News archive for 20th December 2019

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Meet Ace: the rock star transforming music education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why arts are vital to closing the skills gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES David Ross MAT losing CEO and leading head - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head 'bowled over' by Tes person of the year honour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes person of the year 2019: Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson - Times Educational Supplement | TES School catchment changes are agreed - Scotsman Pre-registration advice notes for free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges 2019 - Ofsted Policy Eye - highlights of week ending 20 December - Pearson Ofsted watch: An uncomfortable week for many providers - FE Week Three schools to close to make way for a new one in a Welsh county - Wales Online Teachers' pension scheme payments: 2019 to 2020 - DfE Pupil premium: effective use and accountability - DfE Teaching schools and system leadership: reports - DfE School census autumn 2019 to summer 2020: school summary report - DfE Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2019 - DfE Data protection: how we share pupil and workforce data - DfE Experimental apprenticeships data visualisations - DfE ESFA financial assurance: monitoring the funding rules - Education & Skills Funding Agency We need to talk about poor provision - Office for Students Testing Dementors are sucking the joy from English GCSE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why emotionally literate schools have better learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES New call for big two teacher unions to merge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Intersectionality - whats that about? - Montrose42 Weaving sentences - UKEdChat Do small class sizes improve student achievement? - The Educator An extra present under the tree – students get better rights for Christmas from OfS - Wonkhe 26 things we learned from the OfS board papers for November 2019 - Wonkhe Should we be worrying about right-wing extremism on campus? - Wonkhe IFS wins Royal Statistical Society 'Stat of the Year' award - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS North east primary school pupils win national carbon monoxide competition - Primary Times 2019: Looking back and looking forward - NFER What is the future for university representation under the Conservatives? - HEPI CYP Now's top 10 stories of 2019 - CYPN | Children & Young People Now British Council Year of the Rat education pack - NAHT Fifth Principal Fellow awarded in ROI - Advance HE Head of ‘socialist Eton’ gets another pay rise to up to £275,000 despite government warnings - Independent Number of NLEs and NLGs drops 20% as system leadership review continues - Schools Week Some pupils could return to Peebles High School in February - Scotsman Hull college boss quits despite chair telling staff investigation found ‘no impropriety’ - FE Week Carols from King’s College, Cambridge — are the days of all-male choirs numbered? - Financial Times Why new Tory voters might not feel the love for Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are 'blue wall' schools set to miss out financially? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Physical Sciences - providing solutions to the key questions of our age - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Another Welsh council warned it is failing its school pupils - Wales Online Highbury College appoints former AoC chief as interim chair - FE Week Delight at more secondary school choices for Milton of Campsie and Lennoxtown pupils - Scotsman Perfectionistic students get higher grades, but at what cost? - The Conversation The inspiring reason why a Welsh primary school is teaching its pupils about homelessness - Wales Online Tes Scotland's top 10 people of the year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes' 10 most influential people of 2019 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes Scotland's person of the year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Last-minute Christmas shopping? Buy children a book - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: Christmas nativity costume swap helps Torfaen families - BBC The UK’s digital skills deficit - A silver lining for 2020? - FE News 12 months of FE Week: January - FE Week Testing, testing: how digital assessments could empower HE - Wonkhe Ireland: Luxury student flats approved in Dublin - Times Employers call for action on skill shortages - Times