News archive for 13th November 2018

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Improving social mobility could address UK’s engineering skills shortage - FE News Schoolgirls in Nottingham will be given free tampons in bid to beat period poverty - Mail Lancaster University students wear T-shirts with offensive jokes mocking child murders and sexual abuse - Independent Parents pay the price for 30 hours "free" childcare - as nurseries hike fees to cover it - Mirror Schools 'forced to beg for donations despite end of austerity pledge' - Mail Tuition fees: who benefits, who pays? | Letters - Guardian Provider to challenge inspection after Ofsted found learners ‘unaware’ they took out an FE loan - FE Week National Numeracy goes out to talk money and maths with local residents - National Numeracy English primary schoolchildren face times tables tests - Guardian 4 ways to promote kindness in the classroom - Teacher Toolkit Small Yorkshire school helping some of most needy pupils faces axe - Guardian Revealed: ESFA bans another four new providers from taking on apprentices - FE Week Major new research investment set to provide boost for UK’s Creative Industries - GOV.UK School inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Grading vocational and technical assessments - Ofqual Multiplication tables check: assessment framework and development update - NAHT BME attainment: why universities must do more than 'mind the gap' - Universities UK Updated guidance: mental health and behaviour in schools - NAHT The government sets out plans to support underperforming schools - NAHT UCU and Labour call for urgent action on "back-door cuts" to colleges and universities - UCU Under-fire City College Plymouth principal resigns - UCU RSE roadmap launched as survey finds 'inadequate' relationships and sex education training - Voice Why undiagnosed epilepsy could explain why a child struggles at school - Wales Online How can more children get closer to nature? - Primary Times Four ways children say their well-being can be improved - The Conversation Dealing with DDoS - Jisc Can 20 minutes a day of story activities help parents boost their children’s language skills? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF EEF partners with SHINE to improve the home learning environment - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF LAs and MATs should no longer request target setting data from schools - NAHT Latest information and updates from the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) - NAHT Northeastern set to take over New College of the Humanities - Times Higher Education | THE Low-cost tutoring boosted struggling pupils’ maths results - Best Evidence in Brief Review of school-based interventions for children with ADHD - Best Evidence in Brief Does mindfulness training work for young people? - Best Evidence in Brief Reviewing the evidence on career and technical education - Best Evidence in Brief Insufficient sleep in children associated with poor diet, obesity and more screen time - UKEdChat Worrying decline in international opportunities in school as Brexit approaches - British Council Academies: making significant changes or closure by agreement - DfE European bid to compare teaching standards moves forward - Times Higher Education | THE Hampshire play centre to close as 'children too noisy' - BBC 'Schools should have consistent policy on phones' - BBC Tell us: What impact is private tuition having on education? - Guardian Nearly three in ten teachers deliver relationships and sex education classes with no training - FE News New inspection framework: A welcome change - FE News Under-fire City College Plymouth principal resigns - FE News Scotland: ‘Sit up and listen to dedicated Kaimes teachers’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC conference 2018: What you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school children should be taught about what it means to be LGBT+, doctors say - Independent Schools 'begging for donations', says Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could TV's 'School' make a difference to the funding crisis? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Times-tables check ‘an enormous waste of money’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Let's open our eyes to the invisible students' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted now risks spreading itself too thin - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘BME children must experience the great outdoors’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES How safe is hometime at your school? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I understand why home educators feel threatened' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eight college leaders quit in eight weeks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-thirds of secondaries don't offer foreign exchanges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should 'take the lead' on curbing pupils' social media use - Times Educational Supplement | TES Double your money abroad: why the recruitment crisis is a global issue - Times Educational Supplement | TES Under-fire college principal resigns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three in 10 teachers deliver RSE with no training - Times Educational Supplement | TES How World War One changed British universities for ever - HEPI Multiplication check to focus on 'most difficult' times tables - Times Educational Supplement | TES 2019 Festival of Learning award nominations now open - Learning & Work Institute 2019 Festival of Learning award nominations now open - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Free resources for qualitative, arts-based and collaborative research - Advance HE Call for 'social mobility impact assessments' following our 30 hours investigation - Nursery World Education Secretary questioned in Parliament over our 30 hours investigation - Nursery World Childcare schemes cuts 'shameful' say sector experts - Nursery World Kirsty Williams responds to report into Universities’ civic contribution - Welsh Government Seven principles for a fair and relevant assessment system - IOE London Blog Primary school children should be taught terms lesbian, gay and bisexual, claim experts - The Sun Testing times: how can we build a system that will assess what we value? - IOE London Blog Principal who jumped ship before financial failings exposed leaves his new college - FE Week Why coming out as working class was harder than coming out as gay - Guardian UCU and Labour call for urgent action on “back-door cuts” to colleges and universities - FE News Let's close the race and ethnic employment gap: Taking that knowledge and drive into my next role - FE News Pupils will get 6 seconds to complete times tables test questions - Schools Week Scotland: More than 1,000 fewer pupils learning a musical instrument - Herald Scotland Careers advice best in deprived and coastal areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES The only gay female Mexican mechanical engineer in Hereford is opening a university - Guardian What to put in your Ucas personal statement if you don’t have grade 6 flute - Guardian 'I do my school work from my hospital bed' - BBC DfE finally takes action against failing private school - Schools Week Scotland: Our world-beating universities lead the way in entrepreneurship - Scotsman If spending on poor pupils seems lavish, it’s a drop in the bucket compared with cuts | Fiona Millar - Guardian Watching the (graduate) detectives - Wonkhe 4.00pm: Education sector representatives give evidence to the Committee - Lords Select Committee It’s time for a single tertiary system - Wonkhe Leader comment: Scotland mustn’t risk ‘lost generation’ of musicians - Scotsman Don’t dump dyslexics like me in the unemployable bin – make use of our unique skills! - FE News Exams ‘useless’ for computer science, say experts - Schools Week Slashing uni tuition fees would ‘hit the poorest student hardest’ and benefit those from mid high-income families - The Sun Government fails to answer immediate challenge of resourcing skilled cyber security workers - FE News 'Tinkering' children make robots, planes and catapults - BBC Lecture on marking could do better for attendance - Times Tuition fee cut ‘will hurt poor students’ - Times AC Grayling’s arts college in merger - Times Scotland: Entrenched sexism ‘prevents girls pursuing science careers’ - Times Scotland: Art school held ‘bacon roll’ tours despite the risk of fire - Times Ireland: Female-only professorships are necessary, says minister - Times