News archive for 4th September 2018

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Progress in closing attainment gap between wealthiest and poorest students is ‘too slow’, report warns - Independent Thousands of children face shorter week at school due to Tory cuts as education crisis deepens - Mirror 'We bought an £800,000 house to be near a top state school' - how parents are tackling rising school fees - Telegraph Private education firm Cognita bought for £2bn by Swiss company - Schools Week UK 'missing out' on overseas students - BBC How to start SEND provision right this September - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huge rise in ongoing Sats cheating probes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Political foes unite to cheer EuroSkills Team GB - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Colleges 'are intrinsic to economic growth' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school standards continue to rise - FE News KS2 results show widening gulf between strongest and weakest primary schools - Guardian Top ten most employable degrees in 2018 - FE News Traditional Higher Education doesn't work any more - Creating a new post-18 education system that works for everybody - FE News University to pay new vice-chancellor £200,000 less than predecessor - Mail College and Co-op lead way with paid day release on two year course - but it’s not an apprenticeship - FE Week The rise in school exclusions is a result of the education market | Letters - Guardian Teenage hacker admits sparking 400 UK school evacuations with 24,000 hoax bomb threats - Mirror Private schools 'break rules against coaching children to pass 11-plus grammar school entry exam' - Independent Satisfaction with Scotland’s schools is falling, finds survey - Scotsman New £8.2m school in Cardiff has to delay opening by two days as it's still not ready for new term - Wales Online Basic need allocations - DfE Ready reckoners and transition matrices for key stage 2: 2018 - DfE Growing support for campaign to #LetThemTeach - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Super-selective' grammar school must change rules - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental health: Scotland aims for counselling in every secondary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nicola Sturgeon: Heads in Scotland to learn new powers by end of the year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school standards continue to rise - DfE Improving engagement and attainment in maths and English courses - DfE Primary school accountability - DfE British Council launches fifth alumni awards - PIE News Stark gender gap in pupils’ favourite subjects - Times Educational Supplement | TES The long roots of childhood, and how they explain economic inequalities across the whole of life - IOE London Blog Helping people get jobs and manage money - Wonkhe Open access – “S” club is going to show you how - Wonkhe Ofsted closes in on gaming schools amid 'alarming data' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fiona Folan: ‘Our data obsession undermines trust in teachers’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parliamentary newsletter 25 - September 2018 (pdf) - AELP NEU comment on announcement of 53 new free schools - National Education Union Bricks for autism: how LEGO-based therapy can help children - Cambridge Network Jisc welcomes the move to make science research free by 2020 - Jisc Nuffield Early Language Intervention wins Teach Early Years Award - Nuffield Foundation DfE and NFER on baseline testing: Do they know what they do? - BERA Call for new graduate work visa - Russell Group A lost generation of scientists? UK schools urged to do more to turn kids on to science - Primary Times Inspire them... to draw every day! - Primary Times UUK calls for post-study work visa to give UK a “competitive edge” - PIE News Fresh digital thinking on apprenticeships - Jisc Teach Too: Building a professional community of practice - Education & Training Foundation Improving engagement and attainment in maths and English courses - FE News The post-18 review in England: A story of two loans? - HEPI The Fourth Education Revolution (Anthony Seldon) – Book summary (part 1) - Independent Head EuroSkills 2018: Team UK given send-off at Parliament - FE Week Revised statutory guidance on disqualification by association - NAHT Empty promises - the crisis in supporting children with SEND - NAHT Research round-up (31 August 2018) - NAHT DfE launches new national teacher vacancy service for schools - NAHT NASUWT comments on the Programme for Government - NASUWT Year 11 exam results 2018: Nearly two thirds of entries achieve A/7 or higher, three times the national average - GSA Training the leaders of tomorrow: Developing partnerships between colleges and financial services - Collab Group Scotland: Sturgeon puts mental health improvements at heart of programme for government - Mail Using the Learning Records Service - FE News Kent County Council confirms review on 11+ coaching ban - BBC The effectiveness of FE quality assurance - FE News School Uniform Guidance to become statutory - Welsh Government Advice from a principal: 'Check how college staff are really feeling' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Independent schools shun KS2 Sats tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to spot SEND pupils who are 'social masking' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hilary Goldsmith: The DfE is deaf to qualified voices on school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils 'prefer sets to mixed-ability groups' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mark Lehain: opening a free school is tough – but so worth it - Times Educational Supplement | TES Survey suggests what pupils want from teachers is kindness and humour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Latest release of provisional KS2 data 2018 - FFT Education Datalab Ofsted announces fresh clampdown on league table ‘gaming’ after ECDL scandal - Schools Week St Michael's Primary in Treforest put in special measures over 'weak' teaching - Wales Online Parents hit with additional fees for childcare in England - Financial Times New schools safeguarding