News archive for 7th February 2019

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Minister places college in administered status as FE Commissioner exposes ‘historical’ corporate failure - FE Week Talk about Marxist historian under fire for breaching workers' rights boycott - Guardian Grenfell's Kensington Aldridge Academy school is honoured for 'outstanding achievement' at Evening Standard School Awards - Evening Standard Performance indicators: widening participation 2017 to 2018 - DfE The European University Institute (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - DfE Education Secretary sets out vision for character and resilience - DfE Education Secretary sets out five foundations to build character - DfE 16 to 19 funding allocations supporting documents for 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Impact of 2014 SEND reforms on local authorities examined - UK Parliament Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - Education & Skills Funding Agency School cancels play about Darwin and evolution after Christian parents complain - Independent Colleges need to behave like social enterprises - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Unrealistic expectations’ heap stress on teachers, says bishop - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Substantial operating losses' at London college - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Windrush descendants need our support in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two headteachers, one school. How does it work? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE ‘on Pluto’ for expecting schools to fund next teacher pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES College told to urgently improve leadership - Times Educational Supplement | TES North Hertfordshire College placed in administered college status - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of state school pupils attending university drops despite efforts to widen access - Independent Russell Group university outreach programmes flounder as half admit fewer state school students than previous year - Telegraph The Open University teams up with colleges to offer free functional skills courses - FE Week Private schooling at the public’s expense | Letters - Guardian Rising trend of state school pupils going to university reverses - Guardian Row over plans to build school near RAF Lakenheath - BBC Mental health checks for looked-after children: pilot areas named - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Social media and screen time - National Education Union Wales school categorisation 2019 - NAHT Good interventions do not have to be expensive - Learning Scientists Voice welcomes early years report for highlighting lack of government strategy - Voice Bath University has something to twist and shout about after 40-year search - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EPI response to Select Committee report on disadvantage in the early years - EPI Parent skills and information asymmetries: Experimental evidence from home visits and text messages in middle and high schools - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics Government early years policies are 'entrenching disadvantage' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Education Committee calls for early years strategy to tackle disadvantage - Early Education Save our libraries: Schools in pleas to parents as money runs out for books - Express Teaching all pupils to act more like Etonians won’t help solve inequality | Suzanne Moore - Guardian FE Commissioner reports published for 3 struggling colleges - FE Week The hallmarks of effective professional development - Teacher Toolkit Scotland: MSP to join musicians in council chambers protest against instrumental cuts - Scotsman Layla Moran: A mental health epidemic is underway in Britain’s schools - New Statesman Scottish Council’s plans to scrap music tuition raised at Holyrood - Scotsman Warwick Uni didn’t just fail the victims of the Whatsapp Group but rape victims everywhere - Metro Sector outraged at plans to train shop staff to support children's language - Nursery World Our pupils are not 'snowflakes', says Damian Hinds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents and students need educating about STEM - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE teacher bursary scheme to be discontinued - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children should take a break from screens every two hours, advise UK’s top doctors - Nursery World Scotland: 64% rise in heads responsible for multiple schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bullying and social media tore me down emotionally - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: How to use interleaving to improve learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Who will run T levels? Meet the runners and riders - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to help struggling pupils hurdle learning barriers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wolf: 'Second chance' education has 'gone backwards' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils facing 'new and heightened' online threat, warns Hinds - Times Educational Supplement | TES We're far from understanding exam anxiety - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers told to talk about knife crime with pupils from age of 9 - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE plans new Gatsby-style ‘benchmarks’ for character education - Schools Week DfE to scrap FE teacher bursary programme - FE Week Warwick University must take stronger action to tackle its campus rape culture - HuffPost Wales: Taxi driver's son gets into Harvard and is the first in his family to go to university - Wales Online What it's like to be an estranged student at Cambridge University - HuffPost Time to talk with Natasha Devon - Teacher Toolkit Proportion of pupils applying to uni hits new high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government approach to early years education confused, say MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds to call time on ‘public-school confidence’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we have chosen to write about the USS - HEPI After the storm: Where should the USS dispute go next? - HEPI First rise in university applications for three years - UCAS Government failing to tackle social injustice in early years education, say MPs - UK Parliament We need to talk about...Education - Guardian The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged - Guardian Middle class parents should lose their free nursery hours because childcare policy 'entrenches inequality', MPs say - Telegraph Screen time: Children advised not to use electronic devices at dinner - BBC Apprenticeships: It's a question of quality - FE News College performance compared to other sectors - Chapter 2 - FE News UK’s support benefits 10 million children in Pakistan - GOV.UK Chris Skidmore: don’t put a lid on university access - Times Higher Education | THE Double push to revive international student recruitment in UK - Times Higher Education | THE How to have REF-able policy impact - Wonkhe The virtues of university giving - Wonkhe Post-Brexit UK needs to make friends to influence people - Times Higher Education | THE Double push to revive international student recruitment in UK - Times Higher Education | THE Ministers accused of pressure over teacher recruits - BBC Wales: Funding changes to school building programme will help pressures on local authority budgets - Welsh Government MPs urge end of free nurseries for middle class children to invest in poorer kids - The Sun UK university applications rise for first time in three years amid Brexit uncertainty - Independent Hobbies just as key to children’s success as GCSE results, Education Sec claims - The Sun State schools must practise debating and other resilience skills to compete with Eton old boys - Mail Government’s flagship 30-hour free childcare offer ‘entrenches disadvantage’, MPs say - Independent Record number of 18-year-olds apply for university - Financial Times Troubled college ‘determined to secure long-term future’ ahead of FE Commissioner report - FE Week Record numbers from China and Hong Kong applying to study in UK - Guardian Hinds sets out ‘five foundations’ for character education - Schools Week MPs blame Government 's 30 hour childcare policy for 'entrenching inequality' - Nursery World University applications up for first time in three years, fuelled by rise in international students - Telegraph Chinese ready to overtake the Welsh at UK campuses - Times All pupils will have chance of gaining public school swagger - Times Number of university applicants rises for first time in three years - Mail