News archive for 14th September 2018

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Britain's top private schools are warned to make sure parents are not paying fees with 'dirty money' - Mail Private schools urged to help dirty money crackdown - Financial Times John Swinney offers MSPs civil service demonstration of P1 tests to try and stave off Holyrood defeat - Telegraph Unlimited subcontracting fees to end under London adult education budget devolution plan - FE Week Scottish schools withdrawn from global surveys ‘to save cash’ - Herald Scotland New research to tackle the digital divide - Leeds Beckett University Suspending young students risks future success in school - UKEdChat ASCL Cymru welcomes funding for teachers’ pay award - ASCL Making waves: Maybe it’s you who has the answer! - LKMco Competitors consider likely policy change in the UK - PIE News The UKEdPodcast – Episode 26 – Education in Moscow - UKEdChat Inspectors criticise lack of progress on SEND reforms - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UCU at TUC Congress 2018 - UCU In the news: 14 September 2018 - UCU NI principals demand MPs take action to address school funding crisis - NAHT UK government finally confirms funding for Wales to cover the cost of the teachers’ 2018/19 pay increases - NAHT What are NAHT's recommendations for improving accountability? - NAHT NAHT takes the campaign on pay to the TUC Congress - NAHT Deals for schools - DfE Data protection: toolkit for schools - DfE School teachers' pay and conditions - DfE Teachers' pay grant methodology - DfE Independent special schools and colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency Regional winners from across the country are announced - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advanced learner loans facility requests - Education & Skills Funding Agency Further education area reviews: funding to restructure colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academy sponsor contact list - DfE Proposal for a European Skills Permit - Russell Group How can we help dyspraxic learners? - The Educator Moscow Forum 2018 organisers reveal success of show - UKEdChat Scientists reveal drumming helps schoolchildren diagnosed with autism - UKEdChat Moving on - UKEdChat UK aid to connect UK schools with classrooms around the world - GOV.UK Ofsted watch: A trio of 'insufficient progress' reports - FE Week Tributes paid to former Glasgow University principal - Herald Scotland National Teaching Assistants Day: UK has worst GCSE pupil-per-teacher ratio in Europe - FE News Freshers’ week: how to make a good first impression - The Conversation Great debate on T-levels: an ambitious or reckless timetable? - FE Week Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 14 September - Pearson Headteacher sentenced over indecent teenage photos - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour mayor: Create ‘individual learning accounts’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Seven storms school leaders will have to brave - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE hands millions for scrapped school scheme back to Treasury - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC senior pay policy: 5 main proposals for college leaders - FE Week Can teachers embrace their 'visual identity'? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish government explored leaving Pisa in 2010 - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Heads have had enough of accountability making things worse’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman warns against over reliance on data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mobile tech to link UK schools to classrooms in other continents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will Oxford University become redundant as the Fourth Education Revolution sounds the death knell for exams and lecture halls? - FE News Little Green Rascals nursery group acquires 6th setting - Nursery World EPA assessor capacity: Will England be able to cope in the long-term? - FE Week Solutions and reality checks in the exclusion/inclusion debate #pinballkids - Headguruteacher Staff or students often responsible for university and college cyber-attacks - FE News Schools falling short of new DfE rules on career guidance - FE Week ‘I didn’t choose to go to private school’ and other things privileged people must stop saying - Metro Chartered Institution for Further Education on the ropes? - FE Week Tes FE podcast: Pop-up colleges and short-termism - Times Educational Supplement | TES In this week's Tes: personality, games and pop-up colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities told to increase diversity to tackle sexual violence - Times Higher Education | THE AoC Governor Council launches member consultation on the proposed Colleges Senior Staff Remuneration Code - FE News Exam passes by Scottish S4 pupils drop 'at fastest rate since records started in 1965' - Telegraph One-In-five secondary school children are caring for relatives at home, shocking new figures reveal - HuffPost £100-a-week ‘no-frills’ private school planned for London - Schools Week Fleeced: Are schools pulling the wool over parents’ eyes on uniform costs? - Schools Week NAHT and NFER publish major new studies into school accountability - NFER Competitions drive construction #TeamUK - FE News Unlimited subcontracting fees to end under London adult education budget devolution plan - FE Week Academy trusts: More than just one bad apple? - Schools Week Labour MP joins millionaire Tory donor to open new free school - Schools Week Schools campaign to end ‘immoral’ Sats pressure - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge investment chiefs quit £6bn university endowment fund - Financial Times Students blamed for university and college cyber-attacks - BBC Government must introduce post-Brexit permit to attract European academics and students, universities say - Independent Wales: Dead boy ‘was a victim of bullies’ - Times Prisoners to study at Cambridge - Times Scotland: I was bullied at primary school, Sturgeon says - Times Scotland: Testing time for first minister (not to mention five-year-olds) | Alex Massie - Times Scotland: Glasgow School of Art must rise from ashes, V&A architect Kengo Kuma says - Times Ireland: Schools get €112m to refurbish buildings under ten-year plan - Times