News archive for 24th May 2018

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Damian Hinds insists on 2020 vision for tech education - Financial Times Geoff Barton: 'Teachers, it's time for us to reclaim education' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teenagers convicted of plotting murder at school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges are being held back by unconscious prejudice and a lack of diversity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer students take English and humanities subjects at A-level, figures reveal - Independent Mother's fury after her altar boy son, 14, is sent home from school over haircut he got to be smart for church - Mail Government publishes details of pre-key stage standards for SEND pupils - Schools Week Parents opt for musical instrument charging to save strings in West Lothian - Scotsman Oxford, elitism and how to really tackle diversity | Letters - Guardian Entries for GCSEs, AS and A levels in Wales have plummeted and this is why - Wales Online Social mobility APPG: The final session - Sutton Trust New ESOL local partnerships project - Learning & Work Institute What is on our bookshelves? - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Why generation Z are opting for apprenticeship schemes over a degree - ERSA IOE academics named British Science Association ‘Section Presidents’ - IOE London Blog The consultation dilemma: How to get it right - CYPN | Children & Young People Now SEN reforms: Sharp increase in number of children refused support - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 24 May: Troubled Families, live-streaming, and forced marriage - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The apprenticeship levy one year on - Collab Group Comment on NAO’s report on Ofsted’s inspection of schools - National Education Union Manifesto idea #20: Sophie Heaton - HEPI Complete NGA’s annual school governance survey 2018 - NAHT Teachers to strike at Flintshire School - NASUWT NASUWT comments on National Audit Office report into Ofsted finances - NASUWT 0 Exam entries show continued pressure on creative arts - ASCL Postgraduate LEO – 2018 edition - Wonkhe How Oxbridge is different - Wonkhe The University Show – Season 1 Episode 9 – The civic university - Wonkhe Why study STEM? And how science can be a humanity - Wonkhe All new dumbest university rankings 2018 - Wonkhe Some ‘outstanding’ schools may not be ‘good’ – Ofsted - The Educator 4 essential quick-reads for NQTs - Teacher Toolkit DfE releases 26 more private school warning notices - Schools Week Tens of thousands of pupils in rural areas 'denied free school transport' - Guardian New-style exams may distort A-level and GCSE results - Ofqual - Guardian More than 20,000 rural pupils no longer allowed free school transport as cash-strapped councils struggle - Independent Manifesto idea #19: Pete Mercer - HEPI London nurseries to receive air quality audits to combat pollution - Nursery World Damian Hinds refuses permanent secretary’s request to delay T-levels - FE Week Tragic death of lad, 4, who starved clinging to mum’s undiscovered dead body sparks new rule in all UK schools - The Sun Teenage law student admits chanting 'f*** the blacks!' at university halls of residence - Mirror Ofsted admits some 'outstanding schools aren't that good' - BBC How to revise like a University Challenge winner - Guardian Children with autism are slipping through the cracks of our education system - HuffPost School kids slip up on bizarre banana question in science exam - Mirror What is Ofsted? How do the school inspection reports work and what do the ratings mean? - The Sun 'Outstanding' schools may be coasting towards mediocrity after years without inspection - Telegraph AS level entries fall by 60 per cent - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Variation' expected in exam results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher posted photos on site used by paedophiles - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Ofsted's time is over. We need a new watchdog' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Maths should be split in two, says Lord Baker - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds rejects T-level delay - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Far too many children are victims of academisation' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five ways to celebrate diversity in the classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'What I've learned from this year's GCSE' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Air pollution worse inside London classrooms than outside, study finds - Guardian Schools Week is changing: we’re going digital first - Schools Week Free school transport cut for 20,000 rural pupils in three years - Schools Week Law student admits chanting we hate the blacks to another student in Nottingham Trent University halls - Independent Hundreds of schools have not been inspected by Ofsted for 10 years, figures show - Independent AS entries fall by 60 per cent - Schools Week London college students taught how to stay away from gangs - Evening Standard Art & Design GCSE entries stay strong in face of EBacc - Schools Week Number of pupils with statements or EHCPs continues to rise - Schools Week English teacher banned from classroom - Mirror Entries for GCSE, AS and A level: summer 2018 exam series - Ofqual Statistics and analysis on statements of special educational needs (SEN) and education, health and care (EHC) plans in England - DfE Level 2 and 3 attainment by young people aged 19 in 2017 - DfE Graduate outcomes (LEO): postgraduate outcomes in 2015 to 2016 - DfE Text of Early Day Motion re teachers' pay - Parliament I’m against private education but the local Steiner school looks the best option for my son. - Guardian Help the Government to design a new training offer for adults - Unionlearn ASCL comment on NAO report on Ofsted - ASCL Ofsted 'needs a plan' to stop losing inspectors to MATs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Let us routinely inspect 'outstanding' schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boys twice as likely as girls to claim to be a maths 'natural' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Schools should teach dangers of livestreaming' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted fails on statutory targets for inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxbridge students work harder, are more satisfied and get better value for money than other students but have less creative and original teaching - HEPI How different is Oxbridge? - HEPI Kirsty Williams sets five new tests at Wales’s first social mobility summit - Welsh Government Leader comment: Testing P1 pupils must be stopped if it is ‘abuse’ - Scotsman 'Schools should teach dangers of livestreaming' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted admits some 'outstanding schools aren't that good' - BBC 'Relax A-level grades for some medical students' - BBC Free school transport lost for 20,000 rural pupils - BBC Disadvantaged students with lower grades perform just as well in medical degrees - Independent Hundreds of schools have had no Ofsted inspection for a decade – report - Guardian Ofsted wants to scrap inspection exemption for ‘outstanding’ schools - Schools Week 8 per cent of free schools not inspected on time, and 5 other interesting findings from the NAO report on Ofsted - Schools Week National Audit Office: Ofsted faces ‘significant challenges’ - Schools Week Hundreds of schools have not been inspected by Ofsted for 10 years, figures show - Independent Row as pupil poverty cash 'earmarked for swimming' - Herald Scotland Voice comments on NAO’s Ofsted report - Voice National Audit Office: Ofsted faces ‘significant challenges’ - Schools Week 8 per cent of free schools not inspected on time, and 5 other interesting findings from the NAO report on Ofsted - Schools Week Ofsted wants to scrap inspection exemption for ‘outstanding’ schools - Schools Week Top universities ‘resting on laurels’ - Times Oxford sorry after tweet says Lammy is bitter - Times Schools rated outstanding not inspected for a decade - Times Hundreds more inmates may be freed for work experience - Times Oxford and inequalities in British society - Times Scotland: Private pupils classed as deprived for university - Times Scotland: Tests for five-year-olds will change, as many struggle - Times