News archive for 29th March 2018

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Indian Summer School review – five terrible teens are sent to India’s equivalent of Eton - Guardian Cambridge University says exams can be shortened due to disruption caused by lecturers’ strike - Telegraph Children are being prevented from taking ballet exams due to term time holiday rules, Royal Academy of Dance says - Telegraph Open University vice-chancellor Peter Horrocks could face vote of no confidence - Independent Number of armed guards at US schools is rising, study finds - Guardian Theresa May says schools will benefit from 'Brexit dividend' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: The gender pay gap in schools, teaching unions and Toby Young - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE announces £500 million for academy buildings - Schools Week National Numeracy to deliver new adult online learning project funded by the Department for Education - National Numeracy 14 colleges receive cash from the strategic improvement fund - FE Week A note on note-taking - Learning Scientists Online safeguarding: trends, tools and guidelines - UKEdChat Academic’s toolkit to aid transition into higher education for autistic students - Leeds Beckett University Edge puts £1million up for grabs - Edge Foundation Budgeting: a (realistic) glossary of terms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Staff to vote on future of beleaguered Open University chief - UCU Latest information and updates from Ofqual - NAHT Consultation from the London Mayor on Early Years in London - NAHT Combined science GCSE grades: a letter to Heads - NAHT Key stage 2: science sampling tests 2018 - NAHT Schools need more mental health support - NAHT Latest information and updates from JCQ - NAHT Time running out on levy reform - CBI More men in early years education - an update - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 29 March: Holiday support, Cafcass, and Brexit - CYPN | Children & Young People Now International students targeted by phone scammers - PIE News Two schools warned over cultures of bullying and poor behaviour - Schools Week Company bosses slam apprenticeship levy as ‘not fit for purpose’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual investigation concludes troubled KS2 Sats were 'inconsistent' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted watch: Two providers pull up from ‘inadequate’ - FE Week Rule change for colleges seeking degree awarding powers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2018 - FE Week Toby Young resigns as director of free school trust he founded - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers on verge of strike over pay, Richard Leonard warns - Scotsman More secret private school warning notices published for first time - Schools Week Exam system ‘creating barriers’ to SEND students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher pay strikes 'can't be ruled out', warns NASUWT - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE announces 14 new special free schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sponsors for 14 new special needs free schools revealed - Schools Week Kevin Courtney calls for 'profound change' in the way we assess primary children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Holiday hunger research gets £2m boost - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship reforms starting to work, claims DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to reverse near-extinction of classics in Scottish schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher training applications down by a fifth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Transcript of Westminster Hall debate re unconditional university offers - They Work For You Chances of success at Key Stage 4, part one - Education Datalab DfE to pilot £2m scheme to fight 'holiday hunger' - Nursery World Further education and skills data for the first two quarters of the 2017/18 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency FE data: other statistics and research - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship and levy statistics: March 2018 - DfE FE data: information on the number of apprenticeship starts, achievements, and participation - Education & Skills Funding Agency Lincolnshire academy threatened with closure for poor KS2 results - Schools Week Statistics on the number of appeals against results for GCSEs, AS and A levels - Ofqual Success rate for school exam appeals more than doubles, and four other key points from today's Ofqual figures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adult learning provider improves from inadequate to good - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mixing pupils by race leads to more interracial marriages, finds research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adult-learning fund announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gloucestershire school to close after RSC blasts inexperienced trustees - Schools Week How to help autistic children socialise in school - The Conversation Apprenticeship starts fail to recover for another month - Times Educational Supplement | TES Emily Chapman re-elected as the NUS’ head of FE - FE Week Ofsted to use artificial-intelligence algorithm to predict which schools are 'less than good' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What kinds of activities will encourage more students from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep studying science? - IOE London Blog 32 adult learning projects share £11.7 million fund - FE Week Monthly update: apprenticeship starts down 23 per cent in December - FE Week Are accelerated degrees a head start or a false start? - Wonkhe 'It opens their eyes': how film is giving young people lessons in life - Guardian How to help your child revise this Easter  - Telegraph Equality and diversity school leadership projects - DfE Foundation degree awarding powers - DfE Taught and research degree awarding powers - DfE Innovators across the North East get a multi-million pound Industrial Strategy boost - HEFCE Funding boost to improve and expand school buildings - DfE Multi-million pound fund for adult learning announced - DfE New measures to support children with SEND - DfE Moderation of teacher assessments - Ofqual Guidance for applicants to the pilot of the Strategic College Improvement Fund - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 29 March 2018 (issue 213) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Maintained stability in provider allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Full-time enrolment of 14- to 16-year-olds in further education and sixth-form colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeships help boost workforce capabilities - Scotsman Rise of the grey-haired graduates - Financial Times Fresh wave of strikes to begin in pensions row - Herald Scotland Campaign to make state school pupils Latin lovers - Herald Scotland The apprenticeship levy needs urgent reform, IoD poll suggests - City AM Term-time holiday rules stop children taking dance exams - BBC Teacher blames cuts for assault on special needs pupil - Times Schools in lockdown over email threats - Times Knife boy, 8, told to write letter to child he threatened - Times Universities join forces in ‘Brexit-proof’ partnership - Times Ireland: Trinity scraps its plan for €450 resit fee - Times Teenager arrested after series of hoax threats made to schools across the UK - Mirror