News archive for 5th October 2018

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Exciting opportunities available for industry placements - GOV.UK Cumbria to be boosted by 50 new apprenticeships - GOV.UK Big Teacher Pension contributions increases in 2019 (5 Oct update) - AoC | Association of Colleges ‘The biggest battle in all of this is intellectual snobbery’ - Apprenticeships and Skills Minister - PoliticsHome ETF launches new Middle Managers Programme "Leading from the Middle" - Education & Training Foundation | ETF 5 tips for enthusiastic adoption of education technology - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Technology vs Pedagogy – a false dichotomy! - UKEdChat Celebrating World Teachers Day - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Well-being school proposal - UKEdChat Children and Families Minister's NAHT early years speech - DfE Find apprenticeship training: how to submit data - Education & Skills Funding Agency UCAS announces new Chief Technology Officer - UCAS Committee question further education sector on funding priorities - UK Parliament Join a global discussion on teacher development - Ambition School Leadership Academy trust wants to set up university - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Excellent’ maths teacher at risk of deportation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adopting a MasterChef approach to studies: Further anecdotal tales in pursuit of the elusive doctorate - BERA NAHT’s view on the role of the designated mental health lead - NAHT Heads blast bankrupt council's cost-cutting plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/most-schools-finding-it-hard-to-recruit-maths-teachers-38rbdtxp8 - Times Ofsted: ‘Embarrassed’ nursery teachers don't sing - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Tory conference, Ofsted row and taking risks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools and businesses can close the skills gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils aren’t being told about lucrative university scholarships and grants - Schools Week Teacher Recruitment Bulletin - DfE Work based learners and the Prevent statutory duty - DfE Check early years qualifications - DfE EYFS staff:child ratios - DfE approved qualifications - DfE Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2018 - DfE School workforce census 2018: guides - DfE Letters: Tories and Labour both to blame for driving our teachers away - Guardian What can my union do for me anyway? - National Education Union False widow spiders: Closure of four London schools 'a complete overreaction' say scientists - Independent Update from the Chair of the Athena SWAN Review, Steering Group - Advance HE Inspectors find racist bullying at Cardiff primary school - Wales Online World Teachers' Day: seven 'stark' problems facing teachers globally - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK universities hiring 'superstar' professors to boost research rankings - Guardian Jazz hands at Manchester University: the calm behind the storm - Guardian Local governing bodies in academies shouldn’t challenge trustees, says sector expert - Schools Week Northampton University pays for police officers based on campus to prevent force being overstretched - Independent It is a human tragedy when schools close due to a harmless spider | Patrick Barkham - Guardian Parents 'scared' by children's maths homework - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted Watch: Trio of poor monitoring visit reports - FE Week Education Secretary thanks Student Loans Company staff for implementing new package of support for Welsh students - Welsh Government Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 5 October - Pearson Minister gathering evidence for nursery funding bid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ex-Pearson boss Jill Duffy is new OCR chief executive - Schools Week Degree apprenticeships a ‘concern’, says skills minister - FE Week DfE ‘too slow’ on recruitment, warns ex-schools tsar - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: BBC in work placements snub - Times Educational Supplement | TES New boss announced for OCR exam board - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE Podcast: How safe is your college? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland’s largest teachers union calls for pay increase - Scotsman Skills minister backs Trip Advisor-style rating of trainers over Ofsted inspections - FE Week Scotland: Teacher hits out at John Swinney in second anonymous letter - Scotsman Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2018 - DfE USA: My classroom has asbestos and bats - a message for Betsy DeVos - Guardian IfA loses funding rate review battle but uncertainty drags on - FE Week Happy World Teacher Day! Why do we celebrate it and what is it about? - The Sun Alex Lee: I applaud the push for accessibility – but I won’t be using ‘jazz hands’ - Guardian Ofsted in dark over 3aaa but also to blame - FE Week Euroskills Budapest 2018 - FE Week 1 in 4 colleges has no lockdown system - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE ‘too slow’ on recruitment, warns ex-schools tsar - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child obesity, is it time to ask all students to walk to their school - The Educator New £6m fund to help graduates find work near home - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND cuts 'breaking' nursery schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES An end to austerity? This is what people at the sharp end say should happen now - HuffPost Budget cuts push heads to double up as SENCOs - Schools Week Investigation: Schools accused of fudging sport premium funding - Schools Week Looking to boost your pay packet? Education salaries are on the rise… - FE News This levy game's been a learning curve for everyone, we're just getting into our stride! - FE News 'I was welling up!' Teachers report on their School of Rock students - Guardian Positive perceptions of vocational and technical qualifications are FAB! - FE News Schools pay private companies to teach speedy GCSE equivalents - Schools Week Tories disagree over restoring failing academies to councils - Schools Week Teenager’s sex claim like weird porn film, says accused teacher - Times A fifth of young adults admit to harming themselves - Times Venomous false widow spiders close four schools in Newham, east London - Times High education spending claims ‘are misleading’ - Times Westminster, St Paul’s and Wellington College to drop entrance tests at 13 - Times Infantilised student politics and safe spaces shouldn’t be creeping into Labour | Naomi Firsht - Times Common Entrance exam is a burden children don’t need | Patrick Derham - Times Scotland: Teachers ‘strong-armed’ to keep quiet about failings - Times