News archive for 3rd April 2019

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Psychologist against LGBT+ lessons investigated by professional body for ‘unethical’ comments - Independent Using technology in education - DfE Initial teacher training (ITT): accreditation and support - DfE Damian Hinds' speech at the Schools and Academies Show 2019 - DfE ESFA Update: 3 April 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Government treats pupils with SEND like 'second-class citizens' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The teacher shortage is ‘reducing the curriculum’, admits chief inspector - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learn lessons from abroad on apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES MSPs accuse Education Scotland of being 'wilfully blind' to impact of cut in school subject choice - Telegraph Hinds: Advertise all teaching jobs with flexible options - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why I won’t let the state interfere with me home-schooling my children - Telegraph Schools being forced to sell off hundreds of playing fields ‘to make ends meet’, GMB union warns - Independent Scotland: Lack of teachers ‘limiting’ school subject choices - Herald Scotland Early years music sessions boost poor children's development - Nursery World ESFA apologises over apprenticeship off-the-job calculation blunder - FE Week Gangs: A national emergency - SecEd Diary of a headteacher: Where are all the female leaders? - SecEd RSE: We have come a long way - SecEd The ESFA's conflicting duties raise important questions - SecEd The stress of the exams system - SecEd THE University Impact Rankings 2019: Canada leads the way - Times Higher Education | THE The thinking school: Why we need teachers and children who can think - BERA Call for billions in extra school funding - The Educator Connecting schools with technology - Nesta ADHD: Dreaming, distracted or wired differently? Part 1 - causes and symptoms - LKMco Sports projects to be extended into knife crime 'hot spots' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DfE invests in apps to ‘revolutionise’ career advice for students - Public Technology Teachers are leaving the profession due to the nature of workload, research suggests - IOE London Blog Jisc backs government’s new strategy to use technology to transform education - Jisc “Total uncertainty” ahead for UK’s Erasmus and Horizon participation - PIE News Realising the potential of technology in education: A strategy for education providers and the technology industry - AoC | Association of Colleges University Impact Rankings 2019 - Times Higher Education | THE THE University Impact Rankings 2019: results announced - Times Higher Education | THE Developing children's self-regulation from the start - Research Schools Network Podcast episode 48: discussing the curriculum and its development in the light of the new Ofsted Inspection Framework - Research Schools Network Keeping memory in mind - Research Schools Network EdTech Strategy marks ‘new era’ for schools - UKEdChat Halfon and Milton clash over further education funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils at Educating Greater Manchester school were put ‘at risk daily’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES EYFS staff:child ratios - DfE approved qualifications - DfE Teacher subject specialism training (TSST) courses - DfE National Leaders of Governance for further education: national leaders - DfE Visiting a potential new school - Teacher Toolkit Time to talk about student mental health - Wonkhe Are we gambling with students’ futures? - Wonkhe Ofsted is a lethal mutation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Diary of a headteacher: Getting your hands dirty - SecEd Training provider director jailed for 8 months for fraud - FE Week Let all teaching job applicants explore ‘flexible options’, says Hinds - Schools Week Academic resigns as Ofsted adviser over ‘senior officials’ Twitter activity’ - Schools Week Minister admits a lot ‘we don’t know yet’ about Treasury backed national retraining scheme - FE Week All areas of education need more money, Nick Gibb admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to spot the signs on online grooming - Times Educational Supplement | TES What does the edtech strategy mean for schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: University of Edinburgh to honour UK’s first female medical students - Herald Scotland Scotland: University of Edinburgh to honour UK's first female medical students - Mail Teachers worried over knife crime accountability proposals - SecEd Pay deal reached in Scotland - SecEd Funding scrutiny as increasing numbers of school fall into deficit in Northern Ireland - SecEd Resources tackle online sexual harassment among young people - SecEd Teachers await detail of new curriculum in Wales - SecEd DfE plans creation of register for children not in school - SecEd DfE looks at NHS-style five-year funding plan in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Independent schools count £37m cost of rates changes - SecEd Absence: Parent penalty notice system under fire - SecEd GCSE rote-learning claims 'overstated', minister insists - Times Educational Supplement | TES School playing fields sell-off criticised - Times Educational Supplement | TES PayPal to reject essay-writing firms - BBC Nick Gibb refuses to say whether he backs controversial cost-cutting advice - Schools Week Select committee chair and skills minister clash over Spending Review strategy - FE Week Scots university reviews Brunei honour over gay stoning law - Scotsman Mother of autistic girl who tried to take own life in school isolation booth threatens to sue government - Independent 'Edinburgh Seven' to finally get degrees 150 years after campaign to allow women to study medicine - Scotsman Teacher introduces mental health check in board so students can share their feelings - Metro Next year’s school budgets are ‘not generous’ says DfE funding chief - Schools Week Study shows how school textbooks in Germany and England present Europe in entirely different ways - The Conversation How to move more school-leavers towards degree apprenticeships - FE Week DfE faces legal action over ‘confusing’ guidance on isolation booths - Schools Week Creating a quality apprenticeship system that will work for everyone - FE Week 'London College of Food' needed to overhaul chef education - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE wants edtech to cut time teachers spend marking - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE using 10 different IT systems to manage academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vocational Stem courses beat degrees on pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools ‘can only do so much’ on knife crime, warns Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES High Needs Funding: An overview of the key issues - Education Policy Institute What do you get if you don't teach stats properly? Farage and Trump | Robert de Vries - Guardian Best practice advice for supporting migrant children - SecEd Concern over subject-choice in Scotland - SecEd At the chalkface: Why can’t we all have some? - SecEd Diary of an NQT: Thinking about key stage 3 - SecEd Schools could be unlawfully discriminating against these pupils - Scotsman 9:30 a.m. - Oral evidence session re school and college funding - Accountability Hearings Mother sues over daughter's suicide attempt in school isolation booth - Guardian 3:15 p.m. - Oral evidence session re detention of young people with learning disabilities and autism - Accountability Hearings Time to talk about the menopause - Wonkhe USSBriefs: from a pensions protest to a platform for staff and students - Wonkhe Do we need standardised tests to evaluate learning in higher education? - HEPI Who will succeed Sally Hunt as UCU’s general secretary? - Times Higher Education | THE Universities must walk the talk on sustainable development - Times Higher Education | THE Theresa May’s exit adds to uncertainty over English review - Times Higher Education | THE Helicopter parents stop children becoming individuals, says top private school head - Mail EdTech strategy marks 'new era' for schools - DfE Ban painful restraint techniques on children, say charities - BBC School bans kids from drinking water in class — as it ‘distracts them from learning’ - The Sun Brighton and Hove city council provides pronoun stickers for trans pupils - Times Tech courses can lead to higher pay than degrees - Times To beat knife crime, listen to the children | Alice Thomson - Times Scotland: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah: pressure on Aberdeen university to strip honour over persecution of gays - Times Scotland: Charity behind LGBT lessons in classroom faces collapse - Times Scotland: Test children for psychosis, says Alesha MacPhail killer’s doctor - Times Ireland: Trinity College society denies initiation ceremony was bullying - Times