News archive for 18th February 2019

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Outstanding Gateshead student awarded Lord Glenamara prize - DfE Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium: 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 4 - Ofsted Adult education ‘requires improvement’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Agnew cuts final formal tie with academy trust he founded - Times Educational Supplement | TES More whistleblowers report fear and aggression at ‘flattening the grass’ academy chains - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disgraced superhead cannot appeal over £1.4m in unlawful bonuses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Harlow College introduces F1 in Schools to inspire passion for engineering - FE Week Scrap GCSEs? We’ve been here before | Letters - Guardian Scottish pupils warned off music exams to save schools cash - Scotsman College recovers £500k Saudi Arabian debt - FE Week Royal Academy Schools receives £10m from Tetra Pak heir - Guardian Hadlow Group suspends principal and deputy pending investigations - FE Week If children really want to understand climate change, they're better off in the classroom - Telegraph The cap that doesn’t fit: Student numbers in Northern Ireland - HEPI Heads’ union backs climate change pupils’ strike - The Educator Do small class sizes have any impact? - Teacher Toolkit Promoting spatial ability skills through educational robotics: Are they equally effective for girls and boys? - BERA Ban gaming? Our pupils play in a school Overwatch team - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE offering extra help to grammars wanting to open satellite schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Petition calls for Ofsted to scrap inspection grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam and curriculum change: What's the latest? - Teacher Tapp Fraction of families take up tax-free childcare scheme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Pre-school Learning Alliance rebrands - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sector slams 'tired' government response on early years funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now LSE and Bocconi University launch double degree program - London School of Economics | LSE UK would face “formidable challenge” to replicate Erasmus programs - PIE News New EEF grant-funding round announced - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Take action to secure the future of maintained nursery schools - NAHT Pearson sells US school textbook business - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to retain examiners? Show them the money - Times Educational Supplement | TES I'm a gay teacher and it's important to be open about it to be a role model - Wales Online Tax-Free Childcare: only a fifth of predicted number of families sign up - Nursery World It's time to unpick the idea of generalist primary teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Headteachers 'must keep learning throughout their career’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted fails school where pupils say they are smacked and have cheeks pinched - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland’s mistakes will shape Welsh education reform - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union threatens to withhold students' results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pearson agrees sale of US school textbook business - Financial Times Should students apply to university after they receive their A-level results? - The Conversation As the mother of a deaf child, recent education stats make me fear for a lost generation - Metro Why Britain’s private schools are such a social problem - HuffPost Is testing good for education? - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics England lacks white working-class graduates. Quick fixes won’t change that | Phil McDuff - Guardian Consultation aims to change Relationship and Sexuality Education in preparation for new curriculum - Welsh Government Need to know: Security measures in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Do less email better - UKEdChat Response to work-experience concerns 'disappointing' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers And Shakers: Edition 271 - FE Week Scottish universities lose £400m in ‘stealth’ funding squeeze - Scotsman The Civic University Commission signals a new way of setting policy agendas - Wonkhe Labour sets out an anti-market stall - Wonkhe Proposing a new fundraising model for universities’ community work - Wonkhe We need to talk about teacher wellbeing - Schools Week Empty free school sites will be rented to property guardians - Schools Week Scotland: Economists issue dire warning over future of Edinburgh private schools - Herald Scotland Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon's education claims branded 'farcical' amid Budget cuts - Herald Scotland Three top-paying universities cut heads’ salaries - Financial Times Report calls for moratorium on new Confucius Institutes in UK - Times Higher Education | THE Meghan Markle wants to tackle discrimination in 'male, pale and stale universities - Mirror Will universities go bust if fees are cut? - BBC Private sector pay set for growth as skills shortage bites - City AM Northamptonshire County Council in early years funding blunder - Nursery World Ministers are misguided if they think missing school is more serious than climate change | Jane Merrick - Times Scotland: School meals include meat with link to bowel disease - Times Ireland: More than 75% of graduates find jobs in 9 months - Times Andrea Leadsom's group seeks to plug gaps for 0-2s - Nursery World