News archive for 30th October 2018

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School places crisis is worse than ever with half of children in some areas expected to miss out on their chosen secondary - Mail Children should be banned from taking mobile phones into class, say three quarters of parents - Mirror Andrew Warren appointed West Midlands RSC - Times Educational Supplement | TES New Regional Schools Commissioner appointed for the West Midlands - DfE Industry and education join forces to inspire future engineers in Northern Ireland - GOV.UK School census 2018 to 2019: technical information - DfE Alternative provision census 2019: technical specification - DfE Alternative provision census 2019: guide - DfE National professional qualifications (NPQs): list of providers - DfE School census autumn 2018 to summer 2019: school summary report - DfE School workforce census: guide to submitting data - DfE Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2018 - DfE Schools angry over Hammond's budget cash for 'little extras' - Guardian Excluded schoolchildren at 'serious risk' of becoming involved in knife crime, charity warns - Independent Share your curriculum plan here - Teacherhead Safety fears for English schools as classrooms built by Western Building Systems close in Ireland - Schools Week Head of post-18 review remains tight-lipped after budget offers no ‘little extras’ for FE - FE Week NHS trusts urged to spend apprenticeship levy faster or risk losing their funds - FE Week Scotland: Affluent pupils get head start in race for university - Herald Scotland Student Loans Company chair repeatedly ignores question on social media surveillance – video - Guardian Student loans firm accused of ‘KGB tactics’ for assessing eligibility - Guardian Teaching Schools Council chair Andrew Warren is new RSC for the West Midlands - Schools Week New Regional Schools Commissioner appointed for the West Midlands - DfE Philip Hammond says extra Budget cash for schools was 'nice gesture' following backlash - PoliticsHome 35 UK institutions awarded funding for new creative economy partnerships between the UK and Central Asia, South Caucasus and Ukraine - British Council Academies accounts return - Education & Skills Funding Agency Withdrawal of apprenticeship frameworks - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academy admissions - Education & Skills Funding Agency Childminders and childcare providers: The two types of Ofsted registers - Ofsted Childminders and childcare providers: Ofsted registration requirements - Ofsted 11 behaviour management tips - Teacher Toolkit Knife crime epidemic? Time to look beyond the headlines - LKMco Student Loans Company Chief Executive and Chair questioned - UK Parliament A new tool to help teachers as digital learning designers - BERA Budget 2018: how it affects schools - The Educator Schools don’t need ‘little extras’, Philip Hammond. They need proper funding | Holly Rigby - Guardian Gender myths dispelled by major new maths study - UKEdChat When 'little extras' will simply not be enough - Headteachers' Roundtable Budget 2018 – key points for universities - Universities UK Salford teachers to strike - NASUWT Small class size has at best a small effect on academic achievement - Best Evidence in Brief Do children who are born prematurely struggle more at school? - Best Evidence in Brief Are the youngest in class more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD? - Best Evidence in Brief Say hello, wave goodbye to behaviour problems - Best Evidence in Brief A call to action: Mental health and smartphone usage - Learning Scientists Government mustn't lose focus on tackling the teacher supply shortage - Nuffield Foundation Mathvember - UKEdChat Early intervention: Experts call for 25-year government strategy - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Championing gender equality in schools - IOE London Blog Gender pay gap could get worse - London School of Economics | LSE British Council launches advisory group to boost UK-East Asia TNE collaboration - British Council All eyes on post-Brexit collaboration - PIE News Local Industrial Strategy Greater Manchester: progress statement - GOV.UK Scotland: Poorest university students saddled with largest debts - Herald Scotland Childminders and childcare providers: Information about the fees that Ofsted charges to register - Ofsted Childminders and childcare providers: Ofsted inspections of those providers on the Early Years Register - Ofsted Childminders and childcare providers: Childcare and the law - Ofsted Mother on lack of support for son excluded from school - BBC Rise in cost of financial assistance to students in Scotland - Mail Improved destination measures needed before UTCs can be defended - FE News The real student politics - Financial Times Budget 2018: Hammond faces backlash for saying funding for schools will buy 'little extras' like whiteboards - Independent Pre-school Learning Alliance to become the Early Years Alliance - Nursery World Inequalities between state schools preparing pupils for university in Scotland - Mail Lack of women ‘Stem’ students has led to gender ‘digital divide’ - Financial Times 'Why student satisfaction doesn't matter' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We need to educate parents about mental health' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New BBC documentary puts spotlight on school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why a 'sorry' from a teacher is key to behaviour management - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor job satisfaction 'key reason' teachers quit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted 