News archive for 17th September 2018

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Children's commissioner warns 50.000 youngsters may be peddling drugs on our streets - Mail Anti-public school Labour firebrand John McDonnell gave a secret talk to students…at an exclusive private school - The Sun Standardised assessments ‘help teachers avoid mistakes’ says expert - Herald Scotland Scotland: Headteachers attack ‘cynical and divisive’ pay offer - Herald Scotland Scotland: ‘I cannot say I slept for more than four or five hours every night’ - Herald Scotland Scotland: Only a third see university as best path into a career, research finds - Scotsman To address underachieving groups, teach everyone better - Teacherhead SATs results wiped at second Harris academy - Schools Week The 6 apprenticeship providers banned from taking new recruits - FE Week LSE appoints Dean of new School of Public Policy - London School of Economics | LSE Argentina – UK agree master’s recognition - PIE News 10 GDPR questions answered - UKEdChat Great expectations: The impact of teacher expectations on children’s learning - UKEdChat 10 techniques every teacher needs to know - UKEdChat More than half of US parents of sleep-deprived teens blame electronics - UKEdChat Severe squeeze on further education and sixth-form funding in England - Nuffield Foundation Weekly digest #125: The science behind always being late - Learning Scientists What teachers tapped this week #51 – 17th September 2018 - Teacher Tapp School census 2018 to 2019: technical information - DfE School census 2018 to 2019: guide for schools and LAs - DfE Early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers - DfE Schools forum operational and good practice guide - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency Improving graduate employability | Nicola Dandridge - Office for Students ESFA: current notices of concern - Education & Skills Funding Agency Update on teachers' pay in Wales - Voice IFS on funding - National Education Union The UK’s new Quality Code in practice - Wonkhe 10 poor leadership characteristics - The Educator Remembering pupils’ names - Teacher Toolkit Introducing the Wonkhe HE Power List 2018 - Wonkhe Which university logo is on your team’s shirt? - Wonkhe Apprenticeship funding bands: 30 band structure - FE News Why National Coding Week is important - Training Journal 2018 Annual Report on Education Spending in England - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS West Notts College handed DfE warning after requesting £2.1m in exceptional financial support - FE Week Spending on Sure Start cut by two-thirds in nine years - Nursery World London's specialist nurseries 'at risk of closure in funding crisis' - Evening Standard Schoolboy, nine, 'humiliated' in front of classmates after 'being told to get hair cut during assembly' - Mirror 'Colleges and sixth forms have seen the largest cuts' - Times Educational Supplement | TES More Scots seeing value of apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Remember you're humans first, teachers second' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds goes Dutch (and German) in hunt for FE success - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'The voices of governors must be heard' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: ‘Collaboration is key to closing the attainment gap’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's about time we scrap Ofsted's "outstanding"' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Part-time teachers don’t lack career aspirations’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Tides are turning against teaching to the test’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Our society is suffering from adult education cuts' - Times Educational Supplement | TES IFS: FE the 'big loser' in education funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Non-verbal children like me aren’t being taught to read and write. It’s time to teach us too - Metro Severe squeeze on further education and sixth-form funding in England - sector response - FE News Pay costs turn school funding freeze into real terms cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES 3aaa co-founders resign following ESFA investigation - FE Week Movers and shakers: Edition 253 - FE Week Glasgow University to make amends over slavery profits of past - Guardian Sharp increase in nursery closures since introduction of 30 hours childcare - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Further education college finances face double whammy - BBC Education minister heads to Germany in search of T-level solutions - FE Week The decline of music education threatens to deprive Britain of future talent - New Statesman Association of Colleges response to IFS report on education funding cuts - AoC | Association of Colleges ASCL comment on IFS education funding report - ASCL Severe squeeze on further education and sixth-form funding in England - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS UCU comment on IFS education funding report - UCU Need to know: What will the party conferences mean for schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anger as 30% of schools drop into the red - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of academics working beyond 65 in UK doubles - Times Higher Education | THE Taxpayer savings from England’s high-fees system ‘only small’ - Times Higher Education | THE Anglia Ruskin engineers new apprentice route - Cambridge Network MAC wasn’t a victory, but it was far from defeat - Wonkhe No one fighting MAT schools’ corner, governors warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES University accused of failing students with mental health issues after two suicides in a year - HuffPost Managing the challenge of transition - FE News The new computer science GCSE is already being reviewed - Schools Week British Computer Society loses £3 million as schools shun controversial ECDL qualification - Schools Week Computing master teacher target achieved! But now what? - Schools Week Headmistress retires from school she left as a pupil 54 years ago - Express Severe squeeze on further education and sixth-form funding in England - FE News Older pupils hit hardest by education budget cuts - Financial Times JPMorgan to create apprenticeship programme for UK staff - Financial Times School sixth forms lose a fifth of their funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extra T-level cash ‘will be offset by FE cuts’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sixth form funding has fallen by a fifth since 2010, says IFS - Guardian IFS: FE the'biggest loser' in cuts to government funding - FE Week School sixth form and college funding most severely squeezed, new report says - Independent School sixth form funding down 21% since 2010, IfS finds - Schools Week IFS: FE the ‘biggest loser’ in cuts to government funding - FE News Scots swap university for traineeships - Times Minister Penny Mordaunt orders research into rise of gender referrals for girls - Times Use mosque visits to tackle Islamophobia, schools told - Times Top pay goes to new graduates in engineering or computer science - Times Boarder shines a light on school initiation beatings - Times Scotland: Art school will be rebuilt ‘just as Mackintosh had designed it’ - Times Ireland: Galway hotel pulled down to make room for students - Times John Swinney ready to ignore Parliament over P1 tests - Scotsman Glasgow University ‘received up to £199m from slave trade profits’ - Scotsman Scotland: Swinney ready to defy Holyrood vote on P1 tests - Times Ireland: Tackling poverty ‘only way to close attainment gap’ - Times Scotland: Glasgow University paid millions by slave traders - Times Nursery closures rise 66 per cent since 30 hours began - Nursery World