News archive for 5th February 2019

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MPs to debate late school starts for teenagers - BBC 28 academy trusts ordered to justify CEO pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let’s face it, social media isn’t going anywhere - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs to debate starting school day at 10am to help tired teenagers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education research 'has a problem and must get its house in order’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Want to boost maths? Bring in more female teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Margot James speech on Safer Internet Day - GOV.UK AI and digital design to transform future of UK construction - GOV.UK Defence Minister visits Imperial College Translation and Innovation Hub - GOV.UK Teacher recruitment and retention strategy - DfE Schools Minister calls on academies to justify 'excessive' pay - DfE Lord Agnew letters to academy trusts about high pay - Education & Skills Funding Agency Parents of children in ‘failing’ Steiner schools fight back against Ofsted - Independent Scotland: Second day of strike action by lecturers in pay dispute - Mail Ofsted chief denies pursuing 'anti-faith agenda' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Market forces risk widening the attainment gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Talented women of colour are blocked' – why are there so few black female professors? - Guardian Scotland: Teachers could be exempted from car parking charges - Times Educational Supplement | TES 5 reasons to revamp your rewards system - Teacher Toolkit GSA schools lauded at Independent School Awards - GSA Leicester teachers to strike - NASUWT Is technology constraining the skills children need to succeed? - Edge Foundation Is edtech immune from rigorous research? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Snow: the weather that makes heads heroes or villains - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Numeracy to conduct new research with Experian and partners - National Numeracy College lecturers strike for a second day across Scotland - Herald Scotland Scotland: Schools to be rewarded for ensuring safety of pupils online - Mail UCL partners with prestigious French universities - PIE News Translating evidence into practice - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Sir Peter Lampl comments on David Harding’s donation to the University of Cambridge - Sutton Trust DfE minister urges schools to ban smartphones - Public Technology Do EAL pupils need an extra year to learn English? - Best Evidence in Brief Impact of shared book reading on children’s language development - Best Evidence in Brief Is free and reduced-price lunch a valid measure of educational disadvantage? - Best Evidence in Brief Ennis-Hill: 'Not everyone wants to go to university' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ethnic minority pupils get worse degrees and jobs, even if they have better A-levels - New Statesman E-ACT insists it has ‘zero-tolerance’ approach to off-rolling after Ofsted findings - Schools Week Learning and Skills Policy Update - January 2019 - Unionlearn I was bullied at school for being gay, so I returned as a teacher to give LGBT students a voice - Metro Warwick university students to protest over rape chat decision - BBC Kate Middleton glows in green as she meets 'world's best teacher' on school visit - Mirror Scotland: What is the future for Erasmus students after Brexit? - Scotsman The Duchess of Cambridge visits a North London school to support children's mental health week - HuffPost Academy chains ordered to justify paying bosses more than £100k - Independent We Are Movers: new ways of collaborating with women migrants and refugees - IOE London Blog Working parents grapple with long-hours culture - Nursery World Concern over delay of reformed functional skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Peer review: a better alternative to Ofsted? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Councils warned that ‘headteacher pipeline may dry up’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Collaborative planning: 7 steps to doing it well - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman slams ‘extraordinary’ and ‘unhelpful’ labelling of exclusions data - Schools Week Support staff win eight days of extra pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman: Ofsted has identified off-rolling at three schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unconditional offers enable perpetual underperformance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: We should not be on strike today - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA warns it could trigger college insolvencies with adult education budget claw-back - FE Week Cambridge University gets record £100m donation from billionaire former student - Evening Standard Scottish university scraps student graduation fees - Herald Scotland Concern over sharp rise in number of children home-schooled - Nursery World Billionaire David Harding's £100m gift to Cambridge University - BBC Academies ordered to justify salaries in excess of £100,000 - Mail Welsh Government backtracks on plans to make learning English compulsory in Welsh nurseries - Wales Online Disgraced Warwick uni rape threat students 'will not return' to campus despite ban being lifted - HuffPost Billionaire former student hands £100million to Cambridge University - Mirror Holland Park school warned over head’s £260k salary as minister writes to 28 trusts - Schools Week Hundreds to protest at Warwick University over handling of students suspended over rape threats - Independent Progress 8 scores for most schools aren’t that different - FFT Education Datalab Restorative behaviour policies 'leading to teacher-blaming' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social media puts ‘overwhelming pressure’ on young people - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re accountability hearings - Accountability Hearings 'The sooner you go home the better': is this the UK's message to international students? - Guardian Denying loans to students with weaker A-levels will ‘penalise poor families’ - Guardian Critics take aim at subsidies given to private schools - Guardian Cambridge University receives £100m gift from former student - Guardian The further education operating context is incredibly tough - Chapter 1a - FE News The NHS 10-year plan doesn’t do enough for children | Al Aynsley-Green - Guardian The Shanghai teacher exchange: was it worth it? - Schools Week Scotland: College students face disruption as lecturers strike - Herald Scotland When it comes to deciding what subjects should be studied, the gentleman in Whitehall really doesn’t know best - HEPI Cambridge receives new funding to support PhD students in science and engineering - Cambridge Network Regional voices in national policymaking - Wonkhe Another fake university. With a dark purpose. - Wonkhe Don’t ignore the ethics of learning analytics - Wonkhe Universities urged to rule out submitting redundant staff to REF - Times Higher Education | THE Victoria Bateman: does getting naked help stop Brexit? - Times Higher Education | THE Science is calling out for nonconformists - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities face their toughest test - Financial Times Warwick University says rape threat pair won't return - Guardian Self-made hedge-fund billionaire gives record £100 million to Cambridge University - Mail How tuition fees change real-life decisions - BBC Social media giants face new laws that force them to protect young users - The Sun University of Cambridge given record £100m donation by British billionaire to help attract students - Independent Tycoon David Harding gives record-breaking £100m to Cambridge University - Times Social media sites will be forced to protect children - Times ‘Women and non-binary’ posters cause Cambridge student row - Times Academies ordered to reduce ‘divisive’ six-figure pay deals - Times Dithering ministers must tackle knife crime | Rachel Sylvester - Times Scotland: School’s out for now but warmer weather on way - Times Scotland: Universities spend millions on payoffs - Times Scotland: Parents told to stump up more cash to hold events at schools - Times Scotland: Trip down Amazon on offer to schoolchildren - Times Scotland: Lecturers urged to suspend strike action over 'unreasonable pay demands' - Mail