News archive for 8th April 2019

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LGBT+ lessons: Hundreds of children could be withdrawn from Birmingham school over relationships education, protesters warn - Independent Seventy-five bogus universities shut down in past four years - Guardian Climate change: Spare pupil protestors detentions, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Baseline assessment: four-year-olds prepare to march - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the NUS president and FE vice-president contenders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teach First defend recruitment of teacher who struggled with reading and writing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why DfE civil servants are being sent to college - Times Educational Supplement | TES Department for Education’s pusillanimity on Parkfield school | Letters - Guardian Introducing the shadow education sector - Financial Times Thousands of children not learning at home - Nursery World The 34 colleges with £270m of government loans and bailouts last year - FE Week Newly qualified teachers 'barely earn the minimum wage' - The Educator Unlocking the power of parenting - Nesta Voice welcomes project to tackle early years workload and urges members to take part - Voice Tackling early years disadvantage - the Government's response - NAHT Reform of functional skills qualifications in English and maths - NAHT Register to claim Erasmus+ and ESC funding from the government guarantee - DfE Online safety: 'The urgency is huge' - BBC Consultation on Quality Assurance Agency fees - Office for Students Southampton saves on v-c salary with Mark Smith appointment - Times Higher Education | THE School improvement boost for schools - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF 'World first' internet safety laws proposed to protect children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now To decolonise the curriculum, we have to decolonise ourselves - Wonkhe EEF Guidance Report: 'Preparing for Literacy' - Research Schools Network Pay cuts, clocks, and the crazy cost of fire alarms in schools - Teacher Tapp Does our school system harm teacher mental health? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why doesn’t Ofsted treat all early years settings equally? - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need a shared vision for the college of the future - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students take on trek for mental health - BBC What is dual coding theory? - Teacher Toolkit Online harms – Labour calls for action to ‘protect our democracy’ - Public Technology Ofsted's 'off-rolling' crackdown must go further, says ADCS - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Governing bodies and financial forecasts - Advance HE Chairman responds to the Online Harms White Paper - UK Parliament A small spanner in the works for the essay mill cheats - Wonkhe Academy with £20 million PFI contract ordered to improve its finances - Schools Week Build only Welsh schools from now on - argue Super Furry Animals star and Hinterland actress - Wales Online Teacher at top London secondary school can't read or write - Mail Ofsted chief not accepted for 'settled status' - BBC Chartered Institute of FE admits to having no employees - FE Week New teachers' hourly rate 'just 10% above minimum wage' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brexit: 'We must keep telling EU students and staff they are welcome' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Want to cut teacher workload? Cut the work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Knife crime: 'More lives are lost as the blame game continues' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Some teachers barely earn the minimum wage, warn union leaders - Schools Week Five areas to transform maternity and early years services - Nursery World Cars to be banned from driving down roads with school on them - Express Scotland: Anger at school plan to charge pupils for exam revision - Herald Scotland ‘Loss of self’ and the accountability culture: why teachers are leaving the profession at a worrying rate - IOE London Blog Are teachers being made 'scapegoats' for knife crime? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads welcome govt plans to ensure social media firms stop 'online harm' - Times Educational Supplement | TES No learning at home for 100,000 under-fives, DfE research finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Strong' public backing for primary LGBT lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES End of term fillers – it doesn’t have to be videos and word searches - The Educator Problem solving: Advice for all teachers - Teacher Toolkit Over 300,000 toddlers have never been read a nursery rhyme by their parents, study suggests - Telegraph Between a hard place and a hard place: A study of ethical dilemmas experienced by student teachers while on practicum - BERA A brilliant initiative - Education and Employers US essay mill firm targets new students through WhatsApp - Guardian Movers and Shakers: Edition 277 - FE Week New teacher recruitment service set to save schools millions - DfE How do you make teenagers care about learning? - Schools Week How to be an apprenticeship ‘ultra-negotiator’ and prove it… - FE Week Time(tabling) for a revolution - Times Higher Education | THE Gender pay gap: UK universities report slow progress - Times Higher Education | THE Autonomy fears over government review of English admissions - Times Higher Education | THE Deliver us from rankers - Wonkhe TEF won’t sweeten my rankings rancour - Wonkhe Surge in top-end courses forces apprenticeship levy rethink - Financial Times Government video starring Natasha Kaplinsky accused of 'nanny state meddling' - Mail Teacher sent to work at top secondary school despite being unable to read and write - The Sun Government-run teacher vacancy website goes live across England - Schools Week Websites to be fined over 'online harms' under new proposals - BBC Parents demand nursery footage - Times Act now to protect the young or face the law, web giants told - Times Universities ‘failing to support’ students cut off from families - Times Master’s degrees on rise as graduates seek to stand out - Times