News archive for 5th December 2019

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Glasgow students want Greta to be their next rector - Herald Scotland Investigators probe dozens of gagging orders as former Hull College staff left ‘devastated’ - FE Week ‘Confidential’ Ofsted guidance for curriculum ‘deep dives’ leaked - Schools Week Pledge to ‘reverse privatisation’ in FE clarified by shadow minister - FE Week Secondary maths teaching 'variable and weak' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election 2019: Take Tes' end-of-campaign teacher survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour leads FE Week readers’ poll - FE Week Andrea Jenkyns gets salary for thinktank that does not yet exist - Guardian Major reforms needed to healthcare education to tackle workforce shortages, unions warn - Independent University pension crisis is result of mania and mismanagement - Guardian Watch out, Boris Johnson: students are angry and we're ready to vote against you | Zamzam Ibrahim - Guardian UK revenue from education related exports and TNE activity 2017 - DfE Staff parking charges: How much has your college made? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour and Lib Dem free school meals costs 'plausible' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Off-rolling 'hides true extent of pupil attainment gap' in schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK General Election 2019: What are the three main political parties proposing on teachers’ pay? - NFER General election statement 2019 - Voice The success of Finnish schools: Lessons from a high-performing system - BERA UCU response to universities' refusal to talk about pay in strikes row - UCU Vote education, value education - National Education Union UCU fighting fund donations top £100K as university strikes come to an end - UCU Evaluating impact - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Learning styles and differentiated instruction - Learning Scientists Analysis show what party pledges would mean for every school in England - Nursery World Disadvantaged students less likely to attend ‘more selective’ university courses - Nuffield Foundation Labour pledges free school breakfasts in primary schools to tackle poverty - Nursery World AoC appoints new Director of Sport and Student Experience - AoC | Association of Colleges Labour promises to cap class sizes under drive to improve school standards - PoliticsHome General election: Labour pledges free breakfasts for all primary school pupils - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Disadvantaged students less likely to attend ‘more selective’ university courses - IOE London Blog Nicola Sturgeon finally admits Scottish schools' science and maths performance 'not good enough' as full extent of decline exposed - Telegraph Put Britain’s colonial history on the curriculum – then we’ll know who we really are | Maya Goodfellow - Guardian Mum who gave birth at 15 graduates with daughter watching on - BBC Would you pass the Oxford University interview questions? - Independent Newcastle University stalker's return prompts petition - BBC Poor children lose out on exercise, research suggests - BBC Labour promises free breakfasts for primary children to 'poverty proof' schools - Metro Why it's not 'immoral' for teachers to cut their hours - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK schools' income from abroad more than doubles - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits: English and maths entries up by 5% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil premium: effective use and accountability - DfE School inspection data summary report (IDSR) guide - Ofsted PISA 2018: What we have learned about children’s life satisfaction - Schools Week Tell us about your run-down school buildings - Guardian Special consideration requests fall for the first time in 5 years - Schools Week The London Bridge attack was an assault on the ideas of hope and rehabilitation | Jake Thorold - Guardian Re-thinking observation and feedback: Solving the learning problems - Teacherhead Who’s Left 2019, part one: The disadvantage gap is bigger than we thought - FFT Education Datalab Who’s Left 2019, part two: How do you lose 6,700 pupils? - FFT Education Datalab Who’s Left 2019, part three: The government needs to take action - FFT Education Datalab The effect of GCSE reforms: How have they affected long-term disadvantaged pupils? - FFT Education Datalab The effect of GCSE reforms: Have they widened the disadvantage gap? - FFT Education Datalab Physical attacks on us are rising, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges make £2.4m in staff car parking charges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'reluctant' to report pupils' knives to police - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour investment for education - National Education Union Sutton Trust on GCSE reforms - National Education Union Students or data subjects? What students think about university data security - HEPI New polling shows students need clarity on how universities use their data - HEPI The ethics of data - HEPI Furniture apprenticeships to provide bespoke training for next generation of craftspeople - IfATE Labour vows to give free breakfasts to a million schoolchildren to end hunger scourge - Mirror The effect of GCSE reforms: Have they widened the disadvantage gap? - Sutton Trust GCSE reforms have led to slight widening of attainment gap, but overall impact is small - Sutton Trust Open University launches first Scots language course - Herald Scotland Labour's class size pledge to 'improve education standards for all children' - Mail GCSE changes introduced by Tories widen attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and peers, research suggests - Independent Majority of parents don’t know how academy system works - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is recruiting 25k new teachers possible? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Michael Gove's tougher GCSEs 'harm social mobility' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What election manifestos really mean for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour pledges 25,000 extra teachers within four years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disadvantage gap widens when off-rolled pupils counted - Times Educational Supplement | TES General election: Labour pledges to recruit 20,000 more teachers to reduce class sizes - Independent What students really think about freedom of expression - Wonkhe How will Wales regulate its universities in the future? - Wonkhe Students mismatching with courses affects their future life chances - Wonkhe British schools are climbing league after but work still to be done, writes Katharine Birbalsingh - Mail Labour would cap secondary class sizes at 30 - Schools Week New GCSEs 'widen gap between rich and poor' - BBC IFS warns FE funding pledges may lead to fraud and poor value for money - FE Week General election 2019: Labour pledges to cap class sizes at 30 pupils - BBC Warnings over impact of Gove reforms and off-rolling on attainment gap - Schools Week Students fear their freedom of expression is under threat, survey reveals - Mail 'Off-rolling' hides true extent of disadvantage gap in schools – study - Guardian Poor pupils miss out on top exam grades after GCSE revamp - Times Scotland: Glasgow students want to make Greta Thunberg their next rector - Times Scotland: SNP failing on education and hospitals, fifth of its voters say - Times Scottish teachers still too focused on exams, review finds - Times