News archive for 11th February 2019

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Government questioned on financial sustainability of universities - UK Parliament Attitudes to STEM subjects by gender at key stage 4 - DfE Improved access to thousands more world class school places - DfE Home Secretary announces further action to target youth violence - GOV.UK Halfon’s plan to scrap GCSEs is a pipe dream - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil strike could be ‘extremely disruptive,’ warn heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted thinks the value of the curriculum is self-evident. But is it? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only one in four expanding grammars makes poor pupil pledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs demand answers from Outwood Grange about ‘flattening the grass’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES The DfE can't ignore 16-19 funding any longer - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs support petition calling for later school starting times - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Music experts ‘dismayed’ over Midlothian Council’s proposed tuition cuts - Scotsman Vice-chancellor of De Montfort University resigns - Financial Times ESFA bans six more new providers from taking on apprentices - FE Week Don't back down on LGBT guidance, faith leaders urge DfE - Guardian Learning about AI in schools from the health sector - Nesta UK steel, pharmaceutical and transport manufacturing will be future-ready thanks to research boost - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) GCSEs have had their day, say Education Select Committee Chair - Edge Foundation Behaviour: What is going on in schools? (And how does it affect teachers?) - Teacher Tapp Undergraduates lack the numeracy skills required for their courses and the work place, according to new exploratory study - Nuffield Foundation Does the curriculum make you twitch? - Research Schools Network Thinking about feedback - Research Schools Network Girls should dispel ‘misconceptions’ on STEM subjects - The Educator How do Ofsted select a school for inspection? - Teacher Toolkit Replace GCSEs with 'broad and relevant' baccalaureate, says MP - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Is reflection an afterthought in active learning? - Advance HE International students apply to study at UK HEIs in record numbers – UCAS - PIE News HFH rebrands its three UK businesses - PIE News De Montfort confirms departure of v-c Dominic Shellard - Times Higher Education | THE UCU comment on resignation of De Montfort University vice-chancellor - UCU Solihull teachers to strike - NASUWT AoC welcomes evaluation of the Strategic College Improvement Fund (SCIF) - AoC | Association of Colleges Rising to the challenge of English and Maths - AoC | Association of Colleges Different schools, same problem: What value teacher research and inquiry? - BERA Civic University Commission report - Russell Group GCSEs and A-Levels - National Education Union UK university unveils country's first sports hijab to encourage Muslim women to participate - Independent Using tablets in teaching - UKEdChat DfE reveals colleges allocated £470m in financial support - FE Week Hadlow Group senior leader resigns as FE Commissioner steps in - FE Week 'Pointless' GCSEs should be scrapped, says senior MP - BBC Busy Bees buys first Irish nursery group - Nursery World Lord Baker: GCSEs now ‘redundant’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE Podcast: Governors and the insolvency regime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gibb calls on teachers to change girls' views of Stem - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: £6m cuts could hit Highland schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than half of grammar school expansion bids failed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools tell DfE funding pressures are stopping innovation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outrage over 'porn film' pubic hair in GCSE textbook - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is your MP one of the 164 lobbying the chancellor for more FE funding? - FE Week Scotland: Orthodontist trips for north teenagers 'affecting exams' - BBC Climate change protests: UK primary school children due to miss lessons for environmental 'strike' - Independent We're not lazy, we just need more sleep, say pupils - BBC Mob of 100 parents gather outside school to protest against gay teacher - Metro Dramatic footage shows pupils escape Scottish school bus as it bursts into flames (video) - Scotsman GCSEs should be scrapped as part of major education system overhaul, senior MP says - Independent Three ways a higher education system can push towards more equal opportunity - HEPI Undergraduates lack the numeracy skills required for their courses and work place, according to new exploratory study - National Numeracy The soccer aid for Unicef playground challenge is back! - Teacher Toolkit The Ofsted inspection framework – what’s changing? - The Educator Minister calls to dispel girls’ misconceptions of STEM subjects - DfE Who will pay for teachers’ pensions? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Halfon calls for GCSEs to be scrapped - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE won't say why property boss missed target and got £20k-plus bonus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers And Shakers: Edition 270 - FE Week Girls just wanna do maths - and the women who help them - Guardian Can teachers really remember how many hours they’ve worked? - Schools Week How to get the best out of a college merger - FE Week How teachers are really using research - Schools Week The complexities of the higher education vote - Wonkhe Rocket Fund update + £10,000 match funding available this term - Nesta UCU officer’s ‘unnecessary’ seven-month suspension lifted - Times Higher Education | THE Pointless GCSEs should be scrapped, says senior MP - BBC Scrap GCSEs in favour of ‘holistic baccalaureate’ says education committee chair - Schools Week Green militants urging children to skip lessons - Mail Replace GCSEs with baccalaureate, says Conservative MP - Guardian Scrap GCSE and A-levels in favour of ‘holistic baccalaureate’ says education committee chair - FE Week Going out on strike against climate change will do pupils good, says National Association of Head Teachers union - Times Nurseries promise rain won’t stop play - Times GCSEs ‘fail to develop skills required for the digital age’ - Times Scotland: Second Glasgow School of Art fire ‘was caused by oily rags’ - Times Scotland: Huge fire in St Andrews University’s science unit - Times Ireland: Lesson on universities - Times Girls should dispel misconceptions about Stem subjects, says Schools Minister - Mail