News archive for 18th September 2018

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Educating Greater Manchester head Drew Povey quits after being suspended - accusing council chiefs of vendetta - Mirror Music teacher who was found naked on top of female pupil, 17 is banned from classroom - Mail Universities must follow Glasgow and own up to their role in the slave trade - Guardian John Swinney told to 'listen and learn' on primary one testing as he heads for Holyrood defeat - Telegraph Ofsted chief admits her inspectors make schools 'teach to test' by putting too much weight on exam results when ranking schools - Mail Scottish teachers reject 'derisory' 3% pay offer - Herald Scotland Schools washing uniforms and offering food to families in need, governors say - Independent Spielman: I don't want a 'pub quiz' curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Educating Manchester head quits over 'off-rolling' probe - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trusts continue to flout contract rules - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges Week 2018: Everything you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gibb attacks ‘too political’ Pisa rankings body - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers reject `derisory´ 3% pay rise offer i Scotland - Mail What the car park tells you about a headteacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour pledges action on off-rolling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to inspect all new apprenticeship providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘No evidence’ migration has hit school standards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Memorising poetry: 5 tips to help pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Be ready to challenge ‘inappropriate’ use of money, academy chiefs told - Schools Week Primary teachers get ‘too much stick’ over maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Importing Germany's skills system isn't the answer' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How trainee teachers can learn from David Beckham - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE manifesto: 4 ways to fix college funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘We were so busy “fixing” Otto, we missed what he was good at’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES T Level panels: membership - FE News Share test results with parents, says government in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers in Scotland reject ‘derisory’ pay deal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lib Dems demand new money to fund teacher pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research into the learning support role in further education - Education & Training Foundation | ETF In-class physical exercise won’t disrupt teaching and learning - UKEdChat Why do we need a Great School Libraries campaign? - UKEdChat Operant conditioning success in graduate school: To do lists - Learning Scientists What motivates multi-academy trusts (MATs) to grow? - NAHT Young children’s perceptions of due process in schools’ disciplinary procedures - BERA Greater commitments needed from universities to advance race equality, says report - UCU MAC report on EEA migrants - Russell Group Liberal Democrat Party Conference emergency motion on education - National Education Union Family means-testing for student loans is not working - Wonkhe ASCL comment on HMCI commentary - ASCL Hire a tutor in 5 mins, here’s how - The Educator Working in HE – an alienating labour of love? - Wonkhe Policy Exchange welcomes “typically hard-headed and balanced” MAC report - Policy Exchange How does higher education create and demonstrate value? - Advance HE Pedagogic research in HE, Virtual Reading Group - Advance HE New funding increase, access and diversity: statement by the Executive Director - Fulbright Commission T Level panels: membership - DfE Government early years spending rises for first time in three years - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Council to close 46 children's centres and encourage community-run services - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Teaching schools: a guide for potential applicants - DfE Teaching schools and system leaders: get support for you and your school - DfE Copyright licences for state schools in England - DfE New school proposals - DfE HMCI commentary: curriculum and the new education inspection framework - Ofsted Academies financial returns: online form registration - Education & Skills Funding Agency Letter to academy trust accounting officers September 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Specialist leaders of education: a guide for potential applicants - DfE National leaders of education: a guide for potential applicants - DfE Scotland: What are P1 assessment questions really like? - Scotsman Letter from Eileen Milner to academy trust accounting officers September 2018 - FE News Grouping pupils by achievement - Institute for Effective Education How female apprentices could fill the UK’s skills gap - ERSA Schools should be accountable for exam results of pupils they 'off-roll', Labour says - Independent Findings from an evaluation of Thinking Maths - Institute for Effective Education Evidence supports the BSCS inquiry approach for STEM teaching - Institute for Effective Education Examining a path to improved social and emotional wellbeing among children - Institute for Effective Education Swinney urged to `listen and learn´ from vote on P1 testing - Mail Four finance mistakes academy trusts should avoid - Schools Week Ofsted softens 3 year full inspection rule after sector backlash - FE Week Educating Greater Manchester head quits over 'council vendetta' - Guardian Ofsted criticises ‘new’ apprenticeship provider for ‘insufficient’ off-the-job training - FE Week Ofsted admits adding to 'teach-to-the-test' mentality - BBC Friend of student who died after taking MDMA could go to jail for supplying drugs - Guardian Educating Greater Manchester head Drew Povey resigns - BBC One in eight young people without degrees work in graduate jobs - Office for National Statistics (ONS) Universities UK responds to the report from the Migration Advisory Committee - Universities UK Cross-party MPs call on Government to take 'urgent action' to save nursery schools - Nursery World University students: how to manage the stress of studying for your degree - The Conversation Alliance blames lack of Government funding for closing fifth of settings - Nursery World Early years workforce 'will get less well qualified' - Nursery World Ofsted to receive cash to visit all new apprenticeship providers - FE Week Early years education suffers as nursery closures increase by 66% - FE News ‘No evidence’ EU migration harms educational outcomes or school choice - Schools Week The Guardian launches a new 'Guardian Universities' website - Guardian Amanda Spielman: curriculum and the new education inspection framework - Ofsted 3aaa forced to stop recruiting new apprentices following ESFA investigation - FE Week Rihanna: Growing up in Barbados, school was a grind. But I was lucky - Guardian Curriculum will be ‘central focus’ in new Ofsted framework - Schools Week Educating Greater Manchester head Drew Povey resigns - Schools Week Labour: We’ll make schools ‘accountable’ for off-rolled pupils - Schools Week The pupil premium is not working - IOE London Blog More pupils seeking support over peer sex abuse - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils exposed to pollution on 'toxic' school runs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil poverty among 5 key school governor concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-thirds of secondaries can’t find maths teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Questions surround data used to reject UK post-study work visas - Times Higher Education | THE From Highlands headteacher to Lego’s global director of play - Guardian ‘End education snobbery. There’s no out-of-work brickie or sparkie’ - Guardian Labour plans to remove incentive for teachers to 'off-roll' students - Guardian Fussing parents are bombarding teachers with mollycoddling requests - Mail Iraq: Education is the key to peace – help us beat the book-burners | Alice König and Kate Walker - Scotsman Blame cuts – not headteachers – for school exclusions | Laura McInerney - Guardian 'I was horrified that children are breathing air this dirty inside the school' - Guardian Children inhaling toxic air on school run and in classroom - Guardian Join one thousand head teachers in Downing Street this September calling for sufficient and fair funding for every school - NAHT Are there too many or too few exclusions? - Schools Week DfE allowed trust to take on new schools despite serious financial problems - Schools Week School open days: Eight things to look for - BBC Rise in young people seeking help over peer-on-peer abuse in UK - Guardian Scotland: Demo of P1 tests will allow 'informed debate' - Swinney - Mail Actions to boost employability in Wales highlighted in progress report - Welsh Government Toxic air makes school day a threat to pupils’ health - Times Cricket bats at Millfield? I saw a few things in my time at school | Robert Crampton - Times Scotland: Robert Gordon University under fire for concealing principal’s payout - Times Scotland: Plea to drum up support for music school rather than hotel - Times Scotland: Rip up these school reforms and start again | Alex Massie - Times Ireland: Junior exam results withheld from suspected cheats - Times Children are exposed to 60% of their daily pollution limit by the time they get to school - Metro