News archive for 9th December 2019

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'You're going backwards!' Nicola Sturgeon blasted for SNP's education record - Express Schools dropping A Level English 'due to tedious GCSE' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why you need to invite your MP to your college - Times Educational Supplement | TES No need for NASUWT leaders to be 'actively teaching' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The big flaw in Labour’s ‘free school meals for all’ plan should be obvious - Scotsman Who is Angela Rayner? Shadow Secretary of State for Education - The Sun What does FE really want from politicians? Certainty - Times Educational Supplement | TES The school where social dance became cool - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who lied about funeral - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social mobility: 'We need a school admissions lottery' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bid to oust NASUWT president and treasurer fails - Schools Week 16 to 19 funding allocations supporting documents for 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency School inspection data summary report (IDSR) guide - Ofsted Regulatory advice 17: variation and revocation of degree awarding powers - Office for Students Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Jeremy Corbyn ridiculed for vowing to scrap tuition fees - ‘I don’t expect others to pay!’ - Express Parents charged to see Nativity plays - Nursery World Who gets the early years vote on Thursday - Nursery World School enrolment is predicted to decline - Teacher Toolkit Season greetings for educators - The Educator The university mental health charter is here - Wonkhe Union warns over 'failure and waste' of free schools policy - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Moving house: What awaits universities after the 2019 General Election? - HEPI Joint statement on environmental sustainability - Russell Group Russell Group universities are pulling in the same direction to tackle climate challenges - Russell Group Total recall? The ITE content framework, research and teachers’ understandings of learning - BERA Join us in our fight for fair funding for schools - NAHT Politicians aren't talking about teacher recruitment and retention - Social Market Foundation | SMF Build foundations to outlast geopolitical shifts, UK institutions told - PIE News Advance HE welcomes The University Mental Health Charter - Advance HE Pupils have missed more than a week of school because of elections - Independent UK apprenticeship levy’s low take-up highlighted by survey - Financial Times Student fightback sees university beef ban overturned - Telegraph Scottish education policy based on 'speculation, whim and rivalry' - Telegraph Odds-on: Will education MPs be heading back to parliament? - Schools Week WorldSkills UK: How we develop a medal-winning mindset - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of schools need urgent restoration work - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in four teachers 'needed overseas by 2029' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish schools performance today ‘least clearly measured since 1950s’ - Scotsman Police launch fraud probe into Scotland's national school exam body - Herald Scotland Exams body officials' £17k bill for Saudi stay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jisc and IOP Publishing secure new transitional open access agreement for UK universities - Jisc My working week: 'A pupil is worried her mum will turn up at school drunk' - Guardian PhD student’s life ‘left in tatters’ after Home Office error ‘forced her to abandon studies’ - Independent Jisc consortium secures five open access agreements with learned societies - Jisc Peebles High School pupils return to classroom after major fire - BBC When students' attainment is mismatched with their university course, life chances are affected - IOE London Blog Data about Scottish education 'poorest since 1950s' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers and Shakers: Edition 300 - FE Week Success wired in: the stories behind the THE Awards 2019 winners - Times Higher Education | THE Less known about performance of Scotland's schools 'than at any time since 1950s' - Herald Scotland Gary Younge seeks to say ‘bigger things’ with switch to academia - Times Higher Education | THE Is grade inflation running wild? - Wonkhe Lib Dems should apologise on ninth anniversary of tuition fee hike - Labour - Mail Oxford interviewer drops Shakespeare for Harry Potter - Times Scotland: SQA staff claim £17,000 for stay in luxury hotel - Times