News archive for 6th February 2019

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Cops warn Rolf Harris after he walked into primary school and waved at kids - Mirror Drug gangs groom young children to run county lines - SecEd Extra teachers to tackle gap in attainment is ‘smoke and mirrors’ - SecEd Call to scrap Wales’ school improvement funding system - SecEd Anger as education secretary demands 2% teacher pay rise cap - SecEd Huge rise in home education sparks ‘off-rolling’ accusations - SecEd School accountability: The tide is slowly turning - SecEd Diary of an NQT: Embracing the extra-curricular - SecEd Devolution of adult education functions: MoUs - DfE ESFA Update: 6 February 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Teach First turns the corner on declining recruitment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Head of history who altered coursework - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland’s standardised testing regime is a myth - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Is this the best way to revise? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warwick University students protest over rape chat probe - BBC Scotland: Benedetti calls for musical instrument tuition money to be ring fenced by Holyrood - Scotsman The children skipping school aren't ruining the planet – you are | Srećko Horvat - Guardian Swansea University announces 'decolonised' English course - Guardian Better information could encourage disadvantaged students to apply for university - Nuffield Foundation A ‘duty of care’ for sexists – no wonder Warwick students are furious | Eloise Millard - Guardian Council axes 160 jobs as it cuts £8.6m from early help budget - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Free schools - launch of new application criteria - National Education Union Schools at breaking point as funding pressures hit support for SEND pupils - National Education Union Nobody sees teachers' contribution to the economy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted's direction of travel is right - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2019: How metacognition can help pupils perform better - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our sterile curriculum has no room for compassion - Times Educational Supplement | TES School labelled ‘Hell on Earth’ on Google maps - Times Educational Supplement | TES As an academic, how do you self-assess quality? - BERA How to embed maths strategies - Teacher Toolkit Government urged to close 'irredeemable' secure training centre - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs to debate sex education opt-out - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can two heads really be better than one? (School leadership podcast February 2019) - NAHT The kids are alright: the truth about fake news - Financial Times Gateshead teachers to strike - NASUWT Gower College Swansea joins the Collab Group of Colleges - Collab Group UCU urges universities and minister to rule out using work of sacked staff in REF - UCU Strike action at Queen Margaret University over job losses is on tomorrow - UCU Have your say: Contribute to the Commission into Malpractice’s Call for Evidence - NAHT The government publishes its long-awaited recruitment and retention strategy - NAHT 'Disgraceful' – NAHT responds to the DfE’s attempt to impose a de facto pay cap - NAHT Judgement on personal development, behaviour and welfare - NAHT #SupportStudyAbroad campaign urges Brits to tweet - PIE News Erasmus+ hits 400,000 mobile students in 2016/17 - PIE News UCU response to report on the USS pension scheme - UCU Questioning - Research Schools Network Warwick University vice-chancellor urged to resign over handling of rape threats in student group chat - Independent Shock at Ofsted chief's ‘lack of knowledge’ of peer abuse guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Home Office delayed free school meals eligibility checks - Schools Week Union leader questions teachers ‘wasting time’ on Scottish tests - Scotsman Scotland: Standardised tests waste of time for teachers, MSPs told - Mail £100m for Cambridge? Give it to universities that need the money | Marthe de Ferrer - Guardian Scotland: Child abduction attempt outside East Kilbride school - Scotsman Parents putting off toilet training with some relying on nurseries - Nursery World EYFS: how to ensure you make the most of story time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Education spending ‘relatively protected’ – but for how much longer? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Swinney - Apprenticeships for school pupils 'important' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Are school fayres about to be killed off? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 20 councils that wanted to defy schools and cut their funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: The 5 big issues yet to be addressed - Times Educational Supplement | TES From cocoon to curriculum: Ofsted's new approach - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs present mass nursery schools petition in Parliament - Nursery World Paedophile Rolf Harris emerges from home as parents left furious he's living near school - Mirror The ESFA needs to talk about sex - FE Week Scotland: Top instructor quits over 'damaging' hike in school music tuition fees - Herald Scotland University graduates and the means of financial production - Financial Times School spending on CPD plummets – what does the future hold? - The Educator Student loans threshold 'would be a cap on aspiration’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Doing science,’ rather than ‘being scientists,’ more encouraging to girls - UKEdChat Boom or bust? How can institutions – and the regulator – best respond to the new market pressures in HE? - HEPI Universities UK launches #SupportStudyAbroad campaign to protect study abroad in case of no-deal Brexit - Universities UK Beware damaging higher education, MillionPlus warns Augar Review - MillionPlus The introduction of T levels - Chapter 1b - FE News The Malaysian company aiming to resurrect doomed Scots private school - Herald Scotland We all need to take responsibility for racial inequalities in higher education - Wonkhe Sent to Coventry: what can we learn from the Warwick group chat scandal? - Wonkhe Academic workload models: a tool to exploit staff and cut costs? - Times Higher Education | THE What will the Duchess of Sussex mean for global higher education? - Times Higher Education | THE 54 new classrooms for schools across Wales to reduce classroom sizes - Welsh Government Convicted paedophile Rolf Harris reported to police after being thrown out of school grounds - Mail Student exchanges in no-deal Brexit threat - BBC 'Nightmare' battle for parents over autistic girl's education - BBC Harrop Fold School ditched weakest pupils before exams - Times Students give up their books for a year on the beat - Times Ireland: Schools will warn pupils of online ‘sextortion’ - Times Ireland: 20,000 student homes ‘will ruin communities’ - Times