News archive for 9th November 2018

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From Turing to Wilde: Scotland's new LGBTI curriculum - Herald Scotland Rise in disadvantaged students on Glasgow University medical degrees - Herald Scotland Pre-registration advice notes for free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges 2018 - Ofsted Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE School improvement support - DfE School resource management: checklist - DfE School improvement support for the 2018 to 2019 academic year - DfE Consultation on changes to performance rules in GCSE, AS and A level music and dance - Ofqual Government sets out plans to support underperforming schools - DfE Employer guide to apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies financial notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency How to register for an IDAMS account - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency What are you doing to reclaim your weekend? - Teacher Toolkit Who do you think you are? Finding your leadership identity - Advance HE Overwhelming vote of no confidence in City College Plymouth principal - UCU In the news 9 November 2018 - UCU School funding still in crisis: regional school summits - NAHT CEO – what it seems to be, what it isn’t and what it might be - Headteachers' Roundtable Demand for higher skilled roles rise as skills gaps grow - CBI Does policy-making support or restrict advances in higher education technology? - HEPI Ofsted watch: A ‘good’ week for sixth form colleges - FE Week Ofsted watch: A ‘good’ week for sixth form colleges - FE Week Gender pay gap lunch protest at University of Oxford - UCU Pay dispute resolved at Lewisham and Southwark colleges - UCU How to encourage students to ask questions? - The Educator ‘Arbitrary’ visa decisions ‘mortifying’ for UK universities - Times Higher Education | THE 10 things to make staff meetings more productive - UKEdChat Have you forgotten your childhood? - Learning Scientists Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 9 November - Pearson The growing importance of soft skills and the role of technology in developing them - Training Journal The link between exclusions, alternative provision and off-rolling - FFT Education Datalab Martin Lewis launches finance textbook for schools - Financial Times Ofqual consults on changes to reformed music and dance qualifications - Schools Week My kids have started school – and are giving me a lesson in class politics | Emma Brockes - Guardian Scotland wants schools to teach LGBT+ issues in 'world first' - Mail We can’t let poorer pupils be frightened off higher education | Claire Hynes - Guardian Damning Ofsted report finds apprentices went eight months with no training - FE Week Schools to access up to £16,000 if rated as 'requiring improvement' twice - Mail Prison schools show exclusion is not the answer - Times Educational Supplement | TES The pupils being 'off-rolled' - Times Educational Supplement | TES £16k for schools rated ‘requires improvement’ twice - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Workload, MATs and primary curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 9 November - Pearson DFE advice on student teacher workload misses what is learnt by planning lessons - IOE London Blog Beware the teaching Dementors increasing your stress - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Overwhelming’ vote of no confidence in principal who jumped ship before financial failings exposed - FE Week Bobby Seagull: The teacher who wants Britain to love maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES Music pupils lost all marks for short performances - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nursery and school staff win legal payout of £4m from council - Nursery World Changes to Early Learning Goals 'criminal' says early years expert - Nursery World Society needs to decide the kind of education service it is prepared to pay for - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government reveals triggers for new school support programme - Schools Week Embattled college boss Dame Asha declines her £130k payout - FE Week Girls are being denied access to certain sports in PE simply because of their gender - The Conversation How to tame the dragon of AI in education - Schools Week Management apprenticeships double to make up a fifth of all starts on standards - FE Week What to do if your college is running into financial problems - FE Week NCG resolves bitter pay dispute with its London colleges - FE Week Contradictory claims over UTC learner numbers from Baker Dearing Trust - FE Week Questions surround DfE’s ability to ban poor HE apprenticeship providers - FE Week Pay dispute resolved at Lewisham and Southwark colleges - FE News Year 10 numbers dip at UTCs despite claims to the contrary - Schools Week Scotland to embed LGBTI teaching across curriculum - Guardian How to explain… structured discussion - The Learning Spy How World War I changed British universities forever - The Conversation College refuses to explain spending millions on mysterious subcontractor - FE Week Access over £150 million of scholarships for UK students: Free information pack for sixth form teachers & careers advisers - FE News Scottish schools to be first in the world to introduce LBGTI teaching policy - Scotsman Qualifications – what qualifications? Deregulation of qualifications in England - FE News Why is my university forcing me to see colleagues as "customers"? | Anonymous academic - Guardian Hammond’s ‘little extras’ may not go directly to schools - Schools Week Heads question methods of glossy Westminster mag that charges £3,500 for exposure - Schools Week Private school pension pull-out would leave £800m 'hole' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adult learners drop to 20-year low - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers must engage young people with the news - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scripted lessons 'don't allow teachers to excel' - Times Educational Supplement | TES A child in every class bullied on a daily basis, survey suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Falling through the cracks’: thousands of apprenticeships going unregulated - FE Week Children want adults to show more respect for each other ahead of Anti-Bullying Week - Primary Times The benefits of collaborating with Chinese universities - Wonkhe One university and the centenary of remembrance - Wonkhe Under-fire Ofsted plans research to assess impact of school funding cuts - Schools Week Teachers ‘in danger’ as schools step up to tackle knife crime - Schools Week University of Suffolk making bright start in Ipswich - Wonkhe Grant funding doubled for Wales’ most disadvantaged pupils - Welsh Government My very embarrassed prep school head and why I pity any teacher who has to give orgasm lessons to giggling girls (as Labour MP Jess Phillips suggests) - Mail Bullying: Children point finger at adults - BBC One school pupil in every classroom is bullied every single day, survey suggests - Independent Our kids are being watched by creepy tech giants who peddle digital crack cocaine — parents need to step in - The Sun From sexting etiquette to how good sex lasts longer than three minutes, why it’s time to rethink and teach the joy of sex education - The Sun Stormzy says Oxford University turned down his offer to fund two black students so he turned to Cambridge instead - Mail Like it or not: families ban nannies from social media - Times Oxford snubbed Stormzy’s black scholarships - Times Scottish state schools will be world’s first to teach LGBTI issues - Times A child is bullied each day in every classroom in England, shock survey says - Mirror