News archive for 24th October 2018

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Wanted: More men to work in Scottish nurseries - Herald Scotland EU students shun prestigious Scots university courses - Herald Scotland School resource management self-assessment tool - DfE Initial teacher training: marketing toolkit - DfE Equality and diversity school leadership projects - DfE Record numbers learning instruments in class thanks to music hubs - DfE National professional qualifications (NPQs): list of providers - DfE Staffing and employment: advice for schools - DfE Aspire Achieve Advance 3aaa apprenticeship training provider termination of contracts - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teachers' pay grant 2018 to 2019 financial year allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 24 October 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Understanding your data: a guide for school governors and academy trustees - Education & Skills Funding Agency How can students easily protect themselves against cyber crime? - Jisc UK Home Office grants visa to visiting student after media uproar - PIE News An argument for order - The Learning Spy Poorest students almost three years behind wealthy peers in UK, study finds - Sutton Trust Local Councils call for extension of nursery school funding - Early Education Business2Business highlights a need for a roll out of demonstration projects to address BAME group entry into and progression within employment - ERSA Call for proposals focussing on mental health and wellbeing of students - Advance HE Learning from professional dialogue, research and practice - Advance HE A new approach to observing different learners’ interactive behavior and learning performance in cMOOCs - BERA Too many young people missing out on education and employment in opportunity ‘cold spots’ across England - Learning & Work Institute Tomsett: My affair with ex pupil would be 'wrong' today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor pupils fall two years behind - The Educator Revealed: 'Cold spots' for education and jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unregistered school in London prosecuted in landmark court case - Independent School pays thousands to former pupil over handling of rape claim - Guardian Two convicted for running illegal school with 50 pupils in west London - Evening Standard Al-Istiqamah Learning Centre director and headteacher convicted of running an illegal school - Mail Educate all pupils about menstrual wellbeing, MPs say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Incalculable harm to special needs education - Guardian DfE unable to say why Eton cheating case removed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Put teachers back in control of the classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES School placed boy pupil, 15, in isolation for two days because of his short haircut - Mail Ed Farmer inquest: Student was ‘shaking with fear’ before fatal initiation - Times Teaching is in crisis, but there is a new sense of hope born of the realisation that enough is truly enough - Times Educational Supplement | TES High Court Judge places 3aaa into compulsory liquidation - FE Week Duchess of Sussex tells students in Fiji girl's education is key to development - Telegraph Ofsted clamps down on ‘tutoring’ centre in Southall that was really a full-time school - Times Court fines two who ran unlicensed school with nearly 60 pupils - Guardian Pay rise for £450k-a-year exam board chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Designing online courses for refugees - Wonkhe Teacher who sent topless picture to pupil banned - Times Educational Supplement | TES LA and school expenditure: 2016 to 2017 financial year - DfE Schools face ‘severe' pay rise funding shortfall - Times Educational Supplement | TES Letter from Robert Halfon to Damian Hinds re consultation on the introduction of compulsory PHSE - Commons Select Committee Scotland: More men needed in the early years of learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrap free infant meals to boost funding, says Tory MP - Times Educational Supplement | TES Young people with special needs 'being failed in 44% of areas in England' - Guardian Duchess of Sussex says education is vital for women and girls in developing countries (video) - Guardian Two convicted of running illegal school - BBC Teach First apologises for investment banker tweet - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kiss with pupil only 'a peck', says leading head - Times Educational Supplement | TES Green light for Glasgow University research hub on hospital site - Scotsman Robert Halfon: Haters of Pepper the robot, don't be so stuffy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stop free school meals to boost education funding, says Tory MP - Mail DfE planning new research on SEND, PM says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two convicted in first prosecution against unregistered school - Mail New speech and language project seeks early years expertise - Nursery World Most parents expect nurseries to be experts in child nutrition - Nursery World 'Universities shouldn't be comfortable': vice-chancellors on campus protests - Guardian Richard Lochhead: Scotland's colleges have upped their game - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE launches consultation on content of reformed PE qualifications - Schools Week Teach First reveals new returner teachers focus in defence of Twitter ad campaign - Schools Week Northern Ireland: Primary school sports coaching government funding ends - BBC The damning verdict of inspectors on a Bridgend school kept open after parent campaign - Wales Online Employer guide to apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency Banned for life: Kent teacher who posed for semi-naked photos with former pupil - Mail Scotland: use graphic novels to open up learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Teach Mandarin, Urdu and Arabic to save language learning says report - Herald Scotland Colin Richards: Ofsted needs to rethink "quality of education" - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE wins first case against unregistered school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is Birmingham Met in the throes of Ofsted woes? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Written statement from Nick Gill re Teachers' Pay Grant - DfE Men graduate for the first time from Norland College for nannies - Mail Liverpool students apologise for homeless-themed fancy dress - Guardian DfE wins first ever prosecution against Illegal school in landmark court case - Schools Week Students mock homeless people on 'Tramps Night' - Mirror Launch of DfE consultation to review GCSE, AS and A-level physical education activity list - DfE JL Dutaut: The Westminster Bubble doesn’t have the answers to education's problems - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils fear for future of maintained nurseries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship starts rise by 20% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Father hits out at school for suspending 'bullied' autistic son - Mirror As a Jewish student, a rise In anti-Semitism has left me feeling unsafe on campus - HuffPost Ofsted ‘discussed’ off-rolling with Outwood Grange - Times Educational Supplement | TES Increase in schools supported by music hubs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Music education hubs struggle to attract older pupils - Schools Week Banning schoolchildren from talking between lessons is the stuff of Matilda | Hannah Jane Parkinson - Guardian 9:30 am: Westminster Hall debate entitled 'School Funding' - Parliament Summer baby school delays: Parents face postcode lottery - BBC Sex, drugs and harm reduction policy - Wonkhe Opportunities and challenges: Exporting UK college expertise overseas - FE News Carol Morris: It’s not all oil and grease, girls – consider an engineering career - Scotsman Calls for Scots children to be taught Chinese and Urdu - Scotsman Scotland: Call for fresh approach to language learning in schools - Mail Norland nannies welcome first men in 126-year history - Times Doctors call for ban on schools being built in pollution hotspots - Times Pupils surrounded by poverty falling two years behind - Times Freshers bobbed for apples in urine and alcohol, Ed Farmer student death inquest told - Times Ofsted accuses Al-Istiqamah ‘learning centre’ of running illegal school - Times Nurseries for children with special needs are at risk without funding guarantees | Roy Perry - Times Championing core subjects doesn’t mean ignoring music education | Nick Gibb - Times Why the hippies are wrong about homework | Emma Duncan - Times Scotland: Teach Chinese instead of French, schools are urged - Times Ireland: Students are too afraid of unfair treatment to report rape to gardaí - Times Ireland: Schools shut down over safety fears - Times 'Grave concerns' about future of council-run nurseries and support for special needs pupils as Tories refuse to guarantee vital funding - Mirror