News archive for 28th November 2018

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Boy who 'bullied Syrian refugee' breaks silence after shocking video - Mirror Bullied Syrian boy's sister thrown to floor after being attacked in playground - Mirror Syrian boy who was victim of alleged attack begged mp for help against bullies - HuffPost Why are more primary schools under the spotlight for exam cheating? - Independent Skills policy needs stability and consensus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads tell Hinds to give urgent boost to high needs funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES NQT Special: Lessons from year 2 - SecEd NQT Special: Your rights and entitlements - SecEd Concern after STRB is told to ensure pay rises are ‘affordable’ - SecEd One in eight students have a mental health disorder, official NHS figures confirm - SecEd Can new £84m NCCE solve our computer education woes? - SecEd No action to be taken on severe A level grading - SecEd Lords debates funding for schools - UK Parliament Teachers' pay grant methodology - DfE Headteacher board meetings schedule and preparation templates - DfE Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teachers' pay grant: September 2018 to March 2019 allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 28 November 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: update - Education & Skills Funding Agency At the chalkface: A game of their own - SecEd NQT Special: Diary of an NQT – term one - SecEd Don’t mention the B word - SecEd Lord Agnew: the man who wants to chair every MAT in England - Times Educational Supplement | TES When do teachers decide that enough is enough? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teenager accused of 'water-board' attack is 'a Britain First supporter' - Mail Smoothwall announces partnership with Safeguard Software to unify physical and digital realms for safeguarding children - Primary Times Study Group gets Office for Students status - PIE News ERSA responds to first Fair Start Scotland statistics release - ERSA UCU says the system for applying to university needs a radical overhaul - UCU There's no place like key stage three - NAHT Universities taking steps to tackle grade inflation - Universities UK Addressing grade inflation: a statement of intent - Universities UK Advance HE’s Chief Executive addresses issue of gender pay at ECC conference - Advance HE UUK report on grade inflation - Russell Group UUK report on grade inflation - Russell Group Wales: Students wrongly handed £3m in grants - Mail Children from disadvantaged areas in England to benefit from new programme to improve the leadership of teaching - Ambition School Leadership Acting on parental concerns - Teacher Toolkit 599 primary schools investigated for cheating - The Educator Beauty training provider slammed by Ofsted for ‘misleading’ careers advice - FE Week Developing subject-specialisms in middle leaders - Ambition School Leadership New record year for 'e for education' - Teach First CPD excellence hub project in Ipswich - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Scotland: New school support staff statistics could risk 'generalising' roles - Mail Advance HE helps increase percentage of women in governing bodies - Advance HE Schools should offer creative and technical subjects to warrant top Ofsted rating, says report - Edge Foundation Why robots can’t teach nor cut hair - UKEdChat NOCN Group to buy CPCS from CITB, retaining jobs in Norfolk - FE News Call for schools to do more for teacher mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES The poverty stats aren't numbers – they're children - Times Educational Supplement | TES How Breaking Bad and CSI are making science sexy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of primary schools investigated for cheating during exams rises to almost 600 - Independent South Yorkshire gets its own educational 'Glastonbury' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship fraud probe provider operating under new name - Times Higher Education | THE Half of new apprentices should be from the North, says minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES The November Supporting Learners News is out now - Unionlearn Gender identity issues for Brighton high school's 76 pupils - Express School system 'cracking' under austerity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Doubt cast over plans to double free nursery hours - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools to receive more cash after DfE admits ‘double-counting’ pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE First Awards 2018 for college marketing - results announced! - FE News Teenage boy, 16, charged with assault on Syrian refugee, 15 - HuffPost Primary school scraps homework for pupils over fears it causes too much stress - The Sun New policy role for former government education adviser Jonathan Simons - Schools Week Thanks to TV, the state of education is on full public display - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE may let Agnew take decisions on his former MAT - Times Educational Supplement | TES Church calls for 'cross-government plan' to support rural schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES My arts degree hasn’t made my fortune – but its value is incalculable | Max Liu - Guardian Rise and shine: The effect of school start times on academic performance from childhood through puberty - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics What does access to higher education look like around the world? - Wonkhe Breaking down resistance to digital change - Wonkhe New Reform report on student access - Russell Group A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Young children and multimodal learning with tablets - BERA How to become an outstanding teacher - The Educator Addressing grade inflation: a statement of intent - Universities UK The Centre for Cyber Safety and Education predicts a global shortage of 1.8 million cyber security professionals by 2022 - FE News Management wins praise for improvements at secure training centre - CYPN | Children & Young People Now In the new edition of CYP Now: Lifelong Links; reducing care; and attainment gap - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Free education is disappearing before our eyes | Afua Hirsch - Guardian UK universities to hold inquiry into degree awards policies - Guardian How to bridge Scotland’s attainment gap | Dr Geetha Marcus - Scotsman Universities with soaring grades may be forced to introduce common marking criteria - Telegraph Universities’ role in providing higher level skills - FE News The “aspirational” apprenticeship: Why government support signals a shift in the perception of apprenticeships - FE News Domestic abuse: 'Children are the hidden victims' - BBC Slaves to students: British college marks new start for survivors - Mail Racist bullying probe as schoolboy 'refugee' pushed to ground and 'waterboarded' - Mirror 'Period poverty' sanitary products 'improve school attendance' - BBC UCL rugby team disciplined over sexist chant on night out - Telegraph Universities taking steps to tackle grade inflation - FE News Poorer pupils' access to elite universities slows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents want more say in what schools teach - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents rate pupil confidence above subject knowledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Overseas students turn away from US - BBC Call for schools to do more for teacher mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Improving access to elite universities remains slow - FE News University chiefs admit tutors are under pressure to inflate grades - Mail Ireland: Chief school inspector urges teachers´ unions to end industrial action - Mail 286 Northern Ireland primary school children suspended in 2016-17 - Mail University accused of hiding suicide data after 14 deaths in eight years - Times Student Matthew Hedges thanks exhausted wife as he arrives home after UAE ordeal - Times Refugee ‘waterboarded’ by pupils on school field Charlie Parker - Times School free fruit scheme leaving a bad taste - Times Universities failing to boost number of poorer students - Times Overhaul in marking system aims to halt grade inflation - Times Schools should be free to sanction all misbehaving pupils | Sally Coates - Times Scotland: Thousands of teaching jobs go unfilled - Times Ireland: University’s pension deal cost €1.2m - Times