News archive for 22nd November 2018

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Conflict resolution programme 'improves wellbeing of pupils' - Guardian Inquest into death of ‘bullied’ schoolgirl, 12, who wrote RIP on her foot halted after another parent claims his daughters have been bullied at same school - The Sun Investigation: Are teacher misconduct panels really becoming more lenient? - Schools Week National celebration of engineering held at Westminster Abbey - GOV.UK David Mundell calls on Scottish schools to sign up to UK Aid backed programme - GOV.UK School inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Early years funding benchmarking tool - DfE Education and training statistics for the UK: 2018 - DfE Public sector apprenticeships in England: 2017 to 2018 - DfE Statistics: further education and skills - DfE Statistics: education and training - DfE Widening participation in higher education: 2018 - DfE Statistics: widening participation in higher education - DfE Drive to recruit professionals and PhD graduates into teaching - DfE Pioneering new approach to assessing pupils with complex disabilities to be introduced in schools - DfE What teachers really think of their jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Complaints about post 16 education and training provision funded by ESFA - Education & Skills Funding Agency Pre-16 schools funding: guidance for 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Early years national funding formula: funding rates and guidance - Education & Skills Funding Agency Statistics: further education and skills - Education & Skills Funding Agency Nearly one in five pupils get extra time in exams, watchdog finds - Telegraph The Guardian view on school trips: they should be open to all | Editorial - Guardian Black academics earn thousands less per year than white scholars with same education, report finds - Independent Tots as young as two suffer mental health problems – with 1 in 8 kids at risk, NHS warns - The Sun College staff survey 2018: six things we learned - FE Week The evolution of discipline communities - Advance HE UKES 2018 finds that student engagement levels continue to increase - Advance HE Maths puzzle – how to improve maths skills across the curriculum - UKEdChat Quality of reading materials linked to foreign language ability in young people - Nuffield Foundation Exams do not equip students with critical workplace skills, says new report - Edge Foundation More pupils have special educational needs than you might think - FFT Education Datalab Sheffield Hallam University to roll out £500k ‘learner analytics’ platform - Public Technology Government received too little in student loans sell-off, report finds - UK Parliament How to talk about web filtering in universities - Jisc University of Birmingham UCU members vote to refuse Dubai campus work - UCU New NAHT research shows government needs to move faster on the issues that damage recruitment and retention - NAHT Ireland: Support grows for teachers' stand for dignity at work - NASUWT Why the end of free movement matters to colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Inclusion - Schools NorthEast NHS: 1 in 8 pupils has a mental health disorder - Schools Week Nicola Sturgeon: 10% pay rise for teachers ‘simply not affordable’ - Scotsman Confusion, contradiction and exclusion: The problems of British values and the national curriculum in history teaching - BERA Higher Education Student Finance: Written statement - HCWS1103 - UK Parliament What do schools need to know about assessment? - Schools Week Scotland: FM tells teachers 10% pay rise is 'simply not affordable' - Mail Pro-life students from Scottish university banned from becoming an official club - Herald Scotland Children's bucket list that inspired new Education Secretary - Mail Birmingham University staff to boycott UAE campus after jailing of academic - Guardian Call to protect universities and colleges in Scotland from Brexit - Mail Is streamlining recruitment and training the answer to the end-point assessment dilemma? - FE News Revealed: The ‘scary’ mess left by principal that jumped ship - FE Week 31% of schoolgirls with mental disorder 'have self-harmed or attempted suicide' - Mail Scottish Government imposing austerity on schools - Leonard - Mail New adolescent mental health stats: what teachers need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Why are some children leaving school still unable to read?’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rise in number of pupils with mental health problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Raise compulsory skills participation age, says report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools with poorest pupils will struggle to pay teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for mental health counsellor in every school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Government pay deal 'would put people off headship' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child sex abusers ‘can be respected teachers’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES The temptations of student real estate - Financial Times What teachers really think of their jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers have less time to collaborate and less training - Times Educational Supplement | TES The seven biggest causes of teacher stress - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Stressed and undervalued’ – but (most) teachers still love the job - Times Educational Supplement | TES The five main reasons teachers teach - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don't scrap GCSE resits policy just yet' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We need a national mission on adult basic skills' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils with mental health disorders spend more time online - Times Educational Supplement | TES I bet Lord Agnew a bottle of Liebfraumilch that I can find savings in the DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘It would be a tragedy to lose free movement for teachers in the EU’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should you have a ‘no toilet during lessons’ rule? