News archive for 6th December 2019

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Brexit Britain's vocational education policy is in bits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are the key. But how do we make them better?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Guardian view on schools for the future: no thanks to more of the same - Guardian DfE will publish details of bail-outs to struggling trusts - Schools Week Policy Eye - highlights of week ending 6 December - Pearson Election 2019: What do Schools Week readers think? - Schools Week What does Pisa tell us about Scottish education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why are GCSE resits being ignored in the election? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Charity warns of a ‘Christmas crisis’ for a million children - Nursery World Global education matters to students at this election - Wonkhe What are the smaller parties promising for higher and further education in their manifestos? - HEPI In the news 6 December 2019 - UCU MillionPlus elects new Chair - MillionPlus General Election 2019: Where do the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems stand on education? - BERA General Election 2019: An analysis of manifesto plans for education - Nuffield Foundation Developing the future generation - Training Journal General election: Tory education plans 'skewed towards more-advantaged communities' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Using our strategic resources better - Advance HE You ought to know about reciprocal reading - UKEdChat Ofsted blames school leaders for teacher workload - The Educator 16 to 19 education: funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Staff warn of 'intimidatory' tactics at Liverpool University after strike - Guardian Tes podcast: Pisa and the row over teaching part-time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Newcastle University faces student backlash over stalker's return - Guardian Ofsted watch: 4 ‘insufficient progress’ verdicts in mixed week for FE - FE Week Maths and science 'not good enough', says Sturgeon - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa chief: 'Mistrust of teachers holds England back' - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in 10 children 'cold and hungry at Christmas' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Missing free meals cash and 8 other manifesto 'flaws' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa drives education policy. WorldSkills should too - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parties accused of failing to address schools inequality - Financial Times Northern Ireland’s colleges are more important than ever amid Brexit uncertainty - FE Week Marsden in a fight to survive as an MP - FE Week Providers win CoF challenges every time - FE Week Britain’s exam-obsessed narrow education system is failing to prepare students for success in life - Telegraph Who’s vulnerable: will FE's past and present MPs survive the election? - FE Week Our last parents’ evening: Teachers – you’re amazing. Thank you!! - Headguruteacher ‘PISA has shifted from being a measure to a target, and in so doing it has lost its value’ - IOE London Blog General Election supplement 2019 (pdf) - Schools Week General Election 2019 supplement (pdf) - FE Week The future of skills and employability: how to unleash opportunity and free workers who are trapped in poverty - ERSA GE 2019 manifesto analysis | Priority 7: Post-18 education - EPI GE 2019 manifesto analysis | Priority 8: Children and young people’s mental health - EPI GE 2019 manifesto analysis | Priority 5: Access to good schools - EPI GE 2019 manifesto analysis | Priority 6: Post-16 education, including technical and vocational - EPI GE 2019 manifesto analysis | Priority 3: School funding - EPI GE 2019 manifesto analysis | Priority 4: Teacher recruitment and retention - EPI People listen to Greta Thunberg because of her creativity, not just her science | Lisette Johnston - Guardian GE 2019 manifesto analysis | Priority 1: The early years - EPI GE 2019 manifesto analysis | Priority 2: School accountability - EPI GE 2019 manifesto analysis | Executive summary - EPI General election 2019: An analysis of manifesto plans for education - EPI Scotland: Teacher training inquiry launched - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further education election plans lack detail, warns EPI - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free school meals funds and other manifesto 'flaws' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Do the Tories have a hidden agenda on grammar schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES ETF wants to tell the stories of disabled learners ‘living their best lives’ - FE Week Peebles High School: ‘Lockdown’ delayed evacuation during fire, claims parent - Scotsman EPI on education manifestos - National Education Union Tory election manifesto pledges could increase attainment gap for poorer pupils, report suggests - Independent Immensely proud to be reporting impartial news without fear or favour - FE Week Three-year GCSEs? No Ofsted 'outstanding' for you - Schools Week We have no idea how much education related exports are worth to the UK - Wonkhe Free speech, UCAS data, HE SMEs, student data (podcast) - Wonkhe A flying start in university leadership - Wonkhe Parties' education promises won't help poorer pupils – study - Guardian Nicola Sturgeon admits disappointments in education survey - Express Jeremy Corbyn’s plans to scrap Ofsted and SATs could harm Britain’s poorest kids, think tank warns - The Sun EPI analysis: How the parties’ education plans could affect pupil attainment - Schools Week Teach boys to manage anger to cut knife crime, schools urged - Times Stalker Jefferson Young returns to victim’s university - Times Ireland: Gender pay gap shows six years after leaving school - Times