News archive for 12th April 2019

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Financial Times and World Bank school blog competition winners - Financial Times Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 12 April - Pearson Vice-principal convicted of defrauding school escapes ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eleven ways to succeed – and stay - in leadership - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching no longer allows us the time to get to know our pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: First Minister at war with council leader over 'unfair' school funding - Wales Online Vice-principal convicted of expenses fraud won't be banned from teaching - Schools Week Wales: Tens of thousands of frogs, fish, mice and rats subjected to 'experiments' at Cardiff University - Wales Online Students bring fresh wave of climate strikes to UK streets - Guardian Be warned: Ofsted's new framework will ramp up workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES The state of unregulated alternative provision is shameful - Times Educational Supplement | TES Austerity is leaving classroom teachers exposed and alone - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND: Families lose court challenge over funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Union conferences and why pupils should move about - Times Educational Supplement | TES Opening up the past with heritage apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student funds free sanitary products on campus using university loan - Mail The experiences of BAME leaders in higher education - Advance HE Half of schools start GCSEs in year 9, NFER survey suggests - Schools Week New ADCS president: Boost councils' education improvement role - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Beyond the data: Impact of the US programme - Sutton Trust Brexit deterring int’l students from the UK – QS - PIE News LA moderation of writing: moderation 'script' for 2019 - NAHT Horizon Europe agreement offers strong future for research - Universities UK In the news 12 April 2019 - UCU Parents angry at school for holding exclusive tea party for pupils with 100% attendance - Metro Provider finances: evidence from early years providers - DfE Teachers' pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) - DfE Education Inspection Framework 2019 NFER Response: Teacher Voice Data - NFER Education Inspection Framework 2019: NFER response - NFER NFER welcomes the intention behind the new Ofsted Framework, but warns of unintended consequences - NFER Prospective teachers failed skills test with marking error - The Educator Moving towards a holistic assessment of education quality - Nesta Primary offers day: What if you don’t get your first choice? - Teach First Teachers lose faith in school curriculum to equip students with skills for jobs, says Edge report - Edge Foundation Grammar school expansion plan threatens to force closure of existing comprehensive, campaigners say - Independent Youth climate change protests across Britain – as it happened - Guardian Ofsted watch: 8 out of 10 providers celebrate positive reports - FE Week The culture war over ‘LGBT lessons’ is based on distortion. Here are the facts | Janeen Hayat - Guardian More universities are teaching lawtech – but is it just a gimmick? - Guardian Decolonising the curriculum - is consensus on the curriculum unravelling? - Montrose42 Union leadership prefers to test water again before striking over funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents call for Church MAT chief to go in headteacher redundancy row - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers will feel ‘more weakened than empowered’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stem: Inquiry explores impact of science teaching on nursery children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Institutes of Technology must allowed to succeed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: University sheds jobs and shuts chemistry department to help make ends meet - Wales Online EU shock: How Ukip claimed bloc used ‘cash to brainwash British children' - Express University of Essex plans largest ever expansion of staff and students - Guardian Parents slam school for holding tea party just for pupils with 100% attendance - Mirror Scotland: Teacher who helped students cheat in exams reprimanded - Scotsman Treasury claws back £300m in unspent funding from the DfE - Schools Week Treasury took back over £300m despite small employers being turned away - FE Week Brexit stress? Try GCSEs - Financial Times Goodbye, Mr Chips? The new school dinners - Financial Times Teachers urged to use emojis with their students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted needs help shining light into 'murky world' of illegal schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted finds children at illegal schools with open sewers and rat traps - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Zero-tolerance' academy softens its punishments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Career civil servants could head academies system under DfE reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gender gap in spatial reasoning starts in primary school - UKEdChat Exploring learning entanglement - BERA Why school clubs really matter - The Educator If you can’t kill it, cure it: a five-point prescription for REF201 - HEPI New data shows illegal schools are a huge nationwide problem - Ofsted Unregistered schools management information - Ofsted Vulnerable children playing computer games all day in suspected illegal schools, Ofsted officials warn - Independent Lecturers attack £124,000 salary of new Scottish college principal - Herald Scotland Apprenticeship levy struggles to lift social mobility - Financial Times Research must solve social problems, says top EU policymaker - Times Higher Education | THE Articles pulled after data fabrication in Cambridge DNA lab - Times Higher Education | THE Unregistered schools given council funding - BBC More than 200 'illegal' schools are exposing thousands of pupils to 'appalling conditions' - Mail Tory peer demands that litter picking is included in the national curriculum - Mail Kids allowed to play computer games all day at an unregistered school, inspectors found - The Sun Ofsted uncovers 500 suspected illegal schools in England - Guardian ‘Open sewers and rat traps in rooms’: The ‘appalling’ conditions at England’s illegal schools - Schools Week Thousands of children are being taught in 'appalling' suspected illegal schools - HuffPost Scotland: MSPs to examine impact of Stem teaching in early years education - Mail Thousands of children attending suspected illegal schools - Ofsted - Mail What is an unregistered or illegal school? - Times Banned teachers, open sewers and rats discovered at illegal schools - Times Teenage gamers being drawn into cybercrime, police warn - Times Reform will let rich buy university places, says former minister Lord Willetts - Times Scotland: Teacher reprimanded after helping students to cheat - Times