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Workload fears over new SEND assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly one in five pupils getting 25% extra exam time - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Bullied' girl, 12, inquest halted after phone call from worried parent - Mirror 'It's like tobacco funding health research': should universities take money from fossil fuel? - Guardian New ‘aspects of engagement’ assessment to replace P-scales - Schools Week Public sector apprenticeship target: 1.4 per cent progress so far - FE Week Access arrangements for SEND pupils fall for the first time in 5 years - Schools Week Schools hit with more fines as late GCSE exam entries rise 22% - Schools Week UAE raises prospect of pardoning UK student accused of spying - Financial Times £3,000 for a school trip – you must be joking? - Guardian Education and training statistics for the UK: 2018 - FE News Tory student loans sell-off cost taxpayers billions reveals official report - Mirror Ministers slammed after selling £3.5bn student loan book for just £1.7bn - PoliticsHome How are schools developing the employability skills demanded by employers? - Education and Employers Government got ripped off in student loans sell-off - FE News Commission for Countering Extremism launches call for evidence on extremism in England and Wales - GOV.UK Independent schools: Ofsted inspection fees - DfE Scotland: Raise compulsory skills participation age, says report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for mental health counsellor in every school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools with poorest pupils will struggle to pay teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Government pay deal 'would put people off headship' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child sex abusers ‘can be respected teachers’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Where do student fees really go? Following the pound - HEPI New report calls on universities to tell students where their fees go, as new figures reveal under half of fee income goes on teaching but most of the rest also benefits students - HEPI Why telling students where their fees go is a must - HEPI Winners and losers from the Teachers’ Pay Grant - EPI More pupils have special educational needs than you might think - FFT Education Datalab Business schools help create a culture where the profit justifies the means | Berend van der Kolk - Guardian Nearly half of colleges at risk of collapse in the next decade due to cuts - Mirror Men, boys and educational attainment - Wonkhe The realities of ethnic minority pay - Wonkhe Where does all the money go? - Wonkhe Sale of student loans: lessons to be learned for next time - Wonkhe All schools should have counsellors to address the increase in children with mental health issues - Telegraph Scotland: Landmark pact unites the university sector over Brexit threat - Herald Scotland Scotland: ‘Absurdity of Brexit’ a threat to Scottish universities | Tom Devine - Herald Scotland Spotting the next generation of cyber talent - FE News Scotland: Brexit threat already hitting vital research cash for universities | Andrew Denholm - Herald Scotland Colleges are giving arts and media students 'false hope' of landing glamorous jobs, claims Ofsted chief - Mail Gains from privatisation of student loans criticised - Financial Times £100 million per year: The cost of futureproofing Northern Ireland’s education and training system - FE News EPI: Disadvantaged schools worst-hit by teacher pay rise shortfall - Schools Week 'Less than half' of tuition fees spent on teaching at English universities - Guardian Half of university tuition fees spent on teaching - BBC Less than half of tuition fees income spent on teaching students, report suggests - Independent Student loans sale by government failed to get good deal for taxpayers, MPs say - Independent DfE dishes out £10m to recruit 600 more career changers - Schools Week Scotland: School leaving age should be scrapped in 'lifelong learning revolution' - Mail Jailed British ‘spy’ Matthew Hedges failed by diplomats, says wife - Times Media and arts courses at colleges ‘offer false hope’ - Times Matthew Hedges: Academics shocked by hard line from UAE, a good friend and ally - Times Taxpayer loses out from student loan deal - Times Less than half tuition fee is for teaching - Times Parents of girl abused by boys win payout - Times Lecturers shouldn’t indulge ridiculous sensibilities | Naomi Firsht - Times Scotland: Tutors’ jobs at risk amid revolt over music lesson fees - Times Scottish schools will receive £1bn to turn green - Times Scotland: Letting our students leave at 16 damages economy, says study - Times Voice welcomes new evidence on teacher pay funding gap - Voice Taxpayer was ripped off by student loan book sale, Public Accounts Committee report finds - Telegraph