News archive for 8th October 2018

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GCSE textbook condemned for racist Caribbean stereotypes - Guardian School uniforms are costing struggling parents £300 each - now MPs will debate the scandal in Parliament - Mirror Are teachers too fragile to teach? - Teacher Toolkit Reading, rights and research: Working together to end modern slavery - Wonkhe Public policy impact (and how to get paid for it) - Wonkhe DfE Permanent Secretary writes to the Office for Statistics Regulation - DfE DfE announces £24m youth employment initiative - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scrap business rates to help struggling nurseries, government urged - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Stats watchdog blasts Education Secretary Damian Hinds over 'serious' errors in school claims - PoliticsHome Students not aware of UK policy changes – QS - PIE News The Outstanding Teaching Learning and Assessment (OTLA) digital projects - October update - Education & Training Foundation What teachers tapped this week #54 – 8th October 2018 - Teacher Tapp Bold steps are needed to ensure all apprenticeships are ladders of opportunity - Learning & Work Institute How can we make apprenticeships more accessible? - Edge Foundation DfE announces investment in North East - Teach First UK Space Agency backs campaign to inspire girls - GOV.UK Construction Industry Training Board: government priorities - DfE Chair of new Industrial Strategy Council appointed - GOV.UK Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation - DfE Employer skills survey 2017: UK findings - DfE Deals for schools - DfE The Education Secretary's response to Sir David Norgrove's letter about the use of statistics - DfE 16 to 18 accountability headline measures - DfE Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Engineering Construction Industry Training Board: priorities letter - DfE Challenging the higher Vs further education false divide - Universities UK Latest information and updates from OCR - NAHT A modern economy needs thriving modern universities, says MillionPlus Vice-Chancellor - MillionPlus Financial incentives ITT 2019/20 published - NAHT Government should adopt MPs’ recommendations on the apprenticeship reforms without delay - AELP DfE: new ITT recruitment marketing campaign - UCET NEU comment on Apprenticeships - National Education Union £24m boost for North East schools - The Educator Why I no longer believe in social mobility - LKMco Ambition School Leadership & Institute for Teaching comments on education secretary’s £24million for the north east announcement - Ambition School Leadership Mr. Lewis: A Rocket Fund case study - Nesta £24m schools initiative welcomed - Schools NorthEast Four 'As' for new arrivals with English as an additional language (EAL) - Bell Foundation School funding 'exaggerated' by ministers, says watchdog - BBC Sixth form college students 'getting short straw' - Guardian SFCA to launch campaign calling for huge 16 to 18 funding rate increase - FE Week Publishers withdraw GCSE sociology textbook amid race row that describes Caribbean families says 'men are largely absent' - Mail From Ada Lovelace to Donna Strickland, women achieve despite the system - Nesta 'The exhausting road to my apprenticeship dream' - BBC Elite public schools drop common entrance exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We need a grand vision for colleges' - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney: No U-turn on assessments for P1st - Times Educational Supplement | TES 3aaa buyer will need to pay £500k in ‘deal fees’ - FE Week John Swinney seeks to 'reassure' critics of controversial P1 tests - Mail UK statistics body has 'serious concerns' over DfE funding claims - Guardian I reported harassment and was silenced – and I’m a senior academic | Athene Donald - Guardian Select Commitee apprenticeships report published - Unionlearn More student unions set to offer drug-testing kits at universities, NUS says - Independent The DfE’s repeated misuse of statistics is embarrassing - Schools Week Hinds defends funding and Ofsted statistics, but admits literacy claims ‘could have been clearer’ - Schools Week Head teachers criticise Northamptonshire education cuts - BBC Education ministers accused of 'misleading' public over school cuts - HuffPost Tories blasted over 'misleading' figures by statistics watchdog in damning warning about 'undermining public trust' - Mirror Glasgow University research backed with £10M European funding - Scotsman Watchdog blasts Damian Hinds after his department was caught misleading the public over school funding and standards - Mail National Apprenticeship Service to focus on raising the value of apprenticeships undertaken in disadvantaged areas - FE News John Swinney brands the scrapping of Primary One test a ‘disgrace’ - Scotsman GCSE text book pulled from shelves after outcry over Caribbean 'stereotyping' - HuffPost Select Committee highlights many failings in apprenticeship policy, process and delivery - FE News Scrap business rates to help struggling nurseries, government urged - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Four ways the DfE misled the public - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universal Credit areas to get more pupil premium money - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's shameful to mock the headteachers' march' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Be