News archive for 18th April 2019

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Labour: Scottish college workforce decimated under SNP - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head banned over safeguarding failures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Supply teachers - National Education Union Post-16 colleges - National Education Union Challenging stereotypes and empowering young people - National Education Union Addressing the gender balance in HE governance - Advance HE Professional standards for tertiary teachers: A synthesis of recent work and initiatives - Advance HE Making space for self-directed learning - Advance HE T level knowledge hubs, teacher regional improvement projects and Industry Insight activity set to launch - Education & Training Foundation | ETF 'National scandal' of schools off-rolling pupils - The Educator An update on the Ethical Leadership Commission - ASCL ESFA: funding rates and formula - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies financial notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency Non disclosures, access, pro-life, A-levels (podcast) - Wonkhe Cash-strapped school forced to turn lights off and teach in the dark once a week - Mirror Off-rolling: it's hurting our vulnerable pupils the most - Times Educational Supplement | TES University criticised for '£1,000 Las Vegas incentive trip for students' - Mirror Teacher banned over bogus qualifications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools must break free of anachronistic restraints - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Teaching entry rules relaxed owing to shortages - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching union warns of 'super-sized' classes in English schools - Guardian Conducting research projects in collaboration with teachers - Learning Scientists Ofsted watch: New apprenticeship provider censured in otherwise strong showing by FE - FE Week Children in care disproportionately subject to unexplained school exits, study finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ireland: Unions criticise minimum wage internship - BBC Scotland: John Swinney announces overhaul of primary one tests after official report attacks botched introduction - Telegraph Ireland: Ulster University spends £226k on staff 'gagging clauses' - BBC Sustainable citizenship early years award to launch - Nursery World Number of ‘super-sized’ classes in secondary schools to rise leaving parents ‘enraged’, union warns - Independent Nearly 50,000 children have vanished from school results without explanation - Metro Warning over 'unexplained' school moves - BBC NEU vows to mobilise parents to ‘ramp up’ school cuts campaign - Schools Week Sport and exercise are ‘essential’ for successful exam leave - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU: 'We must stop rip-off supply teacher agencies' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NEU: Ofsted is 'weapon of fear' that has to go - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leaders must overcome the fear of flexible working - Times Educational Supplement | TES Class sizes to pass 40 year high, union leader claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Teachers were given ‘little or no’ information on P1 tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Primary 1 assessments to be modified but not scrapped - BBC Bristol nursery temporarily closed over child safety fears - BBC Scotland: Too little, too soon? Anger over John Swinney's revamp of P1 testing - Herald Scotland Scotland: Primary pupil assessments to be reformed after teacher feedback - Mail Church MAT halts restructuring plan after parent protests - Schools Week UK universities must break their silence around harassment and bullying | David Batty - Guardian Toxic climate sees teachers paid less for doing more - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Can universities find over 4,000 aspiring teachers? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unexplained pupil exits from schools: A growing problem? - EPI Scotland: Revamp of controversial P1 tests after children left distressed - Herald Scotland World's Best Teacher Peter Tabichi on how he reached the top - BBC 55,000 ‘unexplained moves’ heighten ‘off-rolling’ concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Autistic girl who can't speak in full sentences denied place at special school - Mirror Government must end use of pain-inducing restraint techniques and solitary confinement of detained children - UK Parliament ASCL response to EPI report on unexplained pupil exits - ASCL Universities urged to boost support for armed forces - DfE Four in five teachers bullied in the last year - NASUWT ASCL response to Sutton Trust survey on school cuts - ASCL Making compromises to balance the budgets - Sutton Trust Two-thirds of school heads have cut teachers to save money - Sutton Trust Too many children are disappearing from school rolls - Schools Week Teaching jobs sacrificed to make ends meet - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: One in 12 secondary pupils? Is that really the scale of off-rolling? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eight out of ten teachers suffering bullying, survey suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Off-rolling: The pupils most at risk of ‘unexplained moves’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four in five teachers bullied in school with some turning to drugs and alcohol to cope - Independent Scotland: SNP under fire over fall in college staff numbers - Herald Scotland Nearly 50,000 children disappear from schools without explanation, study finds - Independent University can change homeless people's lives, but they need support to get there | Becky Edwards - Guardian Universities urged to do more to help soldiers and their families get into higher education - PoliticsHome Two-thirds of secondary schools forced to cut teachers, new poll warns ministers - PoliticsHome Schools paying teachers out of fund for poor students - Telegraph SNP under fire for fall in Scottish college staffing levels - Scotsman Anger over luxury hotel away day for Scots university executives - Herald Scotland Teachers 'considering self-harm' after bullying by headteachers - Herald Scotland Teachers gather for NASUWT's centenary Annual Conference - NASUWT Studying science at 70 has been a revelation. Now for the exams . . .  - Financial Times Access and participation data unpacked - Wonkhe Welcome to the age of policy entrepreneurship - Wonkhe Principal thoughts: The apprenticeships agenda a year on - FE News Taking teaching further to encourage collaboration between industry and education - FE News Academic publishing must do better on gender - Times Higher Education | THE The four-day week: will it catch on in academia? - Times Higher Education | THE Big tech funding AI ethics research to ‘delay and avoid’ regulation - Times Higher Education | THE How to be a PhD supervisor - Times Higher Education | THE The hardest (higher) education policy question of all? - HEPI Schools in England dump 1 in 12 pupils before GCSEs to avoid harming exam results - The Sun All kids will have to study a foreign language GCSE in a bid to boost Britain’s bilingual skills post-Brexit - The Sun Ministers demand universities do more to get people from military backgrounds to go into higher education - The Sun Sleazy sir banned from classroom after zooming up schoolgirl’s skirt for sexual kicks - The Sun Two-fifths of headteachers axe school trips to save money - Schools Week Two hours or more of screen time makes children 'badly behaved' - Mail Two-thirds of headteachers cutting staff to save cash - HuffPost Universities should let ex-soldiers in despite having lower grades, minister says - Mail EPI: 50,000 pupils ‘pushed around school system’ in ‘unexplained’ moves - Schools Week One in 12 children are 'vanishing' from school registers - Mail Schools using funds for poorer pupils to plug budget gaps – survey - Guardian Scotland: SNP under fire over fall in college staff numbers - Mail More than 49,000 pupils ‘disappeared’ from English schools – study - Guardian Sport can help children beat dangers of screens - Times ‘Scandal’ as 49,000 students go missing - Times British universities spend £87m ‘gagging staff’ - Times Schools that off-roll pupils need to be named and shamed - Times Scotland: University strips sultan of his degree over stoning law - Times Scotland: School exam results don’t tell the whole story of education - Times