News archive for 2nd October 2018

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Outrage as Tory uni society picture shows one student with Hitler-style moustache while another sports 'F*** the NHS' T-shirt - Mirror Should a university teach a killer? - BBC Mum claims deputy head told girls knee-length skirts were only OK on 'slender' pupils - Mirror Schools 'will have to axe staff to afford teacher pay rises' warn heads in open letter - Mirror Manchester Students’ Union bans clapping and says jazz hands should be used instead - Metro Rise of the luxury student: how university living has upped its game - Telegraph Families take Surrey council to court over special needs funding - Guardian DFE caught adding tuition fees to school funding claims - BBC MAT chief urges private heads to become state school governors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rayner: Hinds ‘buried head in the sand’ on funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anger as most schools left out of combustible cladding ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Why is FE stitched up compared to other sectors?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents vow to fight on after council confirms nursery closures - Nursery World “You don’t need to pay £450,000 to get a new CEO” - Schools Week Hinds criticised for neglecting school funding in conference speech - Schools Week Parents in High Court battle with Surrey Council over special needs funding cuts - Independent Tackling diversity in the classroom - Leeds Beckett University Troubled youth custody centre to become first 'secure school' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government to launch £200m youth fund to tackle violent crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Colleges respond cautiously to the Secretary of State for Education’s funding announcements at Conservative Party Conference - AoC | Association of Colleges Damian Hinds announces school sports drive to 'develop young people's character' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Plenty ventured, plenty gained - Wonkhe Institutes of Technology competition - DfE English hubs: list of primary schools - DfE Now I'm an Oxford student, am I still working class? - Guardian New education and skills measures announced - DfE Funding allocations to training providers: 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Funding boost for schools and colleges announced - The Educator NEU workload survey: DfE and Ofsted need to do much more to reduce teacher workload - National Education Union NEU comment on Damian Hinds’ speech at the 2018 Conservative Party Conference - National Education Union National curriculum in England: The first 30 years, part 1 - BERA PM's post-Brexit immigration plans - Russell Group Children are so hungry at schools teachers are taking extra food for them - Metro Restore maintenance grants to boost lifetime learning, says MillionPlus Chair - MillionPlus Effects of shared book reading for young EAL children - Best Evidence in Brief The impact of full-day preschool on children’s school readiness skills - Best Evidence in Brief The positive influence of classmates’ behaviour - Best Evidence in Brief Effects of the Whole School Restorative Justice Program (USA) - Best Evidence in Brief ASCL response to Education Secretary’s Conservative conference speech - ASCL Abertay study aims to unlock creative potential of young people in care - MillionPlus Gyimah pans ‘right on’ attitudes and ‘misappropriation movement’ - Times Higher Education | THE Registration delays bring recruitment worries on English campuses - Times Higher Education | THE Which countries’ HE systems are globalising quickest? - Times Higher Education | THE NASUWT comments on the Education Secretary's speech to the Conservative Party Conference - NASUWT Effects of shared book reading for young EAL children - Institute for Effective Education New education and skills measures announced to make sure all children have access to a world class education - FE News Colleges respond cautiously to the Secretary of State for Education's funding announcement - FE News Schools and colleges to receive £114m funding boost - Mail Manchester students' union swaps applause for 'jazz hands' - Guardian The 21 colleges that will share £40m Maths Centres of Excellence cash - FE Week Hinds reveals £38m T-levels capital funding boost - FE Week Hinds pledges £10m to help teachers deal with bad behaviour - Schools Week The 5 schools policies in Damian Hinds’s Conservative Party conference speech - Schools Week Academy trust sought to run first ‘secure school’ in Kent - Schools Week Manchester University student union bans clapping - BBC New government funding for schools and colleges is 'drop in the ocean' headteachers say - Independent Milton bashes unions for lack of FE focus in fight for funding - FE Week Cambridge plans to recruit poorer students - BBC 'I want to work in England to improve my teaching' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most overseas teachers prepared to work in UK - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brexit: Teachers concerned over Esol funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds’ ‘world class’ vision: sport, 3Rs and better behaviour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five big issues Hinds ignored today - Times Educational Supplement | TES 21 colleges chosen as Maths Centres for Excellence - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students to replace clapping with 'jazz hands' at events to make them more inclusive - Independent International students on British drinking habits – ‘people don’t know when to stop’ - The Conversation The chancellor’s levy transfer increase – a ‘package of reforms’, or mere tinkering? - FE Week Clapping banned at university 'to avoid triggering anxiety' with students told to do jazz hands instead - Mirror Personalisation in children’s reading: what do the literacy experts think? - IOE London Blog An apprenticeship shake up with no bubbles or fizz - FE News Minister open to raising apprenticeship transfer funding but concerned about fraud - FE Week Three in five teachers still required to triple mark, survey reveals - Schools Week Drug use: Is Sheffield Students' Union right to offer advice? - BBC Over 70% of schools surveyed do not understand minibus safety obligations - FE News T levels: £38m in capital funding for providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted can’t impartially inspect curriculum, says Teach First - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Independent schools have too few vocal Tory allies' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds to push ‘subjects of the future' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Majority of teachers yet to have workload review - Times Educational Supplement | TES 6 tips for delivering outstanding assemblies - Teacher Toolkit ‘Decisive steps’ needed to tackle child poverty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Picking up a leaflet at a freshers’ fair won’t turn you into a prostitute | Molly Smith - Guardian ‘Lay off’ parents who scrimp to send their children to private school, says top headteacher - Mail Music school grants for poor students going to ‘comfortable middle class’ - Guardian ‘I will never return to teach in England’: the UK teachers finding refuge abroad - Guardian High salaries don’t attract the best, says trust CEO - Schools Week Apprentices accelerate local growth and have been failed for too long - FE News Glasgow university signs up Irish ex-president Mary McAleese - Scotsman If I’m doing his appraisal, the universities minister gets no pay rise this year | Jonathan Wolff - Guardian My lessons learned: Euroskills 2018 - FE News Apprenticeships face reform for second time - Financial Times The neighbours building hope after losing children to suicide - BBC Parents head to High Court over special needs cuts - BBC Should universities tell students how to take drugs safely? - BBC Lay off parents who choose private school, head says - Times Nursery ‘improves social skills better than care at home’ - Times Bristol students join anti-suicide scheme after series of deaths - Times Boy left in coma by punch at school - Times Cambridge to give poorer applicants a head start - Times Ireland: McAleese speaks of delight at Glasgow university role - Times Two out of five teachers would leave Britain 'next term' if they got the right job opportunity abroad - Mirror