News archive for 4th February 2019

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Cambridge university receives £100m in record UK donation - Financial Times Pupil changes the name of their comprehensive school to 'Prison and Hell on Earth' on Google Maps - Mail Teaching maths mastery is not a quick fix - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need long-term commitment on apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Tilda Swinton sought government cash for experimental school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Conservative MP: FE 'worst hit' by funding cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Naïve’ Hinds told 2019 is not ‘best-time ever to be young’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds admits concern about effects of social media on his children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds faces Tory pressure over school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA 'refuses to legitimise' non-binary students - Times Educational Supplement | TES What’s wrong with Ofsted’s definition of learning? - The Learning Spy The kids being taught at home because they’d ‘rather die than go to school’ as numbers of homeschooled children soars - The Sun Scotland: Headteacher quits Glasgow private school after three years - Herald Scotland Landmark judicial review hands schools more power to challenge council SEND placements - Schools Week Clarification sought on introduction of Knife Crime Prevention Orders - UK Parliament UKRI announces 75 Centres for Doctoral Training to develop skills needed for UK prosperity - Cambridge Network Charities pool resources to improve children's literacy - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Calls for register of home-educated children as figures rocket - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Advance HE’s Chief Executive responds to Government announcement to tackle racial inequalities - Advance HE University status - London School of Economics | LSE Time parents spend with children key to academic success - UKEdChat We don’t need no (foreign language) education! - Research Schools Network The Deaton Review: Inequalities in the Twenty First Century - Nuffield Foundation New Resources published to support deaf learners who use English as an Additional Language - Bell Foundation Do teachers really want to work a 4-day week? - Teacher Tapp Meeting the needs of learners with SEND - ASCL Visionary founder of the Pre-school Learning Alliance leaves 'an incredible legacy' - Nursery World NEU survey finds schools at breaking point as funding pressures hit support for SEND pupils - National Education Union Advantages of colouring pages for children - UKEdChat A realistic look at entrepreneurship education competitions - BERA Attracting overseas students - Russell Group What we saw at BETT 2019 - Teacher Toolkit Norway urges students to avoid UK universities in Brexit warning - Guardian Academy admissions - Education & Skills Funding Agency Improve cyber security in the Internet of Things: apply for funds - GOV.UK Dstl's latest apprenticeship opportunities are now open - GOV.UK Seventy five Centres for Doctoral Training announced by UKRI to develop the skills needed for UK prosperity - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) The Bright Ideas Challenge: Inspire innovation - Schools Week Spending time with kids key to academic success - study - Mail Sats: why etymology boosts vocabulary and spelling - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Danger’ in classrooms due to lack of support for SEND pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Very existence' of music under threat in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Narrower range' of T levels likely in rural areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children's Commissioner calls for compulsory register of 'off the grid' home schooled children - HuffPost Quality of music education should affect a school’s Ofsted rating, says report - Schools Week Academy chain boss now earning £210,000 despite crackdown on high salaries - Independent We need sustainable SEND training more than ever - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher training was full of gimmicks 10 years ago - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Subject choice in schools to be reviewed by MSPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Faith should be no barrier to schools teaching respect for LGBT rights | Masuma Rahim - Guardian 80% of levy-paying employers have hired no apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES It’s time for schools to embrace outdoor learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES We can’t allow Holocaust denial into our schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Google Maps changes name of school to 'Prison & Hell on Earth' - Mirror Two-thirds of Scottish children experience ‘early life adversity’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private school reform is needed if society is ever to become equal - Metro Football tournaments penalise GCSE students. Can’t we avoid this fixture clash? | Gavin Kelly - Guardian Could phased bursaries solve the teacher retention crisis? - EPI Support, sensitivity, solidarity: how to respond to the sudden death of a pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children losing sleep over exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE announces school mental health techniques trials - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tiny number of schools responsible for off-rolling spike - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are schools supposed to do about character education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual issues warning about higher tier GCSE grade boundaries - The Educator 10 tips for understanding dyslexia - Teacher Toolkit Getting intense about teaching intensity: why contact hours and class sizes do matter - HEPI Ministers look to heads to ‘transform’ flexible working opportunities - Schools Week Lack of sleep link to anxiety in children, study shows - CYPN | Children & Young People Now One of the largest mental health trials launches in schools - DfE Movers And Shakers: Edition 269 - FE Week Scotland: Schools’ water has three times legal copper levels - Scotsman Number of home-schooled children doubles in four years, Children's Commissioner warns - Telegraph Scotland: MSPs to review subject choice in schools - Scotsman Could new retention plan tackle ‘bursary tourism’? - Schools Week Children shouldn’t be able to skip RE - Schools Week What’s the best way to support new teachers? - Schools Week Government must mitigate the risks of T-levels - FE Week Scotland: Death of the school fayre: New fees hit parent fundraising - Herald Scotland Scotland: Pupils to be taught cyber risks under new national drive - Herald Scotland Scotland: Glasgow's landmark ‘town and gown’ deal to tackle poverty - Herald Scotland Call to register home-schooled children - BBC A change of plan for UK open access? - Wonkhe Whatever happened to the student experience? - Wonkhe The student experience was invented in 1994 - Wonkhe Towards a contextual model of unconditional offers - Wonkhe Integrating the future of research outputs - Wonkhe Could we learn without specialisms? - Wonkhe UCAS 2018 – equality and the offer-making marketplace - Wonkhe Black female academics in UK ‘face pervasive bullying’ - Times Higher Education | THE One of world’s largest mental health trials launches across schools in England to support mental health and wellbeing - The Sun Rate of teenagers taking their own lives in Britain doubles in eight years - Mail Thousands of pupils will be given meditation lessons to help them 'cope with pressure' - Mail Children’s commissioner to publish home education figures for every school - Schools Week Mental health trials launched in schools - Mail Bullying and stereotyping blocking professorial path for black women, says report - Independent 30 hours childcare ‘is limiting choice’ - Nursery World Experts divided over screen time limits - Nursery World Black female professors must deal with bullying to win promotion, report finds - Guardian Aid apprenticeships offer gap years to poorer young people - Times Child mental health trials in 370 schools - Times Pupils ‘illegally forced into home‑schooling’ - Times How students can change the world by degree - Times App plugs pupils into the old-girl network - Times Universities face a dual threat of a chaotic Brexit and funding cuts | Michael Arthur - Times Scotland: Fire alarm at art school ‘raised late’ - Times Westminster ‘ignores’ EU students’ plight in Scotland - Times Ireland: ‘Negative attitude’ blamed for drop in apprenticeships - Times