News archive for 1st November 2018

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Scotland's tax gap risks paralysing schools, SNP warned - Herald Scotland New Industrial Strategy Council meets as membership announced - GOV.UK Approved free school application forms: wave 11 - DfE Approved free school application forms: wave 12 - DfE Teacher subject specialism training (TSST) courses - DfE Publication of new handbook - Ofqual Get financial advice for schools - DfE Aspire Achieve Advance 3aaa apprenticeship training provider termination of contracts - Education & Skills Funding Agency Register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Publication of report on value for money in higher education - UK Parliament Statistics: childcare and early years - DfE Open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs - DfE Scotland: Anger over ‘misleading’ letter to teachers on pay deal - Herald Scotland No grade inflation in Cambridge Pre-U | Letters - Guardian Wales: Teacher sexually assaulted colleague, panel hears - BBC Let's change how we assess girls in Stem - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Row erupts between Edinburgh Council and union after teachers refuse to supervise ‘violent’ pupils - HuffPost 'Hologram' lecturers to teach students at Imperial College London - BBC DfE to ‘test appetite’ for music as facilitating subject - Times Educational Supplement | TES Love Island’s Dr Alex to promote WorldSkills UK Live - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Manchester staff vote for strike action over pensions raid - FE News Scotland: Union hits out at SNP’s ‘duplicitous’ pay letter - Times Educational Supplement | TES ISC statement outlining schools' duties under money laundering legislation - Independent Schools Council | ISC Teachers’ pay grant allocations for 2018/19 for England announced - NAHT UCU response to reports of universities' financial difficulties - UCU Axing tuition fees would help richest students 'at least twice as much' as poorest, analysis warns - PoliticsHome Growing English deficits trigger sustainability fears - Times Higher Education | THE Admissions staff told to focus on duration of deprivation - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities under pressure to pay ‘living wage’ - Times Higher Education | THE UKEd magazine – Issue 52 - UKEdChat Stemming the flow of teachers leaving the profession - UKEdChat What does the budget mean for FE? - FE Week Scotland: Pupil has to bike to three schools to access classes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our students deserve well-paid teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES School funding ‘more targeted towards poor pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five ways leaders can help their teachers progress - Times Educational Supplement | TES What we have learned from our RCT - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Scaling education interventions – what are the challenges? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF New EEF trial: low-cost tutoring can boost struggling pupils’ maths results by +3 months - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Student of the Year 2018 - Finalists announced - AoC | Association of Colleges Understanding sample sizes and the word “significant” - Learning Scientists Historical skew towards the rich in education spending finally at an end - Nuffield Foundation PM says online bullying of teachers is ‘an issue we need to look at’ - Public Technology When good is not good enough - Teacher Toolkit Pupils must be exposed to gender-fluid theatre - Times Educational Supplement | TES What’s the point of costly foreign school trips? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Aspire Achieve Advance 3aaa apprenticeship training provider termination taskforce - FE News Cut heads' power to expel, urges ex-education secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Automotive apprentice training revamped with new standards - FE News Would a university really be allowed to go bust? - BBC TV campaign aims to raise profile of Scottish FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four reasons middle leaders put off a move to SLT - Times Educational Supplement | TES I never gave up, says school cleaner who prompted back-pay case - BBC Ofsted slams private sector giant BPP for being unaware of the ‘slow progress’ apprentices make - FE Week Does the chancellor genuinely believe schools have enough money? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: How do you make headteacher jobs more attractive? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds: 'I am conscious of budgeting challenges for schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Statistics on the characteristics of early years providers in England - DfE Parents are contributing money, pens, even loo roll to their kids' hard up schools - HuffPost Public schools ‘being used to launder dirty money’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES We’re turning our Year 1 pupils off school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: 10 million dollar donation made to support St Andrew´s University - Mail New code to support rural schools comes into force - Welsh Government Principal steps down at college group to ‘expedite’ government bailout - FE Week Scotland: Teachers in walk out row after attacks in classroom - Express Historical skew towards the rich in education spending finally at an end - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Why is the UK so far behind in tertiary education enrolment? - HEPI UKEdMag: ‘Teaching’ technology - UKEdChat Universities’ role in attracting foreign direct investment - Wonkhe Open access monographs: perspectives from university presses - Wonkhe Wonkfest preview: mental health, morale and wellbeing - Wonkhe School funding ‘more targeted towards poor pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 40% of parents 'asked to donate to schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New funding puts UK at the forefront of cutting edge quantum technologies - GOV.UK EAL parents 'can't engage with school life' - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must safeguard end-point assessment integrity and independence - FE News Parents asked to pay for books and to attend events - BBC UK parents regularly give money to offset school funding deficits - Guardian More money now spent on poorer pupils than better-off, says IFS - Guardian Education spending now 'skewed' to poor following 'remarkable shift' - BBC Poorer children now have more spent on their education than middle-class families, IFS report says - Independent Education funding gap between rich and poor has ‘vanished’, says the IFS - Schools Week Scotland: Glasgow School of Art contractor had office in ‘unsafe’ site - Times Scotland: University’s pro-life ban is repealed - Times Ireland: Urgent repairs needed at 17 schools before reopening - Times Ireland: New multi-faith secondaries offer places to 3,000 pupils - Times Ireland: Schools ‘suffering as Stormont squabbles’ - Times Three universities on the brink of bankruptcy as student numbers plunge - Mail 1 in 5 teenage girls think regularly about self-harming - HuffPost