News archive for 30th August 2019

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Prime Minister boosts schools with £14 billion package - DfE This large splash of cash does not reverse the cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM announces 'giant £14 billion' school funding boost - Times Educational Supplement | TES Johnson's extra billions: the unanswered questions - Times Educational Supplement | TES College funding boost to be announced tomorrow - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson outlines own fiscal rule by pledging to cut national debt every year - Telegraph Girls schools could be forced to admit trans boys - Mail Scots private school will not appeal ex-teacher’s payout in bullying case - Scotsman Boris gives schools huge £14billion bumper funding boost – and promises more cash for teachers - The Sun Schools budget to rise by £7.1bn, but no extra cash until next year - Schools Week Billions more to be invested in England's schools in next three years - Mail UK's Prime Minister pledges 14 bln pound boost for schools - Mail Education Secretary launches new funding pledge - Mail School spending: Multi-billion pound cash boost announced - BBC Johnson pledges large boost in schools spending - Financial Times Five things kids asked Boris Johnson - BBC English schools to get three-year £14bn funding boost - Guardian PM unveils £4bn-a-year increase in school funding in fresh hint at snap election - HuffPost PM announces £14bn for schools over three years - Nursery World Boris Johnson pledges nearly £20bn to Britain's schools over next three years - including £1.5bn a year into teacher's pension pot - Mail Boris Johnson pledges £14bn boost to schools over three years after ‘funding crisis’ warnings - Independent Alternative schools found for all 1,400 pupils displaced by Fife fire - Scotsman PM surprises young journalists at special ‘children’s lobby’ - GOV.UK UK university pensions: bottom of the class - Financial Times Is written informed consent always required for educational research? - BERA NASUWT comments on school funding announcement - NASUWT NAHT's funding campaign secures additional £14bn for schools from government - NAHT ASCL response to Prime Minister’s schools funding announcement - ASCL Two studies reveal benefits of mindfulness for middle school students - UKEdChat Reversing cuts since 2009 to school spending per pupil would cost about £4.7bn in 2022–23 - Nuffield Foundation How the other half learn - Social Market Foundation | SMF 1 in 10 secondaries cutting hours due to funding crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson unveils £14bn cash boost for schools over next three years - PoliticsHome PE teacher escapes ban despite 'inappropriate contact' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools will be backed on LGBT lessons, says Williamson - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir Ian Diamond to resign from Edinburgh College role - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 30 August - Pearson GCSE resits: Lib Dems to call for policy to be scrapped - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in August 2019 - Pearson Teachers brand P1 tests 'a waste of time' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Response to Government announcement on school spending - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Raise the Rate campaign letter - AoC response - AoC | Association of Colleges Ten ways that international schools differ from their UK counterparts - Independent Head Maintaining standards in reformed Functional Skills qualifications - Ofqual Dame Mary Ney appointed to conduct college financial monitoring review - Education & Skills Funding Agency Britain’s first car-free school planned for Leeds - Guardian Protest leaflets claim relationship education teaches primary school children masturbation - Independent Parents blame lack of playgrounds for child health problems - Nursery World DfE to review how it monitors colleges’ finances - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leaflets falsely claim pupils taught masturbation in relationship classes - Guardian Children with SEND not getting enough support despite reforms - Nursery World A teachable moment: educators must join students in demanding climate justice | Jonathan Isham and Lee Smithey - Guardian UCAS daily clearing 2019 update - UCAS Half of all parents want children’s school to ban mobile phones - Metro Meet the Government’s college finance Tsar who – like the NAO – will review DfE monitoring - FE Week How to improve curriculum delivery in your school? - The Educator Prioritise social mobility in spending review, urges chair and co-chair of cross party group - Sutton Trust Corbyn crisis as half of crucial student vote snubs party in new poll misery - Express Three ways to help new teachers find work-life balance - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs call for 16-19 funding to be 'urgently' increased - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nearly half of parents want school mobile phones ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions demand increase in special education funding - Guardian Gender pay gap for UK economists ‘unchanged in 20 years’ - Times Higher Education | THE Brexit will harm universities outside the Russell Group – and this matters enormously - Times Higher Education | THE Student ethnicity and class data ‘hardly monitored’ in Europe - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities’ pension hole doubles to £6.6bn - Financial Times Johnson government must press ahead with teacher bursaries reform, say MPs and peers - Schools Week Protest leaflets claim relationship education teaches infants masturbation - BBC Half of parents 'want mobile phones banned in schools' - BBC Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour losing appeal with students as support halves - Times Students in Britain are too needy and demanding, academic claims - Times P1 tests are waste of time, say Scottish teachers - Times Unregistered Irish childminders risk prosecution - Times