News archive for 21st November 2018

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Scotland: Schools to get £1bn upgrade boost - Scotsman Apple set to inspire thousands of young people across the UK for the Year of Engineering - GOV.UK Level 2 study programmes - Ofsted People connected with Ofsted-registered childcare - Ofsted Childminders and childcare providers: register with Ofsted - Ofsted School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) reports - DfE Teachers’, leaders’ and governors’ views on the pay framework - DfE School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) remit letter for 2019 - DfE Evaluation of the regional academy growth fund - DfE Schools urged to work together to continue raising standards - DfE Reviewing inter-subject comparability - Ofqual College students with unrealised potential deserve better - Ofsted Amanda Spielman at the 2018 AoC Annual Conference - Ofsted Parents of girl, six, who was sexually abused by fellow pupils given payout - Guardian ESFA Update: 21 November 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 'Opportunities Through Apprenticeships' project is launched - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - Education & Skills Funding Agency Work of the Careers & Enterprise Company scrutinised - UK Parliament Most teachers don't understand their pay system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt statement on the Matthew Hedges case in UAE - GOV.UK Sugar tax raises £154 million in six months after the Government slapped a 24p-a-litre charge on soft drinks - Mail Further education colleges are giving students 'false hope', Ofsted chief says - Telegraph Colleges exaggerating arts students' career prospects, says Ofsted chief - Guardian The Guardian view on the sentencing of Matthew Hedges: a violation of rights | Editorial - Guardian 7 things we learned from the PAC on academy accounts - Schools Week Spielman opens up on new Ofsted framework - Times Educational Supplement | TES OECD's Schleicher backs T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Political chaos grips us, but teachers can look on the bright side’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE can't say when more mental health funding is coming - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE plan to blacklist academy trustee ‘chancers’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Corbyn praises teachers who buy food for hungry pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Why are your staff better paid than heads?' careers company asked - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only 36% of teachers think their pay helps build a career, new research finds - Schools Week London parent threatens to sue school for trying to 'indoctrinate' son with 'gay pride parade' - Independent Payout over schoolboys' sex assaults on girl, 6 - BBC Christian parents sue London primary school over 'Gay Pride Parade' after son was forced to take part in an event 'that goes against their beliefs' - Mail UK universities urged to review ties with UAE over jailing of academic - Guardian Colleges must do more to help college students reach their potential - FE News Scotland: Pupils taking up music tuition plummets after fees brought in - Herald Scotland Brexit uncertainty and integration issues remain in student support - PIE News Ofsted on the college curriculum: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges AoC conference: 7 takeaway points from the chief inspector’s speech - FE Week The Skills Survey: what are employers looking for? - Nesta Overcoming teacher anxiety - Teacher Toolkit Little things matter: Improving teacher retention in every school - LKMco Ofqual review is 'missed opportunity' on languages - ASCL Get out of your comfort zone with a different presentation style - BERA Shortlists for 2019 TES FE Awards announced - Education & Training Foundation | ETF UCU response to life imprisonment of Durham University student in UAE - UCU Pay dispute ends at London colleges as staff accept "landmark" 5% deal - UCU NAHT responds to the consultation on relationships, sex and health education statutory guidance - NAHT Applications now open for chartered teacher programme - NAHT NASUWT 'utterly condemns' decision on teacher pay - NASUWT UAE sentences British academic to life in prison for spying - Mail Ofqual won’t relax grade boundaries for science and MFL A-levels - Schools Week Matthew Hedges: British academic accused of spying jailed for life in UAE - Guardian Hinds tells review body 2019-20 teacher pay rises must be ‘affordable’ - Schools Week New national schools commissioner pledges ‘transparency and consistency’ - Schools Week 'Opportunities Through Apprenticeships' project is launched to boost access to apprenticeships in disadvantaged areas - FE News Careers and Enterprise Company blasted over £200k conference spend - FE Week Trusts still worried over long-term ‘financial viability’ – despite getting extra cash to expand - Schools Week Funding announced in bid to improve Scottish school buildings - Scotsman Scotland: 'Thank you is enough': parents discourage festive gifts to teachers - Guardian Hinds wants next teacher pay deal to boost recruitment - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We're in the last-chance saloon in education's wild west' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Teaching body CEO ‘sickened’ by racism in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Music tuition charges cause 65% drop in pupil participation, MSPs told - Mail 'Colossal' £500,000 wasted per school, claims minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils spend £166m on taxis for SEND pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister bets champagne that schools are wasting money - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 700 school data breaches in a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual won't make science and MFL A-levels easier - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers and Enterprise Company blasted over £200k conference spend - Schools Week MATs the DfE funded to expand tell of finance fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman: Arts and media courses ‘offer false hope’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES The truth about screen time, tech and young people - Times Educational Supplement | TES London’s biggest college group agrees 5% pay deal - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE 'not good' at arguing for more school funding, official admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Higher education expert Dame Shirley Pearce to review Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) - FE News When Plato met Damian Hinds... - Times Educational Supplement | TES College group boss gives up bonus in ‘landmark’ pay deal - FE Week Attainment gap for summer-born pupils 'persists at age 11' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fat-cat heads are profiteering from academies | Warwick Mansell - Guardian Pay dispute ends at London colleges as staff accept “landmark” 5% deal - FE News New programme for Chairs of College Governing Bodies announced - FE News 'Children need to know anger is a natural emotion' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Storytelling kit helps close gender literacy gap - Nursery World Boys overtake girls in maths by age seven, study of 1.5 million primary school tests finds - Telegraph Matthew Hedges: British student sentenced to life imprisonment in UAE for spying - HuffPost Ignoring teacher pay recommendations was a ‘difficult decision’, says DfE funding boss - Schools Week More than half of university staff want more technology for teaching, finds new survey from Jisc - Jisc Guardian University Award winners: 'There's not much bling in science' - Guardian Minister bets heads a bottle of champagne he can find savings in their schools - Schools Week Funding announced in bid to improve Scottish school buildings - Mail University Awards 2019: entries now open - Guardian Wales: Funding split change to school building programme could save local authorities millions – Kirsty Williams - Welsh Government DfE should re-evaluate their GCSE re-sit policy - FE News Welsh Government announces £8m extra funding so Further Education teachers are paid the same as other teachers - Wales Online Fifty-one hours a week: UK teachers working longer than in most other countries - SecEd Hate crime film resource: Edek - SecEd Report slams lack of ethnic diversity in teaching - SecEd College outlines selection plan - SecEd RE resource project launches - SecEd Take the grind out of school - SecEd At the chalkface: Just ask a teacher - SecEd Diary of an NQT: An honest assessment - SecEd The key to gifted education - SecEd Work experience opportunities too often marked by inequalities - SecEd Urgent need to improve our criminal exploitation response - SecEd Teachers delivering RSE with inadequate training - SecEd Has the internet changed education forever - The Educator 10:00 a.m. The Education Committee scrutinises the work of the Careers & Enterprise Company - Commons Select Committee Attainment gap for summer-born pupils 'persists at age 11' - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 700 school data breaches in a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES 2:30 p.m. - Academy school accounts and performance examined by the Public Accounts Committee - Commons Select Committee Blurring boundaries – practice-informed learning - Wonkhe How to write an engagement strategy - Wonkhe Post-study visa options for international tech graduates - Cambridge Network 'Who let this happen?': students rediscover antisemitism on Auschwitz field trip - Guardian Summer-borns still struggle in year 6, and 3 other findings from primary schools test results analysis - Schools Week Over half of independent schools already share their facilities, now they have to share their staff too? - FE News Threat of worst teaching strikes in Scotland since 1980s - Herald Scotland Teaching union leader calls on members to vote for strike - Guardian Summer-born pupils disadvantaged throughout primary school – study - Guardian Students visit death camps to tackle antisemitism rise - Times Private schools do more for poor than grammars, say heads - Times Legal threat over South Norwood primary school’s pride parade - Times Students shaken by latest apparent suicide at Bristol University - Times Scotland: Strike action looms as teachers vote against ‘final’ 3% pay offer - Times Scotland: Special needs school is forced to close - Times Scotland: Apprentices will help craft Fair Isle’s future - Times