News archive for 27th November 2018

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Male economics graduates from Bristol receive highest boost to earnings, data reveals - Independent Mum’s fury after daughter, 13, suspended from school and accused of ‘assault’ for throwing Haribo at a teacher - The Sun Early years and childcare statistics - Ofsted Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 4 - Ofsted Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2018 - Ofsted Accelerated degree courses: assessment of impact - DfE Undergraduate degrees: labour market returns - DfE Opportunities for improving quality of marking - Ofqual Academies funded on estimates - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies land and buildings valuation - Education & Skills Funding Agency Local authorities questioned on school and college funding - UK Parliament T Level Funding Consultation Launched - DfE Funding for the delivery of T levels - DfE Future of Educating Greater Manchester hangs in the balance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is a university degree really worth £9,250 a year in tuition fees? - Independent Ofqual looking at alternatives to exam marking - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Music boosts attainment – and transforms communities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we need a new approach to accountability - Times Educational Supplement | TES Member stories: giving students opportunities to work with primary sources - Jisc Nurseries urged to publicise flu vaccine - Nursery World 'Significant number' of examiners unhappy with online standardisation - Schools Week Milton does want collaboration between colleges and private providers, DfE confirms - FE Week Third of teenage pupils have considered self-harm - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities must learn from UAE case | Letters - Guardian Fall in childcare provision 'puts Scottish Government nursery pledge at risk' - Mail Missing the point in graduate pay report | Letter - Guardian Marking consistency varies across subjects, finds Ofqual - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools funding 'near crisis point' due to SEND pressures - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Making UK schools more inclusive places could help reduce bullying and promote well-being - UKEdChat 8 behaviour management basics - UKEdChat Helping youth transition to adulthood - Best Evidence in Brief IPEELL writing intervention finds scale-up challenging - Best Evidence in Brief The impact of web-based coaching on mathematics instruction - Best Evidence in Brief The effects of cooperative learning in middle school on reducing bullying - Best Evidence in Brief Story-telling helps boys close ‘literacy gap’ with girls - Primary Times UCU warns of disastrous plans to cut more jobs at Blackburn College - UCU Boost for Bath College strikers as local MP backs pay campaign - UCU Scotland sees thousands of teacher jobs re-advertised - The Educator 7 ways to promote respect and combat bullying - Teacher Toolkit Latest research and data from Ofqual - NAHT GSA schools top Sunday Times Parent Power tables - GSA MillionPlus comment on IFS graduate earnings report - MillionPlus Nine ways the funding crisis is hitting schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Higher education’s absolute earnings benefit - Wonkhe How to introduce a health and safety apprenticeship to the workplace - Training Journal NAHT secures improvements to KS1 and KS2 teacher assessment guidance - NAHT School funding still in crisis: regional school summits - NAHT Student behaviour, motivation and the potential of attachment-aware schools to redefine the landscape - BERA NEU and Sex Education Forum survey finds significant gaps in sex education in England - National Education Union RIBA launches UK’s first nationwide architecture programme for schoolchildren - Primary Times Call to end unnecessary criminalisation of children in care - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Maths on a tablet helps low-performing pupils, for a while - Best Evidence in Brief Plan S: three-year transition period for hybrid journals - Times Higher Education | THE Poorer UK students ‘study harder’ than richer classmates - Times Higher Education | THE Minister wants OfS ‘to do more’ on ‘poor-value’ courses - Times Higher Education | THE Childcare providers will struggle with rise to national wage rates - Nursery World Call for hot healthy meals for disadvantaged nursery children - Nursery World DfE consults on T-level funding bands - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gyimah: UK access to EU research ‘won’t work’ without mobility - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Give poor families cash to get through holidays says new report - Times Educational Supplement | TES LSE graduates top average earnings table by age 29, data shows - Guardian Matt Waddup: Principals 'should follow CCCG's lead on pay rises' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Schools struggle to hire staff as thousands of teaching jobs re-advertised - Mail Biggest winners and losers from degrees - BBC Jisc backs parliamentary inquiry into data and technology ethics - Jisc Scotland: Top university gives no significant earnings boost to male students over peers without degree - Independent DfE launches T-level funding consultation with plans for 4 different base rates - FE Week IEE research round-up - Institute for Effective Education Isolation rooms: should they be banned? