News archive for 20th November 2018

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Private schools are now ‘often more diverse than top state schools', top headteachers claim - Mail Bursaries mean private schools 'more diverse' than grammars - Telegraph Bath Spa University to ignore grades and offer £750 bonus to new students - Telegraph Labour would scrap GCSE resits policy, Angela Rayner says - Independent Tes FE Awards 2019: Shortlist unveiled - Times Educational Supplement | TES What the new Ofsted inspection framework will look like in FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES 16 to 19 education: funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Higher and degree apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency FE learners and apprentices survey - DfE National Leaders of Governance for further education: national leaders - DfE Post-16 education: outcomes for disadvantaged students - DfE Higher education expert to review TEF - DfE Further Education Commissioner: annual report 2017 to 2018 - DfE Top college leaders to help strengthen further education sector - DfE Non-association independent schools statistics - Ofsted Non-association independent schools inspections and outcomes in England: August 2018 - Ofsted School inspection update: academic year 2018 to 2019 - Ofsted Why did a student leader feel she had to resign over a tweet? - Independent Labour: we'll end compulsory GCSE maths and English resits - Guardian Christian parent threatens legal action over school's 'gay pride parade' - Guardian Scotland: Teachers closer to industrial action after rejecting pay deal - Mail Student union leader who vowed to 'paint over' First World War mural resigns - Mirror Union calls for government action on disability equality in education - FE News School strikes threat as Scottish teachers reject pay deal - Herald Scotland Scotland: Teachers angered by divisive pay offer-a new deal for teachers is needed - NASUWT Scotland: Kaimes dispute resolved - NASUWT ASCL welcomes Labour pledge to end forced resits - ASCL Would teachers be willing to take on larger classes for more non-contact time? - NFER Union calls for government action on disability equality in education - UCU First wave of strikes in English colleges to begin on 28 November - UCU Rayner: Labour would scrap GCSE English and maths forced resits policy - FE Week Sugar tax revenue helps tackle childhood obesity - GOV.UK Don’t be afraid of live modelling - Teacher Toolkit The ABC of cognitive science - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Pearson’s maths mastery programme, Power Maths, is recommended by the DfE - Pearson Cambridge hosts China-UK tech challenge - PIE News Almost half a million books gifted to primary 1 to 3 pupils for Book Week Scotland - Primary Times Labour further education reforms: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Top colleges reach the final of AoC Beacon Awards - AoC | Association of Colleges Labour further education reforms - FE News Special educational needs and disabilities roundtable discussion - UK Parliament A third of calls to NSPCC concerns about neglected children - Nursery World Scottish teachers reject pay deal put forward by Holyrood - Scotsman Don't force pupils to accept unconditional offers ahead of other university places, school leaders urge - Schools Week Southampton students' union president resigns after vowing to paint over First World War mural - Independent 'We have no option but to ballot for strike action' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Near-unanimous’ rejection of teacher pay deal in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'As the nights draw in, the teaching crisis darkens...' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour vows to scrap GCSE resits policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most teachers 'facing budget cuts and bigger classes' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Majority of teachers willing to strike over pay in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five ways to improve ‘dysfunctional’ SEND system - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE may be offering schools 'pants' deals, minister admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Flakefleet Primary School has just been named the happiest in the UK - HuffPost Scotland: Teacher walkout resolved at Edinburgh’s Kaimes School - Scotsman SEND experts call for ‘national Education Health and Care Plan template’ for pupils - Schools Week 'Mark schemes and study guides imprison students' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Why we don't want our students to be totally compliant' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reforms 'made things worse' for some SEND pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES First college strike dates announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU members at six colleges set for two-day walk out - FE Week Milton: Colleges must show they deserve more funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT and uni chiefs call for reform of unconditional offers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers among most trusted professionals in Britain - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost 1 in 4 private schools fail to meet standards, Ofsted finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES 94% of parents worry over school support for deaf child - Times Educational Supplement | TES Suspended Edinburgh teachers back at work - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Let teachers work abroad to solve retention crisis’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Europe: Educators across the continent have always worked together - IOE London Blog Scotland: Special school closes after damning inspection and financial problems - Herald Scotland Top college leaders to help strengthen FE governance - FE News Anne Milton discusses college and training provider collaboration, subcontracting, and the A-team - FE News First wave of strikes in English colleges to begin on 28 November - FE News Milton tells college leaders to use money ‘wisely’ before asking Treasury for more cash - FE Week Parents fear for their deaf children’s future - Nursery World DfE reveals new national leaders of governance - FE Week FE commissioner annual report: number of colleges put into intervention drops by more than half - FE Week Ofsted: 1 in 10 small private schools still failing on safeguarding - Schools Week Hat-trick of ‘requires improvement’ ratings for retail giant’s apprenticeship training - FE Week Long-term outcomes: How did life turn out for those who took Level 3 BTEC qualifications? - FFT Education Datalab What does the FE college of the future look like? - FE News Scotland: Half a million books gifted to primary pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most teachers 'facing budget cuts and bigger classes' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 94% of parents worry over school support for deaf child - Times Educational Supplement | TES Britain at a crossroads - Teach First Our next chapter - Teach First Teach First launches its five-year strategy with a range of new schemes to boost the number of teachers in schools serving disadvantaged communities - Teach First 10.00am - The Education Committee will hear oral evidence on its special educational needs and disabilities inquiry. - Accountability Hearings From women’s refuge to evangelistic Durham professor of tech - Guardian Don’t make their GP appointments, don’t manage their money - universities’ advice to helicopter parents - Guardian We know the price of beer and a pint of milk. Why not the cost of educating a child? | Laura McInerney - Guardian New international study pilot to open doors for even more Welsh students - Welsh Government Adopted children need help in school to have equal chance - Scotsman Well that escalated quickly! Colleges and combating the rise of fake news - FE News Student loans visualised - Wonkhe Investing in health and wellbeing: a very distinctive practice - Wonkhe Telling stories about humanities and social sciences - Wonkhe How do you know when you're ready to deliver apprenticeship standards? 15 steps! - FE News Write off student loans and reduce non-classroom work to tackle recruitment and retention crisis – heads - Schools Week Councils spent £160m on school transport for children with special needs – survey - Guardian Nine out of 10 parents fear for their deaf child's future amid crisis decimating the SEND system - FE News Britain’s educational crisis revealed: Indifference towards learning and development putting futures at risk - FE News University chiefs want unconditional offers to end - Times ‘Gypos’ row professor was wrongly fired - Times We risk losing an entire generation of children to drugs gangs | Nickie Aiken - Times Scotland: Call for gift ban as teachers’ apples become £200 hampers - Times Scotland: Shortages force teachers to cover unfamiliar classes - Times Ireland: Eleven children went missing from their crèches or minders - Times