News archive for 8th February 2019

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Catriona Thomson: More than music at stake in tuition cuts - Scotsman Schools to get new classrooms to help cut class sizes in Wales - Wales Online Rise in heads working at more than one school - Scotsman Committee announce first immersive and addictive technologies evidence session - UK Parliament Master of Trinity College, Cambridge: Professor Dame Sally Davies - GOV.UK Early years initial teacher training: 2019 to 2020 funding guidance - DfE Final round of Strategic College Improvement Fund opens - DfE National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) 2019: supporting materials - Education & Skills Funding Agency Government guidance on leaving the EU - Office for Students Technology has increased teachers' burden, DfE says - Times Educational Supplement | TES 165 MPs back letter calling on chancellor to up FE funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES The key to T-level success? Transition - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unison to ballot college staff for strike action - Times Educational Supplement | TES College improvement fund opens for applications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outwood Grange uses crisis managers to explain ‘flattening the grass’ policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: What happens during a security lockdown at school - Wales Online Scotland: Rise in number of head teachers working in multiple schools - Mail Easton and Otley College needs 'swift action', commissioner says - BBC UCU response to HEPI’s new paper on the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) - HEPI Professional learning resources to contribute towards a more collaborative professional community of teacher educators - BERA Government accused of 'lowering the bar' on recruitment - The Educator Children's Mental Health Week: how you can help - Ambition School Leadership Business-backed blueprint for next stage of apprenticeship reform - CBI In the news 8 February 2019 - UCU School leaders are 'worried' about the new Ofsted framework - NAHT In the window - Headteachers' Roundtable Closing the word gap in primary and secondary schools - ASCL University disciplinary processes under the microscope - Universities UK Robert Halfon MP: Government must move away from wrong-headed policies that increase disadvantage in early years education - PoliticsHome 450 schools and colleges wanted to take part in ‘Glasses in Classes’ and four other new trials - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Not just development, Continual Professional Development - Research Schools Network Ofsted watch: Another positive week for providers - FE Week UCL Institute of Education project showcases EdTech startups to universities minister - IOE London Blog Whose responsibility is it to tackle youth knife crime? - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The regulation of social media - if not now, when? - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs slam government over rejection of early intervention strategy - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 165 cross-party MPs sign letter to Chancellor calling for better investment in colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Effective use of pupil premium - Research Schools Network Could English Mastery be coming to your school? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Funding, pay and silent corridors - Times Educational Supplement | TES E-petition 229178 relating to secondary school opening hours - UK Parliament Oxford college which cut octopus from menu now votes to ban Halal and Kosher meat - Telegraph Teachers increasingly refusing to teach unruly children amid incidents of violence and sexual assault - Telegraph State school pupils can race ahead | Letters - Guardian Leading UK universities going backwards on state school access - Times Higher Education | THE London-centric policymaking ‘behind Erasmus+ uncertainty’ - Times Higher Education | THE Headteachers working in more than one school in Scotland up 64% in seven years - Herald Scotland Ealing Abbey abbot resigns over failure to investigate child abuse allegations - Guardian ESFA delays European Social Fund tender contracting for second time after ‘error’ - FE Week More British children are learning Mandarin Chinese – but an increase in qualified teachers is urgently needed - The Conversation 'I feel very angry': the 13-year-old on school strike for climate action - Guardian UK pupils to join global strike over climate change crisis - Guardian Scotland: Council plans to scrap music tuition raised at Holyrood - Mail Stopping student loans for those with low grades alienates students who need it the most - Metro Charles Darwin school musical dropped after complaints - BBC UK universities told to ignore net migration target - Times Higher Education | THE Dame Sally Davies becomes Cambridge’s Trinity College master - BBC Chief medical officer to become first female Trinity College master - Guardian Teachers are in a position to challenge extremism - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can a school building improve results? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Drama is the perfect place to explore LGBT texts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the UK pupils striking for climate change - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let school leaders decide mobile phone policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government dismisses MPs' call for national early intervention strategy - Nursery World From jam roly poly to raspberry coulis - how school dinners in Wales have changed in 25 years - Wales Online Principal defends college merger facilitated by £30 million bailout - FE Week Ark English mastery programme and ‘glasses for classes’ scheme get EEF trials - Schools Week School nabs pupils’ mobile phones and charges parents £2 ransom to get them back - The Sun DfE commission research to review high prices for apprentices with prior learning - FE Week Why are providers charging the maximum apprenticeship price? - FE Week Knife crime – what can schools do? - The Educator Road Trip! The University Mental Health Charter Consultation - HEPI Glasses for pupils scheme aims to improve maths and literacy - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Pupils' ability linked to mother's attitude during pregnancy' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School leaders 'worried' about new Ofsted framework - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trebling of refusals to teach violent and disruptive pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jewish state school plans single-sex academies to avoid gender integration - Times Educational Supplement | TES The danger of colour stereotypes - UKEdChat FE bosses criticise ‘ridiculous variability’ of external quality assurance charges - FE Week My university accepts overseas students who are doomed to fail | Anonymous academic - Guardian Trust hopes PGCE ‘franchise’ will boost Russell Group grad recruitment - Schools Week Providers turning apprentices away as non-levy cash dries up - FE Week The 5 causes of poor performance in FE - Chapter 3 - FE News ‘Systematic failure’ lifts academy trust’s deficit to £2.4m - Schools Week Vision and creativity as teaching excellence metrics - Wonkhe Wonkhe Weekly: Minister, research access, Warwick, donations (podcast) - Wonkhe Widening participation in a demographic dip - Wonkhe Is it time to break up the USS? - Times Higher Education | THE Lancaster tests appetite for fees in ‘land of the free’ Germany - Times Higher Education | THE Universities handing vice-chancellors the biggest pay rises are 'worst for student salary prospects' - Mail Finalists announced for AAC Apprenticeship Awards 2019 - FE Week Manchester needs more devolved powers, says study - Financial Times How do children learn to speak? - The Learning Spy Pupils face £2 ‘fines’ to get their phones back - Schools Week Prove you need help, Brighton University told woman who killed herself - Times Lancaster University opens German campus to safeguard its post-Brexit future - Times School demands £2 ‘ransom’ for return of pupils’ phones - Times Poor pupils still denied chance to get a degree - Times The obsession with free speech at universities is a betrayal of ordinary students | Ben Gartside - Times Scotland: Glasgow art school fire ‘cover‑up’ prompts call for full public inquiry - Times