News archive for 17th May 2018

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Delays to compulsory sex education looking more likely - Schools Week Drop in apprenticeships sparks calls for reform of levy-based system - City AM Number of parents asking for their summer-born children to start school a year late doubles in a year - Mail Teacher vacancy website trial to start ‘in the next month or so’ - Schools Week More support for disadvantaged apprentices is needed - FE Week School delay does not help summer-born, study shows - BBC Daily roundup 17 May: Business advice, internet, and empowering girl - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Keeping children safe in education: proposed revisions - GOV.UK Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges - DfE Apprenticeship and levy statistics: May 2018 - DfE 16 to 18 accountability headline measures - DfE Strengthened guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding - DfE Exploring funding for apprentices with additional needs - DfE ESFA switches from intervention to prevention - FE Week Invitation to join committees at the Office for Students - Office for Students ESFA e-bulletin: 17 May 2018 (issue 220) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Post 16: basic maths premium pilot - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advice: funding regulations for post-16 provision - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ensuring LGBT+ representation in apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency Department for Education Areas of Research Interest - DfE Summer-born children: school admission - DfE Daily roundup 17 May: Business advice, internet, and empowering girls - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government announces apprenticeship bursaries for care leavers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now More funding available for the OTLA programme in technical skills - Education & Training Foundation How to improve staff meetings to reduce workload - Teacher Toolkit 10 ways to help a colleague survive and thrive - Teacher Toolkit Grade inflation: a clear and present danger - Wonkhe Between the lines: the first UK HE car parking ranking - Wonkhe NEU comment on DfE guidance for tackling sexual harassment and violence in schools - National Education Union Manifesto idea #10: Graeme Atherton - HEPI UCU and Sandwell College agree sector-leading pay deal - UCU School funding still in crisis: regional school summits - NAHT Keeping children safe in education - DfE Learning at Work Week – why teachers should skip school - Edge Foundation Mental health: Coping with stress - UKEdChat English UK celebrates 14% rise in ELT students in 2017 - PIE News Assessment without Levels: Using CEM data - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring 'Sex dungeon' head could have been caught sooner - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools told to protect pupils from 'county lines' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Deaf pupils need £50m more than grammar schools do' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Let's not lose our bottle on apprenticeships' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Pupils, it's not your grades we will remember' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools accused of 'Dickensian segregation' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Why we need #DisabilityEd' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extra £500 per student on offer in maths pilot - Times Educational Supplement | TES Care leavers earn £1,000 apprenticeship bursary - FE Week Late-starting summer-born pupils don’t get better phonics scores - Schools Week Nigerian students 'tied to cross and whipped' for being late - BBC Manifesto idea #9: Mike Nicholson - HEPI DfE sets up ‘online safety working group’ to advise schools - Schools Week Disgraced headteacher who used funds to build a "sex dungeon" - Mirror Struggling with revision? Here's how to prepare for exams more efficiently - Guardian .@ESFAgov ‏to Double Apprenticeship Funding Bands - FE News Deaf-specialist teachers are a lifeline – the state must not cut them | Josh Salisbury - Guardian Lord Agnew’s latest cash-saving scheme: Stop colour photocopying - Schools Week We need to change how maths is taught in schools - Financial Times Private school headteacher sets up fairground in the playground for stressed pupils - Evening Standard Government announces apprenticeship bursaries for care leavers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now “It’s going to affect your life”: A 16-year-old GCSE student on the new, harder exams - New Statesman Chances of success at Key Stage 4, part two - FFT Education Datalab ‘Sector-leading’ 6% pay deal agreed at Sandwell College - FE Week Private school headteacher sets up fairground in the playground for stressed pupils - Evening Standard Martin Hottass joins @CityGuildsGroup to grow City & Guilds Institutes of Advanced Technology network - FE News How to improve staff meetings to reduce workload - Teacher Toolkit 10 ways to help a colleague survive and thrive - Teacher Toolkit Nursery World Awards 2018: deadline 25 May - Nursery World Drop in UK apprenticeships draws calls for reform - Financial Times Pupils find spellchecker 'cheat' in literacy test in Scotland - BBC Sats: Teachers react to ‘nightmare’ maths paper - Times Educational Supplement | TES Milton plays down 3m apprenticeships target - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sharp rise in term time unauthorised holidays - Times Educational Supplement | TES Marking outdoors: 'High risk, but big rewards...' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary and secondary teamwork lifts results by 20% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huge increase in summer-born pupils delaying school - Times Educational Supplement | TES New mental health qualification for school pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship starts continue to plummet - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extra £500 per learner through maths teaching pilot - FE Week Postcode lottery of delayed summer-born admissions continues - Schools Week What are SATs, why don't we have them in Wales and what's different about our National Tests? - Wales Online Careers and Enterprise Company begs ‘friends’ for positive tweets following criticism from MPs - Schools Week Stress and serious anxiety: how the new GCSE is affecting mental health - Guardian Apprenticeship and levy statistics: May 2018 - Sector Response - FE News Apprenticeship starts show biggest drop in six months - FE Week Skills shortage costing UK STEM sector £1.5bn a year - FE News Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term 2017 - GOV.UK Apprenticeship and levy statistics: May 2018 - GOV.UK Funding ‘nightmare’ means 77% of schools cut jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Study links GCSE grades to KS1 results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools to get expert advice from leading business advisers - DfE Impact of school funding crisis is set to deepen - ASCL Apprentices contribute huge productivity impact to business - FE News Qualified Scottish students 'turned away' from top university - Herald Scotland Police probe allegations of anti-Semitic abuse at top state school - Herald Scotland USA: In North Carolina, 20,000 skip school as teachers strike movement swells - Guardian Exams: How do the new 9-1 GCSE grades work? - BBC How physics gender gap starts in the classroom - BBC Spy agency summer school is to teach children as young as 14 how to help protect the UK from cyber attacks - Mail Levy under fire as apprenticeship numbers sink again - City AM Scottish success story as charity saves teenagers from a life as gang enforcers - Herald Scotland School business leaders warn of cuts to pupil support and staff numbers - Schools Week Government announces expert business advice for school leaders - Schools Week Free speech is under threat in universities, but it is not just students to blame - Times Apprenticeships have had a bad press but we are turning things around - Times Students go to court over university strikes - Times