News archive for 19th August 2019

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From GCSEs to A levels: Managing sixth-form transition - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending review: Colleges need £1bn boost, says AoC - Times Educational Supplement | TES BTECs: Ofqual hits out at 'uncertainty and frustration' - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2018 to 2019 - DfE Response to Pearson changes to BTEC grading criteria 2019 - Ofqual Annual teachers survey - Ofsted Support for employers on education and skills - Education & Skills Funding Agency GCSE results 2019: To what extent are schools entering pupils early? - FFT Education Datalab How to tackle teacher stress? Voluntary groups - Times Educational Supplement | TES Getting clear on student finance - Student Loans Company Parents win funding to mount legal challenge over school closure - Guardian Students could lose college places after BTec grade boundaries changed - Guardian No-deal papers reveal council fears over food supply - BBC 90,000 children about to start school without measles vaccine - Times Lessons to learn from this year’s A-level results | Letters - Guardian A plea to the new PM: Don’t forget the arts in education - The Educator DfE’s ITP education and training workforce survey - AELP It’s the autonomy, stupid: Augar, admissions and market signalling - HEPI Board markers, classrooms, and what we know about where you are on holiday! - Teacher Tapp ASCL comment on changes to BTEC Tech Award grade boundaries - ASCL Skills shortages - Training Journal How universities can support students to be job ready - Training Journal GCSE results day 2019: What time are exam results released? Here’s what to expect - Evening Standard Corbyn pledges 'compulsory' youth services - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofqual: ‘Significant lessons to be learned’ from Pearson’s BTEC Tech Awards saga - Schools Week What I discovered about teaching in China - Teacher Toolkit Five efficient marking and assessment strategies - UKEdChat ‘Go here if you want depression!’: the bleak, funny world of Google school reviews - Guardian Top unis' GCSE demands favour private pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: how are they funded? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Does teachers’ altruism create an unbearable burden? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Many primary teachers 'can't teach phonics' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam dates Scotland 2020: when are National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher exams? - Scotsman PM orders 'urgent' action to boost MMR vaccination rates - Nursery World WorldSkills 2019: What you need to know as Team UK makes it to Kazan - FE Week Knife crime curfew plan for 12 year olds - BBC GCSE results 2019: What date and time are the results released? - Mirror Fresh fears over doubling of free nursery hours - Times Educational Supplement | TES Less than one in five teachers say Ofsted is reliable - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrap 'indefensible' EBacc, say ex-DfE and Ofsted heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES BTEC students could face lower grades, reveals Pearson - Times Educational Supplement | TES National 4 'should be completely reformed' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can mapping curricula shed light on teaching and academic impact? - Times Higher Education | THE Minority students ‘may be penalised’ by learning analytics shift - Times Higher Education | THE Just 18% of teachers say Ofsted is ‘trusted and reliable’ - Schools Week Reading charity recommends books for school starters - Nursery World GCSE results Q&A: Expert advice on retakes, re-marks and dealing with disappointment - Telegraph Vegetarian student fails GCSE exam for ‘obscene racial comments’ criticising halal meat - Express Best independent schools in the UK: Compare league table results for GCSEs - Telegraph Pearson hikes grade boundaries for BTEC Tech Awards - Schools Week Pedagogy focus: Assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five things not to say on GCSE results day - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2019: Four things to look out for on Thursday - FFT Education Datalab Do new GCSEs give all pupils a ‘fair deal’? - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: Schools battle to help 'forgotten third' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How researching post qualification admissions turned me from advocate to sceptic - Wonkhe Recognising teaching in knowledge exchange - Wonkhe DfE tells QTS gaffe victims: Accept £100 compensation or lawyer up - Schools Week Students 'handing out £5 notes to their peers' to encourage them to use betting apps, report claims - Mail Almost half of meals served to young children are too big or too small - Nursery World Scottish PVIs in staffing crisis as 1,140 hours loom - Nursery World Pupils denied chance of special needs help - Times Roehampton University lures young gamers with a scholarship - Times Snowflake parents’ exam fixation is unhealthy | Edward Lucas - Times