News archive for 30th April 2019

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Scotland: Music lessons should be free, says education secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister wants academy trusts to keep their 'failings' secret - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning that 166,000 Sats 'failures' could be turned off school - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE 'wants pessimistic academy budget forecasts to boost school funding case' - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE secrecy over £16m turnaround plan for supersize MAT - Times Educational Supplement | TES Committee Chair writes to Association of School and College Leaders General Secretary on knife crime - UK Parliament If we're serious about social mobility then it must be easier for the middle-classes to fail - Telegraph Agnew: Mid-year audit reviews avoid academy failings being made public - Schools Week Teaching assistant jobs cut across Wales as schools struggle to make ends meet - Wales Online Scotland: Education Secretary urges councils to provide free music lessons in schools - Mail Free childcare and unconditional university offers are making social mobility worse says watchdog - Mail Social mobility in Great Britain - state of the nation 2018 to 2019 - Social Mobility Commission Class privilege remains entrenched as social mobility stagnates - Social Mobility Commission Letters from Lord Theodore Agnew to academy trust auditors - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship and levy statistics: April 2019 - DfE More college graduates attending Scottish universities - BBC Statistics: further education and skills - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: college financial planning handbook and financial plan - Education & Skills Funding Agency The race is on! Showcase your success stories at the National Apprenticeship Awards 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency The OfS business plan: turning up the volume in Year Two - Office for Students Engineering college for HS2 ditches 'high speed' from its name - Guardian Urgent question on overseas students falsely accused of cheating - UK Parliament How have British universities grappled with links to the slave trade? - Mail Judging by the Home Office, it’s now Tory policy to ruin Britain | Nesrine Malik - Guardian School improvement monitoring and brokering grant allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency CBI responds to Social Mobility Commission report - CBI What is instructional coaching? - Ambition Institute Traditional subjects replaced in new Wales’ curriculum - The Educator ​​​​​​​Social Mobility Commission report highlights damage done by grant cuts - UCU NASUWT responds to draft curriculum for Wales - NASUWT ASCL Cymru comment on draft curriculum for Wales R - ASCL ASCL comment on Social Mobility Commission report - ASCL What we know about Scottish pupils' literacy rates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social mobility commission tells Ofsted to 'move beyond' 'harmful' inspection grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Investment we make in young people is very low compared to other countries - AoC | Association of Colleges Politicians of all stripes fear loss of EU students, post-Brexit - PIE News Scotland to continue free EU student fees - PIE News New curriculum for Wales scraps traditional subjects - Times Educational Supplement | TES The system is failing those not going to university - Times Educational Supplement | TES Geography teachers quiz Ofqual and Ofsted - SecEd Schools still unsure about GDPR compliance - SecEd Picture perfect? Rejecting fake perfection - SecEd We will never combat knife crime unless we address the root causes - PoliticsHome Extend 30 hours to more families, urges social mobility body - CYPN | Children & Young People Now What influences vocabulary? - Research Schools Network The importance of the school environment - UKEdChat London tubes, schools and homes 'face climate change chaos' - Guardian Finalists for 2019 ERSA Employability Awards announced - ERSA Subject communities take centre stage in Advance HE Connect - Advance HE How do we support dual professionals in higher education? - Advance HE IOE Director and Labour MP to co-chair commission to challenge gender stereotypes - IOE London Blog Social mobility - National Education Union What are parents’ perceptions of Ofsted? - Teacher Toolkit Student voice is more than answering surveys - Wonkhe Addressing staff sexual misconduct in higher education - HEPI The risks of research funding cuts - Russell Group Addressing social inequality - Russell Group Home visits show effect on absenteeism and performance - Best Evidence in Brief Kindergarten-based yoga programme improves cognition and behaviour in children - Best Evidence in Brief Trialling a social-emotional learning programme for teenagers - Best Evidence in Brief What works for struggling readers? - Best Evidence in Brief UCU calls for greater use of contextual data in university admissions - UCU National Apprenticeship Awards 2019 open for applications - FE Week RSC Martin Post to ‘return to the sector’ after contract ends this summer - Schools Week State of the Nation report: Inequality in UK 'entrenched' - BBC Inequality remains entrenched in UK, says Social Mobility Commission - Mail Dogs join Middlesex University staff to help students with exam stress and homesickness - Independent 30 hours policy 'entrenches inequality' says social mobility watchdog - Nursery World Leaders, we must be bold to save education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why attaching excluded pupils' results to their school won't work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of