News archive for 29th August 2019

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Oral evidence session on school holiday poverty - UK Parliament Applications for 2020/2021 Chevening Turkey Awards are now open - GOV.UK Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at 30 June 2019 - Ofsted High-flying young women and girls celebrated at Downing Street reception - DfE Apprenticeship and levy statistics: August 2019 - DfE Statistics: further education and skills - Education & Skills Funding Agency Threat of strike action at sixth-form colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils wants schools held to account for SEND pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES New education secretary shows ‘unusual empathy’ for TAs - Times Educational Supplement | TES What do the latest apprenticeship figures tell us? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents fear kids won't have uniforms due to huge 'delivery delay' - Mirror Teachers brand Scottish P1 tests ‘meaningless’ - Scotsman Not enough Africa in African studies course, graduates claim - Independent The Very Hungry Caterpillar named best classic children's book - Nursery World We’re failing black students if we don’t talk about recruitment bias - Wonkhe Strike at Tower Hamlets college in row over pay - UCU Growing the research base means embracing diversity - Wonkhe Ambition Institute appoints Hilary Spencer as new CEO - Ambition Institute Ofsted watch: ‘Reasonable’ week for many new providers - FE Week 'Sexist' sex ed: The teachers who won’t say ‘vagina’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ambition Institute appoints new chief executive - Times Educational Supplement | TES Glasgow's mass iPad rollout: ‘We will not apologise’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT teacher training rated better than universities - Times Educational Supplement | TES New toolkit to support early learning for children in poverty - Nursery World How the EEF identifies our Promising Projects (and what we do next) - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Three new programmes added to list of EEF Promising Projects - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF UCU seeks guarantees on EU citizens' rights in event of no-deal Brexit - UCU A lack of background knowledge can hinder reading comprehension - UKEdChat Parents have one month to apply for school uniform grant worth up to £150 - The Sun Happiness study raises fears over children's mental health - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Parents 'forced to pay' for SEND checks after council failures - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The true costs of research and publishing - Times Higher Education | THE UK food banks run low as demand surges in school holidays - Guardian Children who have an afternoon break at school 'are fitter and perform just as well in exams' - Mail WorldSkills 2019: Picture highlights from closing medal ceremony - FE Week Labour's support among UK students nearly halves in 18 months amid Brexit frustration, survey suggests - Independent Fears over Labour threat to independent school property - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits change lives, but there must be another way - Times Educational Supplement | TES You can't blame independent schools for Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES This Morning viewers clash over whether teachers should use reasonable force in schools - Mail University of Portsmouth closes student bar after demand for alcohol plummets - Independent Government equalities chief and ex-Gove aide to lead Ambition Institute - Schools Week International Baccalaureate: why I love teaching it - Times Educational Supplement | TES Give schools incentives to admit more special needs children, councils urge - Independent How do material properties and designed form indirectly influence learning activity? - BERA University governance in a new age of regulation - HEPI Teaching Generation Z: a biting blizzard or a breath of fresh air? - Times Higher Education | THE Contribution of lay governors to universities ‘very mixed’ - Times Higher Education | THE Labour support among UK students nearly halves in 18 months - Times Higher Education | THE Not enough Africa in African studies course, say graduates - Times Higher Education | THE Licence to publish will restore trust in science - Times Higher Education | THE Schools need billions more without delay, head teachers insist - Times The Student Loans Company is in need of radical reform - Times Irish teachers to vote on ‘pay discrimination’ strike - Times