News archive for 15th April 2019

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Parents find out about primary school places - BBC University’s apprenticeships 'require improvement' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tackling the climate crisis must be a central focus of education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers to be balloted on SATs boycott - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary teachers to be balloted on boycotting Sats - Guardian Teachers back plans for possible boycott of primary school tests - Independent NEU will ballot for SATs boycott in 2019-20 - Schools Week Plans revealed for Londoners to receive free ESOL courses up to entry level 3 from next year - FE Week Scotland: Headbutt maths teacher escapes classroom ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teenage pregnancy rate falls for 10th year - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Councils have SEND shortfall of £1.2bn, union warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Adaptability - Training Journal The UKEdPodcast – 32 – Emotional intelligence and compassion - UKEdChat Academy conversion: important dates - DfE 16 to 19 Bursary Fund guide: 2019 to 2020 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Initial teacher training (ITT): criteria and supporting advice - DfE Early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers - DfE #FundOurFuture – national funding campaign launched - Schools NorthEast Funding for nursery schools - National Education Union Boycott high stakes summative testing in primary schools - National Education Union School funding - National Education Union End of privatisation of education - National Education Union Climate change - National Education Union The Blair Peach award - National Education Union Anti-racism - National Education Union Non-pensionable allowances - National Education Union T-Levels - National Education Union 7 Ofsted inspection myths for teachers - Teacher Toolkit ONE Vision Schools launch: Major new investment in North East schools - Schools NorthEast Funding to cover the increased employer pension contribution costs confirmed for schools in England - NAHT Are your kids collaborating? - Nesta Toilets, tests and tuition – what teachers tapped this week - Teacher Tapp Teachers oppose 'reprisals' for pupils protesting about climate change - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cuts, workload and Ofsted have left schools under siege - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: We need to be FE's champion and challenger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school league table: Search for the top schools for A-level results - Telegraph Top grammar schools in the UK according to GCSE league tables - Telegraph Embracing edtech in the classroom is essential - Times Educational Supplement | TES Best independent schools in the UK: Compare league table results for GCSEs - Telegraph Scotland: Parents launch ad in bid to retain last all-girls school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers spend own salaries to keep school system running - Times Educational Supplement | TES Best independent schools in the UK: Compare league table results for A-levels - Telegraph Britain's highest paying degrees, according to graduate salary - Telegraph If schools want more money from government, they must use funds efficiently - Schools Week Secondary school league table: Search for the top schools for GCSE results - Telegraph Climate strike: Schools should not punish protesting students with detentions, teachers say - Independent PRUs shouldn't just be part of the flowchart - Schools Week Why the world is due a revolution in economics education - The Conversation Heads asked to sign pledge against pressurised testing - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Zombie’ academies left in limbo for up to 23 months - Times Educational Supplement | TES London secondary permanent exclusions up by 26% in three years - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU opposes detentions and exclusions for climate strike pupils - Schools Week Scotland: Pro-life legal action on University of Aberdeen abortion stance - BBC Top state college tells parents: pay us £250 or we may withdraw offer - Evening Standard SEND funding shortfall in schools of £1.2bn, union claims - Nursery World Under-18s face 'like' and 'streaks' bans on social media - BBC What robots and AI may mean for university lecturers and students - The Conversation Teachers give Damian Hinds 1 out of 100 for handling of crisis-hit schools - Mirror Here’s the Lib Dems’ vision for the school system of the future - Schools Week Parental leave: what is it for and how do we make it work? - IOE London Blog Brexit ‘could scupper work placements for youngsters’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching union conferences 2019 - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND underfunded by £1.2bn, says union - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to use technology for lesson planning - The Educator SEND provision - National Education Union Apprenticeships - are employers really in the driving seat? - FE News Scotland: Parents launch ad campaign to stop girls’ school letting in boys - Herald Scotland Scotland: Anger over failure to curb mental health crisis in schools - Herald Scotland Scotland: Mother who lost son to suicide says depressed teen 'didn't know how to cope' - Herald Scotland Academics need support to increase their policy impact - Times Higher Education | THE Do the write thing – the surprising written questions MPs ask about the sector - Wonkhe QAA subject benchmarks, or why the subject of a course defines the course of a subject - Wonkhe What happens to your consultation responses? - Wonkhe A positive outcome? - HEPI Some school children ‘go without eating for two days’ as child poverty increases, teachers warn - The Sun ‘I was put in a school isolation booth more than 240 times' - BBC Labour fires warning after rise in ‘zombie’ academies - Schools Week NEU warns of £1.2 billion SEND funding shortfall - Schools Week Lack of music education in schools widens gap between children - Mail Special-needs children lose out on £1.2bn of support, says union - Guardian Special needs pupils have lost out on £1.2 billion in funding since 2015, union warns - HuffPost The 'untold misery' of special needs shortfalls - BBC 53,000 pupils in limbo after rise in ‘zombie’ academy schools - Guardian Local authority tells settings not to charge for funded twos - Nursery World Ofsted inspection framework creates ‘two-tier system’ - Nursery World Nursery fraud warning after parent's bank account hacked - Nursery World The Big Picture - Forest skills - Nursery World University grades: firsts for quarter of students with lowest A levels - Times Tens of thousands of pupils at rudderless ‘zombie schools’ - Times Let’s get to the root of student unhappiness | Clare Foges - Times Scotland: Anti-abortion student society to take legal action on Aberdeen campus ban - Times