News archive for 11th April 2019

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Self-referencing as a tool to improve learning - Learning Scientists US Centre wins Guardian University Award - London School of Economics | LSE Increasing disabled staff recruitment in Scottish colleges - Advance HE Building a high-performing board: Expanding the skills matrix - Advance HE UK govt details Erasmus+ guarantee process - PIE News ADHD: Dreaming, distracted or wired differently? Part 2 - LKMco The 6 most effective study habits - Teacher Toolkit Five ways in which Edu-Exit was the test run for Brexit - BERA ISC statement on TPS following government consultation response - Independent Schools Council | ISC Tough choices for apprenticeship funding - AELP Architects of the Future: What's on the business leadership horizon and how can we prepare? - ASCL Don’t blame schools for knife crime: Letter to Robert Halfon MP - ASCL Sub-degree HE - exploring myths and opportunities - MillionPlus Creative industries and higher education: partners in inequality? - Wonkhe Delivering schools to support housing growth - DfE Outcomes for children looked after by LAs: 31 March 2018 - DfE FE learners and apprentices survey - DfE Register of end-point assessment organisations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Government ensures housing development helps foot the bill for school places - DfE Evaluation of a scheme to develop pilot engineering and computing conversion Masters courses - Office for Students Regulatory advice 13: How to apply for university college and university title - Office for Students Forcing schools to tackle knife crime could make things worse - Times Educational Supplement | TES New guidance on university title applications - Office for Students Wales: Primary school will give pupils Friday afternoons off as children 'lack focus' by end of week - Telegraph Swinford school board resigns in head teacher redundancy row - BBC Letter from Geoff Barton, ASCL General Secretary, on knife crime and school exclusions (pdf) - UK Parliament Ruskin College: Row over tutor Dr Lee Humber's suspension - BBC A fitter rival would soon make the REF extinct - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Impossible’ black hole image required planetary teamwork - Times Higher Education | THE Sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare: international partnerships post Brexit - Wonkhe Giving on a plate: a novel alumni fundraising drive - Wonkhe Tories, NUS, stalking, rent guarantors (podcast) - Wonkhe Can an anchor drag you down? - Wonkhe Technical education should not be the poor relation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary and secondary teachers do very different jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES One bid for model music contract after DfE gave just 8-days' notice - Times Educational Supplement | TES The school that refused to let Ofsted speak to its pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads reject MPs' claim of exclusions and knife crime link - Times Educational Supplement | TES The secret of success in education? Our staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Guardian University Awards 2019 – the winners - Guardian Ofsted: Thousands of children at risk in illegal schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Young people to develop youth charter with government - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Experiences of families on universal credit 'dismissed' by government - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Dock dump: what 1950s stevedores can teach university IT staff - Times Higher Education | THE Universities should be working for the greater good - Times Higher Education | THE Wales: School gives kids Friday afternoons off because ‘they’re tired’ - Metro Wales: Cardiff University cancels talk from psychologist who said LGBT+ lessons can ‘corrupt’ children - Independent The Guardian University Awards 2019 - the night in pictures - Guardian GCSE and A-level appeals up 42% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Error in skills test led to prospective teachers being failed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government rejects compulsory litter patrols for Year 6 pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police report upskirting of school pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ireland: Controlled schools becoming more diverse, says support council chief - Mail Hundreds of prospective teachers failed QTS skills test because of marking ‘error’ - Schools Week Wales: Primary pupils given Friday afternoons off as they 'lack focus' by end of week - Mirror Almost third of children in need 'persistently absent' from school - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need to talk in classrooms about Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Permanent exclusions of looked-after children at five-year low - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: Primary school gives its 300 pupils Friday afternoons off because they 'lack focus' - Mail Scotland: New resource aims to tackle bullying of young migrants - Mail Attainment falls and absence rises among looked-after pupils - Schools Week Wales: Primary school gives pupils Friday afternoons off – as they get ‘tired and lack focus’ by end of week - The Sun Wales: Cardiff University bans talk by speaker who says LGBT lessons are 'ideological indoctrination' - Wales Online The school appeals system is cementing inequalities: it’s time for the government to rethink admissions - Schools Week Exam appeals on the rise as reforms continue to bed in - Schools Week A-level economics textbook comes under fire for 'giving a platform to racism' - HuffPost Newcastle University wins Guardian’s best student experience award - Jisc Call to review school admissions system that 'reinforces inequality' - Times Educational Supplement | TES More pressure on housing developers to fund new school places - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fair Access to Schools? The impact of the appeals and waiting list system - EPI Schools given £940m to fund pension contribution increases - SecEd ASCL response to EPI report on school appeals - ASCL Poorest families half as likely to get top choice of school through appeals system, study finds - Independent What's really behind the increasing segregation of British schools? - Telegraph Muslims and LGBTQ people should stand together, not fight each other | Owen Jones - Guardian “Dismissive, disrespectful” Government response treats Committee and witnesses “like dirt” - UK Parliament Wealthy families are biggest winners from school appeals - BBC Beware of the fool’s gold in the policymakers’ El Dorado - Times Higher Education | THE Graduate earnings rarely afford good policymaking - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities issue 11K non-disclosure agreements in five years - Times Higher Education | THE Willetts: grade threshold for loans risks ‘two-tier’ system - Times Higher Education | THE The placement panacea - HEPI 'I was the only girl in A-level electronics' - BBC The parent protests that stopped LGBT equality lessons (podcast) - Guardian Wales: Penarth parents call for stop to Friday school closures - BBC Squeeze more cash for schools out of housing developers, DfE tells councils - Schools Week UK university blighted by string of suicides will flag students who might be having a breakdown - Mail Wales: Cardiff students talk about gender equality in art - BBC EPI: School admissions appeals and waiting lists ‘increase social segregation’ - Schools Week MPs demand Government review its 'disrespectful' response to universal credit report - Nursery World Appeals and waiting lists for school places favour the rich – study - Guardian Housing developers should pay to build new schools, new Department for Education guidance says - Telegraph New NUS leader Zamzam Ibrahim wrote of wanting to ‘oppress white people’ - Times Truancy ‘worse than expulsions’ for knife crime, says education secretary - Times Half of UWE students who killed themselves had work issues - Times Poorest families lose out in appeals for school place - Times Ireland: Gangs paying students to launder criminals’ money - Times