News archive for 12th November 2018

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Why kids need to know their AERs from their elbow - The Sun Academy schools paying at least 125 'fatcat' managers more than £150,000 a year - Mirror Alun Cairns calls on Welsh schools to sign up to new UK aid backed programme to connect schools with African, Asian and Middle Eastern classrooms - GOV.UK Further education and skills statistics - Ofsted Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2018 to August 2019 - Ofsted Mental health and behaviour in schools - DfE Bullying in England: April 2013 to March 2018 - DfE Early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers - DfE Holiday Activities and Food: 2018 programme - DfE Asbestos management assurance process (AMAP) user guide - DfE Apprenticeships at WorldSkills UK Live – 15 to 17 November - Education & Skills Funding Agency Three powerful steps to deeper understanding and better recall. Specify; check; apply. - Headguruteacher School isolation rooms: 'It was like I didn't exist' - BBC Schools should not attempt to diagnose children with mental health disorders,  Government adviser says - Telegraph Headteachers blame funding cuts as fewer children say schools deal with bullying effectively - Independent University lecturer confronted with empty hall after none of her 400 students turns up - Telegraph Universities are booming, but watch out for the bust - Telegraph The students I taught were reactionary, not revolutionary | Letters - Guardian 'Hundreds of pupils spend week in school isolation booths' - BBC 'Controversial ideas' journal where academics can publish under pseudonyms for fear of backlash - Telegraph European nursery chain LPCR buys Head Start group - Nursery World Hundreds of children spent whole school week in isolation booths, data finds - Independent Youth Select Committee launches report calling on Government to take action on ‘unequal’ work experience opportunities - UK Parliament Guess the misconception - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring What teachers tapped this week #59 – 12th November 2018 - Teacher Tapp Children with autism thrive in mainstream pre-schools - UKEdChat Students from poor backgrounds hardest hit by fees shakes-up - Universities UK - Mail On Anti-Bullying Week, let’s come together and choose respect - PoliticsHome Primary Futures is delighted to announce partnership with First News - Education and Employers Bullying: A review of the evidence - EPI Oxford’s Stormzy snub is not the only thing wrong with the university | Lucas Bertholdi-Saad - Guardian DfE re-opens asbestos survey after thousands of schools fail to respond - Schools Week Advance HE responds to the Gender Equality Taskforce Action Plan - Advance HE Home Office announces £18m for youth projects to tackle serious violence - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Brexit: Let 7k college staff from EU stay, says AoC - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anti-bullying week: How odd were your socks? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Key stage 2 national curriculum test review outcomes: 2018 - NAHT Belfast teachers take strike action - NASUWT How much screen time is too much screen time? It’s time to reignite our children’s passion for reading… - Primary Times Email protocol for schools - Teacher Toolkit How we reduced LGBTQ+ bullying in our school - Ambition School Leadership Tackling teacher workload: should we ditch the data? - NFER The ‘unbundling’ of the university experience – a shot across the bows - HEPI Struggles surrounding prison radicalisation research - BERA 'Snowflake' student union president who threatened to paint over war mural returns to work - Mail Poorer children priced out of learning instruments but school music programmes benefit the wider community - The Conversation Ministers ‘considering’ demand for changes to outstanding school inspection exemption - Schools Week Apprenticeships at @WorldSkillsUK Live – 15 to 17 November - FE News We might be close to a deal, but we still have no idea what Brexit means for education - HuffPost Untangling the tuition fee knot - BBC More than half of nurseries put up their fees last year - Nursery World Collegiality is vital for teacher retention - Times Educational Supplement | TES Zero tolerance schools excluding self-harming girls for carrying knives - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Principals who fail deserve compassion and dignity' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five tips for teaching comprehension - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leading head John Tomsett spared teaching ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills UK LIVE 2018: What you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES 24 slides set out Ofsted's new inspection regime - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'On teacher workload, Ofsted could make a big difference' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Looked-after pupils waiting 3 months for school places - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should give teenagers a lie in to protect their mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands benefit from Glasgow’s free summer meals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of bullied pupils unhappy with school response - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boy who saved mother backs school first aid call - Times Educational Supplement | TES Knife crime and schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES No ban for leading head John Tomsett - Schools Week Kids Allowed in pole postion - Nursery World Wales: Kirsty Williams announces single biggest investment in support for teachers - Welsh Government Scotland: LGBTI education has come far since I was frogmarched out of school - Scotsman Second consecutive ‘inadequate’ Ofsted inspection for previously grade two college - FE Week Pupils are losing faith in their schools’ response to bullying, survey shows - Schools Week Movers and shakers: Edition 260 - FE Week The three actions we must take to bolster engineering apprenticeships - FE News BBC presenter is to lead campaign to end state funding of religious schools - Mail Independent Schools Inspectorate raises fees after two-year loss - Schools Week Scotland: Boy who helped save mother’s life backs first aid in schools campaign - Scotsman Need to know: Knife crime and schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Looked-after pupils waiting 3 months for school places - Times Educational Supplement | TES Another hole in the regulatory bucket - Wonkhe How to read Sam Gyimah’s interview at Wonkfest18 - Wonkhe Raspberry Pi helps set up a new National Centre for Computing Education - Cambridge Network Topping up £6.5k fees and how to (re)build a funding council - Wonkhe 8 tips for talking about sex and relationships - Teacher Toolkit Tom talks to Sir Gerry Berragan, and Graham Hasting-Evans, about End-Point Assessment - FE News Online progs vs trads debate ‘too polarised’, warns Ofsted research chief - Schools Week Hertfordshire school's drill dance from the 1800s - BBC Pseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articles - BBC Gangs plant knives in bags to get pupils expelled - Times Why I sent my son to board aged 8 - Times Ireland: Universities to lose funding for not promoting more women - Times Ireland: Three in four LGBT pupils live in fear of bullying - Times £600m underspend as parents shun Tax-Free Childcare - Nursery World Rise in number of childminders without qualifications - Nursery World In Focus: 30 hours - the hidden cost - Nursery World