News archive for 27th March 2018

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Schoolgirls wear shorts under uniform to protect themselves against ‘upskirting’, says teaching union leader - Independent National scandal of grammar schools is revealed at last - Mirror Greening warns social mobility is 'far more complex' than grammar schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteacher suspended after parent backlash over school’s controversial 'no homework' policy - Telegraph Revealed: The 87 trusts told to justify CEO pay - Schools Week Claims students have created university free speech crisis have been ‘exaggerated’, says report - Independent The story of Senate House reveals how out-of-touch our universities have become - New Statesman Teachers reject 'best and final' pay offer from employers - Mail Mark Lehain made interim director at New Schools Network - Schools Week NUS election: Corybn-supporting activist sets sights on presidency - Guardian France to lower school starting age from six to three - BBC Head of 'knowledge-rich curriculum' campaign replaces Toby Young at New Schools Network - Times Educational Supplement | TES France: Macron tackles terrorism by ordering three-year-olds to school - Times Scottish teachers' pay claim 2018/19: update - Voice Voice comments on latest Ofsted childcare statistics - Voice Let’s talk about social value for money - HEPI Strikes at seven colleges today in row over pay and conditions - UCU Schools need more mental health support - NAHT Nick Clegg appointed Visiting Professor in Practice - London School of Economics | LSE Mr HInds needs an early years epiphany - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 27 March: Medway, grammar schools, and YOT funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government promises action to combat negative body image - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Universities must not use ‘safe space’ cover to block free speech, MPs say - PoliticsHome Grammar school students’ success ‘down to privilege,’ new reports finds - PoliticsHome Durand Academy staff urge governors to cease campaign against Harris takeover - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to close grammar schools because 'they don't do better' - The Educator Equally committed to excellence in education and research – “dual intensive” universities - Wonkhe Massive response to physical activity programme - Leeds Beckett University What makes an ‘authentic’ teacher? - UKEdChat New physics lessons help girls catch up - UKEdChat STEAM not STEM! - UKEdChat Scottish teachers reject three per cent pay offer - Herald Scotland Ofsted publishes new guidance for inspectors on restraint and restriction of liberty - NAHT Improving mathematics in key stages two and three - NAHT Free speech in universities - Universities UK Freedom of speech at universities includes the right to protest - Universities UK Academy leaders accused of 'not speaking up about funding cuts' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Awards celebrate children's speech and language - Nursery World National Scottish teacher strike looms closer as 3% pay offer is rejected - Times Educational Supplement | TES University watchdog's regret over Toby Young appointment - BBC HoC debate: eligibility threshold for free school meals - They Work For You 1,500 college staff in Scotland have no teaching qualifications - Scotsman Experimental performance indicators: widening participation and non-continuation rates - Higher Education Statistics Agency In Yemen, another generation is being lost to conflict - HuffPost Hinds 'disingenuous' about cause of global teacher workload problem, union claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES Guarantee European teachers the right to stay after Brexit, headteachers demand - Times Educational Supplement | TES Questions answered over gap in resources for inexperienced computing teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teach First briefed Scottish heads at Prince Charles event - Guardian The Tories have turned schools into hothouses for gender pay inequality | Lola Okolosie - Guardian Westminster Hall debate re GCSE English Literature Exams - They Work For You Skills minister calls on companies to help develop T-level content - Times Educational Supplement | TES London 30-hour childcare funding varies widely - Nursery World Skills Minister calls on employers to join new T level panels - FE News Applications open for nine new T-level employer panels - FE Week Chair of Office for Students challenged over lack of FE board members - Times Educational Supplement | TES University's Early Years Teacher course first to receive Ofsted outstanding - Nursery World Grammar schools should be ‘phased out’ as they damage social mobility, says study - Independent Ofsted statistics show an increase in providers exiting the sector since introduction of the 30 hours - Nursery World Let creative kids study arts — it’s not rocket science - The Sun Coding queen: 70,000 children sign up to course run by student as she does A-levels - Evening Standard Education charity takes novel approach to exclusions research - Schools Week Qualification achievement rates and minimum standards - Education & Skills Funding Agency Skills Minister calls on employers to join new T level panels - DfE Experimental UK Performance Indicators 2016 to 2017: Widening participation and non-continuation rates - DfE SEND pupils 'being pushed out' of school due to funding squeeze - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years and childcare statistics - Ofsted Lecturers go on strike at seven college sites - Times Educational Supplement | TES Using Ofsted’s inspection data summary report (IDSR): 16 to 19 - Ofsted Second Scottish teacher-only strike since the '80s goes ahead - Times Educational Supplement | TES Second wave of college strikes over pay begins today - FE Week Grammar schools damage social cohesion and make no difference to exam grades — new research - The Conversation Degree apprenticeships shouldn’t just be repackaged degrees - FE Week The government should focus on apprenticeship quality, not quantity - FE Week This much I know about…being an agnostic - JohnTomsett Three East Dunbartonshire schools hit by strike action today - Scotsman Learndirect’s second Ofsted monitoring visit: 15 key findings - FE Week National Student Survey 2018: Publication of data - HEFCE New Year 2019 Honours nominations - HEFCE New university rankings ‘put nursing and social work degrees at risk’ - Guardian ‘They’re trying to take away our rights.’ How much power should students have? - Guardian Ministers won’t give schools more money until they are visibly falling apart – ask George Osborne | Laura McInerney - Guardian UK Quality Code 2.0 - Wonkhe Good regulation requires “appropriate touching” - Wonkhe Why I’m suing over my dream internship - Guardian Scottish teachers threaten strikes over "unacceptable" three per cent pay offer - Herald Scotland Study 'explodes myth' that poor families have lower ambitions for their children - Herald Scotland Serious barriers limit free speech in universities - UK Parliament Free speech at university being hampered, report warns - Herald Scotland Grammar school success 'down to privilege' - study - BBC Pupils in the north of England are 'being left behind' by those in the south - Mail 'Intolerance' threat to university free speech - BBC Global: Mary´s Meals now feeding 1.25 million children every school day - Mail Universities should not be ‘safe spaces’ as this puts free speech at risk, says Harriet Harman - Mail Serious barriers limit free speech in Universities, says Joint Committee on Human Rights - FE News Safe spaces used to inhibit free speech on campuses, inquiry finds - Guardian Research: Grammar schools do not do better and should be scrapped - Schools Week Grammar school pupils do no better than other children, research finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities should not be safe spaces, say MPs - Times Depression risk for pupils who fall behind aged 11 - Times Art professor sacked over sex with student - Times France: Elite students shun school for presidents - Times Scotland: Court appeal fails to halt teacher strike - Times Report into free speech in universities published - Joint Select Committee