News archive for 6th November 2018

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Children 'more likely to be stabbed on way home from school', study suggests - Independent School review – education that’s creaking under the strain of reform - Guardian Slump in school language learning hits Scottish universities - Herald Scotland Philip Hammond warned by heads schools need 10 times budget offer to survive - Mirror Revealing new documentary exposes the troubling truth of life in Britain’s schools - The Sun British Army colonel falsely claimed £100,000 of taxpayers' cash to send his children to £38,000-a-year Marlborough College - Mail Academies annual accounts 2017: 9 things we’ve learned - Schools Week Universities should not protect students from ‘uncomfortable’ views by stopping debates, regulator warns - Independent The Guardian view on academy schools: cracks in the system | Editorial - Guardian Holiday Activities and Food: 2018 programme - DfE Setting up school partnerships - DfE Headteacher boards - DfE School admission appeals data collection 2019: guide - DfE Next phase of multi-million pound college improvement fund launches - DfE Academy trusts: late financial returns 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI): annual Ofsted report letters - Ofsted School Inspection Service (SIS): annual Ofsted report letters - Ofsted College defends appointment of principal who jumped ship before financial failings exposed - FE Week Inspectorates of British schools overseas: annual Ofsted report letters - Ofsted Package of measures unveiled to boost apprenticeships - GOV.UK Failing universities will not be bailed out, higher education regulator says - Independent DfE releases guide to partnerships with universities and private schools - Schools Week Ofsted wants to take part in surprise private school inspections - Times Does a collaborative learning approach work for everyone? - UKEdChat Latest plans revealed to reduce teacher workload - UKEdChat Life beyond the armed forces – fighting the UK skills gap - Education & Training Foundation UK must reverse its “self-defeating” student recruitment course - PIE News English regulator ‘will not bail out’ struggling universities - Times Higher Education | THE UKRI chair promises ‘radical’ approach to tackling harassment - Times Higher Education | THE One in five UK female historians reports sexual harassment - Times Higher Education | THE Rise in academy trusts paying staff over £100k - Times Educational Supplement | TES A teacher’s age is ‘no barrier’ to working - The Educator The 5 wonders of teaching - Teacher Toolkit Aspiring future STEM professionals join dedicated industry-focused Scholars programme - Villiers Park Educational Trust More than intelligence needed for success in life - UKEdChat UCU response to regulator's refusal to bail out universities - UCU City College Plymouth principal slammed in government report on former college's finances - UCU Public meeting to address school funding crisis: Principals demand MPs take action in the absence of a functioning Assembly - NAHT Making data work: reducing workload in schools - NAHT DfE Teachers Working Longer Review - a wasted opportunity - NASUWT Russell Group response to APPG report - Russell Group Murder on the academic express - HEPI Wonkhe Weekly – E7 Fees, bailouts and apps - Wonkhe Erasmus and Horizon after Brexit – call for evidence launched - UK Parliament Pupil stab risk 'peaks on way home from school' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Increase in academy trusts in deficit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: Two Bangor schools to close and new one to be built - BBC Childcare underspend of £600m set to be spent outside early years sector, Labour warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now LSE-led social care research school gets up to £20 million boost - London School of Economics | LSE Uncomfortable ideas part of learning, says regulator - BBC We won't bail out failing universities, says higher education regulator - Guardian Aiden Severs: You can't reduce a child to a spreadsheet number - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools need austerity to end, not little extras - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Shortage subject' helps fake coursework teacher escape ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: surge in children being home-schooled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Daisy Christodoulou: Why I changed my mind about Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE's 'squeamish' sex education plans doomed to fail – women's group - Guardian Sussex University professor who claimed Israelis carried out 9/11 must have emeritus status removed, Jewish group says - Independent Ofsted asking FE staff to share views on provision - Times Educational Supplement | TES 5 reasons the school funding crisis will continue - Times Educational Supplement | TES A decisive moment for Britain’s universities - Financial Times DfE reopens £15m strategic college improvement fund before finalising first round - FE Week Academies that filed financial returns late - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools need at least £4bn more funding, MPs told - Schools Week More than 80 academy trusts named for submitting spending data late - Schools Week Next phase of £15 million Strategic College Improvement Fund (SCIF) launched - FE News Broker offered 3aaa staff £200 for apprentice referrals – but admits it was a ‘bad idea’ - FE Week Natasha Devon: Girls need to see teachers being respected - Times Educational Supplement | TES '12 questions we should ask about KS3 curriculum' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of uni students risk losing course fees due to delays at new regulator - HuffPost Children's screen time has little effect on sleep, says study - BBC £600m underspend on tax-free childcare will be sent back to Treasury - Nursery World Early years training organisation NEyTCO closes - Nursery World Music education 'thrown to the wolves' in the UK - BBC 18,000 children given free meals during summer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chancellor's 'little extras' comment 'enraging people' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New phase of £15m college improvement fund - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted 'needs more access' to private school inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union questions Plymouth principal appointment - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK universities will not be bailed out by taxpayers - Financial Times UCU raise concerns over appointment of principal who jumped ship before financial failings uncovered - FE Week Ofsted demands greater power to check on private school inspectorates - Schools Week Study finds link between air pollution and childhood obesity - Nursery World Tory 'superhead' lauded by David Cameron is struck off over secret second salary totalling £160,000 on top of his £120,000 annual pay - Mail Hammond says schools that don't want 'little extras' cash don't have to take it - Mirror 10:00 am: Committee to question education unions and school and college leaders - Commons Select Committee The four biggest issues with academies, according to Sir David Carter - Schools Week This toxic Brexit hurts universities, linking us to Trump and the rest | Peter Scott - Guardian The academy trusts whose GCSE students keep disappearing - Guardian Who really benefits from retrieval practice - Learning Scientists What is #schoolshaming? - Guardian From happiness 101 to existential despair - Wonkhe Poor children priced out of musical tuition - Times Educational Supplement | TES Offer post-study visa to international students, report urges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual told to minimise fears around tests cheating - Schools Week Who runs our colleges in the North East and what can be done about it? - FE News 'Press reset' to win back overseas students - BBC Wales: Plan to cut overcrowding in Bangor schools set for go-ahead - BBC Labour warns of £600m fall in tax-free childcare - Mail Poor children priced out of learning a musical instrument - Mail Poorer children in UK priced out of learning to play musical instruments, report warns - Independent Tory superhead Liam Nolan struck off over his secret salary - Times Wales: Helen Evans ‘groped fellow teacher at parent evening’ - Times Scotland: ‘Major fire safety flaws’ at Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building - Times Ireland: Two schools forced to remain shut over safety fears - Times Ireland: Activists planning protests as former school is sold at auction - Times