News archive for 12th October 2018

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Teachers feeling 'deep injustice’ at judges’ 'extraordinary' pay plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted response to the Education Select Committee’s report ‘Forgotten children: alternative provision and the scandal of ever increasing exclusions’ (pdf) - UK Parliament Hundreds more children told to stay home as tenth school closes due to false widow spiders - Independent Cambridge University condemns death threats sent to students after Remembrance Day debate - Independent Eton faces backlash after banning mobile phones in the classroom - Telegraph Headteachers accused of betraying colleagues by remaining members of 'sexist' gentleman’s club - Telegraph Police investigate fraud allegations at 3aaa apprenticeships - Guardian Revealed: How 3aaa spent £1.6m on sponsorship at sports clubs - FE Week Initial teacher training (ITT): criteria and supporting advice - DfE Teacher subject specialism training (TSST) courses - DfE Further education area reviews: funding to restructure colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency FE providers benefit from scheme to boost teaching workforce - DfE UK targets classrooms in bid to improve diversity in economics - Financial Times Study to test how military-style adventure programme improves attainment - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Don’t forget the field! Why researchers should speak to teachers, parents and pupils - LKMco Innovating to solve problems in maths - Nesta Letter from Nick Gibb to ITT Providers_Recruitment (October 2018) - UCET Academy trust chair embroiled in police probe resigns - Schools Week In the news 12 October 2018 - UCU Ofsted watch: A mostly positive week for FE and skills - FE Week An analysis of recruitment, retention an training within the state-sector teacher workforce - DfE Academy trust chair embroiled in police probe resigns - Schools Week Universities used to be places of debate and free speech. Not anymore - Metro Ofsted on hunt for more apprenticeship inspectors - FE Week Policy Watch: The Office for Students on free speech - Wonkhe ETF designs and delivers new high profile technical teacher recruitment scheme for FE - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Assessment only route to QTS: criteria and supporting advice - DfE 3aaa co-founder embroiled in police probe resigns as chair of academy trust - FE Week Hundreds more children are sent home as false widow spider infestation closes a tenth London school - Mail T levels: Why I'm working to make them a success | Joanna Goodman - Times Educational Supplement | TES David Malengela: Police hunt teacher banned for claiming extra cash - BBC China becomes world’s biggest producer of scientific research - Times Higher Education | THE Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 12 October - Pearson 3aaa put into administration - EducationInvestor ‘Internet should be a formal subject in schools’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Ofsted, crumbling schools and positivity - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'How I quadrupled the girls in my classes taking physics A level - to four' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Welcome to the most controversial school in Britain… - Times Educational Supplement | TES New school inspections to ease pupils’ exam pressure - Evening Standard The Tes Podcast: Ofsted, crumbling schools and positivity - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We need to talk about alternative provision' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 70% of school buildings 'not fit for purpose' - Times Educational Supplement | TES No child in hospital should miss out on a high quality education - Times Judges vs teachers: same problems, different pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds gives Ofsted chief vote of confidence - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's shameful to mock the headteachers' march' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How a National Education Service could help to break down class divisions - The Conversation Education company Pearson and education think-tank LKMco have launched a new, eighteen-month, international study to plot the way to a better future for assessment - Pearson FE: Developing middle leaders (podcast) - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges Week should be a celebration with three messages for the chancellor - FE Week Colleges to march on Parliament in funding protest - FE Week Welcome to the most controversial school in Britain… - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted response to the Education Select Committee’s report re alternative provision and exclusions - Ofsted Concerns raised about the quality of maths centres for excellence - FE Week Have hopes for the new national colleges been derailed? - FE Week DfE wastes £2.3m on UTCs and studio schools that never opened - FE Week Thousands sign petition to boost college funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES NASUWT staff to strike over pensions cut - Schools Week Storm Callum schools closed - Express Beyond school qualifications: how to make admissions truly inclusive - Wonkhe Responding to sexual misconduct - Wonkhe Aligning post-18 entitlements and apprenticeship funding - HEPI NE college principals to march on Parliament to demand fairer funding - FE News What makes a good school? - The Educator What are you doing to reclaim your weekend? - Teacher Toolkit Cambridge University students reject Remembrance Day poppies saying they 'glorify war' - Express New SkillCheck Maths Basic unit launched today - Unionlearn 'Our children are suffering because of you!' Tory MP lashes out at Sturgeon on QT - Express AI is a door to productivity gains, but data literacy holds the keys - FE News My university forced me into teaching training. It was all dry 'eduspeak' | Anonymous academic - Guardian Ofsted accused of ‘conflicting signals’ over Barnsley school exclusions - Schools Week Doomed Schools Company Trust paid £4k for ‘disturbing’ workshop from Oscar Pistorius’ aunt - Schools Week 'Raindrops keep falling on our heads': The reality of crumbling schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for major building programme to tackle 'national decay' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 70% of school buildings 'not fit for purpose' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New website for Scottish teachers to raise education fears anonymously - Scotsman Government needs to improve access to apprenticeships - FE Week Minister’s £340k free schools flop revealed - Schools Week Inclusive schools ‘clobbered’ after DfE tightens guidance on pupil removals - Schools Week Pupils weigh benefits of economics apprenticeships - Financial Times Rural schools face 'perfect storm' of problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Secretary says schools should ban phones to give kids a technology-free zone - The Sun If Corbyn wants to teach our children history, I suggest he starts with the masses killed by Marxism | Tom Utley - Mail Headteachers forced to double up as canteen staff amid funding cuts in rural schools - Independent Revealed: 37 colleges and providers chosen for first wave of Taking Teaching Further funding - FE Week Headteachers forced to do menial tasks at unfilled rural schools - Guardian Pizzas and other snacks could shrink in bid to cut childhood obesity - Guardian Colleges receive £5m to train T-level teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES New EEF study will examine how different types of adventure learning improve pupils' skills, behaviour and attainment - Times Educational Supplement | TES No child in hospital should miss out on a high quality education - Times New school grades - Times Boarding school head chose not to report rape claim - Times Buy children ‘brick’ phones, parents told - Times Cambridge University and BFI join campaign against workplace harassment - Times Ofsted will look beyond exam grades to assess schools - Times Teachers face SQA spot checks over cheating fears - Herald Scotland Unforgiven: Kent University students have banned fancy dress cowboy outfits - Times Record numbers of 11-year-olds are now classed as severely obese - Times Corbyn promises to expand syllabus on Empire and slavery - Times Teacher conned parents out of money for trips - Times Ireland: Power cuts and school closures feared as Storm Callum arrives - Times