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Thousands of teaching jobs re-advertised - Times Educational Supplement | TES School and college funding: Education Committee questions local authorities - FE News Councils hit back over Lord Agnew champagne bet - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research indicates which universities offer greatest return - Mail Youngest apprentices most at risk of underpayment - Times Higher Education | THE College that crashed two grades from ‘outstanding’ to cut 41 jobs - FE Week Global: Why we should invest in educating girls (video) - Financial Times How children describe their national identity in the age of devolution - The Conversation Ofsted figures reveal loss of more than 900 providers - Nursery World Could internships replace fashion degrees? - Guardian Scottish schools had to re-advertise 3000 teaching vacancies - Herald Scotland Children don’t care about the gender of their early years teachers, but it matters - Metro Union hits out at proposed job cuts at Blackburn College - Times Educational Supplement | TES David Laws: UK worse at evaluating education policy than Liberia - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘The whole system will implode’: Council bosses warn of SEND funding crisis - Schools Week UK student debt sales make little economic sense - Financial Times Matthew Hedges: pardoned academic returns to UK - Guardian Number of schools investigated over SATs maladministration rises to almost 600 - Schools Week How big a wage boost degrees give women - and it's way more than men get - Mirror Scottish Funding Council chief executive appointed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost 600 primaries investigated for cheating - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top ten steps to affordable end-user security training - Jisc Graduate earnings remain high - DfE Teaching full-time 'unendurably hard', says Lucy Kellaway - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in three teenagers has considered self-harm - poll - Mail Attending university increases women’s earnings at age 29 by 26% and men’s by 6% - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS 10:00 a.m. - Education Committee questions local authorities as part of its inquiry into school and college funding - Commons Select Committee Porn, assault and LGBT issues: the gaps in sex education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Slow progress on flagship Scottish education policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why earnings are not the be-all and end-all - HEPI To get to 2.4%, the government needs a plan - Wonkhe Anyone know what a registrar is? - Wonkhe What is a graduate job? - Wonkhe How to improve teaching computing - Teacher Toolkit BBC headteacher tells of outpouring of sympathy after he resigned on TV - Guardian Education will never work if we don't make snowflake students do any... - Telegraph Senior UK academics call for people’s vote to save universities - Guardian Matthew Hedges: pardoned British academic arrives back in UK - Guardian Why earnings are not the be-all and end-all - HEPI Movers and shakers: Edition 262 - FE Week Fruit and veg used in scheme for English schools 'often inedible' - Guardian Dear Damian Hinds, please stop wrecking poetry for children | Michael Rosen - Guardian Scottish schools struggle to fill nearly 3000 teaching posts - Scotsman As Ofsted turns up the heat on the sector over curriculum, how should colleges respond? - FE News Crisis of leadership and governance in the FE sector? - FE News Scotland: Anti-abortion student group banned at Aberdeen University - Herald Scotland The skilled/unskilled jobs divide is just snobbery - Financial Times Naughty pupils to be slapped with 'community service' punishments - Mail Having a degree increases average earning by 26 per cent for women, study claims - Mail Women gain higher earnings from degrees - BBC How the UK plans to teach computer science to every child - Financial Times Men who studied 'creative courses' are earning less than those without a degree - Mail Male creative arts university graduates are ‘paid 14 per cent less’ than those without a degree - The Sun One in four teens is at ‘risk of sexual grooming’ due to lack of sex and relationship education in British schools - The Sun University leaves men in some subjects 'worse off' than peers without degrees - Independent Graduate earnings remain high - DfE Pornography and LGBT issues missed out in sex education, poll finds - Schools Week University leaves third of male students worse off - Financial Times Scotland: Flagship education programme 'not meeting key targets' - Mail School featured in Educating Greater Manchester is put in special measures - Mail University education does not close pay gap for women in England - Guardian Student poll finds 'significant gaps' in sex education in England - Guardian Student freed from UAE ‘after sending coded signal’ - Times Getting a degree gives women bigger salary boost than men - Times Swansea University vice-chancellor suspended during inquiry - Times Scotland: Cut-price university gowns have St Andrews seeing red - Times Scotland: New director Irene McAra-McWilliam takes helm at fire-ravaged Glasgow art school - Times Scotland: Academics closing down trans debate, claims Stuart Waiton - Times Scotland: Give cash to poorest families in school holidays, urges Poverty and Inequality Commission - Times