'needs powers to close illegal schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NI school principals questioned on education funding pressures - Commons Select Committee The colleges that could face pay strikes - Times Educational Supplement | TES New Sino-Irish college of engineering launches - Times Higher Education | THE MPs propose fines for universities that fail to report trials - Times Higher Education | THE Thousands of pupils sign up to sleep out - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We’re turning our Year 1 pupils off school' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils leave school 'unable to cut or sew' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Time is running out for Hinds on college funding' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching union opens ballot on pay offer - Scotsman 'We must find a way to stop teachers leaving' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Autumn Budget 2018 branded 'a kick in the teeth for early years sector' - Nursery World Don’t interrupt reading with questions, says Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of outstanding primaries lack top progress scores - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hammond defends money for ‘little extras’ but not teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA could cap providers' apprenticeship income - Times Educational Supplement | TES 9 in 10 Scottish students satisfied with college experience - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA reveals plans for new tougher apprenticeship provider register - FE Week Surgery students are struggling to use their hands because they spent 'too much time watching TV' - Mail Budget 2018 – Is education being flushed down the drain? - FE News Budget 2018: Hammond says ‘little extras’ pledge could cover ‘whiteboards and laptop computers’ - Schools Week Medical students 'raised on screens lack skills for surgery' - Guardian Treasury backtrack on April apprenticeship fee cut start date - FE Week Autumn Budget 2018: the key points for early years - Nursery World National curriculum assessments at key stage 1 and phonics screening checks in England, 2018 - DfE Education Committee question Chief Executive and Chair of Student Loans Company - FE News After the storm: Responding to critiques of our paper on student finance in Wales - HEPI How do Ofsted ratings relate to Key Stage 2 progress scores? - FFT Education Datalab Dads matter - UKEdChat The luxury gap – a different approach to the university open day circuit - Wonkhe Wonkfest preview: Let it snow - Wonkhe Towards a twenty-first century education system: Edge Future Learning - Edge Foundation ASCL comment on NFER teacher retention report - ASCL Philip Hammond's ‘little extras for schools’ announcement branded 'kick in the teeth' in Budget backlash - PoliticsHome The Government mustn’t lose focus on tackling the teacher supply shortage’, urges NFER Chief Executive Carole Willis - NFER Anger over chancellor's £400m 'little extras' for schools - BBC Teachers’ pay grant allocations for 2018/19 for England announced - NAHT Let's use KS3 to develop a sense of individuality - NAHT The Department for Education confirms differentiated pay award - NAHT Reviewing and updating SEN information reports - NAHT NCA tools: managing access and troubleshooting - NAHT Work experience for young people with SEND - NAHT Guidance on exam accommodations for autistic students - NAHT National assessments regulation annual report 2018 - NAHT Adults are still being trapped in low-paid work - FE Week Ofsted slate wiped clean for grade four UTC joining MAT - FE Week How to write off student debt: my plan for Labour | Danny Dorling - Guardian UK universities struggle to deal with ‘toxic’ trans rights row - Guardian Scotland: Ballot on teacher pay offer opens - Times Educational Supplement | TES Excluded pupils 'at risk of grooming by gangs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor job satisfaction 'key reason' teachers quit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top 5 tips: Why teachers need to reset weekday sleeping habits - FE News Jeff Kinney: ‘Let children read anything; I’ll never say no to a book’ - Guardian Alarming report on the health of school children – archive, 30 October 1911 - Guardian Barnardo's: Excluded children at risk of knife crime - BBC 10 ways to declutter our teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children who are expelled from school are at risk of being drawn into 'county lines' gangs, Barnardo's warns - Mail Surgery students 'losing dexterity to stitch patients' - BBC Scotland: Teachers urged to reject 'divisive' pay offer - BBC Scotland: Teaching union opens ballot on pay offer - Mail Carey Mulligan calls for on-set childcare in film industry - Guardian NFER: Teachers who work longer hours more likely to stay in profession and 6 other key findings - Schools Week Teacher “churn” doubles in five years, NFER study finds - Schools Week Top university staff face tighter vetting - Times Lecturer’s job fear after raising trans concerns - Times Budget 2018: Unpopular apprenticeship levy ‘still too rigid’ despite reforms - Times Budget 2018: Cash to cover ‘little extras’ is an insult, say teachers - Times The numbers do add up: girls just as good as boys at maths - Times Ireland: Travellers ‘fall through gaps’ in education - Times Ireland: Builder could be sued for school assessment costs - Times Ireland: With students like this, who needs the nanny state? | Beatriz Gietner - Times 10:00am - The Education Committee hears evidence for its accountability hearings - UK Parliament