News archive for 28th September 2018

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16 to 18 qualifications, discount codes and point scores - DfE Find, join or create a network for school business professionals - DfE List a teaching role at your school on Teaching Jobs - DfE Teacher subject specialism training (TSST) courses - DfE English Baccalaureate: eligible qualifications - DfE New civil service economics apprenticeship offers young people job route into government - DfE Further education schemes summary cost models - DfE ESFA: Inform - Education & Skills Funding Agency Using the Learning Records Service - Education & Skills Funding Agency LRS organisational portal - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: funding agreements and contracts 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Headteacher’s strict new rules have not gone down well with parents - Metro ‘I hope to goodness we never have to come again!’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-thousand heads march 'in anger and frustration' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Elite private schools struggling to find expert teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES EuroSkills 2018: ‘Awesome’ finish to competitions for Team UK - FE Week Independent regulator for social media is a must - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How to make the most of keep in touch days - Teacher Toolkit Royal Academy of Engineering announces 2018 Fellows - Cambridge Network Bursary funding for ITE 2019/2020 - UCET How to target maintenance grants - Russell Group To thrive, new teachers need environments of trust - BERA Teacher Survey and Workload Guidance prove value of The Education Partnership - NASUWT ASCL comment on headteachers’ rally - ASCL School leadership podcast September 2018 - NAHT In the news: 28 September 2018 - UCU Post-18 education is in need of an overhaul - New Statesman Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of bullying - Guardian Drive to recruit prison officers to work with school pupils suffering behavioural issues - Independent Headteachers call on universities to halt unconditional offers - EducationInvestor Big Teacher Pension contributions increases in 2019 (28 Sept update) - AoC | Association of Colleges Learning gain metrics ‘cannot be used to compare universities’ - Times Higher Education | THE Primary Futures Bury - Education and Employers The opportunity gap: Why are we still failing young people from disadvantaged backgrounds? - PoliticsHome AoC's Autumn Budget submission - AoC | Association of Colleges UKEd magazine – Issue 51 - UKEdChat Help children step into a world of books - UKEdChat 'A complete crisis': 2,000 school leaders rally against cuts - Guardian ESFA ready to roll-out Trip Advisor-style review feature for apprenticeship programmes - FE Week National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2018 (provisional) - DfE Head teachers' polite protest over funding in England - BBC 'Straight outta funding': Thousands of headteachers march against cuts - HuffPost Head teachers march against school cuts in suits and ties in 1,000-strong protest at Downing Street - Mirror Head teachers protest at Downing Street funding rally - BBC Heads march on Downing Street demanding `don´t take us for fools´ on funding - Mail Ofsted watch: Mega apprenticeship provider to high-profile employers hit with grade three - FE Week Top schools call for universities to end unconditional offers - Mail Hundreds of headteachers march on Downing Street to demand extra cash for 'cut to the bone' schools battling staff shortages and crammed classrooms - Mail Head teachers march: Why schools are so angry over funding - Times What Labour plans for further education could mean for colleges - FE Week Government teacher vacancy website extended to London and south-central England - Schools Week IfA chief calls on employers to fund WorldSkills UK - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers aren't the marching kind. This is serious. - Times Educational Supplement | TES Frank Field Education Trust to sponsor first school - Schools Week We all need to rethink apprenticeship recruitment - FE News Thousands of headteachers march on Westminster over school funding ‘crisis’ - Independent University rankings: how do they compare and what do they mean for students? - The Conversation In pursuit of parity: degree apprenticeships expand into the Russell Group - FE Week Time for FE to shine ahead of crucial Budget - FE Week Bursaries announced for graduate trainee teachers - The Educator Ofsted says sorry for carrying out wrong kind of inspection - FE Week Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in September 2018 - Pearson New plan for RE needs to consider how secularism over two centuries helped plant the seeds of religious extremism - IOE London Blog Policy eye - highlights of the week ending 28 September - Pearson School bans pupils from talking in corridors and headteacher claims it has halved bad behaviour - The Sun Head teachers march on Downing St to demand more cash - Times National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2018 (provisional) - DfE How to move from middle leadership to senior leadership successfully - The Educator Limiting children’s recreational screen time to less than 2 hours a day linked to better cognition - UKEdChat A majority of teens have experienced some form of cyberbullying - UKEdChat Unions promote digital skills during get online week - Unionlearn Prison officers recruited to help schools with behaviour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ucas-style apprenticeship portal could boost starts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supply teachers victims of bogus bookings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leader issues rallying call as heads march for funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES I've just finished my PhD, and now I feel lost without academia | Anonymous academic - Guardian Graduates with 2.2 degrees are given £12,000 ‘bribe’ to teach subjects including Religious Education and music - Mail Top schools call for an end to universities' use of unconditional offers - Guardian Failing schools left in takeover limbo - Schools Week Supersized academy trusts are on the rise - Schools Week Skint school forced to close 80 minutes early on Friday in desperate bid to save cash - The Sun Backlash to school's 'reward system' offering free drinks and 'VIP seats' assembly seats to parents who volunteer the most - Mirror The importance of working towards early talent diversity - FE News Ofsted signals changes to academy trust inspections - Schools Week Damian Hinds says ‘sorry’ for Whitehaven Academy scandal - Schools Week First Minister backs ‘incredibly valuable’ Herald campaign to celebrate Stem innovations - Herald Scotland The Scottish community that built its own school - Herald Scotland Scottish university chiefs call for ban on essay mill cheats - Herald Scotland Half of all British youngsters will now go to university but experts warn it could be simply ‘quantity over quality’ - Mail Head teachers protest at Downing Street funding rally - BBC First-born children more likely to learn about sex from parents, study finds - Independent Scotland: Glasgow art school bosses blamed over Mackintosh building - Times Ireland: Exam result corrections ‘must be made more quickly’ - Times Ireland: University challenged - Times Confusion over privacy leaves parents in the dark over student mental health - HuffPost Parents only talk about sex with their first borns - Mail Top schools call for end to unconditional offers - Times Top scientist quits after confessing to research fakery - Times Tony Blair’s pledge on university fulfilled at last - Times Most teenagers fail to achieve salary ambitions by age of 30 - Times School warns Brexit may add to cost of trips - Times New teachers with 2:2 will get bursaries - Times Essay mills must be outlawed if we’re to curb cheating | Mary Curnock Cook - Times The elephant in the classroom: misbehaviour | Letters - Times Scotland: Housing crisis worsens as number of student flats outstrips new homes - Times