clever with appraisals – ditch SMART targets' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Racist' GCSE textbook withdrawn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four ways to avoid staffroom infighting - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pensions hike to cost colleges £140 per student - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE gets 'blistering' rebuke for repeated misleading use of stats - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE textbook claiming Caribbean men are 'largely absent' from families is withdrawn after outrage - Independent 'Mr Hinds, here's how to cut teacher workload...' - Times Educational Supplement | TES North East to get £24m schools and teacher training boost - BBC Watchdog chief writes to Hinds with ‘significant concerns’ about DfE’s use of statistics - Schools Week Special consideration in GCSE and A Level: summer 2017 exam series - Ofqual 'Super opportunity area' created to raise school standards in North East - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bake-off judge: Schools must teach love of healthy food - Times Educational Supplement | TES AELP: We've turned a corner on apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of children referred to mental health services in England rises by a quarter - Independent Student suicides: the bereaved father who says data could save lives - Guardian Wales: PaCE helps 1000th parent into employment - Welsh Government 35% of women are more likely to go to university than men - FE News Apprenticeship funding bands: 30 band structure - FE News Third of girls in school uniforms sexually harassed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales' first and only 100% outdoor nursery told to leave site - Wales Online My first experience of sexual harassment happened while I was wearing school uniform - Metro Buckingham university to ask students to sign drug pledge - Guardian New report highlights £760 per student funding gap in Sixth Form Colleges - FE News MPs warn apprentices are being ‘let down’ as they call for crackdown on poor quality providers - PoliticsHome Making apprenticeships accessible for all - AoC | Association of Colleges The apprenticeship minimum wage £3.50 per hour is simply not sufficient to live - FE News Education Secretary launches £24 million programme for North East - DfE The apprenticeships ladder of opportunity: quality not quantity (6th report) - UK Parliament Apprentices let down by poor quality training and support - UK Parliament Talking freely about freedom of speech - Wonkhe Debt and mental health: a missing puzzle piece - Wonkhe 3 things you can learn from supply teaching - Teacher Toolkit Understanding learning styles - The Educator Pitting universities against colleges won’t deliver skilled workforce - Universities UK Trust boss demands crackdown on SATs cheating - Schools Week Don’t bottle out during Maths Workout Week - Unionlearn Need to know: Northern schools fight back - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Bagpipes loaned for free to spark pupils' interest - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE and HE alliances ‘help students with choices’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents fear for child's mental health at school - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs call for crackdown on low apprentice pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES One third of girls in school uniform sexually harassed, says survey - Scotsman Pupil premium: how to translate evidence into practice - Schools Week RSCs have ‘escalated’ 21 decisions about schools to ministers - Schools Week Survey: One third of schoolgirls sexually harassed - Herald Scotland The technicalities of delivering an apprenticeship for SMEs - FE News 'Third of girls' harassed in school uniform - BBC One in three girls sexually harassed in public while wearing school uniforms, report finds - Independent 'The exhausting road to my apprenticeship dream' - BBC Both Government and the IFA should make degree apprenticeships a strategic priority - FE News The apprenticeships ladder of opportunity: quality not quantity - FE News Kick poor-performing new providers off RoATP, education committee urges - FE Week Making apprenticeships accessible for all is paramount - FE News Pitting universities against colleges won't deliver skilled workforce - FE News Britain's first drug-free university? Buckingham's Vice Chancellor forces students to sign 'zero tolerance' contracts - Mail Setting funding bands so low they reduce quality and dissuade employers is a false economy - FE News Hinds announces £24m for the north east following complaints over opportunity areas coverage - Schools Week Education Secretary launches £24 million programme for employers and universities to seek out all the talent in the North East of England - FE News Mental health services turn away one in four children referred for care - Times School meals served up by a 3D printer - Times Campus censorship is Stalinist, says Oxford professor Nigel Biggar - Times Poor white boys also need help in classroom, says Damian Hinds - Times The world’s ghastliest exam asks: vampire or zombie? - Times Call for university-style apprenticeship scheme - Times Scotland: SNP drops plans to let school fields be sold after backlash - Times Education secretary demands action on low number of 'white British disadvantaged boys' going to university - Independent