacher hails the power of the arts - Herald Scotland The Interview - Under the bonnet of end-point assessment - FE News Striking lecturers who refuse to help with exams this summer could be disciplined for exam sabotage - Mail 'I forget my PE kit deliberately' - the boys who hate sport - BBC UK's Andria Zafirakou wins Global Teacher Prize - BBC Government sets aside £26 million to support breakfast clubs - Times Educational Supplement | TES NHS trusts will use levy cash much faster than other employers, research finds - FE Week NHS trusts embracing apprenticeships but warn major problems remain - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding to support breakfast clubs at schools - Mail Colleges cause confusion by stating need for GCSEs - Nursery World Early years workforce ‘becoming less qualified’ - Nursery World The Big Picture - Kids’ festival - Nursery World Inner-city teacher wins $1m prize - Times Teenage hackers recruited by GCHQ - Times Schools at the sharp end of stationery arms race - Times Ireland: Watchdog concerned over Garda College management - Times Two charities to run breakfast clubs in 1,775 schools from the spring - Schools Week School breakfast clubs to receive up to £26 million in major boost for hungry kids - Mirror