News archive for 31st October 2018

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Scotland: Eleven teachers sent home after refusing to teach 'violent' pupils - Guardian Only one in 20 boys and just one in 83 girls get recommended amount of daily exercise, survey finds - Mail Council attacked for saying dyslexia ‘questionable’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman: ‘Stuck schools’ are a scandal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Applications open to run country's first Secure School - GOV.UK Milestone for multibillion pound project as apprentices meet Minister for London - GOV.UK £3 million to boost digital skills in Manchester - GOV.UK Join the maths Teaching for Mastery programme - DfE Get support from your local maths hub - DfE School census 2018 to 2019: guide for schools and LAs - DfE Initial teacher training: marketing toolkit - DfE University of Liverpool scraps plan to open Egypt campus - Guardian ESFA Update: 31 October 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Education Secretary appoints new Social Mobility Commissioners - DfE Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Amanda Spielman letter to the Public Accounts Committee - Ofsted Ofsted Parent View: management information - Ofsted Mental health and wellbeing: a priority - Office for Students Lords debates early intervention in children's lives - UK Parliament Why can't schools break free from cycle of chronic underperformance? - Independent Eight more suspected ‘illegal schools’ under criminal investigation - Schools Week Children ‘think they won’t get mental health help unless they attempt suicide’ - HuffPost 'Forget the Budget, it's about the Spending Review' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What every teacher needs to know about the impact of trauma - Times Educational Supplement | TES Flexible working 'could tackle retention crisis' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney announces end of ‘testing treadmill’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 95% of parents snub Ofsted survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Is schools' priority teaching or mental health?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Little extras’ budget gaffe highlights bitter squabble over school spending - Times Scotland: Teachers docked pay after refusing to work with violent pupils - Herald Scotland We must look at violence against teachers, says PM - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs calls for fundamental review of youth service spending - CYPN | Children & Young People Now In the new edition of CYP Now: Early years food, social worker budgets, and tackling youth reoffending - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Do we know what Brexit means for children? - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Full-fibre primary schools and the Mancunian skills gap – 10 tech announcements you may have missed in the Budget - Public Technology University axing unconditional offers demonstrates need for system overhaul - UCU Scotland: Teachers making a stand against pupil violence face pay deductions and are barred from their classrooms - NASUWT Tyneside teachers to take day of action - NASUWT Benefits of research for society - Russell Group The level illusion - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Considering models of professional learning - Teacher Development Trust | TDT TLCs: A vehicle for improving children’s outcomes one habit at a time - Teacher Development Trust | TDT University in London to stop making unconditional offers - Sutton Trust Theresa May hints at crackdown on parents and kids who bully teachers online - PoliticsHome Managing email workload - Teacher Toolkit The power of a relationship - Nesta Scotland: Council nurseries ‘not delivering’ for working parents - Herald Scotland Damning Ofsted visit brands special needs charity’s apprenticeships ‘inadequate’ - FE Week Google searches for “university acceptance rates” increased 714% in the last 5 years - HEPI Written statement from the Ministry of Justice re Secure Schools - Parliament Scotland: Eleven teachers sent home after refusing to teach 'unruly pupils' - BBC How not to misfire.. exploring the learning process with Henry VIII - Teacherhead Blown away: will we miss the sweet sound of school recorders? - Guardian Scotland: Teachers 'told to leave school' after refusing to work with 'violent' pupils - Mail Ofsted chief criticises 'scandal' of schools stuck in a rut of failure - Guardian Education Secretary appoints new Social Mobility Commissioners - DfE Secondary state schools ‘excessively dominated by male headteachers’ - FE News Families go to high court to oppose Hackney's SEN cuts - Guardian Mum tells how 'bullied' daughter 'vomited 20 times an hour' as she shares heartbreaking picture of girl in hospital - Mirror £3 million to boost digital skills in Manchester - FE News 'Nothing short of a scandal' Ofsted chief condemns hundreds of schools for underperforming for more than a decade - Independent Scale of student anxiety and distress is worry for us all, says universities chief - Evening Standard DfE study of English universities’ costs seen as path to fee cut - Times Higher Education | THE Twelve new social mobility commissioners appointed - Schools Week University axing unconditional offers demonstrates need for system overhaul - FE News London university stops making unconditional offers in bid to 'maintain standards' - Independent Only 3% of Year 5 pupils are doing enough exercise - Times Educational Supplement | TES How long before we see a GCSE grade 10? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted calls for register of home-schooled pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Non-graduate teaching apprenticeship shelved - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ban on pro-life groups at Scottish university is dropped - Herald Scotland Cuts to funding affecting FE quality, says Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES What can teachers do to help pupils with dyslexia? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted move ‘could favour knowledge curriculum’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 6 ‘major risks’ to the quality of education, according to Ofsted - Schools Week Extra funding for schools wasted, says Ofsted chief - Times 'The education system's blind spot' - outstanding schools - BBC University in London to stop making unconditional offers - Guardian Wales: Police to tell children's school about domestic abuse calls - BBC 'There's a lot of stigma': why do so few care leavers go to university? - Guardian Scotland: Two thirds of council nursery places are half-day only, report finds - Scotsman Teachers switching jobs rockets in five years - The Educator Schools fear broken funding promises - BBC Ofsted boss backs calls for more 16-to-18 cash to combat falling standards - FE Week Parents call for nurseries to be banned in 'pollution hotspots' - Nursery World Scottish Highlands school built and owned by community opens to pupils - Scotsman How to engage reluctant learners - The Educator Ofsted move ‘could favour knowledge curriculum’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Some thoughts on how to implement an effective school digital strategy - Independent Head 3 percent of children hit daily activity target - UKEdChat UKEdMag: Teachers as advisors and mentors - UKEdChat How did life turn out for pupils who took applied science qualifications at Key Stage 4? - FFT Education Datalab Association for Project Management award first ever charterships (CHpp) - PoliticsHome Taking a holistic approach – wellbeing in higher education - Wonkhe A matter of discipline - Wonkhe Wonkfest preview: the night of the living metrics - Wonkhe Cameron Wyllie: Teachers now are better than the past’s ‘real characters’ - Scotsman Scotland: Poorer students face highest levels of debt - Scotsman University to stop giving out unconditional offers - Mail Tariq Ramadan admission sparks fresh row over rape claims - Guardian Three-quarters of British parents want 'hugely distracting' smartphones banned from classrooms - Mail Do schools help or hinder social mobility? - BBC University stops making unconditional offers - BBC From Syria to Cambridge University - BBC New report calls on Government to close the race employment gap by engaging community partners - FE News More students from deprived areas accepted to Edinburgh University - Mail Campaign aims to dispel misconception that childminders are babysitters - Nursery World New surgeons ‘lack dexterity after too much screen-time’ - Times University ditches unconditional offers after A-level results suffer - Times Student Loans Company to carry on snooping - Times British sixth‑formers are ‘years ahead’ of Americans - Times French horn is blowing its last as pupils reach for the ukulele - Times Scotland: Edinburgh gets one in ten students from poor homes - Times Ireland: Schools tested for defects ready to reopen - Times