News archive for 20th March 2018

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Higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies - Education & Skills Funding Agency Statistics: childcare and early years - DfE Education Secretary praises profession on World Social Work Day - DfE Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency USA: First picture of baby-faced gunman who blasted 'ex-girlfriend' and other student in school corridor before he was shot dead - Mirror Performance tables: technical and vocational qualifications - DfE New school proposals - DfE School performance: key stage 4 similar schools - DfE 2020 performance tables: technical and vocational qualifications - DfE School offers to buy suitable shoes for pupils after sending 'up to 30' home for wrong footwear - Mirror Sick messages left on WhatsApp group joking about gang rape and 'race war' that saw law society students suspended - Mirror Blog 500 - Teacherhead 'I've lived a wild life': Teacher banned from his own disciplinary hearing in Edinburgh - Express Exeter university students suspended over racism and rape claims - BBC Only 13% of Stem foundation apprenticeships started by women - Mail TV benefits couple fined more than £700 for taking children out of school to go on holiday - Express Nick Gibb denies DfE is struggling to find academy sponsors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Surge in early years apprenticeship applications after GCSE requirement scrapped - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL comment on NFER teacher retention report - ASCL More than a third of HE undergraduates study in colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual launches a further consultation into the involvement of teachers in the development of confidential assessment materials - NAHT Potential "safety net" for students who narrowly miss a pass in externally-assessed units in applied general and tech level qualifications - NAHT Breakfast clubs to receive a £26m funding boost - NAHT Research round-up 20 March 2018 - NAHT Rona Tutt's SEND summary (March 2018) - NAHT ITV News survey of school leaders shows funding is still in crisis - NAHT Teachers’ working hours - National Education Union Financial health of the higher education sector: variable performance trend continues - HEFCE New medical training places announced under expansion programme - HEFCE Daily roundup 20 March: Gove, defamation, and cannabis - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Young people to be central to design of £90m youth programme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Checkmate! - National Education Union Magic Breakfast - a case study in scaling evidence for impact - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Education is key to the inclusion of immigrant students – OECD - PIE News EU: European student visas should be egalitarian – ESU - PIE News DfE official hails collapse in AS-level entries – despite warnings about pupil 'stress' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are working longer hours than nurses and police - The Educator Evidence-Based Practice: What it is and what it isn’t - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Closing the 69 million teacher gap needs to be top priority for world’s education leaders - UKEdChat Good motor skills may enhance reading skills in obese children - UKEdChat 5 great aspects of mid-term evaluations - UKEdChat Study identifies effective parenting strategies to reduce disruptive behaviour in children - UKEdChat Web-based teaching can improve science understanding for struggling pupils - Education Media Centre | EMC Immigrant pupils do better in the UK - Education Media Centre | EMC Exeter University law students suspended over 'racist' WhatsApp messages - Independent Maths textbook suggests women are less competent than men - Times Educational Supplement | TES School bomb threats: Minecraft gamer could be behind email hoax that caused evacuations across UK - Independent Ofqual cracks down on exam board reviewers’ marking changes - Schools Week Exeter university suspends five law students in racism scandal - Financial Times Vile messages of Exeter University law students as sick racist texts in WhatsApp group are exposed - The Sun New subject ratings could confuse students, warn college leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Faith school complains to Theresa May about Ofsted's 'secularist agenda' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher ‘gave pupils cigarettes’ and boasted about sex and drugs use - Scotsman Start-up aims to encourage more men into childcare and support new fathers - Nursery World Anne Milton: steps being taken to raise awareness of engineering as a career among secondary school pupils - Parliament What are your experiences of racism at university? - Guardian Children benefit when taught social and emotional skills – but some methods are better than others - The Conversation HoC debate: Damian Hinds outlines the steps being taken to improve social mobility - They Work For You HoC debate re the number of schools in England subject to an academy order without a confirmed sponsor - They Work For You HoC debates: Anne Milton responds to a question re the steps the DfE is taking to promote apprenticeships - They Work For You More than one in three care leavers ends up NEET - Times Educational Supplement | TES Written answer re cost of extending free school means and the pupil premium to all pupils whose parents receive Universal Credit - Parliament HoC debate: Damian Hinds' statement on his departmental responsibilities - They Work For You Students at prestigious law society accused of racism after group’s WhatsApp messages are leaked online - Telegraph Three postgrad options you may never have thought of - Guardian University of Exeter investigates claims of racist WhatsApp group - Guardian Level 3 early years apprenticeship could receive £8,000 funding - Nursery World USA: Trump’s travel ban deters international students - Guardian DfE to ask heads and pupils about 'period poverty' - Times Educational Supplement | TES When is a recovery plan not a financial recovery plan? - FE News Nurseries' inability to pay Scottish Living Wage could impact 30 hours - Nursery World PACEY launches annual sector-wide survey - Nursery World Gove faces fresh scrutiny over school sexual abuse case - Guardian Supply teaching firm accused of 'obscene' payments to directors - BBC BAME teachers are still marginalised in a system that refuses to change | Allana Gay - Guardian 'Teaching faces a recruitment challenge, but it will come back around. It has to' - Guardian US study finds school-based services delivered by teachers can help reduce mental health problems - Institute for Effective Education British Psychological Society calls for new robust guidelines re the effects of screen use in children and teenagers - Institute for Effective Education Meta-analysis of the US Ready to Learn initiative involving 24,000 children indicates positive effects on children's literacy - Institute for Effective Education DIT seeks early years sector views about overseas expansion - Nursery World Why students should take part in the National Student Survey - HEFCE A matter of taste: food matters in universities - Wonkhe Lessons from regulatory change: what education wonks can learn from health wonks - Wonkhe HoC debate re the financial effect of the new National Funding Formula on schools in England - They Work For You Financial health of the higher education sector: 2016-17 financial results - HEFCE Blame the ‘macho leader’ cult for education’s shocking gender pay gap | Danny Dorling - Guardian ‘It was heartbreaking’: Family wins tribunal after special needs pupil excluded - Guardian 'Little progress' on speech and language support in past decade - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Reduce working hours to tackle teacher retention, suggests new research - NFER University regulator is ‘Office for State Control’, say critics - Guardian Oxford's women rowers pull together for equality - Financial Times New co-operatives aim to cut cost of student accommodation - Financial Times Subcontracting: Time for the sector to step forward and take a lead - FE News Teachers work more and have seen bigger pay drop than police, study suggests - Herald Scotland Rates system overhaul could help fund end of tuition fees, say student leaders - Herald Scotland Allowing shorts at a Catholic girls' school is sensible and without hidden intent | Rebecca Dargie - Guardian Why do schools have a massive pay gap? - BBC Under-doctored areas to get new medical schools - BBC Teachers work longer hours than police officers and nurses, study suggests - Independent Teachers work more and have seen bigger pay drop than police, study suggests - Mail It’s official: School holidays don’t make up for teachers’ long hours - Times Educational Supplement | TES Workload: How does teaching compare with the police or nursing? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hate crime against children on the rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bercow: 10 years on parents face 'postcode lottery' of support - Nursery World New employability plan aims to tackle unemployment and economic inactivity - Welsh Government Lecturers’ strike prompts class action for students - Times Students to be investigated for racist messages - Times More medical schools to fill NHS gaps - Times One in four pupils have migrant roots - Times India: Exam cheat hid Bluetooth headset in his turban - Times Scotland: Nurseries fail to meet wage promise - Times Teachers are ‘happy with pay’ despite real-terms drop - Schools Week Jeremy Hunt to announce five new medical schools as part of bid to train 1,500 extra doctors - Independent