News archive for 5th September 2018

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Number of primary school kids in super-sized classes of 30 have doubled in the last seven years - The Sun Parents are left furious as school puts ‘80 to 90’ pupils in ‘isolation’ for not wearing the right trousers - Mail Wealthy Russians and Chinese buy up high-end London property so they can be near their children at private schools - Mail 'All boys' careers advice sparks Twitter storm - Times Educational Supplement | TES Voices from the classroom: teachers share their stories – as it happened - Guardian Parents outraged as school ‘puts 80 to 90 pupils in isolation’ for wearing trousers with the ‘wrong trim’ - The Sun 'Schools won't admit TAs are teaching maths' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE warns teachers against expressing 'political views' - Guardian Universities alone cannot fix the UK’s skills gap - Financial Times 'Instagram mums' and 'Handbag dog mums' most popular parenting tribes on school run - Mirror Tell European academics to help us get a Brexit deal, education minister pleads with universities - Independent IfA funding band review: Aviation standard set to have rate doubled - FE Week Two-thirds of parents have never heard of T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should teachers be more like scientists? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ex-teachers form new Policy Exchange education team - Times Educational Supplement | TES Asbestos warning issued over school science laboratory equipment - Herald Scotland Call for all university staff to get suicide prevention training - Guardian Quarter of new teachers surprised by workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES Overseas students need easier migration rules, universities minister Sam Gyimah urges - Times John Swinney apologises for ‘misleading’ letter on P1 testing - Scotsman New guidance for universities in bid to prevent student suicides - Mail Asbestos warning - Voice National Apprenticeship Week 2019 date announced - Education & Skills Funding Agency New teachers ready to deliver in the classroom - DfE OfS and UKRI sign collaboration agreement - Office for Students Lords debates careers education and advice - UK Parliament Serious critiques of meta-analysis and effect size: researchED 2018 - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring How to deal with difficult colleagues - The Educator Partners in steel: the key to successful academic-industrial collaboration - Wonkhe David versus Goliath: The past, present and future of students’ unions in the UK - Wonkhe Teacher mental health worsening in 'toxic' schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five things teachers should know about self-harm - Times Educational Supplement | TES BERA & the British Curriculum Forum to fund £12,000 of school based research - BERA Students back college teachers over pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Engaging adults in learning is critical' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Healthy diet unaffordable for 3.7 million children, study finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Prince Charles 'very concerned' over arts decline - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ilse Howling appointed Chair of Trustees - Education Development Trust | EDT The art of school inspections - Education Development Trust | EDT UK parliament debates TOEIC: “Britain’s forgotten immigration scandal” - PIE News John Swinney apologises for `misleading´ P1 tests letter - Mail Government review is a fantastic opportunity to improve the university system for students - Universities UK Guidance for universities on preventing student suicides - Universities UK Read our response to the DfE consultation on the teachers' and school leaders' pay - NAHT Floor and coasting standards in 2018 to be used only to offer schools optional support - NAHT HSE investigating supply to schools of metal gauze mats that contain asbestos - NAHT Student suicide prevention guidance - Russell Group Response to Universities Minister's speech - Russell Group Thirteen years of e for education - Teach First British Council launches international awards celebrating UK Higher Education and Distinguished Alumni Achievements - British Council Young people question value of apprenticeships amid mounting criticism of levy - Training Journal FE providers invited to collaborate on innovation projects to support Functional Skills - Education & Training Foundation Comment on the FEA report card 2018 - Teach First Make the presentation count - Learning Scientists Digital devices in school - UKEdChat Labour and Prince Charles vow to support creativity in schools - Guardian UK universities are fifth most expensive in the world for Brits to attend - FE News Thousands could have been exposed to asbestos in science experiments - NASUWT Trainee teachers are suffering from ‘survey fatigue’ as response rates plummet - Schools Week Minister rebukes Toby Young: universities are not 'leftwing madrassas' - Guardian Universities minister backs overseas student change - BBC Scotland: ‘Ditch the idea of hero headteachers’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: National tests opt-out advice 'not appropriate' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Competitive thinking can close the skills gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NQT Annual Survey 2017: Nearly 30% find workload ‘bigger than expected’ - Schools Week FASNA rebrand: 96% of members back creation of ‘Confederation of School Trusts’ - Schools Week Learning Records Service (LRS) maintenance schedules for 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency How much teacher talk is too much? