News archive for 16th November 2018

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Steph McGovern on a mission to champion vocational education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the head whose brainwave protects pupils across the UK from abuse - Times Educational Supplement | TES The TES Podcast: Social media, off-rolling and premature children - Times Educational Supplement | TES UN warning over UK's hungry school children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of government asbestos funding branded 'appalling' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boys left to fail at school because attempts to help them earn wrath of feminists, says ex-Ucas chief  - Telegraph Work of the Careers & Enterprise Company scrutinised - UK Parliament The 10 secrets to a good apprenticeship - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents warned about social media account asking kids to take 'graphic' selfies - Mirror Ofsted’s equality objectives 2016 to 2020 - Ofsted Get support from your local English education hub - DfE Construction industry to benefit from major skills boost - DfE High needs: allocated place numbers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Register of apprenticeship training agencies - Education & Skills Funding Agency Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Scotland: College lecturers move closer to strike action - Herald Scotland Should we choose between pupils’ happiness and their achievement? - HuffPost The UKEdPodcast – Episode 29 – Wellbeing in the Classroom - UKEdChat Why is maths a big deal? - UKEdChat 10 easy ways to motivate your students - UKEdChat New independent watchdog needed to tackle ‘fake news’ says LSE Commission - London School of Economics | LSE The concept of value continues to be high on senior leader’s agendas in HE - Advance HE Revised youth justice guidelines 'risk poorer outcomes' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Jisc: protecting you - Jisc Chatbots - now is the time - Jisc The Hour of Code 2018 - it's coming! - Computing at School English university given £900k emergency loan by regulator - Guardian Ofsted Watch: Difficult week for FE as providers hit with low grades - FE Week Book review: The pupil premium - Teacher Toolkit In the news 16 November 2018 - UCU Why the end of free movement matters to colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Drawing a line in the sand: Reflective practice using ‘sandboxing’ with HE students - BERA Delays to the Government’s Asbestos Management Assurance Process - National Education Union Preventative approaches to bullying - Ambition School Leadership Autism research undertaken by University of Cumbria could end confusion in criminal justice system - MillionPlus Skills for the future: where next? - Nesta Lack of earmarked Government funding to tackle school asbestos 'appalling' - Mail Why schools are right to ban pupils from wearing designer coats - Guardian Schools forced to collect food for hungry pupils, warns UN adviser - Schools Week Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 16 November - Pearson Should all art students learn to paint and draw? - Guardian Young people urged to have their say on updated anti-bullying guidance - Welsh Government Early monitoring visits find a quarter of apprenticeship providers are ‘insufficient’ - FE Week Scotland: Education secretary remains bullish on P1 national tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES PRUs in the North 'could face closure' after cutbacks - Times Educational Supplement | TES College receptions should feel less like airports - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can we help prematurely born children? - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills: The world at our fingertips - Times Educational Supplement | TES Protests at the deadline for sixth form colleges’ conversion to academies - FE Week Scotland: Bursary scheme helps 100 people change careers to teach Stem subjects - Mail What is behind the spate of resignations of college leaders? - FE Week Sponsors found for last Bright Tribe and ALAT schools - Schools Week More than 130 playgrounds close in two years - Nursery World Welsh civic engagement move spotlights English dilemma - Times Higher Education | THE Race for ‘excellence’ funding damaging science, warns thinktank - Times Higher Education | THE UK degree powers key for Northeastern in NCH deal - Times Higher Education | THE TES FE podcast: Can WorldSkills transform education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Former education boss admits falsifying data on teacher numbers - Mail Ofsted’s focus on new providers should be an extra, not an instead - FE Week Two-thirds of teachers say GCSE flight path starts too early - Times Educational Supplement | TES Data guru Becky Allen leaving UCL Institute of Education - Times Educational Supplement | TES EastEnders star Steve McFadden and children's author Anne-Marie Conway back school's fund to build library - Evening Standard Ofsted’s full inspections plummet by a third - FE Week AELP consulting on proposals to avoid EPA ‘car crash’ - FE Week Scotland: special exam arrangement requests hit 5-year high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disgraced 'superhead' must pay back almost £1.4m to council - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three quarters of colleges rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted - FE Week Curriculum expert Christine Counsell leaving Inspiration Trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bullying has an impact which lasts years. I know - I’ve been a victim | Anita Sethi - Guardian State bill for private special school places up by 40% - Times Educational Supplement | TES New entries in the DfE’s academy leaders rich list - Times Educational Supplement | TES How WorldSkills transformed education in Russia - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: SEND pupils caught in 'vicious circle' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Shadowy training provider given £16.5m remains tight-lipped as questions mount - FE Week UK government urged to halt academic brain drain to tech firms - Guardian The UK's strength in science is because of the EU – not in spite of it | Anthony Forster - Guardian Some MATs look to have been hit hard by the withdrawal of ECDL - FFT Education Datalab Integrated school to use transfer tests - BBC Hefty bills for the government as more academy trusts close - Schools Week Government agency warns tutoring companies they are flouting the law - Schools Week Revealed: The truth behind the 3aaa investigations - FE Week Wonkhe Weekly – E8 University finances, Brexit, sector reputation and Dubai - Wonkhe Revealed: Two thirds of UTCs to hand funding back after overestimating pupil numbers last year - FE Week Schools face cash clawbacks after overpredicting pupil numbers - Schools Week DfE won’t say how many new breakfast clubs it has created - Schools Week The challenge of governance in FE: Are standalone FE colleges the future? - FE News University given £1m bailout from watchdog - BBC Schools admit informally excluding pupils - BBC Progress scores plummet as trusts ditch ECDL - Schools Week Schools force pupils to focus on GCSE curriculum from age of 11 - Times Head teacher in Birkenhead bans designer coats from Moncler and Canada Goose to spare poorer children - Times Durham University drops academic Stephen Pax Leonard over ‘antisemitic’ tweet - Times Scotland: North Lanarkshire education chief admits falsifying teacher numbers to avoid a fine - Times Scotland: We don’t regret decisions on fire safety, says art school - Times