News archive for 12th February 2019

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Students could soon start school at 10am after MPs back campaign to give them a lie-in - The Sun More than three in four universities give bosses pay rises despite crackdown on high salaries - Independent Gloucestershire school children learning to love nature with help from the Environment Agency - GOV.UK Providers selected to deliver T Levels in academic year 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Intention and substance: primary school science curriculum research - Ofsted ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency The Teachers’ Pensions Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - DfE Scotland: Why we cannot make lecturers a better offer on pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social media is not the sole cause of youth suicide - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'taking overly macho approach to excluding pupils with SEND' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrapping GCSEs would advantage only the privileged - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar schools' ‘insult’ to teachers as 6th formers coach 11+ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why primary teachers should think twice about setting homework - Times Educational Supplement | TES Technical education has every right to demand recognition - Times Educational Supplement | TES Esol strategy 'to be published by the autumn' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Autism: why are we still not spotting the girls? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Move to axe music tuition abandoned after protests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two more providers withdraw from T-level delivery - Times Educational Supplement | TES Where are our BME leaders in education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 76 applications for FE support funding received - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vice-chancellors paid £500,000 or more at six universities in England - Guardian More than 4,700 university staff were paid over £100,000 last year - The Sun Average university vice chancellor now earns more than £250k for first time, as majority given pay rises in last year despite criticism - Telegraph The Guardian view on private schools: motors of unfairness | Editorial - Guardian Government agency to charge for apprenticeship quality assurance - FE Week Probe after Coventry students wear anti-Semitic T-shirts - BBC Eagerness to work ‘unusual hours’ is potential sign of fraud, says DfE guidance - Schools Week Angry parents call on gay teacher to resign from school for 'promoting homosexuality' - Mirror University heads paid more than £500,000 a year - Times Strikes off at Queen Margaret University as jobs row settled - UCU Pay report exposes universities regulator as 'paper tiger' - UCU Jersey members to take strike action - NASUWT Derbyshire teachers to strike - NASUWT ASCL Cymru spells out scale of funding crisis to Education Minister - ASCL Universities UK calls for salary cap to be set at £21k to protect key higher education workers - Universities UK Sorry everyone, but we need to talk about Brexit - Universities UK Collab Group is involved in the new UK Parliament apprenticeship partnerships - Collab Group Director-General Carolyn Fairbairn speaks at Royal Society - CBI Impact of curriculum change on RE - NATRE secondary survey 2019 - NAHT Taxi driver's son, 17, from deprived area of Wales wins place at Harvard - Mail EU study opportunities for disadvantaged young people at risk, warn Lords - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ministers must properly address the special educational needs and disability (SEND) funding crisis - PoliticsHome Automation: How thinking skills can prepare young people for the march of the robots - Training Journal Boost grammars: they're the engine of social mobility - Express DfE publishes indicators for potential fraud in education providers - FE Week 4 tips for valuing your staff - Teacher Toolkit Surrounded by low achievers - high on positive emotions? - UKEdChat Making sure the international education strategy works - HEPI Voice welcomes project to tackle early years workload and urges members to take part - Voice You get what you pay for? The OfS on senior staff pay - Wonkhe Government confirms a pause to pension improvements - NAHT Professionals online safety helpline - a free service to support the online safeguarding of both children and professionals - NAHT Education Select Committee hears evidence from Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman - NAHT This is why hundreds of children in Wales are going on strike this Friday - Wales Online Coventry university sports club suspended over claims members wore T-shirts saying 'the Jews deserved it' - Independent School climate strikes: share your videos and stories - Guardian Two more providers removed from T-levels 2020 delivery - FE Week Some university chiefs paid 13 times more than staff - BBC Parents call for GCSE biology revision guide to be pulped - Mail Council leaders defend taking parents to tribunal over SEND support - Schools Week ​​​​​​​Computing teachers of the world: ready? - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Safeguarding risk’ if LGBT guidance is 'diluted' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Primary heads vote to accept pay deal - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: how to recover from a poor set of mocks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Where will we find the time for character education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why academies change sponsors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school failings could ‘stifle’ interest in science, Ofsted warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 120 universities pay vice chancellors at least £150,000 - Mail Scotland: Midlothian Council votes to scrap music tuition cuts as flash mob protests outside - reports - Scotsman Curriculum Notes #2:  Big picture first: then zoom in. - Teacherhead Five English universities paid heads more than £500,000 - Financial Times Bright Horizons acquires My Family Care - Nursery World Nearly a third of academy transfers down to government intervention over failures - Schools Week Science ‘downgraded’ in primary schools, Ofsted warns - Schools Week How poor housing is harming our pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES A levels no longer fit for purpose, says Royal Society chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘It’s not about my school’: teacher’s TV drama depicts stress in class - Guardian Mental health: the students who helped themselves when help was too slow coming - Guardian What is the point of higher education if it doesn’t make people happy? | Jonathan Wolff - Guardian Scotland: Girls-only digital clubs rolled out to get more young girls into science - Scotsman 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities - Accountability Hearings Scotland: Dear Midlothian councillors, please scrap music tuition cuts - Scotsman Place matters in progression to higher education - Wonkhe The universal basic research grant: funding research for the 21st century - Wonkhe Universities and government should seize this civic moment - Wonkhe Game on: esports takes off - Wonkhe Call for £500 million fund to boost UK universities’ civic role - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Perfect 10’ wariness reveals gender bias in student evaluations - Times Higher Education | THE After neoliberal misery will come collegial and creative universities - Times Higher Education | THE Uncertainty over future UK participation in Erasmus and Horizon programmes - UK Parliament Helping teenagers beat the blues - BBC Overhaul England's 'narrow' A-levels, says top scientist - BBC A-levels are not fit for purpose and should be reviewed, president of Royal Society says - Independent Rural and coastal schools feel isolated from government support, research finds - Schools Week GCSEs hold little value, warn bosses - Times £350,000-a-year De Montfort University chief resigns amid inquiry - Times Scotland: Blaze destroys years of medical research - Times Scotland: Cisco sees real benefits from university AI move - Times