News archive for 19th December 2019

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Chaotic diaries of headteachers' weeks expose shocking truth of crippling budget cuts - Mirror Parents’ fury after primary schools ban packed lunches for ‘healthier’ school dinners - The Sun Spielman to appear on University Challenge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former Southend teacher banned for 'sexual activity' with pupil - BBC Married headteacher struck off for pleasuring himself in front of a horrified schoolboy - Mail How to support vulnerable children at Christmas - Times Educational Supplement | TES So ministers want transformative education policies...? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish schools get rid of exclusion ‘reflex’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES The NEU has become irrelevant to most teachers’ lives - Times Educational Supplement | TES How colleges show the spirit of Christmas - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE stands by cutting school meal portions to save cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES Local areas get breakdown in first stage of £14bn funding boost - DfE Get ‘Fired Up’ for National Apprenticeship Week 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Implementing mandatory minimum per pupil funding levels - DfE Mayor of London showcases London schools and nurseries working for gender equality - IOE London Blog Queen's Speech - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges The white room - UKEdChat MillionPlus calls for sound investment in students and regions following the Queen’s Speech - MillionPlus Small schools could miss out on ‘top-up’ funding, DfE warned - Schools Week Parliamentary newsletter 27 - AELP CEM's year in review: 2019 - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Continued UK membership of IIASA, and Co-Investigator eligibility for IIASA - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) AELP response to Queen’s Speech announcement on migration bill - AELP NEU comments on the Queen’s Speech - National Education Union The best for universities over the next few years is not good - HEPI Russell Group responds to Queen's Speech - Russell Group Rescuing educational inclusion for autistic children - BERA Advance HE response to the Office for Students Annual Review 2019 - Advance HE Halfon seeks re-election as chair of education committee - FE Week Halfon to seek re-election as education committee chair - Schools Week Pay rise means Holland Park head gets £270k to run one school - Schools Week Forensic auditors called in to investigate ‘unplanned deficit’ at leading college - FE Week Queen's speech: New duty for schools on knife crime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents of SEND pupils face a daily struggle - Times Educational Supplement | TES What the Queen’s Speech says about further education - Times Educational Supplement | TES £2.7m cash boost for adult maths and English in London - Times Educational Supplement | TES Childcare and early years survey of parents: 2019 - DfE Queen’s Speech 2: Nothing new for schools as government focuses on funding - Schools Week Erasmus and mid-life - Unionlearn One in four maintained secondaries in the red - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Students have a bad name': how cities are healing the town v gown divide - Guardian Behaviour tsar doesn't know if discipline is improving - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE's northern MAT takes on first struggling academy - Times Educational Supplement | TES A comprehensive victory? - Sutton Trust English higher education 2019: The Office for Students annual review - Office for Students UCU response to Office for Students annual review - UCU Students pressured into joining universities through ‘false’ advertising and financial inducements, regulator warns - Independent OfS to tackle entry ‘inducements’ and ‘misleading’ marketing - Times Higher Education | THE Is there still a place for kindness in today’s harsh academic environment? - Times Higher Education | THE Tory election victory sets scene for UK research funding battle - Times Higher Education | THE V-c sees OU as ‘beacon’ for virtues of comprehensive universities - Times Higher Education | THE Government’s education funding announcement in the Queen’s Speech - FE News India’s higher education system is set for change. The UK needs to help - Wonkhe What role can universities have in tackling structural inequalities? - Wonkhe He’s been! OfS gives us an annual (review) for Christmas - Wonkhe Target extra cash to schools in the red, says Reform - BBC Parents blast school bosses as pupils are banned from taking in a packed lunch - Mail A school looking after children – and their families - BBC Universities face crackdown over misleading adverts - Mail Nearly three in four 14-year-olds who admitted self-harming were girls - Mail New ‘orphan schools’ trust takes on first school - Schools Week Don't mislead applicants, regulator warns universities - Guardian More than 28% of England's secondary schools now in the red, study finds - Guardian School funding settlement ‘won’t help schools in financial hardship’ - Schools Week Universities face admissions review to improve access - Financial Times Universities warned over student 'sales pitches' - BBC Universities warned to stop using ‘clearing bursaries’ to lure students during clearing - Times Ireland: Crèches will be open in January, says Varadkar - Times