News archive for 22nd March 2018

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ESFA e-bulletin: 22 March 2018 (issue 212) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schemes for financing schools - Education & Skills Funding Agency Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academy independent admission appeal panel complaints - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding allocations supporting documents for 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding: free meals in further education funded institutions for 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Protection of children's biometric information in schools - DfE Influence of financial factors on higher education decision-making - DfE EYFS staff:child ratios - DfE approved qualifications - DfE Free school meals and pupil premium: model form for schools - DfE Office for Students: monetary and financial penalties - DfE Check early years qualifications - DfE Free School Meals: guidance for schools and local authorities - DfE Statistics: pupil absence - DfE Fix broken Apprenticeship Levy to deliver high-quality training - CBI Ideas to solve the recruitment crisis - Headteachers' Roundtable NASUWT demands Scottish Government immediately implement HM Treasury decision to equalise adult survivor benefits in public service pension schemes - NASUWT NASUWT demands immediate implementation of HM Treasury decision to equalise adult survivor benefits in public service pension schemes - NASUWT Cuts would "destroy Open University as we know it" - UCU University of Liverpool announces plans to get rid of 220 staff - UCU Two new Patron Members join AELP - AELP Employers in the driving seat? - AELP Rwanda: A Study on Teaching and Electronic Assessment Methodologies for the KFIT Project - NFER Call for 5% teacher pay rise - or strike action - The Educator Toby Young clings on to taxpayer-funded free schools role - Guardian Investigation: The ups and downs of academy CEO pay - Schools Week There is a 'moral case' for boycotting baseline assessment and Sats, says union leader - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cadbury Sixth Form College 'at immediate risk' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools are 'spending anti-poverty money on Astroturf pitches and staff bonuses' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to ‘expose’ rip-off subcontracting top-slices - FE Week Unauthorised pupil absences at record high but fewer parents fined for taking children out of school - Independent USA: Florida school shooting pupils are only allowed to use clear backpacks to ‘prevent another massacre’ - The Sun 'Dishonest' head of science is banned from teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child poverty hits highest level in decade - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 22 March: Emergency cash, youth centres, and SEN funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Universities receive £1.5 million to support mental health and wellbeing for postgraduate research students - HEFCE Anonymous review and the REF - HEFCE EEF publishes new review of evidence on Maths teaching - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Lords Diary: Steve Bassam - PoliticsHome University strikes: can workers fully withdraw labour in the digital age? - The Conversation Children from rich families secure grammar school places by using private tutors, study finds - Education Media Centre | EMC Cambridge University reveals 15% gender pay gap - Guardian The travelling sales rep problem - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Numeracy performance linked to specific maths activities at home - UKEdChat Teacher – pupil communication - UKEdChat Social media use at age 10 could reduce wellbeing of adolescent girls - UKEdChat Using the six strategies to teach diversity - Learning Scientists School business managers playing vital role in reducing headteachers’ workload - Kirsty Williams - Welsh Government Rise in number of pupils taking term-time holidays - Mail Sponsor found for two more WCAT academies - Schools Week Scottish school attainment gap cash used to send pupils on trips - Scotsman Higher education’s most inspiring leader 2018 - the shortlist - Guardian The judges’ decision: finalists for the Guardian University Awards 2018 - Guardian Academy sponsors taking on indebted schools will no longer face financial 'millstone' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rise in unauthorised pupil absences blamed on term-time holidays - Guardian The state secondary school where the only language taught is Mandarin - Times Educational Supplement | TES The number of children in poverty rises to 4.1 million - Nursery World More pupils take term-time holidays, data shows - BBC Wealthy parents who pay for tutors to get children into grammar school should be taxed to fund poor pupils, study suggests - Independent AAC2018: CBI demands urgent levy upheaval - FE Week Ofsted grading is on the table - Teacherhead Parents fined £6.5 million last year for taking kids out of school during term time - a year on from new absence laws - Mirror School absences: 10 key facts we learned today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Global STEM competition crowns its UK champions - Schools Week Primary heads in Scotland 'forced to work in nurseries to plug staffing gaps' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship achievement rates up for 2016/17 - FE Week Hull schools at 'breaking point' over special educational needs - Guardian Social Mobility Commission branded powerless by MPs - Nursery World Unauthorised absence rate highest since records began - Schools Week Fewer fines for missing school despite rise in the absence rate - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship, education and training annual national achievement rates tables (NARTs) - 2016 to 2017 - DfE Pupil absence in in primary and secondary schools in England during the 2016 to 2017 academic year - DfE Maintained schools and academies inspections and outcomes as at 31 December 2017 - Ofsted Pupil absence fines down 5.4% - Schools Week Jisc and HESA analytics project in the running for a national technology award - Jisc John Jerrim: how much does private tutoring matter for grammar school admissions? - Education Datalab John Jerrim: is PISA still a fair basis for comparison? Some serious questions have emerged - Education Datalab John Jerrim: four things PISA tells us about after-school learning - Education Datalab Report: the future of the SMC - greater powers needed to address UK's social crisis - Commons Select Committee Bringing numbers to life on National Numeracy Day - Unionlearn 2nd Report - The future of the Social Mobility Commission - UK Parliament The future of the Social Mobility Commission inquiry - UK Parliament Greater powers needed to address UK's social crisis - UK Parliament Teachers also need skills in the world of work to help in guiding pupils - Scotsman Mainstream schools don’t work for many vision-impaired children - Scotsman St Andrews university ranked in top ten for student life - Scotsman University of St Andrews enters UK top ten league - Scotsman Generation P (for Perfection) - Wonkhe The disorder of academic leadership - Wonkhe How much does private tutoring matter for grammar school admissions? - Education Datalab Strategy, events and the rocky road ahead - Wonkhe New partnership deal for two Scottish private schools - Herald Scotland Scottish universities to the fore in student satisfaction survey - Herald Scotland Kids need to be taught the 4 R’s at school — reading, writing, arithmetic and art - The Sun Nigeria: Islamist terror group Boko Haram releases abducted schoolgirls — but issues chilling warning against education - The Sun Middle class families who hire private tutors to help get their children into grammar school ‘should pay extra tax’ - Mail The great learning curve: how to improve your study habits - Guardian Snackable study: how to break up your master's degree - Guardian Community-based Esol lessons promote social integration, government says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for more powers for commission that warned teacher quality is harming social mobility - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to tax wealthy parents who use private tutors to help win grammar school places - Times Educational Supplement | TES Researcher: A private tutoring tax ‘would level grammar school playing field’ - Schools Week Loughborough University tops student experience survey - Mail Published today: the Education Committee's report on the Future of the Social Mobility Commission - Commons Select Committee UCET Easter 2018 Newsletter - UCET Cambridge University was warned of data harvesting by lecturer Aleksandr Kogan - Times Paying for tutors ‘opens door to grammar school’ - Times Nigeria: Give up school, Boko Haram kidnappers warn freed girls - Times Scotland: Glasgow schools to encourage cycling with bike libraries - Times Scotland: School mishandled injury because of unclear advice - Times Education committee wants reform of social mobility commission - Schools Week