News archive for 23rd November 2018

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Tuition fee cut will send universities into crisis, leading vice-Chancellors warn - Telegraph Matthew Hedges: University staff's Dubai campus boycott - BBC £66 million for shared and integrated education in Northern Ireland - GOV.UK Further education and skills statistics - Ofsted Teacher subject specialism training (TSST) courses - DfE British schools overseas: inspection reports for accredited schools - DfE Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE Ofsted was 'brutal' says head who resigned on TV's School - Times Educational Supplement | TES Local authorities questioned on school and college funding - UK Parliament Probe 'finds that year 11 pupil was an adult' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Guilty teachers in shortage subjects escape bans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the $4m academic who revolutionised education research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who pushed boy who called him a ‘bald-headed prick’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 1,000 state schools have no applicants to elite schemes - Guardian Don't neglect curriculum content for pupils with severe learning difficulties - Schools Week Kids should be warned about porn at eight and taught about masturbation at 14, lingerie CEO says - The Sun The TES Podcast: Champagne, teachers and reading - Times Educational Supplement | TES All Welsh college staff set for funded pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Expert accuses the NHS of medicalising bad behaviour after claims one in 18 pre-school children has psychological problems - Mail Early years difficulties may predict academic achievement across primary - UKEdChat Classroom friendships may offset effects of punitive parents - UKEdChat Government 'could bail out top universities if in financial danger' - Guardian West Notts College expected to shed another 75 jobs - FE Week Too many pupils are taught by unqualified teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Matthew Hedges: UAE considering clemency for British academic jailed for spying - HuffPost How to deal with difficult parents - The Educator What are you doing to reclaim your weekend? - Teacher Toolkit School bans Christmas for being ‘too commercial’ with detention for giving gifts - Express Scotland: Parents warned of 'unprecedented' school cuts and redundancies - Herald Scotland Ofsted watch: Private provider rated grade four in first inspection - FE Week Flywire introduces new payment plan in UK - PIE News 2018 UKES report: Key findings (infographic) - Advance HE NASUWT comments on Northern Ireland public sector pay announcement - NASUWT In the news 23 November 2018 - UCU Supporting early-childhood teachers with integrating a humanoid robot to enhance learning - BERA Asylum seeker who posed as 15-year-old schoolboy is deemed an adult - Mail A question of legality – the law surrounding unpaid internships - Sutton Trust Scotland: Parents warned of 'unprecedented' school cuts and redundancies - Herald Scotland Northern MAT highlights cheaper housing to attract southern heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bailing out the universities - Financial Times New York University urged to use UAE links to help jailed UK academic - Guardian Top 20 English state primary schools revealed - Mirror Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2018 - Ofsted Anne Milton addresses Association of Colleges conference - DfE FE Week asks: Should Ofsted judge college leaders on financial management? - FE Week Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 23 November - Pearson Scrooge school bans Christmas for being ‘too commercial’ as pupils beg RE teacher to bring it back - The Sun Cash-strapped college finally appoints permanent principal - FE Week Beware ‘snake oil’ salesman peddling new framework training, warns Ofsted director - Schools Week Pro-life group banned from joining union at Scottish university - Scotsman Petroc comes top in FE Week ’s college league table for 2018 - FE Week Primary children are more emotionally robust than we realise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Desperate mum-of-five to home school kids because bus fees are 'too expensive' - Mirror Sheffield’s first hip-hop poet laureate: 'gone are the days of tradition' - Guardian Local authority childcare funding rates to remain largely unchanged - Nursery World DfE axes childminder funding scheme - Nursery World British student Matthew Hedges jailed for spying could be pardoned - Times Refugee schoolboy is an adult, says Home Office after pupils raise alarm - Times Confusion surrounds Milton’s view on college and private provider collaboration - FE Week Wales: One week left to vote for an amazing teacher - Welsh Government AoC boss accepts Ofsted’s concern over courses with poor job prospects - FE Week FE podcast: End-point assessment concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities leading climate research must stop funding fossil fuels - Guardian First picture of '30-year-old' GCSE pupil in Ipswich school confirmed to be adult - Mirror ‘Inadequate’ primary academy threatened with closure - Schools Week WorldSkills UK Live 2018 - FE Week Secondary school bans Christmas for being 'too commercial' - Mail Mental health: How body image pressure for boys has led to rise in hospital cases - BBC Third ‘requires improvement’ rating in a row for mega college in debt - FE Week Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon says 10% teacher pay rise is 'not affordable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Support staff warn cuts risk vulnerable pupils' welfare - Times Educational Supplement | TES 3aaa paid school fees for its managing director’s child - FE Week College group gives staff a five per cent pay rise, despite a deficit - FE Week UK Parliament: November education newsletter - Parliament Scotland: New school for vulnerable children opened in Renfrewshire - Scotsman DfE urged to act faster on recruitment and retention crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Call to end ‘stark variability’ in school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship assessment ‘car crash’ looms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Over a quarter of graduates have taken on an unpaid internship - Sutton Trust Apprenticeship economics: A new public-private education investment partnership - FE News DfE accused again of special treatment of minister’s trust - Schools Week Big-hitters stripped of special status as their schools struggle - Schools Week Major teaching myth: “Always ask before you tell” - Headguruteacher Universities must tackle the big ethnicity pay gap | Laurence Hopkins - Guardian Voluntary severance at my university has damaged staff morale | Anonymous academic - Guardian Academic freedom “fundamental” after UAE ruling - PIE News Wonkhe Weekly – E9 Loans sell off, fees transparency, two-year degrees, UAE, coddling - Wonkhe The DTC effect – what impact have ESRC Doctoral Training Centres actually had? - Wonkhe Children are not safe’ – secret report reveals extent of failure at Schools Company Trust - Schools Week Teach First sharpens recruitment focus as DfE considers its future - Schools Week Scotland: University principals urged to take tougher political line on Brexit - Herald Scotland Thousands of children as young as two have mental health problems: NHS figures reveal one in 18 pre-schoolers are receiving treatment - Mail Let kids climb trees instead of just doing maths homework, claims Education Secretary - The Sun Cuts to school support staff could leave vulnerable students at risk - FE News Graduates trapped in unpaid internships, study finds - Guardian Scotland: New school for vulnerable children opened in Renfrewshire - Mail One in four who work for MPs and peers in Westminster got job through personal connections, report finds - Independent UAE wants Britain to say student Matthew Hedges was spy - Times Poor graduates ‘held back’ by internships without pay - Times One toddler in 18 suffers a mental health disorder - Times We have a generation of young people blighted by anxiety, depression, phobias, eating disorders and suicidal feelings | Luciana Berger - Times Scotland: Middle East warning for universities - Times Scotland: University of Glasgow students’ union bans pro-lifers from becoming an official club - Times Scotland: Universities Scotland remains neutral on second referendum - Times Scotland: Rise in children suffering from emotional distress - Times Scotland: Strikes loom after teachers told pay demand is too high - Times