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools firm Cognita sold for £2bn - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'S/he doesn't behave like that in MY class.' Really? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who told pupil ‘condoms are boring’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA hiring team to focus on audit and intervention at private training providers - FE Week Academy trust to pioneer paid work experience programme at struggling 16-19 free school - Schools Week New education and skills team appointed at Policy Exchange - Schools Week ESFA hiring team to focus on audit and intervention at private training providers - FE Week Newly qualified teachers (NQTs): annual survey re ITT provision 2017 - DfE Newly qualified teacher (NQT) and provider-level response rates: exploratory research - DfE Study suggests that two-thirds of UK students are influenced by lower tuition fees during a general election - FE News Clubs for Schools: support is available to help run extracurricular activities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools warned about asbestos risk in science labs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual people strategy: how Ofqual plan to ensure public confidence in qualifications - Ofqual ESFA Update local authorities: 5 September 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update academies: 5 September 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update further education: 5 September 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Hinds dismisses GCSE mental health fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES Arts education makes pupils more employable, not less - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supporting information for awarding organisations: application for recognition - Ofqual DfE warns school staff over expression of ‘political views’ - Schools Week Universities Minister speaks at UUK annual conference - DfE Guidance for universities on preventing student suicides - Universities UK Schools need to start teaching pupils mental health prevention skills – here’s how - The Conversation Sam Gyimah: UK should be ‘more open’ to international students - Times Higher Education | THE DfE budgeting advice sparks angry reaction from NEU - SecEd ‘More ambitious’ pay supplements required - SecEd Councils 'powerless' to tackle secondary school capacity crisis - SecEd Apply to have your qualifications regulated - Ofqual UUK: Government review is a fantastic opportunity to improve the university system for students - FE News 10 ways we can all help improve young people's life chances - Nesta Back to school: 30 tips from the experts - Telegraph Political row over special measures statistics in Wales - SecEd Register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Staffing and employment: advice for schools - DfE Parental responsibility measures attendance census - DfE Hinds dismisses GCSE mental health fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge MP backs calls to reinstate post-study student visas - Cambridge Network Universities and integration – an opportunity - HEPI USA: Teacher pay drops 5% in last decade – despite better qualified staff - Guardian USA: What we want - teachers on what they need to solve the crisis in our classrooms - Guardian USA: How I survive - American teachers and their second jobs – a photo essay - Guardian The off-rolling issue is about more than just league tables - FE News Controversial school tests 'are not compulsory' - Herald Scotland Action on mental health crisis in schools and universities - Herald Scotland Immigration campaigners have warned ministers not to reopen the floodgates by caving in to demands by university bosses - The Sun Smartphones have been banned in French schools and British parents call for same ruling in classrooms - The Sun The three-year-old who is learning to use a cane in preparation for nursery school - BBC Thousands of kids set for 4.5 day week as schools close doors early to save cash - The Sun Special needs funding at crisis point, say school leaders - Guardian A lost generation of scientists? UK schools urged to do more to turn kids on to science - FE News Fair Education Alliance: Progress to education equality 'slow and patchy' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NAHT survey: Heads warn of ‘bleak’ picture on SEND funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools having to stretch SEND budgets to cover funding shortfalls, survey finds - Schools Week George Duke-Cohan, 19, admits bomb hoaxes that led to evacuation of 400 schools - Times Scotland: Universities ‘sign Chinese gagging clause’ - Times Scotland: £60m for mental health counselling in all Scottish schools - Times Ireland: Budget ‘must address the crippling cost of childcare’ - Times Schools unable to support SEND pupils without more funding - Nursery World