News archive for 15th November 2018

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Teachers could face criminal charges for failing to report forced marriage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis of DfE academy system figures reveals wide variations between England's eight regions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents are fined £240 for taking their children to Turkey during school term - Mail Minister attends UK’s largest interactive skills event to inspire next generation - DfE Geoff Barton: More and more schools are battling grinding pupil poverty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anne Milton: 3m apprenticeships target not abandoned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Glasgow School of Art chair says building management 'exemplary' - Guardian Going back to the 80s with sex education | Letters - Guardian Schools are putting parents under pressure to home school pupils who they want to expel, report finds - Telegraph Minister attends UK’s largest interactive skills event to inspire next generation - FE News Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE School organisation - DfE Teachers' pension scheme payments: 2018 to 2019 - DfE Statistics at DfE - DfE Bill Watkin: We need to prepare for the surge of sixth formers - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA: current notices of concern - Education & Skills Funding Agency Voluntary-aided schools: capital funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency Why the teacher recruitment crisis is a global issue - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted inspection framework: the OTHER major policy scrap in Whitehall - Times Educational Supplement | TES School bans designer coats to stop ‘poverty shaming’ - Independent Academies financial management and governance reviews - Education & Skills Funding Agency Special educational needs and disabilities roundtable discussion - UK Parliament Leeds Beckett academics scoop four British Academy research grants - Leeds Beckett University Spaced practice for skill learning - Learning Scientists Working with parents - UKEdChat Minister accuses schools of fiddling figures to balance budgets - Times Educational Supplement | TES Action research in the classroom: Applying spacing and retrieval practice - BERA Hopes and fears: The development of a new curriculum in Wales - BERA AELP consults on proposals to avoid an EPA ‘car crash’ - AELP Now is the time for employers to support schools on careers guidance - ERSA Make democratic events compulsory at school to improve political engagement, research concludes - IOE London Blog Growth in demand for skills in the British economy is slowing, survey shows - IOE London Blog One in 10 home-schooled children 'known to social services' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UCU calls on employers to pay settlement fee for EU staff - UCU British public proud of the UK's Universities, new poll reveals - Universities UK Black students who have one black teacher are more likely to go to college - UKEdChat Starting early – the importance of career-related learning in primary school - Education and Employers Building the supply of evidence – 3 lessons from the EEF’s first 7 years - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF British Council launches UK-East Asia TNE advisory - PIE News Asperger's student slams school after he was 'told to "man up" when his father died of cancer' then expelled when he criticised staff on Facebook - Mail Finding time to innovate - Teacher Toolkit Mission possible? In search of service - Wonkhe UK Education PLC simply cannot complete in a Global Marketplace. - Independent Head Anti-Bullying Week marked in Parliament by Cambridge MP leading debate - Cambridge Network Parents' reading project aims to boost three-year-olds' language - Nursery World Parents' reading project aims to boost three-year-old's language - Nursery World WCAT broke funding rules a year before its collapse, DfE review finds - Schools Week Let's call time out on sport stars as role models - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE told scandal-hit WCAT to pool cash from its schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour accuse government of ‘slipping out’ damning Ofsted report during Brexit announcements - FE Week Scotland: school meals flown in from thousands of miles away - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE wants new VA school bidders to own their own site - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK's private/state school wealth gap may be 'biggest in the world' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Decline in music ‘will hit culture and economy’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Expensive designer coats ban at Merseyside school - BBC Glowing Ofsted report for first national college to be inspected - FE Week How to develop good communication between MAT trustees and local academy committees - Schools Week Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund - Nursery World Six steps to support students through Oxbridge interviews - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rick Astley sings with Nottingham schoolchildren - BBC Stephen Petty: The benefits of having vetted adults learning in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES A date with Steve Bannon: how can the Oxford Union have sunk so low? | Fred Dimbleby - Guardian WorldSkills UK Live 2018: Skills minister kicks off ‘bigger and better’ show - FE Week Scotland: Sleep deprivation, car crashes and mental harm: welcome to school psychology - Herald Scotland DfE ‘minded to terminate’ funding of four academies - Schools Week Doctoral dilemma: should I self-fund my PhD? - Guardian Five colleges slapped with financial warnings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five troubled colleges handed DfE warnings over ‘inadequate’ finances - FE Week Scotland: New inquiry into controversial national tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of home-educated children up 27% in a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds aide quits over Brexit deal - Schools Week ESFA terminates levy contract for apprenticeship provider after Ofsted report critical of government departments - FE Week Council chiefs report 27% rise in home educated pupils - Schools Week Financial support for students in higher education in Wales - Student Loans Company Financial support for students in higher education in England - Student Loans Company Financial support for students in higher education in Northern Ireland - Student Loans Company New Apprenticeship Insights Paper calls for urgent review of banking apprenticeship standards - FE News Thinking allowed: teachers must reclaim their moral purpose - IOE London Blog Young people from ethnic minorities most positive about universities - poll - Guardian Teachers are third biggest influence on people's lives - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half a billion shortfall in school SEND funding 'crisis' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for debates to be compulsory for all secondary pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Employer demand for English and maths skills falls - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only one-in-five academy trusts agrees to cut six-figure salaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Walking and talking research impact - Wonkhe Graduate-level skills - Wonkhe Scotland: It’s everyone’s job to protect children from abuse | Brigid Daniel - Scotsman Attention, not Twinkies: how to future-proof a child's education - Financial Times Funding rate set to be slashed by a third for another popular management apprenticeship - FE Week Scotland: Holyrood committee launches inquiry into national testing in schools - Mail Support for special educational needs children faces potential deficit of £536m, councils warn - Independent Britain drops down university global rankings for employability over decade, new report finds - Independent Girl, 10, attempted suicide after ‘months of bullying’ - Times Inner city children’s lungs stunted by diesel pollution - Times Oxford students protest against Steve Bannon invitation - Times The next child sex abuse scandal is waiting in temporary accomodation | Siobhain Mcdonagh - Times Scotland: Third of nursery staff fear violent pupils - Times Scotland: Music lesson discounts hit a dud note in poorer areas - Times Ireland: Ban vending machines and fast food to tackle child obesity - Times Ireland: Locals say no to ‘creeping’ Dublin primary school expansion - Times Teachers third biggest influence on people's lives - survey - Mail Councils face £536m shortfall in Send budgets, says LGA - Guardian British universities fall behind in employability rankings as foreign institutions teach courses in English - Telegraph