News archive for 16th October 2018

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Best performing schools at GCSE announced - Mirror Falling asleep in university lectures could be treated as sign of a mental disorder - Telegraph Scotland: Emails reveal teachers' concerns over long hours and excessive workloads - Herald Scotland Headteacher John Tomsett to face misconduct hearing - Schools Week ‘Better than some ministers!’ Robot praised after giving evidence in Parliament - Express Family of Newcastle university academic could be split after husband faces deportation - Independent ITT providers hit by ‘nightmare’ DfE IT failure - Times Educational Supplement | TES Steiner free school closure threat over safeguarding concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leading head John Tomsett to face conduct panel - Times Educational Supplement | TES Premature children can 'catch up at school' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE ‘minded to terminate’ funding of Steiner Academy Exeter - Schools Week Schools can stagger SAT times without notifying government, says new guidance - Schools Week Roy Blatchford: Our children are so much more than grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges commit to tackling mental health crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges Week exposes the hypocrisy of FE funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Knowledge curriculum 'pits pupils against computers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Google: ‘Unfair’ to expect us to end online spread of child porn - Times Educational Supplement | TES University pension fund accused of exaggerating shortfall - Financial Times Jacqui O'Hanlon : We must listen to pupils about arts education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads launch ‘commission of inquiry’ over GCSE results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland's childcare expansion 'about to implode', nurseries warn - Nursery World Microsoft updates tools supporting dyslexia - UKEdChat Infographic - 2018 PRES report: Key findings - Advance HE Making networking work for you - Advance HE Mental health checks for looked-after children to begin in June 2019 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children's services company receives funding to improve SEN careers guidance - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Zahawi: Drop in 30 hours childcare take-up 'expected' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ‘Testing treadmill’ in Scottish schools set to continue - Times Educational Supplement | TES The impact of a preprint - Wonkhe Tough on essay mills. Tough on the causes of essay mills. - Wonkhe How to revolutionise marking workload - Teacher Toolkit A nerd’s guide to today’s key stage 4 data - Schools Week New board of trustees in place at school charity following regulator’s intervention - GOV.UK Secondary accountability measures (including Progress 8 and Attainment 8) - DfE Secondary school performance tables in England: 2018 (provisional) - DfE Destination measures for key stage 4: 2018 - DfE Careers guidance and access for education and training providers - DfE Careers guidance for colleges - DfE Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency What works in gifted education? A literature review - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics Call for fairer pay ahead of University of Southampton vice-chancellor appointment - UCU Campaign to stop Newcastle family being split up by deportation - UCU From India to the UK: why should international students seek work experience in the UK? - Times Higher Education | THE Impact agenda ‘at odds with future workplace needs’ - Times Higher Education | THE Research round-up (9 October 2018) - NAHT NASUWT statement on industrial action - NASUWT Rona Tutt's SEND summary (October 2018) - NAHT Taking a stand against hate crime - Universities UK ASCL launches commission of inquiry over GCSE results - ASCL Progress 8 data release – North East - Schools NorthEast GCSE performance statistics - National Education Union ISC statement: VAT on school fees - Independent Schools Council | ISC Royal Society and the British Academy joint report on Harnessing Educational Research - Royal Society One-to-one technology and pupil outcomes - Best Evidence in Brief Can AI better predict why children struggle at school? - Best Evidence in Brief A witness gave a robotic performance in front of a Commons committee… but it wasn’t Theresa May - PoliticsHome Effective programmes in primary maths - Best Evidence in Brief Supporting pupils in primary school may help keep them in education - Best Evidence in Brief The advantages of print vs. digital reading: A meta-analysis - Best Evidence in Brief From Forces to Further Forces, through Further Education - Education & Training Foundation Provisional GCSE and equivalent results 2018: A first look at the new EBacc average points score measure - FFT Education Datalab New stats: A level and GCSE results 