News archive for 5th April 2019

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Tes FE Podcast: A world without Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted changes could be a stepping stone - Times Educational Supplement | TES Best-paid college principals in England revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 5 April - Pearson Cash-strapped primary school forced to turn off lights for a day each week - Mirror The Tes Podcast: Knife crime, Ofsted and Finland - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL says schools need curriculum autonomy in inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES When Sats fever takes hold everything else suffers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education: FAQs - DfE Key facts you should know about the apprenticeship levy - DfE Two years since the levy launched, skills minister reflects on success of a ‘carrot and stick’ policy - FE Week How you can help with the post-16 qualifications review - FE Week CELL surrenders Ofqual recognition - Ofqual Teacher Recruitment Bulletin - DfE Education Secretary thanks school leaders for academy success - DfE Key facts you should know about the apprenticeship levy - DfE Grammar schools set to prioritise poorer pupils and local children despite hostility from parents and alumni - Independent MPs urge action to improve support for Traveller children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Long-awaited early years apprenticeship launches - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Consultation opens for new Skills & Employment Knowledge Hub - ERSA The modern form of racism: micro-incivilities - Advance HE Gracia Kabongo, Event Manager at AoC Create, announced as Tomorrow’s Talent winner - AoC | Association of Colleges EEF responds to Ofsted’s inspection framework - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Ofsted watch: UTC jumps from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’ - FE Week Collaboration - at the heart of what we do - Research Schools Network Wales: Head teacher's heartwarming letter to pupils ahead of 'stress tests' - Wales Online Ofsted plan is a step in the right direction - ASCL Response to government calls for university admissions review - Universities UK Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP shares key themes from his ASCL Annual Conference 2019 address - ASCL School funding still in crisis: regional school summits - NAHT Multiplication test: update on national voluntary pilot - NAHT Multiplication test: update on national voluntary pilot - NAHT Strikes to hit three West Midlands colleges in pay row - UCU NEU comment on Ofsted consultation - National Education Union Exploring senior leaders’ experiences of off-rolling in mainstream secondary schools in England - BERA Teacher tackles government over knife crime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Milton: 'Too many providers blocked from going into schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Testing is damaging our mental health, pupils tell Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES The abject failure of marketisation in higher education | Letters - Guardian In the news: 5 April 2019 - UCU Ministers have U-turned on 33 attempts to force schools to become academies - Schools Week Support for students returning to Scotland from Europe will continue post-Brexit - Mail Academies Enterprise Trust warned it could lose ‘inadequate’ primary school - Schools Week CPR to be taught in all secondary schools in Scotland - Mail School apologises for requesting ‘white British’ taxi driver for pupil - Independent Largest academy trust told it could lose 'inadequate' primary school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are great expectations destroying teacher wellbeing? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads warn of Ofsted 'confusion' on off-rolling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Football star Sterling pays for pupils' FA Cup tickets - Times Educational Supplement | TES England’s largest academy trusts see gender pay gap widen - Schools Week Boy, 7, threatens to stab pregnant teacher in the stomach as ‘obscene’ UK knife crime crisis rages on - The Sun ‘A woman must not deny her husband’- books on female subservience found in Islamic school - Express Universities and training providers clash on apprenticeship priorities - FE Week Creeping complexity has reached critical levels in FE - FE Week Heads demand Ofsted consider ‘uneven school funding’ - Schools Week Ofsted inspection grades challenged - BBC Early years recruitment focus of new research - Nursery World Rural schools struggle to break poverty-attainment link - Schools Week Overspend: GLA warns of risk to AEB devo project - FE Week It’s FE Week wot won it: 5 month mystery of missing £300k levy ‘resolved’ by ESFA - FE Week Scotland: Here's how to get involved in the Herald Higher Education Awards 2019 - Herald Scotland Cars could be banned from driving down any roads with schools on them under new plans - The Sun Three years on, we still need to build a better explanation of why EU membership is the best way to ensure UK universities are open to the rest of the world - HEPI MillionPlus responds to the Education Secretary’s call for a review of university admissions - MillionPlus Joint letter to Amanda Spielman from HTRT & WorthLess? - Headteachers' Roundtable Don’t sneer at pupil power: it stopped parents polluting at my school gates | Steve Marsland - Guardian Everyone is ignorant just about different things… - Research Schools Network Apprenticeship levy unlikely to meet target of 3m starts by 2020, admits minister - City AM Review of higher education admissions arrives at a timely moment, says AoC - AoC | Association of Colleges Breaking the link? Attainment, poverty and rural schools - LKMco How to plan a lesson for a teaching interview - The Educator War on 'unconditional' Russell Group university offers that pile pressure on students into accepting - Mail Third of apprentices on standards not ready for planned end-point assessment in 2017/18 - FE Week 'It's about how people can better their lives': students on why PhDs matter - Guardian 'Let gay Muslims be gay': Owen Jones goes to the centre of the LGBT lesson row (video) - Guardian Universities urged to review ‘unacceptable’ admissions practices - DfE DfE tells universities to stop 'unethical' admissions tactics - Guardian Hinds vows to protect teachers from knife crime burden - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted curriculum inspections won't work, heads warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES A break from Brexit - Hinds talks to Tes about funding, teachers and edtech - Times Educational Supplement | TES Amanda Spielman: 'Ofsted is listening to teachers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outwood Grange behaviour system ‘falling down’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds tells unis to stop 'unethical' strings-attached offers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for 'misleading' Ofsted inspection grades to be scrapped - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: The Outwood Grange ‘consequences system’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs demand action on gypsy and traveller schooling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted grades are misleading parents and are wrong in up to half of cases, ex-Government adviser says - Telegraph The academy trust chief who boasted he ‘flicked away’ safeguarding concerns - Schools Week Investigation by statistics watchdog after ESFA lists ‘unreliable’ providers - FE Week Universities urged to stop using ‘unethical’ tactics to pressure students into accepting places - Independent Scotland: Cycling scheme sees number of girls getting on their bikes triple - Herald Scotland Scotland: All school pupils to be taught life-saving resuscitation techniques - Herald Scotland Fair university access cuts ‘happiness gap’ between rich and poor - Times Higher Education | THE Open University platform scales up citizen science - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Comprehensive’ review of English university admissions launched - Times Higher Education | THE Being digital natives won’t protect students from online abuse - Wonkhe 2 years of the levy, where will those unspent billions end up? Anne Milton has the answers - FE News One in five parents cancel or delay a holiday to give children more revision time, study finds - Mail 'You're a Gypsy - are you going to leave school?' - BBC School LGBT teaching row: Gay, Muslim and Parkfield - BBC Hinds demands end to ‘unethical’ unconditional offers - Schools Week Universities that 'pressure sell' unconditional offers are 'unethical', Education Secretary warns - Telegraph Scots youngsters to be taught CPR in classroom - Scotsman Universities shamed for snaring students with ‘unethical’ offers - Times Ireland: Student society demands apology for ‘hazing’ story - Times Ireland: Culture on campuses ‘must change’ - Times Government has comprehensively failed Gypsies, say MPs - Guardian