News archive for 2nd April 2019

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Pupils crammed into 'supersized' primary schools as Tories put finances first - Mirror No research on impact of inspection grades, Ofsted admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Sad decline' of music in schools revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need a long-term funding plan for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers quit because they find workload ‘worse than expected’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES New register to help all children get the education they deserve - DfE New online apps launched to transform careers advice for students - DfE Universities spending millions on marketing to attract students - Guardian Almost three-quarters of Scottish schools warn teacher shortages restrict pupils' subject choice - Telegraph Is the Welsh Bacc a waste of time and effort? Inquiry by AMs delivers mixed verdict - Wales Online Job cuts at Wales’ largest secondary school are confirmed - Wales Online Plea for billions to tackle the school funding crisis - Express Northamptonshire slashes early years funding - Nursery World DfE to consult on plans for official home-school register - Nursery World Evidence should replace dogma in the debate about the STEM shortage - HEPI Getting the most out of revision by using the testing effect - Research Schools Network Seeking QTLS doesn't mean I want to jump ship - Education & Training Foundation | ETF In turbulent times, college chairs play a crucial role - Education & Training Foundation | ETF The Education and Training Foundation begins search for new Chair of the Board - Education & Training Foundation Quarter of children from low-income families 'go hungry' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Kent 'does not care' about children with SEND, parents claim - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Is the ‘attainment gap’ fit for purpose? - BERA Scotland: Teacher recruitment troubles limiting subject choice, MSPs told - Mail Baseline assessment: will early childhood education be further commercialised? - IOE London Blog 'Unfair' plan to hold teachers responsible for knife crime - The Educator ‘Employers aren’t really in the driving seat on skills’, finds AELP/FETL research - AELP Understanding maths anxiety - Best Evidence in Brief Positive effects of a healthy debate - Best Evidence in Brief The role of the teacher during collaborative learning - Best Evidence in Brief Parent-teacher meetings and pupil outcomes - Best Evidence in Brief Which character strengths lead to good achievement? - Best Evidence in Brief How to teach English literature – overcoming cultural poverty - UKEdChat DfE unveils plans for council registers of home-educated children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government prepares Erasmus replacement scheme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government launches digital times tables tool for primary schools - Public Technology Children growing up in poverty endure hunger and shame, research finds - IOE London Blog 10 new research schools wanted to boost EEF’s regional work - Research Schools Network Autism: 'We are extraordinary people capable of extraordinary things' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School looks to stars to navigate pupils through maritime course - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears of a 'technical, functional' early years curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We are free to shape the curriculum,' say Scottish heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Multiplication test: update on national voluntary pilot - NAHT New charter calls for apprenticeships to be refocused on young people - UCU Legal bid in Birmingham grammar schools entrance row - BBC How ESFA maintains oversight of Independent Training Providers (ITPs) - Education & Skills Funding Agency School pupils in Brighton given pronoun stickers to help transgender children - Independent Register for children not educated in school - National Education Union Over 1,000 councillors urge government to increase school funding - National Education Union Headteacher bans secondary school pupils from drinking water in class - Mail Short-term fix found for gap in apprenticeship quality assurance arrangements - FE Week Councillors make case for extra school funds - BBC Scotland: Teacher shortage ‘driving’ school subject choice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outstanding grade 'should only go to schools which help others' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Periods aren't shameful – let’s talk about them in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ditch the acronyms if you want GCSE exam success - Times Educational Supplement | TES An official register for home educated kids is long overdue. Here’s why we need one - Times Educational Supplement | TES Busy Bees installs defibrillators in all its nurseries - Nursery World Tory MPs back pay rise for college lecturers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Biggest primary MAT threatened with funding termination for failing academy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Baseline assessment: will early childhood education be further commercialised? - IOE London Blog Top trust could lose primary academy if more schools fall to ‘inadequate’ - Schools Week Parents could be prosecuted or fined for failing to register home-schooled children - Schools Week One in 7 Ofsted teacher training reports never mention SEND, new research finds - Schools Week Should we be concerned about the rise in home schooling? - Independent Parkfield LGBT protest: Why has the school’s top teacher been silenced? - Guardian School music report reveals cuts, inequality and demoralised teachers - Guardian Time to level the playing field in school sports - Telegraph Proposed register for children not in school - Education Secretary - Mail Scotland: New school inspection regime leads to 'tougher' ratings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers worry about academy chain growth, Ofsted study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE plans register of home educated children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted told to ‘match up rhetoric with action’ over SEND training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship levy needs reform, UCU urges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children 'embarrassed' by restrictions on free school meals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councillors join battle against school funding cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Knife crime: ‘How can I exclude a child from school if his parent gave him the weapon?’ - Guardian Scotland: Schools warn of ‘postcode lottery’ for fourth-year subject choice - Scotsman Hundreds of councillors urge government to pump billions of pounds into cash-strapped schools - Independent 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re the fourth industrial revolution - Accountability Hearings Scotland: Call to screen children for ‘psychopathic traits’ - Scotsman Scotland: Amid Brexit Brexit Brexit, politicians must remember education - Scotsman All home schooled children to be registered amid radicalisation fears under government plans - Independent When (and why) students bully academics - Times Higher Education | THE Universitas 21: UK sector leads world on pound-for-pound basis - Times Higher Education | THE Union says ‘intolerable’ workloads driving rise in staff sickness - Times Higher Education | THE Small providers: life at the pointy end of the Office for Students - Wonkhe Ministers plan for national register of kids not in school amid fears extremists and gangs target them - The Sun Schools need billions of extra funding, 1,000 councillors tell Education Secretary Damian Hinds - Mail The government wants to make a register of home-schooled children to stop them 'vanishing under the radar' - HuffPost DfE plans compulsory register of home-schooled children - Schools Week Starbucks to pay staff tuition fees - BBC Council register of home-schooled children proposed - Guardian Plans for new register for home-educated children - BBC Councillors call on education secretary to reverse school funding cuts - Nursery World Children educated at home to be registered and monitored for first time amid fears over illegal schools, Education Secretary announces - Telegraph Children in poverty suffer hunger and stigma, finds new research - Nursery World Home-schooling register to stop children ‘vanishing’ from system - Times