News archive for 1st February 2019

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Tes Independent School Awards celebrate innovation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warwick rape chat student 'devastated' as uni defends decision - BBC The Tes Podcast: Recruitment, pay and funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learning throughout life is more important than ever - Times Educational Supplement | TES The DfE's dismal statement on teachers' pay blew all the good will - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Move to scrap music tuition is ‘ridiculously short-sighted’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 100% support for Ofsted curriculum focus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will T levels draw a line in the sand under BTECs? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council won't back down over dyslexia - Times Educational Supplement | TES No-deal Brexit threatens EU youth scheme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now IOE academic appointed to government panel examining early years apps - IOE London Blog Race Equality Charter reaches over 50 members - Advance HE Tackling racial disparities - Russell Group In the news 1 February 2019 - UCU CPD picks of the month - Teacher Toolkit Teachers face a 2% 'affordable' pay rise cap - The Educator Teacher leaves parents shocked after accidentally playing sex worker's TED talk during revision evening - Independent Furious parents slam 'pathetic' decision to cancel classes - Mail Scotland: Teachers should be exempt from parking charges, say Scottish Conservatives - Scotsman Starts suspended at mysterious apprenticeship provider after ESFA launches investigation - FE Week Harris Federation plans to expand despite funding pressures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education maintenance allowance made pupils ‘more likely to consider uni’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Anger over closure of school founded by tycoon - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy rapped over consultancy payments to chair of trustees - Schools Week The Early Career Framework will stop us throwing new teachers in at the deep end - Schools Week Policy Tracker - Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in January 2019 - Pearson Securing Student Success: the regulatory framework: RPC Opinion - DfE New Charity Inquiry: The Albayan Education Foundation Limited - GOV.UK Higher education grants and loans 2019 to 2020: equality analysis - DfE Ofsted watch: Promising week for new apprenticeship providers - FE Week Wales: Damning verdict on Brecon High School from education watchdog Estyn - Wales Online Victim reveals chilling 'gang rape' threats of Warwick students' sick Facebook group - Mirror Crisis in the classroom: 57 per cent of teachers have considered quitting over health pressures - Mail Parents protest over equality teaching from gay headteacher - Express Wales: Education watchdog's worrying verdict on secondary schools in Newport - Wales Online Muslim school in UK 'stops girls from eating lunch until boys have finished' - Mirror Scotland: Teachers 'should be exempt from paying new workplace parking tax' - Herald Scotland Nursery World Show: 'Idea of visual learners unhelpful', says top neuroscientist - Nursery World We must encourage schools to promote apprenticeships - FE Week Universities could lose league table positions for diversity failures - Guardian UCU members strike over pay in 13 colleges across England - FE Week Why we need to rethink what we mean by resilience - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: ‘No real progress’ on tackling Stem gender stereotypes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Schoolboy arrested after teacher injured - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Education is failing the most vulnerable children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trust defends pay rise for CEO earning more than £210,000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inquiry opened into charity behind Birmingham Muslim School - Schools Week Great debate on AEB devolution: will it be a successful policy? - FE Week Flagship UTC received huge DfE bailout after being stung by apprenticeship funding cuts - FE Week It's appalling that universities can sack researchers and keep their funding | Matt Waddup - Guardian Secondary school league table: Search for the top schools for GCSE results - Telegraph Primary school league table: Search and compare the best primary schools in your area - Telegraph Approved T-level provider warns of pulling out after DfE excludes private providers from £38m capital bids - FE Week Best independent schools in the UK: Compare league table results for GCSEs - Telegraph Best independent schools in the UK: Compare league table results for A-levels - Telegraph Secrecy around funding band formulas protects against ‘misuse’, says IfATE chief executive - FE Week Top grammar schools in the UK according to GCSE league tables - Telegraph Secondary school league table: Search for the top schools for A-level results - Telegraph Exam cheating commission wants to 'future proof' the system - Times Educational Supplement | TES 47 state school students offered places at top US unis - Sutton Trust School closures: Snow shuts schools across UK - Express Parents slightly more likely to advise uni than apprenticeship - Sutton Trust Helping teachers improve their use of computer games for student learning - BERA DfE threatens to reclaim £110k loan unless school joins a multi-academy trust - Schools Week Linking university loans to grades would punish mature students | David Latchman - Guardian Bring on the four-day working week for teachers | Holly Rigby - Guardian ESFA delays European Social Fund contracts due to alleged breach of tender rules - FE Week ITT review won’t squeeze out small SCITTs, insists Hinds - Schools Week Ofsted asks government to look closely at Steiner schools in England - Guardian Business graduates to a new model of learning - Scotsman Universities must do more to tackle ethnic disparity - DfE Scottish council to be first in country to axe school music tuition - Scotsman ‘It will have a long-lasting impact’ – Damian Hinds reflects on his new strategy - Schools Week Scotland: 'Buddy bench' scheme helping pupils make playground friends - Herald Scotland New headsets monitor pupils’ brain waves to track concentration - Schools Week From partnership to fusion: future educational landscapes - Wonkhe Missing the detail on ethnicity - Wonkhe Wonkhe Weekly: UCAS, apprenticeships, youthquake (podcast) - Wonkhe Snow school closures today - The Sun Trendy Steiner schools favoured by 'wealthy liberal families' are failing and could be shut down - Mail Close grade gap for black students or face fines, ministers warn universities as audit reveals racial disparity - Mail New measures to tackle university disparity announced - Mail Snow school closures for Friday as disruption continues - Mirror Duchess of Sussex 'exclaimed in dismay' after learning about lack of black professors at UK universities - Telegraph Improve or face closure, Steiner schools warned - Times Rape-joke students let back on campus at Warwick University - Times Hard work and talent should determine a student’s success — not ethnicity | David Lidington - Times If we don’t solve the teacher recruitment crisis, children will bear the brunt | Layla Moran - Times Scotland: Fire expert accuses art school of cover-up and flaws in evidence - Times Scotland: PhD surfer Jamie Marshall studies its power to heal minds - Times