News archive for 3rd October 2018

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Parents claim 'hungry and tearful' children are not given enough time to eat at school - Mirror Children made to cycle at their desks to combat obesity - Metro Introducing MARGE: A superb ebook about learning by Arthur Shimamura - Headguruteacher False widow spider infestation closes east London schools for up to a month - HuffPost Private school fees in minister's funding claims - BBC Sir David Carter to train academy leaders in new Ambition School Leadership role - Schools Week Aspirational parents like me have no time for middle class outrage against private schools - Telegraph Stats watchdog launches investigations into ministers’ ‘disingenuous’ use of data - Schools Week Why getting QLTS is on teachers’ to-do lists - FE Week Conference diary: What did we learn from four days with the Conservatives? - Schools Week IfA silent on support for board member Dame Asha following resignation - FE Week You can keep “Diversity Month” – black history is too urgent to be a token gesture - New Statesman Sans Forgetica typeface designed to help students study #FutureofEducation - FE News Crisis-hit 3aaa up for quick sale - with government support - FE Week UK TNE students outnumber international students in UK by 60% – UUKi - PIE News New resources to support care leavers into learning and work to be published next year - Learning & Work Institute Government orders review of social media impact on children's mental health - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Elite ‘club’ predicted to dominate UK-EU research post-Brexit - Times Higher Education | THE Connected Leadership – our natural human yearning to connect - Advance HE Birkbeck mulls withdrawing from domestic league tables - Times Higher Education | THE ESFA Update: 3 October 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Condition Data Collection programme: information and guidance - Education & Skills Funding Agency UCL plans to publish data on bullying and sexual misconduct - Guardian Former National Schools Commissioner Sir David Carter to join the Institute for Teaching and Ambition School Leadership - Ambition School Leadership AELP’s skills strategy for a post-Brexit Britain - AELP Joint union letter to Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer - National Education Union The UKEdPodcast – Episode 28 – Poetry & writing for young people - UKEdChat NEU comment on Theresa May’s Speech - National Education Union Creativity in schools: have your say in a survey from The Durham Commission on Creativity and Education - NAHT New consultation to restrict the sale of energy drinks to children and young people - NAHT Secretary of state confirms additional resources for careers guidance in schools - NAHT NAHT takes its campaign to improve school accountability to the party conferences - NAHT Joint union letter to the PM and Chancellor warns school budgets are at breaking point - NAHT Supporting dyslexia learners - Teacher Toolkit School funding still in crisis: regional school summits - NAHT How to support young people with literacy difficulties - Schools Week Matt Hancock dyslexia struggles 'strengthen case against cuts' - Guardian Decision on management apprenticeship funding bands delayed following employers’ appeal - FE Week Tech startup set to revolutionise student accommodation - FE News IfA funding band review: 12 of 31 standards signed off by education secretary - FE Week School installs pedals under pupils' desks to help obese children lose weight - Mirror Childcare may prevent emotional and behavioural problems later - Nursery World Ban related party transactions, says ex schools tsar - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must hold our nerve over the pupil premium - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should WhatsApp be used to teach writing? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Open letter to education secretary 'goes viral' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex-case teacher blackmailed by pupil, court told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pensions hike 'may close more than 100 prep schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT chief warns Ofsted changes 'mean more work' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'What do the party conferences tell us about FE?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Too many pupils will suffer if we delay inspection reform' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Austerity is over - take a chance on FE' - Times Educational Supplement | TES I grew up poor but my school had great expectations - Times Educational Supplement | TES College offers no pay rise for 10 years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted says 'powerful vested interests’ oppose its reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES 16 to 19 funding: maths and English condition of funding - FE News Why we should give prejudiced students a voice in the classroom - The Conversation Families launch legal bid to prevent SEND cuts - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children who enjoy reading and writing have significantly better mental wellbeing #Literacy25 - FE News Breaking the cycle of illiteracy - Primary Times Mental health hit as students’ literacy engagement declines - SecEd ‘Opportunity hoarders’ block social mobility for poor pupils - SecEd Keeping friends during transition helps behaviour and classroom success - SecEd Welsh government makes mental health priority - SecEd School library campaign is launched - SecEd Poorer pupils missing out on residential school trips - SecEd NFER launches Assessment Hub - SecEd Damian Hinds: Full text of Conservative Conference 2018 speech - FE Week The removal of Darwin and evolution from schools is a backwards step | Michael Dixon - Guardian Parents in High Court battle with Surrey Council over special needs funding cuts - Independent Adding the diversity dimension - Wonkhe Higher education needs more strategic insight - Wonkhe Ways to work with your students’ behaviour - The Educator Independent schools’ £73 billion contribution to the UK - Independent Schools Council | ISC Skills could boost economy by £21bn a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Independent schools 'need all the friends they can get' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools 'save taxpayer £3.5 billion' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Radical new approach to training could deliver £108 billion boost for the UK #FutureofEducation - FE News Graduate salaries are no measure of a university's worth | Dominic Shellard - Guardian Cameron Wyllie: Education isn’t all about intelligence - Scotsman Disadvantage Fund stretched further by new English and mathematics GCSE re-sit requirements - FE News Premier League to be drafted into schools to make kids more competitive, Education Secretary announces - The Sun Love Island-obsessed teenage girls are undermining MeToo cause, claims headmistress - Telegraph You can’t like Love Island and #MeToo if you want to be taken seriously, top head tells girls - Mail Choose Love Island or #MeToo, head tells girls - Times Brexit boom for graduates as civil service boosts its ranks - Times Education secretary Damian Hinds ‘used flawed figures’ - Times