News archive for 22nd October 2018

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Wales: Parents tell kids to come home for a wee because of 'terrible' school toilets in new £30million building - Mirror Lil Wayne necklace helps art student pay university fees - BBC University student, 20, died after triple-vodka bar crawl initiation ceremony - Independent Student died after boozy university initiation ceremony where first years drank vodka from pig's head - Mirror Headteacher admits sexual relationship with former pupil, but denies unprofessional conduct - Schools Week Buckinghamshire College Group becomes Society for Education and Training corporate partner - Education & Training Foundation ETF recognised as a Disability Confident Committed Employer - Education & Training Foundation What teachers tapped this week #56 – 22nd October 2018 - Teacher Tapp University students set to elect first officer to represent men - Independent IOE research examines the role of alternative provision - IOE London Blog Teach First appoints Caroline Carr to Board of Trustees - Teach First Troubled Families teams to get £5m to tackle youth violence - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Policy Watch: Subject TEF year 2 - Wonkhe 40% of NQTs suffer mental health issues - The Educator Scotland takes on the Worrinots - The Worrinots UK misses out on more than £8bn due to student visa changes - Universities UK Trade union laws frustrate national support for strike action on pay - UCU Headmaster who viewed 'highly inappropriate' videos on school computers avoids punishment - Mail Does it matter what degree grade you get? - BBC Subject knowledge enhancement: an introduction - DfE University 'grade inflation' to be tackled as first-class degrees rise - BBC Don’t students need a TEF of their own? - Wonkhe The graduate route to a professional career in higher education - Wonkhe An outsider’s view of subject level TEF - Wonkhe Subject-level TEF comes into sharper focus - Office for Students 16 to 19 allocation data: 2018 to 2019 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Withdrawal of apprenticeship frameworks - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Newly qualified teachers and impostor syndrome - Teacher Toolkit Revised subject-level TEF ‘higher burden’ for universities - Times Higher Education | THE Four colleges set for strike action as new trade union laws 'frustrate' UCU - FE Week Services for vulnerable children and young people 'at breaking point' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New measure to tackle grade inflation at university - DfE Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework: subject-level - DfE Boy, 15, charged with using pencil to stab teacher in neck at Scottish school - Scotsman Welsh college staff vote for strike action over pay and workload - UCU Students to face more disruption as UK university staff back action over pay - Independent Colleges lose £1.1m under controversial English and maths condition-of-funding rules - FE Week #TeacherWellbeingIndex 2018 highlights stress epidemic and rising mental health issues across the sector - FE News Scotland: Boy, 15, charged with assaulting teacher in Lochgelly - Mail Duo in court as landmark ‘illegal school’ case begins - Schools Week UCAS is now open for university applications for 2019 - Guardian Academics warn that new work assessment risks UK research - Financial Times Special needs pupils being failed by system 'on verge of crisis' - Guardian Special needs: 'It's soul-destroying to have to watch your daughter get worse’ - Guardian Teach First launches bid to hire more staff from diverse backgrounds into London schools - Evening Standard School bans bags so pupil turns up carrying his books in a microwave - Mirror Hundreds of jobs at risk from fresh UK pensions cost hike - Times Higher Education | THE UK HE staff back pay strike but turnout mostly falls short - Times Higher Education | THE Lehain to step down from New Schools Network - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the design of school buildings matters - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tears from ex-pupil as she describes relationship with head - Times Educational Supplement | TES Target uni students to boost FE teacher recruitment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Birmingham school has been criticised by parents after introducing a ‘no talking’ rule in the corridors - HuffPost College funding petition reaches 50,000 signatures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outdoor play officially ‘fundamental’ to learning in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Colleges are for everyone, no matter what’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Use CPD to recruit teachers to challenging areas' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four colleges heading for strike action - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don't get sucked into trad vs prog on EduTwitter' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'can't turn themselves around in a year' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We must remain optimistic about colleges' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Children surprise us with kindness every day' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE podcast: The growth in specialist colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Welcome to the chaos of primary progress measures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leading head accused of sexual relationship with former pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES New ‘specialist graduate school’ faces ‘overlap’ with Chartered College - Schools Week John Tomsett accused of ‘inappropriate relationship’ with former A-level student - Schools Week Secondary school bans talking in the corridors to keep children calm - Guardian How to tackle low level disruption - The Educator We need a step-change in higher technical learning to boost productivity - HEPI Weekly digest #129: Students under stress - Learning Scientists Ofsted ‘not the team to inspect MATs', says Carter - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: Ofsted's new inspection framework - Times Educational Supplement | TES The civic university is alive, but is it well? - Wonkhe One in five teachers fail Chartered College’s ‘C-teach’ tests - Schools Week Schoolchildren, poets and the Duchess of Sussex all agree on the magic of tidying - Telegraph Academic freedom: I spent four months at UAE’s national university – this is what I found - The Conversation European collaboration is vital to Welsh universities - Welsh Government What is the difference between an assessor and an end point assessor (EPA)? - FE News Minister’s charity funds opponents of ‘red tape’ - Schools Week University pension fund warned against revising outlook - Financial Times Government unveils measures to tackle grade inflation at universities - Mail University grade inflation to be tackled as first-class degrees rise - BBC UK universities face grade inflation crackdown - Guardian Universities to be punished for awarding 'too many' top degrees in new rating system - Mail Government announces plan to tackle 'grade inflation' at UK universities - Independent Chance to cut pay as £424,000 vice-chancellor quits University of Southampton - Times Scotland: Graduate’s job hopes go 11,000 miles south - Times Scotland: Former pupil sues Strathallan School over ‘bullying to brink of suicide’ - Times Ireland: School tells students to stay at home over structural flaws in building - Times Universities found guilty of grade inflation will be penalised in rankings under Government plans - Telegraph