guidance reflects latest concerns - Nursery World Help the Government to design a new training offer for adults - Unionlearn End all-week school puddings, says charity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats: Progress scores revealed for floor standards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most parents want smartphone ban in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats results: Gap between authorities widens - Times Educational Supplement | TES School bans hoodies because they’re a ‘safety risk’ - Metro How much is enough? - Institute for Effective Education Surprise rewards for good attendance had a surprising consequence - Institute for Effective Education Examining the effects of parental involvement - Institute for Effective Education Lessons from the scale-up of an early maths programme - Institute for Effective Education More evidence in favour of free eye tests and glasses at school - Institute for Effective Education The introduction of T Levels will bring about an enormous step change - FE News Return oversight of schools to local people, says Sir Michael Wilshaw - Schools Week Bidding open to deliver education and childcare T-Level - Nursery World Working with unionlearn to bring skills to all - Unionlearn Academies payments information: remittance advice notes - FE News Revenue funding: payments to academies - FE News Four in 10 childcare providers 'fear closure within 12 months' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted criticises partner agencies for unnecessary child protection referrals - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Primary school floor standards for 2018 - Schools Week Half of parents asked to pay extra fees for ‘free’ 30 hours childcare policy, survey finds - Independent Two in five think boys should be allowed to wear skirts to school - Metro Most parents think smartphones should be banned in school - Metro Genes shown to influence how well children do throughout their time at schoo - The Conversation 30-hour free childcare scheme leaves nurseries at risk of closure, charity says - HuffPost National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2018 (provisional) - DfE Early years health profile: 2018 update - GOV.UK ‘It’s taken so much stress out of my life’: What school uniform exchanges mean to parents - HuffPost School staff buckling under intolerable workloads and mounting stress, says UNISON - FE News Colleges back minimum entry standards for bachelor’s degrees - Times Higher Education | THE Poll: majority of UK public backs two-year post-study work visa - Times Higher Education | THE Cutbacks hit school ‘support’ - Express Basic need allocations - FE News 30-hour childcare: 4 in 10 providers fear closure in the next 12 months - Nursery World New 'Ready for School' fund to close attainment gap - Nursery World The 4 main trends in the 2018 KS2 primary test results - Schools Week Creating a new post-18 education system that works for everybody - AoC | Association of Colleges New free schools to open across England - DfE School support staff 'buckling', union warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Doubling in number of pupils given extra time for Sats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning over back-to-school asthma attacks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for alternative route to BA and BSc - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four in 10 adults back gender neutral uniforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Saracens High among 53 new free schools opening - Times Educational Supplement | TES What triggers adults to participate in learning? - FE News New visa for international students would benefit UK - Universities UK New poll: public support for international students - Universities UK University leaders call for new visa for international students - Mail Let teachers sack heads … and other ideas for a National Education Service - Guardian The stories of 100 teachers, coming to a theatre near you - Guardian Life Lessons by Melissa Benn book review – clarion call to hearten the weariest teacher | Peter Wilby - Guardian Bring back work visas for overseas graduates, say UK universities - Guardian Four-year-old referred to specialist unit after killing pair of kittens - Scotsman How technology education needs to change if young people are to get the skills they need for the future - FE News Children like me are just invisible - Express Scots back work visas for overseas students - Herald Scotland Scots back work visas for overseas students once they graduate - Herald Scotland School reforms ‘flawed’ and lacking investment John Swinney told - Herald Scotland Why we quit teaching - BBC ‘Schools must ban mobile phones to save pupils from online bullying’ - Express UK 'missing out' on overseas students - BBC Government must introduce new visa for international students to be more ‘welcoming’, university leaders say - Independent Free childcare scheme 'closing' nurseries, education charity says - BBC AoC proposes introduction of HE levy to pay for developing new suite of higher level qualifications - FE Week Asthma attacks that can kill children will rise sharply as they return to school, charity warns - Mirror Universities call for restoration of foreign graduates’ right to work - Financial Times Unison: Redundancies forcing school support staff to fill the gaps - Schools Week Hinds heralds opening of 54 new free schools - Schools Week Heads welcome calls for minimum entry requirements to university - Schools Week The 20 councils eligible to share a new £50m free school funding pot - Schools Week Stop online child abuse or else, Sajid Javid tells tech firms - Times Reduced salary for Bath University’s next vice-chancellor - Times Schools ‘exclude autistic pupils through lack of understanding’ - Times Scotland: Expert to help maths teachers find winning formula - Times Scotland: Act now to save our children from their electronic devices - Times Ireland: Childcare costs push women out of workforce, says study - Times 4 in 10 people think boys and girls should be allowed to wear trousers or skirts to school - HuffPost Asthma attacks double for children when they go back to school - HuffPost