News archive for 23rd March 2018

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Calculators can help boost children’s maths skills, research suggests - IOE London Blog REF panel membership appointments announced - HEFCE What maths teachers need to know about pupils using calculators - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Grouping students into ability-based sets holds back less able pupils - UKEdChat Teach First announce Innovation Award winners 2018 - Teach First Edge Chief Executive addresses Education Select Committee - Edge Foundation Increase in LGBT+ teachers welcomed - Teach First Accountability that enables all schools to thrive and flourish - Headteachers' Roundtable UK universities set out calls ahead of final phase of Brexit talks - Universities UK New offer sent to UCU members in USS pensions dispute - UCU NEU comment on social mobility - National Education Union Opening up opportunity: social mobility and the Higher Education and Research Act (2017) - HEPI Moving forward in Brexit - Russell Group Is the USS dispute exposing infrastructure failures in HE? - Wonkhe What is the best way to close the attainment gap? - The Educator Teach First hails doubling of LGBT numbers - The Educator Correspondence from the Secretary of State regarding the board of the Office for Students (pdf) - UK Parliament Correspondence to the Secretary of State regarding the board of the Office for Students (pdf) - UK Parliament Chair of Office for Students questioned - UK Parliament Positive environments where children can flourish - Ofsted Nick Gibb attends International Summit of the Teaching Profession - DfE Nick Gibb welcomes teachers to international conference - DfE Amanda Spielman speech to Annual Apprenticeships Conference - Ofsted Higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academy trust guide to reducing fraud - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies financial notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency Topic briefing: students from military service families - OFFA Universities offer to maintain pension benefits while peace talks continue - Guardian Teenage boy who was 'moments away' from mass school shooting has sentence overturned as appeal court judge says he is a 'model son' - Telegraph Best teacher in the world Andria Zafirakou: ‘Build trust with your kids – then everything else can happen’ - Guardian Toby Young quits New Schools Network, citing media pressure - Guardian Marine Academy Plymouth faces moving to new trust - Schools Week Ofsted Watch: Encouraging week for adult and community learning providers - FE Week Financial warning notice for UTC found to owe government £500k - FE Week Financial warning notice for UTC which owed government £500k - Schools Week Policy Tracker - keeping track of what happened in the world of education during March 2018 - Pearson Grouping students into ability-based sets holds back less able pupils - IOE London Blog Children from wealthier families much more likely to secure grammar school places - IOE London Blog Policy Tracker - keeping track of what happened in the world of education in March 2018 - Pearson Norwich’s Engage Multi-Academy Trust hit with financial notice to improve - Schools Week Revealed: The 2018 Teach First Innovation Award winners - Schools Week Daily roundup 23 March: Knife crime, Telford abuse, and youth loneliness - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How will Brexit impact valuable education and training knowledge entering the UK? - FE News US sanctions Iran over intellectual property violations claiming hackers stole data from "hundreds" of universities worldwide - City AM Teacher banned for sending 'sexually motivated' messages to pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Toby Young resigns from New Schools Network - Schools Week ‘Apprenticeships equal to university places’ says SNP MSP - Scotsman Toby Young resigns from New Schools Network - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy Eye - highlights of week ending Friday 23 March 2018 - Pearson Is there still time to save the Open University from slow strangulation? | Steven Rose - Guardian Policy Eye - highlights of week ending Friday 23 March 2018 - Pearson Maths and science teachers ‘need 5% more pay’ to end shortage - Schools Week Inaugural AAC Awards: Worthy winners step up - FE Week ‘Deliver on apprentice travel cost pledge’, urges Robert Halfon - FE Week Apprenticeship provider register won’t reopen until September - FE Week Academy trust 'faces insolvency' unless DfE gives it more money - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Allow imaginations to lead': igniting the creative spark in young writers - Guardian Off-the-job training should be a selling point, not a sticking point - FE Week Calculators 'a plus' for young mathematicians after all - BBC A tale for today: how much is a free lunch at the ‘Koob Café’? - IOE London Blog 20% off-the-job rule divides opinion again - FE Week Marsden: Labour would look at devolving apprenticeships and other skills funding - FE Week The unintended consequences of school choice - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics Ofsted appears to back colleges in Progress 8 battle - FE Week Education Committee asks for more representation of FE and apprenticeships on the OfS board - DfE Degree in soap operas launched at British university - Scotsman Colleges, training providers, adult education services – we need a diverse provider market - FE Week From misused quotes to policy truths - Wonkhe More campus fun and games (and dressing up) - Wonkhe Learning on the job: how to take your teaching career to the next level - Guardian Academy funding discrepancy ‘on bigger scale than expected’ - Schools Week They called my university a PhD factory – now I understand why - Guardian Selective schools make no difference to GCSE results, study says - Guardian Science is 'dying' in primary schools, teachers warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of schools aren’t ready for GDPR data protection officer requirement - Schools Week University of Bolton vice-chancellor resigns from troubled Bright Tribe academy trust - Schools Week The scourge of child poverty in the UK - BBC Teacher training chief warns workload is fuelling recruitment crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar schools have virtually no effect as genetics determine academic success, study finds  - Telegraph How science GCSEs in England are changing - BBC Attending grammar school may not boost chance of good GCSE grades, study suggests - Independent Teach First’s LGBT intake almost doubles - Schools Week Exam bureaucracy hits most vulnerable resit students - Times Educational Supplement | TES The bill for Scotland's national tests is set to hit £4.6m - Times Educational Supplement | TES Calculators can boost maths skills, research finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Modest’ pay hike for early-career teachers could solve recruitment crisis in maths and science, research suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Low teacher expectations 'hindering' bottom-set pupils, research finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Illiteracy costs UK £36 billion a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teach First says doubling of its LGBT teachers shows 'progress' within schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES EEF: Calculators do not limit learning in maths - Schools Week Selective schools have no impact on exam success - Times Syrian refugee wins Oxford scholarship - Times Women academics are paid fifth less - Times Pupil who planned mass shooting freed - Times University of London locks in students who backed lecturer’s strike - Times