News archive for 14th February 2019

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SNP's blatant social engineering undermines Scotland's best universities - Telegraph Scotland: Lowering university entry grades for disadvantaged students will unlock their potential, not hit standards - Telegraph Timpson review to demand excluded pupils count in schools’ results - Schools Week Hinds: Climate strike would increase teacher workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels 'must adapt quickly to industry changes' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching at 'flattening the grass' school 'felt like being a prison warden’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland’s leading universities to lower entry requirements to increase student diversity - Scotsman Study English, and learn the ways of the world | Letters - Guardian Climate change strike: Why kids are skipping school - HuffPost Michael Gove's own daughter to skip school in youth climate change protest - HuffPost College leaders apply pressure on chancellor for a raise on Valentine’s Day - FE Week Skills and the future of work: where to from here? - Nesta The most powerful word in education - Teacher Toolkit Accelerate the development of NQTs and early career teachers - DfE Chancellor urged to 'show colleges some love' - Times Educational Supplement | TES I skip school to stand up for the planet - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parent view: This is what SEND practice should look like - Times Educational Supplement | TES Deeply unpopular Teaching Excellence Framework not fit for purpose say staff - UCU I witnessed a child getting screamed at for coughing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Forget recruitment – first, sort out why teachers are leaving - Times Educational Supplement | TES Insiders allege Outwood Grange ‘ritually humiliated’ and ‘terrified’ pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES How Outwood Grange ‘flattened’ school leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer than 5% of poor white students in 50% of universities - The Educator How will Ofsted achieve such lofty ambitions? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Robert Halfon: 'We must face facts about GCSEs' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top universities lower entry requirements - Times Educational Supplement | TES How failed transitions mean children get 'stuck' in PRUs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Natalie Perera: “What if… we struck a different balance between school autonomy and regulation?” (video) - IOE London Blog EEF publishes new evaluation reports, including sleep education pilot - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Evidence informed teaching - Research Schools Network Testing in the classroom: The importance of feedback - Learning Scientists New EEF podcast looks at improving secondary science - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Parenting can trump background - Sutton Trust Why reinvent the education wheel, when a solution already exists? - Schools Week Inequality of pedagogy in English schools: How significant is it? - BERA A joined-up approach to mental health, wellbeing and behaviour? - ASCL Principals demand MPs take action in the absence of a functioning Assembly - NAHT Arts and media provider to challenge Ofsted ‘inadequate’ rating - FE Week School improvement support for the 2018 to 2019 academic year - DfE HE students statistics: alternative providers 2017 to 2018 - DfE Direction: Mohammed Mizanur Rahman barred from managing independent schools - DfE Academies general annual grant allocation guides: 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Parents furious as school uses teacher training day to play glow-in-the-dark ping pong - Express Convicted terrorist banned from managing schools - Mail Warwick University hires legal expert for rape chat review - BBC ‘Flattening the grass’: what’s really going on at OGAT and Delta? - Schools Week Scottish universities to lower grade requirements to boost diversity - Mail Duchess of Cambridge: teachers need more mental health support - Schools Week Oxford and Cambridge have fewer than 3% poor white students, study finds - Independent Bath Studio School confirms it will close in 2020 - FE Week We stand by our book: private education should be reformed - Times Educational Supplement | TES When are the 2019 Scottish Higher exams? - Times Educational Supplement | TES AQA’s GCSE market share up but Pearson's and OCR’s down - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers in a bind as pupils prepare to go on UK climate strike - Guardian Scottish education system needs a fundamental reboot - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: How the DfE gave up public control of state-school land - Times Educational Supplement | TES Climate change: young people striking from school see it for the life-threatening issue it is - The Conversation Islamic school proprietor barred following terrorism convictions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of universities in England have fewer than 5% poor white students - Guardian Hadlow Group chief executive on sick leave following FE Commissioner intervention - FE Week DfE bans ISIS supporter Mizanur Rahman from running schools - Schools Week Social media and screen-time: To ban or not to ban – that’s probably not the question - IOE London Blog AQA increases dominance of GCSE market as OCR slumps - Schools Week The huge sums allocated for education in Wales that never get to schools - Wales Online University salaries have now spiralled out of all control - Express Youngsters learn about careers on offer in growing Earth Observation sector - GOV.UK 'Universities stamp out creativity': are graduates ready for work? - Guardian Re-train; re-skill; re-imagine FE - FE News Leading law firm supports children’s charity in new apprenticeship initiative - Cambridge Network DfE does not know how much academy land it has lost control of - Times Educational Supplement | TES College insolvency regime: £9m contracts up for grabs - Times Educational Supplement | TES What do academic staff think of the TEF? - Wonkhe Narratives on higher education: Righting the wrongs - Wonkhe How I learned to stop worrying and love Brexit - Wonkhe The diploma disease is becoming a pandemic - Times Higher Education | THE TEF means more work but not better teaching, union members say - Times Higher Education | THE Universities propose Europe-wide professional body for teaching - Times Higher Education | THE Threatened scholars: online harassment risks academic freedom - Times Higher Education | THE Half of universities have fewer than 5% poor white students - BBC University bosses draw fat cat salaries but leave students short-changed - Mail 'I skip school to demand climate change action' - BBC University fat cat whose pay jumped by a fifth quits - Mail Get rid of amateur university justice | Daniel Sokol - Times Scotland: Teachers turn up volume on music protests - Times