News archive for 12th December 2019

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England's primary school league tables to be published - BBC Piers Morgan confronts Greta Thunberg for ‘damaging’ children’s education with her demands - Express Surprise £10m deficit fault of ‘inept’ staff, says college boss - FE Week School apologises after deputy head told pupils 'there is no Father Christmas' - Mirror IfATE board ‘stressed need’ for better way of setting funding rates - FE Week Developing embedded English, maths and digital skills in T Levels: ‘Techno-mathematical literacies’ - Education & Training Foundation A welcome argument, but only half of the argument - HEPI Higher education can be a transformative experience for care leavers - Wonkhe Five reasons why teachers have had enough - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student-staff partnership comes of age - Advance HE UK education and TNE exports increased to £21.4 billion in 2017 - PIE News ILR specification, validation rules and appendices 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Education, agency and social justice - Montrose42 College delivers TV Christmas to local pensioner - FE Week Election 2019 – How the new government might ease SEND struggles over EHCPs - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Thirteen HE seats to watch on election night - Wonkhe As we go to the polls…. - NFER NFER report on T-levels - National Education Union Vote today - National Education Union Last-minute election musings - HEPI Learning strategies for academic writing - Learning Scientists Where we’re getting curriculum wrong - Part 2: Powerful knowledge - The Learning Spy Support staff unions suspend School Cuts campaign backing until after election - Schools Week The blurred line between colleges and universities must disappear - FE Week Primary school pupils in Cardiff got a lesson about death from undertakers - Wales Online Inside Edinburgh's St Mary's, the only independent state-supported music school in Scotland - Scotsman NI Education: 'Significant pressure' on post-primary school places - BBC Oldham College students bring festive cheer to pensioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are school league tables and why do they matter? - BBC Initial assessment of Peebles High School damage is completed - Scotsman Will adult learning keep its sharp focus on employment and qualifications or can it become an ‘inseparable aspect of citizenship’? - IOE London Blog Surfing the statistics tsunami of Pisa - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early teaching of GCSE English 'deters reading' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Looking inward: how diverse is the Sutton Trust? - Sutton Trust Sex education classes in Ireland 'inadequate', pupils claim - BBC Don’t leave children to their own devices, heads warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for universities to randomly allocate places - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social mobility and elite universities - HEPI It could take a century to hit the latest official university access targets - HEPI Use of schools as polling stations falls 10% - Schools Week Elite universities should choose students randomly via a 'lottery' to help poorer pupils - Mail Top universities ‘should allocate places by lottery’ - Times Scotland: Norovirus puts school nativity in quarantine - Times Scotland: The third sector can help make sure no child is left behind - Times Ireland: We won’t be heavy-handed with childminders, Varadkar promises - Times