News archive for 23rd October 2018

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Future of nurseries for children with SEND 'at risk', councils warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Poorest students almost three years behind wealthy peers in UK, study finds - Independent 38,000 sign petition calling for SEND funding reform - Times Educational Supplement | TES The cruel, repressive sound of silence | Letters - Guardian EEF chief: English technical education is 'shameful' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Welsh FE lecturers vote for strike action - Times Educational Supplement | TES KS3 getting more focus because of new GCSEs, says MAT director - Times Educational Supplement | TES 38,000 sign petition calling for urgent reform of special education funding - Mail Petition against special needs funding cuts taken to Westminster - Guardian Longitudinal qualitative research to look at what works for children with conduct disorders - BERA Developing subject-level TEF proposals: can the exercise live up to its aims? - Wonkhe The subject TEF journey continues - Wonkhe The rise of unconditional offers – universities need to be careful - Montrose42 Disadvantaged children do better at school if in a minority, finds report - Guardian MPs want UK university funding tied to tackling sexual harassment - Times Higher Education | THE Students’ view of PhD’s value drops as course progresses - Times Higher Education | THE Standards for official statistics published by DfE - DfE School teachers' pay and conditions - DfE High needs funding arrangements: 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Funding and special educational needs and disabilities examined - UK Parliament Children affected by domestic abuse must be given 'protected' status, MPs urge - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Guiding principles for the reward and recognition of teaching - Advance HE UK missed out on billions due to student visa restrictions – UUK - PIE News Head who failed to report rape claim escapes ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES 5 reasons why you should teach in Scotland - Teacher Toolkit UK results among most blighted by pupil behaviour, says PISA chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schoolboy entrepreneur, 10, makes £600 a month from his own sock company - Mail FE colleges say – “Let’s do business” - FE News Educational disadvantage starts from age 10 - UKEdChat UKEdMag: 26 First World War lesson ideas for schools - UKEdChat Children as young as seven suffer effects of discrimination - UKEdChat Leadership Focus October 2018 - NAHT NAHT charity partner 2018/19 – Place2Be - NAHT When you visit Westminster, you expect to see the Union Jacks, the black cabs and the red double-deckers - NAHT Prudent planning or imminent crisis? Data on school reserves in Wales reveal complex picture - NFER Launch of new OECD PISA Equity report – EPI response - EPI A South African view on decolonizing knowledge and universities – HEPI’s 2018 annual lecture - HEPI NEU comment on Equity in Education - National Education Union Taking the pain out of self-assessment - FE News Scotland: Campaign demands more support for blind pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could handwriting bias write off exam chances? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The rise of unconditional offers - universities need to be careful - Montrose42 Headmaster spared punishment for failing to report pupil's alleged rape and ex-pupil's suicidal thoughts - Mirror Alleged illegal school boss claims he was following DfE guidance - Schools Week Schools ‘incentivised’ to off-roll SEND pupils mid-year to keep high needs cash - Schools Week Head’s book led to probe into affair with former pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES College funding cuts have a hidden cost - Times Educational Supplement | TES How we’ve been designing equitable foundations for open knowledge - Jisc Thousands of children with special needs excluded from schools - Guardian Head’s book led to probe into affair with former pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sexism and racism still exist in our world – don't ridicule parents who shield children from it, says Natasha Devon - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years education key in reducing disadvantage - Nursery World School goes car-free and halves pupil intake in bid to secure permanent Hampstead site - Evening Standard This is what it's really like to be a headteacher in 2018 - HuffPost Welsh college staff overwhelmingly vote for strike action over pay and workload - Wales Online Another studio school to close – meaning nearly half have wound up - FE Week Schools have incentive to exclude SEND pupils, MPs told - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND pupils 'failed by cuts and deliberate delays' - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in six disadvantaged students in UK are satisfied with their lives, study finds - Independent OECD: Target extra resources at schools serving disadvantaged areas - Schools Week Pupils' poor wellbeing should worry all of us - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools urged to stop harassment of girls - Times Educational Supplement | TES Co-op academies boss Frank Norris to retire in June 2019 - Schools Week Deprived UK students among most stressed in OECD - Schools Week Parents of excluded autistic pupils forced to quit jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children’s services 'at breaking point’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools urged to stop harassment of girls - Times Educational Supplement | TES Equity in Education: Breaking down barriers to social mobility - OECD 10:00 am: Education Committee will hear evidence to inform its inquiry into SEND - Commons Select Committee Decision in principle to close The Bath Studio School - FE News Britain has created a crisis in childhood, says former children’s commissioner - Guardian Jumpin’ jets, a woman! Call to update children’s books with female academics - Guardian Dear Damian Hinds, What’s so difficult about giving every child a library ticket? | Michael Rosen - Guardian Which assessment method is best? - FE News Universities: Is free speech under threat? - BBC Government must act to tackle street harassment of women and girls - UK Parliament Schoolchildren arming themselves with Tasers, knuckledusters and pistols for class, official police data shows - Mail Wales: Parents slam primary school over ‘terrible’ unisex toilets and tell pupils to come home to use the loo - The Sun Spending plans must not ignore children, government told - BBC Charities call for Government to put children at heart of budget - Nursery World Essay writing in school exams 'test of how fast you can write' - Herald Scotland Student died after pub crawl initiation - Times Excluding autistic pupils breaches human rights - Times Academic Joseph Mifsud, linked to Russia-Trump inquiry, ‘has a history of vanishing’ - Times Ireland: Portrait of pupil sends artist to top of the class - Times Government failing to tackle 'relentless' sexual harassment of women and girls in public, MPs find - HuffPost