News archive for 27th September 2018

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Headteacher forced to axe school day because there's not enough cash to open five days a week - Mirror DfE damning investigation into 3aaa - FE Week Optimising learning using retrieval practice - Learning Scientists How do young people’s dreams for the future compare with reality later in life? - Education and Employers Four-year-old girl excluded from school more than 10 times - Wales Online DfE funding ‘poster boy’ marches on Downing Street over cuts - Schools Week School warns parents Brexit could push up costs of planned trip abroad - Schools Week More children on track to be fluent readers in primary school - DfE ILR specification, validation rules and appendices 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Even freshers are staying sober – is this the end of British booze culture? - Guardian Training specialist joins national disability initiative - FE News Former Tory Education minister warms Labour education fringe meeting - Edge Foundation The future of skills: A briefing for teachers - Nesta Primary Futures continues to inspire Wakefield - Education and Employers Outstanding teaching assistants in the North celebrated - Leeds Beckett University School pension contributions will rocket next year - The Educator Social mobility’s enemies - Sutton Trust Evaluation of safeguarding students Catalyst fund projects - Advance HE New DfE data shows that early-career teacher retention continues to be an issue - NFER DfE phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessment provisional figures - National Education Union Universities unveil £650m plan to make Edinburgh ‘data capital of Europe’ - Public Technology Talking about student finance - Russell Group Call for ban on essay mills - Russell Group How might teacher design help to support sustainable innovation in higher education? - BERA DfE to fund 'family holidays' in bid to reduce numbers of children in care - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How is the funding crisis affecting schools? - NAHT Teaching & learning myths - UKEdChat The participation game - Wonkhe Wonkhe Weekly – E2 Sexual misconduct, learning gain, Labour party conference, students and alcohol - Wonkhe 30 hours free childcare: eligibility codes issued and validated - DfE Teaching schools and system leadership: reports - DfE Mathematics early-career payments: guidance for teachers and schools - DfE Teachers' student loan reimbursement: guidance for teachers and schools - DfE Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2019 to 2020 - DfE EuroSkills 2018: FE grandees fly out to support Team UK - FE Week Essay mill should be made illegal, university bosses say - Independent Students lured into life of cheating as ghostwriters' by being offered up to £500 an essay and £3,000 a dissertation - Mirror How do career dreams really work out? - BBC Beleaguered Bright Tribe trust to offload its last six schools - Schools Week Disadvantaged white boys lag behind peers in UK phonics test - Guardian Post-Brexit prospects for Scots universities - Scotsman Scotland: Brexit ‘biggest single challenge facing university sector’ - Scotsman Welsh nurseries win exemption from business rates - Nursery World Busy Bees quits trailblazer group as 'process not employer-led' - Nursery World £33m of Whitehall apprenticeship levy pot unspent - Times Educational Supplement | TES De-escalating behaviour: 8 tips for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES EuroSkills 2018: Team UK in pictures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Search for sponsors as troubled chain gives up its last schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Education on the cheap is a very bad idea' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coming soon: 'radically different' secondaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar heads wanted admissions that would illegally favour local pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil now learns from home after she was offered school place and then told she didn't have one - Wales Online New GCSEs 'widened gap' for disadvantaged pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats: KS1 reading results drop - Times Educational Supplement | TES New UKRI system needs community input on Horizon 2020 grants - GOV.UK UK Hydrographic Office wins National Apprenticeship Award - GOV.UK Foreign Secretary hosts first Platform for Girls' Education meeting - GOV.UK Benefit from a business-academic partnership: apply for funding - GOV.UK Reasons to worry: 5 new facts about teacher retention - Times Educational Supplement | TES The impact of Brexit on education is immeasurable - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher drop-outs rise in every subject, and 8 more workforce findings - Schools Week UK ministers: legislation against essay mills ‘not off the table’ - Times Higher Education | THE Sats: KS1 reading results drop - Times Educational Supplement | TES University bosses call for ban on essay-writing companies - BBC Students studying overseas could be helping to make former Soviet countries more liberal - The Conversation Phonics check: 82% meet ‘expected standard’ in 2018 - Schools Week IfA and Open Awards reach deal on EQA contract extension - FE Week Universities call for 'essay mills' that do students' work for them to be outlawed - Telegraph Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at 30 June 2018 - Ofsted An analysis of recruitment, retention and training within the state-sector teacher workforce - DfE Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2018 - DfE Participation rates in higher education: 2006 to 2017 - DfE Planned LA and school expenditure: 2018 to 2019 financial year - DfE Supply teachers deprived of vital info - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to ban trustees guilty of MAT mismanagement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of supply teachers forced to cut back on food - Times Educational Supplement | TES The top universities with no mental health policy - and those rushing to publish one - HuffPost University chiefs 'urge education secretary to ban essay mills' - Guardian 'Hypocritical’ headteachers get a day off school to protest outside Number 10 over funding cuts - Mail Education in Iraq is in crisis. UK universities can help | Fran Sutherland - Guardian Universities call for ban on essay mill companies - Mail Social mobility requires far more than a good education | Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin - Guardian Who's guiding our children? - Express Scottish university staff get sexual violence reporting cards - Times Higher Education | THE Half of European students ‘not experiencing internationalisation’ - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Lazy’ parents don’t do homework with their children but those who do foster a love of learning - The Sun Best friends forever; How friendship boosts pupils' grades - BBC University bosses call for ban on essay-writing companies - BBC Oxford academic, 71, a champion powerlifter - BBC Longstanding best friends help pupils thrive - Times Homework at 7 is a joke, says comic Rob Delaney - Times Keeping international students in net migration figures is a huge mistake | Lord Bilimoria - Times Reducing screen time boosts children’s brains - Times Ireland: Student wins university challenge in High Court by proving she had the points - Times Ireland: Unions combine in joint demand for action on third‑level funding - Times Irish universities slide further down world rankings - Times