News archive for 17th December 2019

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School sparks fury after asking students to pen forgiveness letter to Manchester Arena terrorist - The Sun Pupils collapse after vaping 'Spice' sold as 'natural cannabis' - Mirror Ofsted is biggest barrier to poor children's progress - Times Educational Supplement | TES British schoolgirl, 10, has same IQ as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking - Mirror What do teachers need to know about cognitive load theory? - The Learning Spy Bridlington High School students aged 12 made to to do homework about Manchester terror attack - Mail Poorer London pupils still win race to university - BBC Loughborough students forced to eat maggots and dog food in hockey initiation, reports suggest - Independent Widening participation in higher education: 2019 - DfE Gap between rich and poor students at university reaches widest point for a decade - Independent Read Early Education's draft response to the consultation on the revised EYFS - Early Education Six teenage pupils taken to hospital after eating end-of-term Christmas cakes laced with cannabis - The Sun 26 strategies for meaningful manageable assessment - UKEdChat UKVI adds to approved SELT provider list - PIE News ‘Happiness-driven’ student housing project launched - PIE News How our college is helping to tackle holiday hunger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to include visual art in core national curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson stays on as education secretary, but must replace his two top advisers - FE Week Rona Tutt’s SEND summary (November-December 2019) - NAHT Brynmawr Foundation School put in special measures after report found pupils make 'frequent basic errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar' - Wales Online The Office for Students respond to ‘Social mobility and elite universities’ - HEPI Widening Participation: an agenda for the 2020s - HEPI Aesthetic education: Recent thoughts on old problems - BERA PTA fundraising ideas - Nesta The future of school fundraising - Nesta Crowdfunding for schools in the UK - Nesta Fundraising for secondary schools - Nesta NASUWT to open ballot of Isle of Man members for industrial action - NASUWT External quality assurance charges begin - IfATE Children who engage in positive self-talk about effort can boost their maths achievement - UKEdChat Williamson stays on as education secretary, but must replace his two top advisors - Schools Week 16 to 19 funding: formula protection funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency Full-time enrolment of 14 to 16 year olds in further education and sixth-form colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency London council to invest in youth services to tackle knife crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Isle of Man teachers to be balloted over strike action as pay dispute continues - BBC Private school teacher who formed ‘inappropriate’ friendships with favourite pupils avoids ban - Independent Parent's anger after pupils' conditions shared at Brechin High School assembly - BBC New £70 fines for parents who drive on the road leading to their child's school in Cardiff - Wales Online Views of university educated Labour voters ‘not important’ to party deserters, ex MP says - Express Managed-move pupils outperform permanently excluded - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads balloting on industrial action for first time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why it's time to abolish GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson and Gibb back at the DfE – for now at least - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of Christmas dinners at West Lothian schools - Scotsman Tate and Steve McQueen call for 'arts-rich' school curriculum - Guardian Peebles High School fire: Future options examined - BBC Just 1 in 6 pupils pass English and maths GCSE after ‘managed move’ - Schools Week University participation: Disadvantage gap widens to largest in a decade - Schools Week ‘Conditional unconditional’ offers continue to rise, though students are less likely to accept them - UCAS UCU comment on UCAS report showing further rise in unconditional offers - UCU Managed moves vs permanent exclusions: Do outcomes differ? - FFT Education Datalab ‘Many of our children don’t get presents’: schools open over Christmas for families with nothing - Guardian British girls have finally made the global top table … for fear of failure. How terrifying | Laura McInerney - Guardian 2019: The year in FE Week cartoons - FE Week One in four uni applicants given 'unconditional' offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union to ballot on industrial action for first time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nursery rhyme used to promote hygiene among Scots children - Scotsman Better by design – how creative pupils tackle isolation and loneliness in school - Scotsman Majority of school leavers receive university offer with an incentive, research suggests - Independent The future of colleges: Is the sector ready for the climate emergency? - FE Week Graduates still hitting the world of work under prepared - FE News I am glad I am not the one carving up the USS turkey - Times Higher Education | THE Springer Nature may pull Plan S backing over ‘unfair’ rules - Times Higher Education | THE Tory campus free speech bill would ‘stoke new culture war’ - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Conditional unconditional’ offers ‘less popular’ with applicants - Times Higher Education | THE Panel recommendations could ‘quickly resolve’ USS pensions row - Times Higher Education | THE UCAS 2019 cycle: prediction, participation, and unconditional offers - Wonkhe All the rankings, ranked: Wonkhe’s top rankings of 2019 - Wonkhe Estranged students: 'Homeless' in the holidays - BBC 'Conditional unconditional' offers on the rise - BBC ‘Conditional unconditional’ offers up, but fewer pupils accept - Schools Week UK universities make record number of unconditional offers - Guardian One in four students got unconditional offers to study at university despite warnings - Mail Unconditional offers hit a record high as universities accused rushing to put 'bums on seats' - Telegraph Unconditional offers from universities hit record - Financial Times Universities defying plea to scrap unconditional offers - Times Scotland: Union criticises Perth College principal over business flights - Times Ireland: €38m scheme to boost young people’s chances in life - Times