uni entrants from college get full credit for qualifications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teen drug-dealing convictions up two-thirds in five years in England and Wales - Guardian NLT launches 'chat, play, read' tips for parents of under-fives - Nursery World Schools to be held to account for pupils taken off their roll - Times Educational Supplement | TES Commission calls for 16-19 student premium - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister worried about schools 'gaming' the exclusions system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Forget private schools, what about inequality in state schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Curriculum: ‘Get over this fixation on subjects and exams' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vocational education boosts job prospects and earnings, finds new study - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social mobility in UK 'virtually stagnant' since 2014 - Guardian UK social mobility has stalled, warns commission - Financial Times Cost of school savings advisers will rise to £4m, and 8 other things we learned from Agnew at education committee - Schools Week Scottish pupils 'forced to take subjects they hate' - Mail Britain's strictest headteacher calls for abusive parents to be prosecuted - Mirror How all of Wales' private schools compare on fees and results - Wales Online Cambridge is right: you can’t take pride in the past and ignore the horror of slavery | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Minister: We will ‘tighten accountability’ on exclusions - Schools Week Gap between rich and poor pupils ‘stagnating’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Behaviour: A ‘naughty’ child is trying to tell you something - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE urged to give long-term poor more pupil premium cash - Schools Week Increase 16-19 funding by ‘significant amount’, Social Mobility Commission urges - FE Week British universities and the Brexit dimension - Financial Times Monthly apprenticeships update: February starts up 16% but down on 2017 - FE Week Scotland: Child mental health services waiting times 'not good enough' in Grampian - BBC Retaining Ofsted's current grading system in education - Ofsted Initial teacher training (ITT): marketing and recruitment guide - DfE Annual parents survey - Ofsted 9 out of 10 parents know the Ofsted rating of their child’s school or childcare provider - Ofsted 'We will never accept this!' Verhofstadt slaps down plans by UK to charge EU students more - Express Ofsted keeping all inspection grades despite concerns over pressure - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents unaware 'outstanding' schools exempt from Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils on free school meals more likely to read on screen - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge University to investigate how it profited from the slave trade - HuffPost ‘Academic vandalism’ – unique archive of the Troubles under threat - Guardian Headteacher Judy Shaw: ‘My staff are fantastic but they can’t fight poverty’ - Guardian NI schoolchildren 'should receive free fruit or veg' - BBC Why are teachers miserable? Because they’re being held at gunpoint for meaningless data | Jeremy Hannay - Guardian University of Cambridge to investigate how it benefited from slave trade - Independent School exclusions for drugs and alcohol at ten-year high as 'county lines' gangs are blamed - Telegraph How to make sure apprentices finish before the Gateway closes - FE Week Scottish pupils 'forced to take subjects they hate' - Herald Scotland Scotland: Fees 'propping up' school music tuition say councils - Herald Scotland Are graduates overeducated and underpaid? - Wonkhe Jo Johnson: post-study work visa amendment has ‘very good’ chance - Times Higher Education | THE Lawyers should not be the judges of academic responsibility - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities focus on fundraising as policy uncertainty grows - Times Higher Education | THE Cambridge to probe historical links to slave trade - Times Higher Education | THE Q&A: Draft school curriculum for Wales - BBC Draft school curriculum for Wales published - BBC People in their 30s and 40s are the most likely to be 'over-educated' for job roles - Mail Cambridge staff are to carry out a two-year probe into university's links with slave trade - Mail May will make students ‘Brexit victims’, says MEP - Financial Times 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re accountability - Accountability Hearings Parents want more ‘outstanding’ schools inspected, plus 4 more Ofsted findings - Schools Week Stress-busting dogs on university staff - BBC Cambridge university to study how it profited from colonial slavery - Guardian Ofsted: Ditching grading system for pass/fail could cause more ‘gaming’ - Schools Week Cambridge investigates its slavery links - BBC The first details of what Wales' new school curriculum will look like have been published - Wales Online Cambridge University launches inquiry into slave trade links and historic racism - Telegraph Top of the class for going nowhere fast | Quentin Letts - Times Cambridge to examine its links to slave trade - Times Higher fees for EU students will hurt the economy and the Tories | Sophie Jarvis - Times One third of recent graduates underpaid and overqualified - Times Scotland: Andrew Neil misled viewers on pupil illiteracy rates, says watchdog - Times Scotland: Ex-charity boss Jacqueline McKay swindled university out of £16,000 - Times Ireland: Salon apprentices are ‘charged €2,000 to be trained’ - Times British kids avoid drinking water so they don’t have to use ‘dirty’ school toilets - Metro