News archive for 17th October 2018

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Schools prepare for January consultation over Ofsted plans - SecEd DfE urged to reconsider decision to withdraw EAL proficiency measure - SecEd New curriculum to create ‘ethical, informed and valued’ young people - SecEd Shocking stories of harassment faced by female pupils - SecEd Pearson: slow learner - Financial Times Campus sale near Grenfell tower ‘shameful’ says new college principal following investigation - FE Week #LoveOurColleges: Why does it always rain on FE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands march on parliament to protest for fair college funding - FE Week Government's treatment of college staff is 'disgraceful', Jeremy Corbyn tells protest - Independent New teacher training plans won’t work without proper funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE and equivalent results: 2017 to 2018 (provisional) - DfE Corbyn: Tories treat college staff ‘disgracefully’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leaked email raises fears of huge cuts to Welsh schools - Wales Online Interim principal replaces Dame Asha Khemka at West Nottinghamshire College - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must allow children to take risks when they play - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits: 'College maths teachers are inspiring' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher accused of plane sex will not face retrial - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Back off our curriculum,’ heads tell ministers and Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Perry Beeches ‘superhead’ Liam Nolan tells misconduct hearing: ‘It’s been a disaster’ - Schools Week Alternative provision: response to the select committee report - DfE Opportunity area programme: research and analysis - DfE Alternative provision market analysis - DfE Investigative research into alternative provision - DfE GCSE and equivalent results: 2017 to 2018 (provisional) - DfE Education Secretary vows to take action on school exclusions - DfE ESFA Update: 17 October 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted to break away from exam results focus - NAHT The DfE releases updated statutory careers guidance for schools and colleges - NAHT NAHT gives evidence to select committee on impact of social media on children - NAHT London protests and lobby of MPs in fight for college funding - UCU Is failure the secret to success for pupils? - The Educator How can we improve assessment practice? - Teacher Toolkit No retrial for 'sex on plane' teacher Eleanor Wilson - BBC Partnership Boards combined with DfE local delivery teams are leading the way for change in Opportunity Areas - NFER Pupils livestreaming creates a 'cocktail of risks' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What Ofsted needs to recognise about inclusion - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do you solve a problem like GCSE resits? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF New funding round to improve outcomes for pupils with special educational needs - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF WHO calls foul over visa denial for UK forum - PIE News Members of the Royal Warrant Holders Association inspire primary school children - Education and Employers The keys to the curriculum: creativity, enterprise and employability - Advance HE What do graduates do? - Wonkhe Organise your desk - Teacher Toolkit Struggling schools bearing the brunt of school funding cuts - LKMco How high-performing schools create a positive culture – sector press picks up our report for the DfE - LKMco Fact or fiction? Novels come top for reading skills - IOE London Blog Derby College Group becomes Society for Education and Training corporate partner - Education & Training Foundation | ETF New grants launched to explore how students could support staff in use of learning technologies - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Early intervention is better for children overcoming reading difficulties - UKEdChat Corbyn condemns government's 'disgraceful' treatment of college staff - Mail Scottish Greens urge SNP to ‘copy our homework’ on school policy - Scotsman We need to tackle Team UK’s lack of diversity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dad's fury after seven-year-old son with learning difficulties is 'banned from the classroom' - Mirror Schools 'incentivised' to permanently exclude children, DfE finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Scottish Greens issue government with 'needs improvement' education report card - Mail Pupils told ‘working class children rarely succeed’ in text book - Metro Teacher accused of having sex on plane with pupil will NOT face retrial - Mirror Three schools removed from T-levels 2020 delivery but one college added - FE Week Colleges' community role key to unlocking funds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jane Fletcher: Film can be a powerful tool for pupil's mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three schools removed from delivering first wave of T-levels - Schools Week Shares in education publisher Pearson climb as it says it's on track to return to growth - Mail What is key stage 3 good for? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Providers selected to deliver T Levels in academic year 2020-21 (updated) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Third of students who get right grades for Oxbridge do not choose to apply - Evening Standard Financial incentive for mainstream schools to permanently exclude pupils - Mail Scottish exam body accused of ‘piling pressure on schools’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir Ben Ainslie and wife call for oceans to feature in National Curriculum - Mail Councils in 'catch 22' over excluded pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Opportunity areas are 'too heavily led' by the DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'incentivised' to permanently exclude children, DfE finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Harvard - should race count in university admissions? - BBC DfE ‘recognises’ Progress 8 can drive ‘perverse incentives’ - Schools Week Most secondaries are using 'internal exclusion units' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Work begins on new version of GCSE textbook withdrawn after accusations of racism - HuffPost Labour: Further education hit by £3bn real-terms cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES We have a (not so) hidden crisis in our education sector - HuffPost Small businesses fear the UK will get ‘left behind’ if the government doesn’t address skills #LoveOurColleges - FE News Hinds vows action on exclusions early next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES SMEs favour colleges to deliver post-Brexit skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES SMEs fears for future skilled workforce - colleges best placed to support them - AoC | Association of Colleges Evidence-based education: Who should be doing what? - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Scotland: Call for school maintenance deadlines to be met in wake of near misses - Scotsman Reading novels really does improve teenagers' literacy, major UCL study finds - Mail Schools could be banned from kicking out pupils for having poor marks in bid to 'stop headteachers manipulating league tables' - Mail One in six children missed out on their chosen secondary for autumn 2018 with applications set to soar - Mail College funding cuts will deepen skills shortfall, warn businesses ahead of Westminster march - Independent Parents need to do homework on secondary school places as competition intensifies, experts say - Independent Should universities consider ethnicity in admissions? - BBC The students who fear for their ambitions amid college cuts - BBC Schools that kick out unruly pupils to boost league table position face crack down, Education Secretary warns - Telegraph Hinds considers law to hold schools to account for excluded pupils - Schools Week UAE ‘believes Durham student Matthew Hedges was spy for British intelligence’ - Times Excluded pupils’ marks set to count in school league tables - Times Demand for school places reaches 20-year high - Times VAT on fees ‘would close small schools’ - Times Students take aim at cowboy fancy dress ban - Times Scotland: University can be a tricky place if you have been in care | Dr Graham Connelly - Times