News archive for 19th October 2018

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Tory school cuts are depriving kids of sport as figures show alarming drop in school PE hours - Mirror Students across UK use floss dance to campaign for school funding - Mail Unauthorised absences continue to rise - Schools NorthEast Report warns that Opportunity Areas are ‘too led’ by DfE - Schools NorthEast Department for Education announces digital skills overhaul - Public Technology Education Secretary threatens action on school exclusions - Schools NorthEast North East Colleges march on Westminster for ‘Love Our Colleges’ campaign - Schools NorthEast Regeneration, re-education and an anthem for peace - BERA School leaders, parents and governors come together to discuss maintained nursery schools - NAHT Changing the culture on cyber bullying - Universities UK UK Parliament wins new teaching award - UK Parliament Lords debates music education - UK Parliament Aspire Achieve Advance 3aaa apprenticeship training provider termination of contracts - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA funding claims and reconciliation - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies accounts direction - Education & Skills Funding Agency Education Secretary to Angela Rayner MP: use of statistics at DfE - DfE Teaching is stuck in the Fifties!’ - new documentary slams dated education models - Mirror Family learning in prisons toolkit now available - Learning & Work Institute Mentors sought for Further Forces programme - Education & Training Foundation Progress stalls on closing the inequality gap - Early Education Early years assessment: More reception pupils achieve 'good' development - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Wolfson Foundation awards £1 million towards the ongoing transformation of LSE’s campus - London School of Economics | LSE Low expectations are keeping bright pupils away from Oxbridge - Sutton Trust Youth groups receive Home Office money to tackle extremism - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Rosenshine re-ordered - Teacherhead To invest in colleges is to invest in the next generation - New Statesman Ofsted watch: Good week for colleges but private providers heavily criticised - FE Week Pupils are sent home as another suspected false widow spider outbreak shuts an eleventh London school - Mail Children's authors welcome Ofsted's move to lighten stress on testing - Guardian Pupils sent wrong school entrance exam results - BBC Dame Asha steps down from IfA board - FE Week Special downloadable supplement to celebrate Colleges Week 2018 - FE Week Special downloadable supplement celebrating Colleges Week 2018 - FE Week Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 19 October - Pearson IfA and ESFA in listening mode about apprenticeship concerns at FAB conference - FE Week EPSRC announces £8 million capital awards to support Early Career Researchers - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) CITB fixes ‘reverse subcontracting’ deal following college uproar - FE Week Funding available for projects that improve outcomes for children with SEND - Nursery World Funding for projects that improve outcomes for children with SEND - Nursery World DfE denies extra teacher induction year means more scrutiny - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA chief: T levels ‘got off on wrong foot’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA chief: T levels ‘got off on wrong foot’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools use social mobility money to appoint senior leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Colleges are the key that can unlock opportunities' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Colleges are the key that can unlock opportunities' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damian Hinds responds to Angela Rayner re DfE's use of statistics - DfE ‘Teaching linguistics improves language skills’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Teaching linguistics improves language skills’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don't forget apprentices in the Brexit debate' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don't forget apprentices in the Brexit debate' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four hour exams – the new reality for ASN pupils in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four hour exams – the new reality for ASN pupils in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should prison officers be recruited to support behaviour in schools? - IOE London Blog Mayor launches early years awards scheme to improve children's health - Nursery World The School in the Cloud review – how a computer for slum kids inspired a learning debate - Guardian Children continue to achieve a good level of development at the end of Reception - Nursery World Thousands of teachers and students 'floss for funding' - Times Educational Supplement | TES As we arrive at half-term, 5 reasons to be cheerful - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Exclusions, the curriculum and flossing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Who are the new PhD loans really for? - Guardian Instruction from ESFA re taking on former 3aaa apprentices - Education & Skills Funding Agency Check first with ESFA to get funded for transferred 3aaa apprentices - FE News Surge in post-16 specialist providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES How schools can optimise support for children with ADHD - UKEdChat Choice decisions - Office for Students Reclaim your half-term holiday - Teacher Toolkit How to be an outstanding NQT - The Educator Philip Augar, listen up!: How FE colleges deliver dynamism and entrepreneurship in degrees - HEPI In the news: 19 October - UCU £50k to join ESFA ‘top-quality’ apprenticeship register - FE Week The myth of meritocracy: who really gets what they deserve? - Guardian DfE has ‘lost focus’, warns ex-schools tsar - Times Educational Supplement | TES Investigation: Is Ofsted biased about the curriculum? - Times Educational Supplement | TES In this week's Tes: tackling bullying and curriculum battles - Times Educational Supplement | TES Faith schools 'one of Britain's biggest problems', academic claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish teachers hit out over assaults and stress of classroom life - Scotsman ESFA to pay 3aaa staff to help with apprentice transfer - FE Week USA: Homework for three-year-olds? They’re too young to enter the rat race | Emma Brockes - Guardian FE course expansion & funding opportunities - FE News Isolation rooms: How swathes of schools are removing pupils from their classrooms - Schools Week Academy trust looks to Spotify and Netflix for autonomy inspiration - Schools Week Children with problems or problem children? - BBC Schoolboy, 14, who was forced to sell drugs before being shot dead in a playground told social workers he feared for his life - Mail William who? One in three teenagers have never heard of playwright Shakespeare - Mail Shot boy, 14, told of fear for his life - Times Two pupils only... unless they are from private school, says Co-op in Combe Down, Bath - Times Why nature trumps nurture (to a degree) - Times How do you pass an Oxford interview? The answer’s obvious - Times Pupils taught how to avoid slavery traps - Times William who? Shakespeare baffles 1 in 3 pupils - Times Scotland: Muriel Gray to face grilling over Glasgow School of Art fire - Times Ireland: Don’t deport Irish pupil, Harris urges - Times