News archive for 27th August 2019

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Delegation of adult education: exercise of functions - DfE ESF 2014 to 2020 programme – list of contracts - Education & Skills Funding Agency Sajid Javid promises cash boost for schools, NHS and police - Mail Teachers 'told to use reasonable force' in leaked education papers revealing £3.5 billion cash injection and a new wave of free schools - Mail WorldSkills 2019: UK wins 15 medallions of excellence - FE Week Vladimir Putin stresses importance of lifelong learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES New English GCSE texts ‘reinforce stereotypes’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills Kazan 2019: Two golds for Team UK - Times Educational Supplement | TES College students 'can't meet essential living costs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES £4bn school funding boost set to be confirmed - BBC Scotland's first community-owned school is officially opened - Herald Scotland WorldSkills 2019: Team UK bringing home haul of medals - FE Week WorldSkills 2019: Rebecca West picks up gold medal for beauty therapy - FE Week Schools shake-up: the four key areas in leaked Tory proposals - Guardian The Guardian view on Johnson’s schools policies: spin over substance | Editorial - Guardian Woodmill High School fire: 'No part' of building unaffected by blaze - Scotsman WorldSkills 2019: Team UK flying high after gold in aircraft maintenance - FE Week First ever community owned school building in Scotland opens - Scotsman Johnson’s schools ‘revolution’ is all about an imminent election. Here’s why it’s fake | Aditya Chakrabortty - Guardian Share your thoughts on the proposed education measures - Guardian Leaked documents reveal Tories' dramatic plans for schools - Guardian Teacher mediation of curriculum making: The role of reflexivity - BERA Is PQA scepticism damaging the sector’s reputation? - Wonkhe A campus fit for the future: the CUBO campus experience survey - Wonkhe Interactive white boards, returning to school, & other findings this week - Teacher Tapp New book introduces the power and excitement of economics to a wider audience - Nuffield Foundation The Education and Training Foundation launch new guide on the Further Education system in England - Education & Training Foundation | ETF New report launched – Youth Voice for the Future of Work - Education and Employers New sector-led project aims to overcome recruitment crisis - Nursery World Teachers 'losing £20K per year' due to pension changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can we turn off the results-day noise? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why education reforms are like never-ending roadworks - Times Educational Supplement | TES No part of Woodmill High School 'untouched by fire' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rollout of 52,000 iPads begins in Glasgow schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council to give 50,000 schoolchildren iPads to help close 'attainment gap' - Scotsman Three Irish schools to become first to abandon Catholic ethos - Guardian Do researchers trust each other’s work? - Times Higher Education | THE University departments squeezed by English and maths decline - Times Higher Education | THE Can statistics tell us if a school is inclusive? - Schools Week Skills for Care quits official quality assurance role for apprenticeships - FE Week Deputy FE commissioner appointed as DfE struggle to find advisers - FE Week Why more diversity would make WorldSkills even better - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills Kazan 2019 closing ceremony - Times Educational Supplement | TES With Brexit hitting migration, adult education is key - Times Educational Supplement | TES Where, when and why your pupils are happiest - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills closing and medal ceremony - FE Week WorldSkills 2019: The final countdown for Team UK - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents financially worse off since childcare voucher scheme closed, finds survey - Nursery World UCAS daily clearing 2019 update - UCAS How a no-deal Brexit would affect Erasmus, study abroad and EU students in the UK - Telegraph Teacher introduces powerful ‘baggage activity’ for first day back at school - Metro This year, for the first time ever, more young women than men took science A Level … but it’s not yet time to celebrate - IOE London Blog Best-performing academy chain warns pupils to reject unconditional offers from universities - Mail All teachers teach reading skills – so let's do it well - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘No one will try to terrify you’: year 8 advice to year 7s - Guardian Dear Gavin Williamson, I hope you’re not thinking of using education as a way of recreating a Victorian society | Michael Rosen - Guardian UCAS responds to our recent report on contextual admissions - HEPI Scotland: SNP ditched the promise not the student debt - Scotsman 39 Malaysians get UK Chevening Scholarships - GOV.UK Is this Britain’s most influential teaching guru? - Guardian Free iPads for nearly 50,000 school pupils in Glasgow - BBC Only 1 in 10 teenagers hits target for sleep and screen time - Times Universities pocket £2m from graduation gowns - Times Unruly children are simply being written off | Rachel Sylvester - Times Scotland: ‘No merit’ in Labour plan to axe private education - Times Scotland: Boy, 14, charged over blaze that forced total closure of Fife school - Times Scottish school founded by actress Tilda Swinton raises funds to avert closure - Times