News archive for 15th February 2019

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Study of early education and development (SEED) - DfE Climate march students: 'We need change and we need it now' - BBC Three teens arrested following climate change strike today as thousands of truanting schoolkids walk out of class - The Sun Wales: Pupils are missing school because they don't like mixed sex toilets and 'period shaming' is one of the main issues - Wales Online Apprenticeships: 400th new standard approved - Times Educational Supplement | TES The importance of empowering girls at school - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Behaviour, mental health and GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outwood gets DfE and Ofsted backing after 'flattening the grass' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Climate strike: Schoolchildren protest over climate change - BBC Student climate change protest turns sour as pupils chant 'f*** May' outside Parliament - Express London protests: Parliament Square at standstill as students climb on Churchill statue - Express Climate Change protest: Thousands of children skip school across country to march - Mirror Sheffield mayor will 'have a word' with any teachers who punish students for protesting climate change - Independent Martin Rowson on the future and the student climate strike – cartoon - Guardian School science textbooks make children more racially prejudiced, scientists find - Independent The school climate change strikes are inspiring – but they should shame us | Jonathan Freedland - Guardian Ofsted watch: Week of extremes for FE providers - FE Week Michael Gove's daughter went to the school strike climate change protest - Mirror Third time lucky? European Social Fund tender contracting delayed again - FE Week School pupils call for radical climate action in UK-wide strike - Guardian ESFA: current notices of concern - Education & Skills Funding Agency School census autumn 2018 to summer 2019: school summary report - DfE Can teenage lie-ins boost attainment? Here’s what the evidence says… - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Permanent exclusion and youth violence - Teacher Toolkit NHS failing to meet SEND support costs, say MPs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Black pupils 'more likely to be diagnosed with special needs' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Edinburgh nursery schools at risk of losing their heads and teachers - Early Education Knowledge entitlement or misguided policy? The new multiplication tables check for primary children - BERA Climate strike: thousands of students take to UK streets in call to stop global warming – as it happened - Guardian In the news 15 February 2019 - UCU A new hope or the empire strikes back? - Headteachers' Roundtable Thousands of UK children strike over climate change - Financial Times Nationwide UK student climate strike – in pictures - Guardian UK public pays high price for private schools | Letter - Guardian Ofsted failing to re-inspect some struggling schools within 30 months - Times Educational Supplement | TES Politicians say they want kids to engage in social action, but when they do... - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Councils flout government directive on testing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tories demand unions take down School Cuts website - Times Educational Supplement | TES Climate change is already taught in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Provider level adult education budget (AEB) delivery 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency The climate strikes threaten the safety of our pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kindness works: Teachers’ helping behaviors related to better student relationships and academic confidence - UKEdChat Meet the kids on climate strike: 'An attack on nature is an attack on us' - HuffPost My generation trashed the planet. So I salute the children striking back | George Monbiot - Guardian First non-faith school inspected at Star Academies Trust put in special measures - Schools Week GCSE and A-Level: Effective and productive February half-term revision tips - Wales Online Schoolchildren swarm 60 towns and cities in huge climate change protest - HuffPost UK students skip school to protest climate change inaction - HuffPost Climate strike: Thousands of UK schoolchildren walk out of classes to protest ecological crisis - Independent Thousands of UK students strike over climate change (video) - Guardian Theresa May slams kids who walk out of lessons in climate change protest - Mirror What to do about Britain’s private school problem? - Financial Times John Ruskin College commended by FE Commissioner's report - FE Week Hadlow Group appoints troubleshooter as interim principal - FE Week We recognise we can improve how we work with employers - FE Week Scotland national testing: ‘We warned it wouldn’t work’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of pupils strike over climate change - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Don't retreat from GCSE resits', warns Wolf - Times Educational Supplement | TES Climate Change protest: Thousands of students walk out of school in mass strike - Express ‘High quality’ apprenticeships at risk from policy blind spots - FE Week Muslim parents lead 300 school-gates protesters in Birmingham over lessons on homosexuality and gender - The Sun Police plea to schools to cut Northamptonshire gang crime - BBC Major training firm with contracts across government goes into administration - FE Week Universities and the NHS must join forces to improve student mental health | Gianmarco Raddi - Guardian Teaching archaeology in care homes, I learned how older people are often the best students - The Conversation Why I'm skipping school today to fight for climate change - HuffPost Thousands of UK school pupils and students strike over inaction on climate change - Scotsman Greater London Authority pulls part of European Social Fund tender a week before submissions close - FE Week Accounting irregularities investigated at Hadlow Group colleges - FE Week Podcast Episode 45: Comparative judgement following a training day with "No More Marking" - Research Schools Network Climate strike: Why are students striking and will it have an impact? - BBC Government agency in quick search for ‘interim’ arrangements to avoid gap in apprenticeship quality assurance - FE Week Scotland: Total bill to date for national tests? £8m - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fit to teach - UKEdChat I am taking part in the school climate strike. It’s the only power I have | Rosie Smart-Knight - Guardian 10 steps for reviewing your KS3 curriculum - Teacherhead Closing the gap - Teacher Toolkit Mental health services for pupils may not reach all schools for a decade - The Educator KPMG Foundation report left out negative findings - Schools Week Academy trust criticised for taking on debt-ridden schools - Schools Week Our over-funded universities are spawning a nation of educated paupers - Telegraph Universities voice concern at lack of assessment organisation for nursing apprentices - FE Week 'The beginning of great change': Greta Thunberg hails school climate strikes - Guardian DfE shells out £27m to prop up struggling academies - Schools Week Leading the transformation in FE - FE News Apprenticeship external quality assurance is a mess and needs sorting out - FE News What do we know about spending on staff? - HEPI Scotland: Councils back their right to scrap free school music tuition despite outcry - Herald Scotland Small research teams produce ‘riskier, more disruptive science’ - Times Higher Education | THE Wales: More job cuts on cards unless tuition fee cap lifted, v-c warns - Times Higher Education | THE Truly Civic? Don’t forget the curriculum - Times Higher Education | THE Corporate collaborations yield ‘significant’ pure research - Times Higher Education | THE Philosopher explores how to combat toxicity of social media - Times Higher Education | THE Cabinet Office halts apprenticeships over budget cuts - Financial Times VC pay, civic, staff on TEF (podcast) - Wonkhe Mary Poppins and the Anti-Versity - Wonkhe The universities where less than five per cent of places go to working-class white students - Mail Unconditional uni offers don't make us lazy, say teenagers - BBC Muslim parents lead group of 300 in protest outside school gates against equality lessons - Mail The robot helping a seven-year-old boy go to school - BBC Black pupils' schooling 'dumbed down over special needs' - BBC UK climate strike: Schoolkids strike in fear for planet they'll inherit - Mirror Children in 'Opportunity Area' have improved outcomes - Nursery World Pupils’ climate strike has adults hot under the collar - Times Universities failing poor white pupils - Times Scotland: Universities to lower grade requirements - Times Ireland: EU upholds two-tier pay for teachers - Times Thousands of schoolkids across the UK to go on ‘strike’ and walk out of classes in climate change demands - The Sun