2017-18 (provisional), and KS4 and KS5 destination data - NAHT Understanding KS4 attainment and progress: evidence from LSYPE2 - DfE £1 a minute: the punishing fines parents face if they are late picking up their kids - Mirror NASUWT teaching union staff to strike over pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resit students' English and maths grades rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Speaker of the House of Commons meets Fitzwaryn School fan - Parliament Headteacher has answer to new Ofsted requirements - FE News Did free schools really get the best progress scores? - Schools Week College to close for FE funding protest - Times Educational Supplement | TES Provisional GCSE and equivalent results 2018: The impact of changes to Progress 8 - FFT Education Datalab DfE figures shoot down UTCs’ ‘incredible’ destinations claims - FE Week DfE figures shoot down claims of ‘incredible’ destinations for UTC pupils - Schools Week Fewer poorer pupils going into jobs or university - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level results by school type - Times Educational Supplement | TES National GCSE stats show small improvements - Times Educational Supplement | TES Drop in 30 hours childcare take-up 'expected' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Creativity is a human quality that exists in every single one of us - The Conversation Progress 8 scores plummet at schools that used controversial ECDL qualification - Schools Week ASCL launches inquiry into GCSE results as 57% fail to get ‘strong’ pass - Schools Week Attainment 8 and progress 8: Which regions performed best? - Schools Week What works in gifted education? - FE News Watch the moment a robot makes history by being grilled in Parliament - The Sun Charity Commission hands back control of private Christian school after governance investigation - Schools Week 'Dodgy maths': Private schools reject fees VAT plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jeremy Corbyn to address #LoveOurColleges rally - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of students who get right grades for Oxbridge do not choose to apply - Evening Standard ‘Invest in college IT to boost the economy’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES School league tables 2018: Free schools soar, and 6 more key findings - Schools Week Revealed: The 12 colleges to receive targeted careers training - FE Week £2.5m fund for Personal Careers Guidance in schools and colleges - FE News A-level results 2018: Scores stable, but fewer students get top grades - Schools Week Frontline training scheme poses a threat to social work education - Guardian Time to fight for the sustainability of our sector #LoveOurColleges - FE News Creativity can be the bridge between science and humanities education - The Conversation Will edtech take-up in further education produce the digitally-savvy workforce the UK needs? - Jisc Destinations of KS4 and KS5 pupils: 2017 - DfE A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2017 to 2018 (provisional) - DfE GCSE and equivalent results: 2017 to 2018 (provisional) - DfE Proportion of poor pupils in education, employment or apprenticeships falls - Schools Week Uptake in vocational studies suggests pupils are laser-focused on careers - FE News Michael Young: fighting for working class students’ access to knowledge - IOE London Blog EBacc results 2018: Entries rise slightly - Schools Week How to revolutionise marking workload - Teacher Toolkit To touch or not to touch? Early childhood educators’ beliefs about using touchscreen technologies with our youngest children - BERA 10:00 am: Pepper the robot appears before Education Committee - UK Parliament Principal closes college for staff and students to march on Westminster - Guardian ‘There’s no plan B’: academics race to safeguard research against Brexit - Guardian 9:30 am: The Science and Technology Committee continues its inquiry on the impact of social media and screen-use on young people’s health - Commons Select Committee Hate crime plan refreshed to protect victims and promote shared values - GOV.UK Shift over, Jeremy Corbyn, and let Angela Rayner do her job | Laura McInerney - Guardian Love nurses, love fire fighters, but #LoveOurColleges too! - FE News The school giving pupils stolen bikes - Schools Week Arts leaders call for more school funding - BBC Letter from Robert Halfon to Phillip Hammond re FE funding - Commons Select Committee Call for school ombudsman to deal with rising complaints from parents - Herald Scotland Education system in Northern Ireland 'close to a financial tipping point', Auditor General warns - Mail Durham student Matthew Hedges charged with spying by UAE - Times University of Birmingham opens door to more Chinese students - Times Scotland: Rates reforms ‘may force some private schools out of business’ - Times Scotland: School teaching inspections slashed to two days - Times Warning over future of education research as number of postgrad students drops 10% - Schools Week