News archive for 10th May 2018

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Government to give £50m to expand grammar schools despite concerns over funding crisis - Independent Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from December 2015 - GOV.UK Cambridge University students demand lower standard of proof for sexual misconduct claims - Independent Scots journalism school rethinks 'partnership' plan with Kremlin propaganda outlet - Herald Scotland Global: Attacks on schools and universities rising with 12,700 targeted in last five years, Save the Children warns - Independent How can we get more women into engineering? Your opinion is needed... - FE Week Brexit could cost UK research sector billions, says Oxford boss - Guardian University of Bristol confirms sudden death of first-year student Ben Murray - Guardian ‘No evidence’ changes to A-level science have made students worse at practicals - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Risk of a rise in students but no extra funding' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Young Scots get online accounts for careers help - Times Educational Supplement | TES Deadline missed for SEND plans for 3,800 pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Male teachers harassing women in the profession with pictures of their genitalia - Times Educational Supplement | TES Daily roundup 10 May: Free school meals, routine restraint, and daily mile - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Boost in support for children with additional needs - DfE A level biology students show stronger practical skills - Ofqual Call for evidence on assessment of qualifications in centres - Ofqual Post-16 education: highest level of achievement by age 25 - DfE Parents' return to work and childcare responsibilities - DfE Careers and Enterprise Company will face questions from MPs - Schools Week GDPR model documents for colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Response to ‘manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation’ - Office for Students Estimating your academy funding allocation - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 10 May 2018 (issue 219) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency High needs: allocated place numbers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Online learning may not be ideal for all students - Learning Scientists Rob Halfon: ‘Failing a generation’ - why the Government’s proposals on children’s mental health lacks ambition - PoliticsHome AoC Beacon Awards and Tes FE Awards to be presented alongside each other - AoC | Association of Colleges The difference between unconditional offers in the UK and the US - Times Higher Education | THE Has Ofsted got its own recruitment crisis? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE Awards to host Beacon Awards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jamie Oliver recruits Welsh five-year-olds in fight against junk food advertisers - Wales Online Ofsted announces changes to policy on inspection intervals - NAHT School leaders' survey indicates high levels of dissatisfaction with services provided by the Education Employers to schools in Northern Ireland - NAHT 30 hours free childcare: eligibility codes issued and validated - DfE Statements of SEN transferring to EHC plans: 31 March 2018 - DfE Careers & Enterprise Company questioned - UK Parliament Life after exams - UKEdChat Teachers from across Scotland gather for the NASUWT Conference - NASUWT Nick Gibb speech at launch of Midland Knowledge Hub - DfE Teenager claims he can't study subject he loves because teachers don't think he will pass - Wales Online Needs or rights? Revisiting the legacy of the Warnock report on SEND - IOE London Blog After the goldrush: 30 years of teaching quality enhancement - Wonkhe Thinking big: 35 ideas for widening access to higher education - Wonkhe SENCO wall chart planner - Teacher Toolkit New research says academy leaders must prepare for nine key ‘break points’ - Ambition School Leadership Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: A manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation - HEPI Introducing our manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation - HEPI Shock leadership turnaround at London sixth form college - FE Week "Distressed" young child found alone on footpath near primary school sparks important warning to parents dropping kids off - Mirror School ditches UTC name as it joins multi-academy trust - Schools Week Struggling UTC rebrands and joins academy trust - FE Week ‘Edexcel’ brand becomes ‘Pearson Edexcel’ - Pearson Ofqual: New biology A-level has improved pupils’ practical skills - Schools Week How to lose the Sats stress - BBC Scots pupils to be given online accounts to plan careers - Scotsman Fining parents ‘has no effect on school term-time absence’ - Times The school sexual assault problem - Times Lower proof for misconduct claims, students say - BBC Pupils breaking plastic bottle ban will be punished for anti-social behaviour like smokers at Brighton College - HuffPost Thousands of children without EHCPs by government deadline - Schools Week Faith school ordered to address ‘significant’ failings in admissions appeals - Schools Week Call for new Oxbridge colleges for disadvantaged students - BBC Let's make every child a master of maths - Pearson How are you finding the new GCSEs? Share your experiences - Guardian Suicides at record level among UK students - The Conversation Founding new Oxbridge colleges 'could help disadvantaged sixth-formers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools focus on university, say young Scots - Times Educational Supplement | TES New report calls on universities to take radical steps to make higher education accessible for all - HEPI Re-finding and re-defining the community of scholars to enhance leadership in universities - Wonkhe Row over funding of campus cops to raise attainment - Herald Scotland Holyrood inquiry to examine school leavers' pathways - Herald Scotland Boarding school teacher was ‘infatuated’ and caught with girl in lay-by - The Sun Cambridge students demand change of approach to sexual misconduct cases - Guardian Oxford and Cambridge universities should set up new colleges to boost number of disadvantaged students, report suggests - Independent Jojo Moyes steps in to save Quick Reads after literacy project loses funding - Guardian White working-class boys in England 'need more help' to go to university - Guardian Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: a manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation - FE News Cambridge University students demand new sex assault rules - Times Oxbridge urged to expand by creating new colleges for the poorest students - Times Personalised essays to stamp out university plagiarism - Times Scotland: Fund for poor pupils spent on school police presence in North Ayrshire - Times Oxford lefties think Amal Clooney is the bee's knees | Stephen Glover - Mail