News archive for 18th October 2018

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Milton builds FAB bridges towards T-level reforms - FE Week Music is becoming 'preserve of the privileged few' as state schools abandon the subject in droves - Telegraph Oxford University interview questions: Would you pass the test? - Independent Boss of another struggling college steps down with immediate effect - FE Week GCSE textbook saying working-class pupils lack right attitudes to succeed to be rewritten - Independent Newly opened schools don’t tend to have particularly great exam results - FFT Education Datalab More must be done to guarantee the future of Britain's colleges - HuffPost Graduation blues: how to handle the move back home - Guardian Culture club - Sutton Trust ‘Geek Girl’ gamers are more likely to study science and technology degrees - UKEdChat Statistics: outcome based success measures - DfE Statistics: early years foundation stage profile - DfE NEET and participation: local authority figures - DfE Young people NEET or activity unknown: comparative data scorecard - DfE Statistics: pupil absence - DfE How London Met was turned around - HEPI A University Turnaround: Adaptive Leadership at London Metropolitan University, 2014 to 2018 - HEPI NEET data by local authority - DfE Church academies: model documents - DfE Adults to benefit from digital skills overhaul - DfE 12 tips to engage reluctant readers - Teacher Toolkit Bullying, fraud and the need for a “just” culture - Wonkhe Wonkhe Weekly – E5 Social mobility, colleges week, “non academics”, and cowboys - Wonkhe A goose on the loose: more animal action on campus - Wonkhe Gamifying programming education in K-12 - BERA Partial graphic organizers to support student note-taking and learning - Learning Scientists Learning from failure - UKEdChat Why is history in the UK so white? - Wonkhe Chairman of Essex County Council backs launch of educational programme described as ‘life-changing’ by sixth form students - Villiers Park Educational Trust Getting on, not just getting in, is what matters - Wonkhe Ofsted needs to be given more time to introduce the changes planned for inspection - NAHT New stats: A level and GCSE results 2017-18 (provisional), and KS4 and KS5 destination data - NAHT IOE professor co-founds the UK’s first Institute for Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Education - IOE London Blog Unemployment rate for graduates at its lowest for 39 years - Universities UK County Durham pupil ‘makes world bigger’ to win national digital challenge - Primary Times DfE launches consultation on fully-funded digital skills training - FE Week Third of secondary pupils have mental health issues - Times Educational Supplement | TES What does a rock look like? Oxford reveals sample interview questions - Guardian Family and school help get you to university, but then it’s up to you - Financial Times Primary school league table: Search and compare the best primary schools in your area - Telegraph Family helps get you into university, but then it’s up to you - Financial Times Genes play major role in university choice and success, study suggests - Independent Perry Beeches ‘superhead’ Liam Nolan guilty of misconduct - Schools Week One in three secondary school pupils 'has mental health problem' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now AI: New institute aims to tackle the threat that young people face from the rapid growth of technology - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bristol University students face £100 noisy party fine - BBC Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn 2017 and spring 2018 - DfE Early years foundation stage profile results: 2017 to 2018 - DfE Further education outcome-based success measures: 2015 to 2016 - DfE 'Success will be Germany learning from T levels' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of pupils don't know Shakespeare wrote plays - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should we use humour for managing behaviour? - Times Educational Supplement | TES MP Frank Field: Education fails the disadvantaged - Times Educational Supplement | TES AI has 'potential to manipulate school pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Commons leader grilled over 'racist' textbook - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let’s abolish school holidays. It’ll save you feeding the children - Guardian Touch: the dangerous dilemma for men in primary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Peter Jackson makes First World War film for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE destinations and earnings data: The 5 key findings - FE Week Anne Milton finally meets the IfA’s apprentice panel – 18 months after it was formed - FE Week Unemployment rate for graduates at its lowest for 39 years - Universities UK Welsh 15 year olds are taking Pisa tests this term - what will they be asked and why? - Wales Online Oxford Conservatives Bullingdon Club ban overturned - BBC Unauthorised absences continue to rise - Schools Week EYFS results 2018: 71.5% of reception pupils achieve ‘good’ development - Schools Week 'We're on a never-ending quest for WAGOLLs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: ‘Teachers don’t need Higher maths qualifications’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Showdown for the AI ‘wild west’ in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years results: Rise in 5-year-olds at 'good' level - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greens issue SNP with ‘education report card’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in ten pupils have missed school due to family holidays - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Staff and students must unite for better funding' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads! Free your teachers from draconian standardised templates and paperwork - Times Educational Supplement | TES School communication: why there's no silver bullet - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK’s first Institute for Ethical AI in Education launches at Speakers’ House - University of Buckingham 'Third of secondary pupils have mental health issues' - Times Educational Supplement | TES House of Lords debates music education - Parliament We need to reach children before they decide university isn't for them | Christopher Birchall - Guardian Increased funding pressure for FE organisations – but how much more can they take? #LoveOurColleges - FE News Is Labour tied in knots over academies? - BBC History is 'too white and Eurocentric' and slavery shouldn't be taught because it puts black students off the subject, say academics - Mail One in three university historians from ethnic minorities experience racial discrimination, research finds - Independent Third of 15 to 18-year-olds suffer mental health problems, research suggests - Independent Focus on slavery is putting black children off history, teachers warned - Telegraph History is too white, claim academics - Times Third of young struggle with mental health - Times Cambridge still closing doors to students from poorer backgrounds - Times Undergraduate history teaching is pale and stale - Times Ireland: University is wasted on today’s students - Times Ireland: Shortage of teachers hits poor most, head claims - Times Ireland: Don’t ban phones in school, they help pupils resist online bullies, says expert - Times