News archive for 1st April 2019

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ESFA to intervene pre-emptively at poor providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Guardian view on school exclusions: the wrong answer | Editorial - Guardian Theresa May urges multi-agency, community response to knife crime - Financial Times Theresa May unveils new Glasgow-style model to tackle knife crime - Mail At least seven from my university joined IS, says captured fighter - BBC Edmonton stabbings: Schools in lockdown during hunt for man who knifed four - Times DfE’s times tables check for Year 4 pupils available for schools - Schools Week Knife crime prevention plan unfair on teachers, say unions - Guardian College oversight: support and intervention - DfE Ofsted reports during local elections pre-election silence - Ofsted Amanda Spielman at the Muslim Teachers' Association - Ofsted NAHT secures extensive amendments to the revised school complaints guidance - NAHT Scapegoating teachers will not solve violent crime - NASUWT Opportunity to share your flexible working resources with the DfE - NAHT Further strike action at Belfast school - NASUWT Teachers put states on notice of further industrial action - NASUWT ASCL comment on knife crime proposals - ASCL Dance and Drama Awards guide - Education & Skills Funding Agency Does the thought of a robot marking your child’s homework fill you with fear or joy? - Nesta Data decisions: What information do we need about universities? - HEPI 5 musings on the new Ofsted Inspection Framework - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Small changes can make a big difference for autistic students - Leeds Beckett University Teacher stress & saving the world from climate disaster - Teacher Tapp 16 to 18 Residential Support Scheme for academic year 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding: free meals in further education funded institutions for 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Learning analytics: going live - Jisc Making vocabulary visible through technology - Research Schools Network Turbo teaching: 5 ways to supercharge learning - UKEdChat 16 to 18 Residential Bursary Fund guide: 2019 to 2020 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Running a class trip: A practical guide for those new to the role - The Educator Independent Training Providers new intervention measures - Education & Skills Funding Agency More than 100 students walk out of sixth-form college in protest after mass exodus of staff - Mail Scooters for commuters? More on exciting modes of campus transport - Wonkhe Tech spending at an all time high, here’s why - Wonkhe 94% of Nottingham Trent University staff say workload impacts on their mental health - UCU Public sector workers face legal duty to help tackle knife crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Young men score highest on “bullshit calculator” - IOE London Blog A matter of principals: strengthening leadership in further education colleges - Social Market Foundation | SMF Map plots attainment gaps of pro-Brexit areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: New teachers lack preparation say their mentors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Knife crime: Teachers 'scapegoated' over rise in violence - Times Educational Supplement | TES Condemning "identity politics" misses the point - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools invited to help close physics gender gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK universities offer 1.3 per cent pay rise for 2019-20 - Times Higher Education | THE Don't ditch internal data in inspections - Schools Week Eat, sleep, revise, repeat (part 2) - Teacher Toolkit The careers advice every two-year-old needs - Guardian LGBT lesson row head teachers 'feel alone' and unsupported - BBC UK PM May holds knife-crime summit with teachers ordered to identify violent youths - Mail Spielman: LGBT protests ‘setting terrible example for children’ - Schools Week Spielman: Anti-LGBT demonstrators set ‘terrible example to children’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Too many children are over-parented and afraid to fail - Times Educational Supplement | TES What does Ofsted really want to see from school curricula? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Consider knife wands after latest school stabbing, heads advised - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why BTECs have a role to play alongside T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools can try out DfE multiplication tables check - Times Educational Supplement | TES New triggers for DfE college interventions revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minimum standards to be scrapped as part of earlier and stronger intervention regime - FE Week Busy time for nursery acquisitions as Kids Planet expands reach - Nursery World Schools and NHS could be held accountable over youth crime - BBC New ‘triggers’ for government intervention in colleges revealed - FE Week Ofsted suspends publishing MAT inspections during election purdah - Schools Week Secondary school league table: Search for the top schools for A-level results - Telegraph Top grammar schools in the UK according to GCSE league tables - Telegraph Best independent schools in the UK: Compare league table results for GCSEs - Telegraph Colleges could face local area reviews by FE commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES Concerns raised about primary exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Best independent schools in the UK: Compare league table results for A-levels - Telegraph Primary school league table: Search and compare the best primary schools in your area - Telegraph Britain's highest paying degrees, according to graduate salary - Telegraph Body for childminder agencies launches - Nursery World Secondary school league table: Search for the top schools for GCSE results - Telegraph Teachers could be held accountable for preventing knife crime - Schools Week Movers and Shakers: Edition 276 - FE Week Where are Ofsted's school inspection changes heading? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Find the art in maths and the cries of ‘boring’ will disappear - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers education 'should start from age 2' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the man behind the £57,000-a-year super elite schools coming to 30 cities by 2030 - Telegraph Are PhDs just cheap labour for universities? - Guardian Rising primary school exclusions deeply concerning, says Labour - Mail Serious youth violence summit to launch public health duty to tackle serious violence - GOV.UK Number of primary school children at referral units soars - Guardian Careers education: What should young people learn and when? - LKMco Home Office set to place legal duty on doctors, teachers and social workers to spot signs of knife crime involvement - Independent Financial health in HE – does a calm sea conceal dangerous currents? - Wonkhe A new regulator is spreading its wings in Wales - Wonkhe From the University of the Air to the university everywhere - Wonkhe Scottish universities fear English fees review will hurt revenue - Times Higher Education | THE Half of UK private providers ‘exit sector in three years’ - Times Higher Education | THE Teachers and nurses 'could face rap' over youth violence failures - Mail 'She was so desperate, she swallowed a toothbrush' - BBC School LGBT teaching row: What is in the No Outsiders books? - BBC School exclusions: Mother had 'no help' for son - BBC School exclusions: How Bridgend mother dealt with son - BBC Montessori St Nicholas on its milestone year - Nursery World Settings face cuts after council overspend - Nursery World I know what’s wrong with our schools | Kate Clanchy - Times Scotland: Glasgow school of Art bosses ‘must get a grip’ to secure future - Times Ireland: Education chiefs challenge ban on ‘unsafe’ new school - Times