News archive for 25th April 2019

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Bobby the banged-up bank robber steals the show – Happy Birthday OU review - Guardian Graduate labour market: statistics - DfE 30 hours free childcare: eligibility codes issued and validated - DfE Graduates continue to benefit with higher earnings - DfE Nadhim Zahawi's speech at the Children's Future Food Inquiry - DfE Teachers' pay grant: September 2018 to March 2019 allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teachers' pay grant: allocations for 2019 to 2020 financial year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Second birthday celebrations for the Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network - Education & Skills Funding Agency Quarter of a million teachers face pay cut despite Tory claim to end austerity - Mirror New three-year pay deal agreed for teachers in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tory MP accuses ministers of being 'cloth-eared' on school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour or Tory, nothing changes in schools while we still have Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES How long until Ofsted fails a university for its apprenticeships? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Baseline tests 'will mean pressure on two-year-olds' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of teachers lost a week of Easter break to the job - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents and children march against plans to test four-year-olds - Guardian Ofsted finds ‘prohibited’ subcontracting – again - FE Week Open University celebrates its 50th anniversary – helping millions to better themselves - Express Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon accused of ignoring 'mounting evidence' over school subject choice - Telegraph Hundreds of children and parents march against Reception baseline - Nursery World Retail wage competition 'set to deepen early years workforce crisis' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Charity receives £4m gift for legal rights advice - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Manifesto draws on views of 76,000 girls and young women - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Learning to drive initiative helps care leavers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scottish teachers' pay claim 2018/19: update - Voice Voice welcomes EPI report on early years and retail - Voice Lack of technology ‘holds pupils back’ - The Educator 10 apps to aid pupil revision - Teacher Toolkit Initial teacher training (ITT): marketing and recruitment guide - DfE A brief overview of working memory - Learning Scientists What can students really contribute to university strategy? - Wonkhe Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon accused of ‘ignoring’ teachers on subject choice - Scotsman Teaching is relentless in a way that is different to other jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Health secretary doesn't rule out banning unvaccinated pupils from school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parental choice school admissions causing 'divisions by race and social class’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: First minister grilled over diminishing subject choices - Times Educational Supplement | TES Entrepreneurship is ‘21st-century heroism’, students told - Times Higher Education | THE Parental choice of school is not the answer to social integration - Nuffield Foundation The early years workforce: A comparison with retail workers - EPI University retention in London - Social Market Foundation | SMF New EEF podcast looks at embedding formative assessment - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Piloting the TEF at subject-level - Advance HE DfE urgently requested to issue guidance on the use of restrictive intervention of children and young people - PoliticsHome Podcast Episode 49: Introduction of mixed attainment maths teaching in Year 7 - Research Schools Network Women with master's degrees paid less than men without them in England - Guardian Seventh time unlucky: Training provider rated ‘inadequate’ after six consecutive grade threes - FE Week Devon skirt demo boys can now wear shorts - BBC How much money your school is getting for teacher pay rises - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bashing private schools won't bring education equality - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU needs to involve its college members more - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE podcast: Why pit knowledge against skills? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school Sats: Pupils and parents protest - BBC Sri Lanka suicide bomber potentially ‘radicalised’ at London University - Express Health Secretary Matt Hancock won't rule out banning unvaccinated children from schools - Mail Scotland: Whole generation let down by 'subject choice crisis', Tories claim - Mail Student visa cheat claims 'putting our lives on hold' - BBC Four-year-olds in Westminster protest - BBC As a teacher, I know parents are right to march against unfair tests for under-fives | Holly Rigby - Guardian FE is 'seriously underfunded', warn lords - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Religious reps barred from voting on education issues - Times Educational Supplement | TES A reminder for teachers: you are changing lives - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSCE exam quiz designed for 16-year-olds will challenge your knowledge - Mail Banning porn won’t work. So how can we best support young people’s digital intimacies? - IOE London Blog If universities cut lecturers' pensions, they should brace themselves for more strikes | Paul Cottrell - Guardian Call for Scottish state schools to be included in child abuse inquiry - Herald Scotland This is how much screen time your child should be allowed before it harms their development - Scotsman Scotland: Strike action threat hanging over exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Imperative not to short-change our young people - AoC | Association of Colleges 'We want to do the same things as boys', girls say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy must be rebalanced in favour of the young, say Lords Committee - UK Parliament The access challenge in the state of independence - HEPI Scottish teachers 'teaching three courses at the same time' - Herald Scotland Girls in gangs 'failed by authorities' - BBC ‘The youth’ in revolt? Sheffield’s open library too noisy for some - Times Higher Education | THE Brexit and post-18 review create ‘uncertainty in every direction’ for UK HE - Times Higher Education | THE Exams begin for thousands of Scottish school pupils - BBC Incontinence: 'Lack of support' for older children - BBC MAT chairs work more than double recommended hours, study finds - Schools Week ‘You feel sick, exhausted’: Why children in extreme poverty are being denied free school meals - HuffPost The teachers live streaming bedtime stories - BBC Low wages driving childcare workers into retail jobs - Nursery World Block children from social media, demands mother of suicide girl, 12 - Times Ban under-twos from all screens, parents are told - Times The Guides show the red card to boys-only sports in schools - Times Scotland: University Challenge winner says final answer was all luck - Times