News archive for 1st May 2018

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Former boarding school pupils are dominating the top jobs - Mail YouTube stars are paid to convince millions of young followers to cheat - Mail Exeter university students expelled over racist comments - BBC Sajid Javid warned over students forced from UK after language tests - Guardian George Osborne questioned by the Education Committee on education in the North and improving skills and training - FE News Schools should be held accountable for exam results of pupils they exclude, minister suggests - Independent The YouTube stars being paid to sell cheating - BBC London UCU members vote to strike against NCG paymasters - FE Week Calls for schools in Wales to offer vegan dinner options - Wales Online Learn a language by ten or it may be too late - Times School Standards Minister questioned - UK Parliament Alternative provision: Seven things we learned from today's education select committee hearing - Times Educational Supplement | TES What the Welsh Government’s regulatory reforms mean for universities - Wonkhe Does the post-18 review Augar well? - Wonkhe Fourth Industrial Revolution inquiry launched - UK Parliament Cognitive scientists define critical period for learning language - UKEdChat Initial teacher training: marketing and recruitment guide - DfE New school proposals - DfE School census: notepad entries for COLLECT queries - DfE Register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency 'Opportunity for everyone' shows how universities are opening their doors, but they must build on this for faster change - Office for Students Boarding school can deliver a better future to vulnerable children - GSA 'Opportunity for everyone' shows how universities are opening their doors, but they must build on this for faster change - Universities UK DfE launch £23 million Future Talent Fund programme - NAHT EEF release new guidance on how to improve pupils' ability to plan, monitor and evaluate academic progress - NAHT Complete NATRE's survey to improve support and resources for RE in primary schools - NAHT New pay award for SBLs and school support staff - NAHT How will AI transform the classroom of the future? - Independent Head 11 top tips for nailing that job application - Teacher Toolkit PRUs too stretched to tackle permanent exclusions, warns top Ofsted inspector - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 1 May: Scottish alcohol laws, Staffordshire cuts, childhood obesity - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Justine Greening: Employers should discriminate against Etonians - PoliticsHome Opening the door to open science starts with university libraries - Jisc BAC updates accreditation for independent HE - PIE News Students in collective legal action for strike compensation - PIE News Why your child's endless questions might mean they do better at school - HuffPost Scottish secondary teachers will be asked to vote on strike action - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We are deeply sorry' - boarding schools apologise for child abuse - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister open to holding schools to account for results of excluded pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted should inspect schools meals - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brexit could make 'UK teacher shortage worse', negotiators are warned - Times Educational Supplement | TES England's biggest academy chain takes on first new school in five years - Times Educational Supplement | TES How creating a 'human pie chart' can work wonders in your maths lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES The state-funded faith schools that say gay sex is ‘unacceptable’, masturbation 'wrong' and tampons 'inappropriate' - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs to examine how schools prepare pupils for future technology - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish government spends millions less on helping poor pupils stay on in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Trainee teachers are being put off teaching – this is shocking and unforgivable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'When it comes to workload, it's not the teacher who needs to be improved but the school's practice' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'To tackle the teacher supply crisis, the government needs to remove the public sector pay cap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don't let applied generals fall by the wayside' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Apprenticeship levy should be seen as a positive, progressive step' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Role of lifelong learning in the 'fourth industrial revolution' in the spotlight - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes FE Podcast: T levels, career ladders and the future of FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES YouTube must act immediately to stop promotion of cheating - Universities UK Register of end-point assessment organisations - FE News Education Committee launches inquiry into the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Commons Select Committee What on earth is going on with the apprenticeship levy? - Training Journal Enhanced ESOL co-ordination in the West Midlands - Learning & Work Institute Focus tips for students: How to effectively ignore irrelevant information - Learning Scientists Brains of young people with severe behavioural problems are ‘wired differently’ - UKEdChat Ofsted WILL prosecute illegal schools, and 5 other things we learned at education committee - Schools Week Missing the mark at GCSE English - Best Evidence in Brief Early struggling readers and summertime intervention - Best Evidence in Brief A wide range of approaches may help improve pupils’ ability to manage behaviours and emotions - Best Evidence in Brief Mindfulness and yoga for primary pupils - Best Evidence in Brief Strategies to promote teacher effectiveness - Best Evidence in Brief More university students are cheating – but it's not because they're lazy | Devarshi Lodhia - Guardian Skills minister and ESFA boss speaking at AELP conference - FE Week Home Office told thousands of foreign students to leave UK in error - Financial Times A cultural reset: how to end the Ofsted inspection cycle of fear - IOE London Blog Outdoor nursery wins prestigious innovation award - Nursery World External quality assurance of end-point assessments - FE News Time for a radical rethink about the role of colleges and their funding - FE News This isn’t class war. It’s right to treat CVs from old Etonians differently | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Busy Bees buys Australian nursery group - Nursery World Learning Rep - Summer 2018 Edition - Unionlearn Generation debt: UK ‘below average’ at teaching financial literacy - The Conversation Nick Gibb questioned by Education Committee re alternative provision - Commons Select Committee Critical window for learning a language - BBC We can't keep papering over the cracks. Vulnerable children need stable support - Guardian Humans will always be better teachers than robots, say most sixth-formers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 40 children’s books for struggling and reluctant readers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Employers should offer jobs to alumni of underperforming state schools over public school graduates, suggests Justine Greening - Independent Robot teachers? Give me a human any day, say students - Mail £1.2m for Welsh Universities to crack the code - Welsh Government If student maintenance grants are coming back, who will pay for them? | David Morris - Guardian Food, clothes, a mattress and three funerals. What teachers buy for children - Guardian How universities were swept into the ‘hostile environment’ | Peter Scott - Guardian Tracy Brabin: ‘We need to put the joy back into early years education’ - Guardian Not making the grade – why we should scrap GCSEs - FE News No clear majority in favour of radical school shake-up - Herald Scotland Ex-Education Secretary Justine Greening says kids from sink schools should get jobs before Etonians - The Sun School day trip visa warning post-Brexit - BBC Cardiff and Swansea universities get £1.2m coding cash - BBC Discriminate against job applicants from Eton, says former education secretary Justine Greening - Times Scotland: Proposals for head teachers to get legal powers are rejected - Times