News archive for 7th November 2018

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Further education initial teacher training bursary: 2018 to 2019 - DfE Mathematics subject knowledge enhancement guide: 2018 to 2019 - DfE Tech experts to provide National Centre for Computing Education - DfE Transparency of academy system leads to greater accountability - DfE Teachers to benefit from £8 million initiative to boost skills ahead of T Levels roll-out - DfE Full-time enrolment of 14- to 16-year-olds in further education and sixth-form colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA post-16: intervention and accountability - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget (AEB) devolution - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 7 November 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teachers from London school fight against academisation plans - Guardian Scotland: 120 teachers contact ministers after Nicola Sturgeon´s job concerns offer - Mail Higher education reform is our priority | Letter from Robert Halfon MP - Guardian Jenni Murray pulls out of Oxford talk after students try to 'no platform' her over 'transphobic' comments - Telegraph Scotland facing Brexit 'brain drain' of research talent - Herald Scotland Assessing English language proficiency: Why and how - SecEd Trust failed to deduct tax from £145k payments to CEO’s company - Schools Week Supporting HEPs during the recruitment of board vacancies - Advance HE How to improve our teaching skills - The Educator Can schools reform performance related pay? - Teacher Toolkit Planning English lessons - Teacher Toolkit 76% of firms lack confidence they can fill highly skilled roles - CBI NI survey - CBI Graduates in demand, but skills must match up with jobs - Universities UK No confidence vote in beleaguered principal at City College Plymouth - UCU Building bridges between UK and African universities - HEPI Building bridges with Africa - Russell Group New Early Career CPD research report - NFER Using technology for teaching independent-living skills to children with cognitive disabilities - BERA Scotland: Union clashes with local authority after teachers’ assault allegations - SecEd SEND funding grants available - SecEd Northern Ireland headteachers demand funding overhaul - SecEd ‘Why Us?’ – Arts and Minds tackles racism and prejudice - SecEd Unions to consult members over Autumn Budget response - SecEd Charity urges Ofsted to focus on wellbeing - SecEd Part-time working could offer solution to the retention crisis - SecEd Young people’s verdict of apprenticeships as “career building” increases by circa 70% - Edge Foundation Teachers to benefit from £8 million initiative to boost skills ahead of T Levels roll-out - Education & Training Foundation Advanced Teacher Status holders to be conferred Chartered Teacher Status - Education & Training Foundation Celebrating great pre-apprenticeship programmes this EU Vocational Skills Week - Learning & Work Institute Special school leaders who failed to report 'sexual assault' on teenage girl are banned from teaching - Independent Technician Commitment has “exceeded everyone’s expectations” says Lord Sainsbury in “One year in” report - Advance HE Future of early help 'under serious threat' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Second parliamentary committee calls for maintenance grants to be reinstated - Sutton Trust Second student removed from Ipswich school where pupil ‘could be as old as 30’ - Independent BCS among 3 firms chosen to run £84m National Centre for Computing Education - Schools Week Tech experts to provide new £84million National Centre for Computing Education - FE News No confidence vote in beleaguered principal at City College Plymouth - FE News DfE won't ban new apprenticeship providers with poor AEB provision found in monitoring visits - FE Week DfE plans National Colleges evaluation to avoid repeating mistakes with Institutes of Technology - FE Week Advanced Teacher Status holders to be conferred Chartered Teacher Status - FE News The academy trusts paying £150k+ salaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Potential teachers need impartial, honest advice' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plan for new Michaela Community free school revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES No confidence vote at City College Plymouth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Beach school: why every teacher should try it - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scheme to get FE staff ready for T levels announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: ‘Stop treating 8-year-olds as criminals’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Ofsted's new framework won't work - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney: ‘I will listen to teachers’ worries’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: School music tuition fees are increasing inequality, MSPs told - Mail Scotland: Scores of worried teachers write to first minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Rising charges for school music creating 'Victorian inequality' - Herald Scotland New guidance lets private primaries 'edit LGBT people out' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three golden rules for supporting autistic pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Stuck schools have rendered Ofsted useless' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hi-tech tracker boosts young children's active play - Nursery World Scotland: 120 teachers write to Nicola Sturgeon after being ‘free to contact her’ over job concerns - Scotsman £8 million initiative to boost skills ahead of T-levels roll-out - FE News Kids Planet buys nursery number 32 - Nursery World Young people’s verdict of apprenticeships as "career building" increases by circa 70% - FE News UK Hydrographic Office receives Highly Commended STEM Inspiration Award - GOV.UK Lord Redesdale: Why the government’s education policies are depriving us of engineers - PoliticsHome Why perfect data tells an imperfect story - Wonkhe Establishing UK HE’s place in the world post-Brexit - Wonkhe Royal Conservatoire principal: Music tuition fees in schools are pushing Scotland over cultural 'cliff edge' - Telegraph Keeping education connected: It's time for colleges, universities and schools to evolve - FE News Change school hours to stop pupils stabbing each other, say medics - Mail Epilepsy: 'I'm not daydreaming Miss, I'm having a seizure' - BBC White students 'feel unable to talk about race and it’s stifling debate’, universities minister warns - Mail Deaf children fall behind at school as staff caseloads soar - FE News Colonel conned army out of £100k in school fees, court martial is told - Times Bodleian reveals bodies in the library - Times Children face greatest threat of knife crime after school - Times Phones ‘not to blame’ for loss of sleep - Times Rowdy Bristol University students get £50 lesson in being better neighbours - Times Safe spaces on campus have ‘gone too far’ - Times Scotland: Second top academic quits university at centre of cronyism row - Times Scotland: Music tutor numbers plummet - Times Ireland: Builder will be pursued to cover school safety costs - Times