News archive for 20th February 2019

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FE leaders challenge ‘silence’ on LGBT inclusion - Times Educational Supplement | TES It’s crucial for schools to teach children their rights - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teenager convicted of sexual assault of classmate 'allowed to stay at same school' - Telegraph Schoolboy, 15, convicted of sex assault on girl in classroom is allowed to stay at same school - Mail Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel: first national review - DfE High needs funding arrangements: 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA communications are more streamlined as a single body and continue to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency Transferring unused apprenticeship funds to other employers - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 20 February 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency OECD Education Director questioned on role of technology in the classroom - UK Parliament Scotland: Five-year hole in literacy and numeracy data revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for more protection of pupil-on-pupil sex-abuse victims - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher banned after suggesting pupil send him photo of his penis - Times Educational Supplement | TES How much damage will 'flattening the grass' do to the trad cause? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Graduation fees scrapped at third Scottish university - Scotsman Employer provider hit buffers after Ofsted found failure to take account of prior learning - FE Week Nearly a year after review launched, ESFA reveals apprenticeship funding rate cut - FE Week Brexit 'could risk children's safety', warn commissioners - BBC Potential for extra funding for small employer apprentices – but no promises - FE Week Strategies for reading - UKEdChat 375 schools and nurseries in the north of England wanted to take part in new trials - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Primary Futures teams up with National Careers Week - Education and Employers The heterogeneous effect of information on student performance: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mexico - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics Education in emergencies: who teaches refugees? - Education Development Trust | EDT Pearson sells US K12 textbook arm for $250m - PIE News Students detained in relation to TOEIC cheating allegations, MP complains - PIE News It’s inescapable; employability is a prominent feature of contemporary Higher Education - Advance HE Lottery fund confirms £500,000 grant to transgender children's charity - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Judicial review launched over DfE 'myth busting' guide - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 10 essential reads to improve reading comprehension - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Strategies to deal with children with autism or ASD - UKEdChat Government response on work experience 'disappointing' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Joint statement: Unions urge review body to ignore government's suggested pay cap for teachers - ASCL Three in five young people believe education doesn't equip them for the job market - Schools Week Forget me not? LGBTIQ+ representation and rights in education - BERA Unions urge review body to ignore government’s suggested pay cap for teachers - Voice We haven’t called for an end to defined benefit pensions for university staff – honest! - HEPI UCU response to MPs' social mobility report - UCU Strike ballot opens at Oaklands College - UCU Debate about adult learning is great - but we need action and funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sexting and sexual images: how schools should respond - Times Educational Supplement | TES How we should really do drugs education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t criminalise teachers for not reporting forced marriage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Orthodox Jewish nursery that sacked teacher for living with partner cleared of religious discrimination - Independent Scotland: Work to constantly improve education system is my mantra - John Swinney - Mail Britain already disengaging from Europe as UK government pulls funding from unique European research institute - The Conversation Teachers condemn plans to make them criminally responsible for failing to report forced marriages - Independent John Swinney: Improving Scottish education is my mantra - Scotsman British children are most likely to die of asthma and 'alarming' shortage of school nurses could be to blame - Mail DfE to pay for free learning apps for disadvantaged children - Nursery World Wales: Lecturer's widow hits out at Cardiff University workload - BBC £60m awarded to grow 30-hour childcare in Wales - Nursery World Jewish nursery that sacked teacher for living with her partner outside marriage is cleared - Mail Tributes paid to former FE Commissioner Sir David Collins - FE Week Twice as many mothers prosecuted for their children's truancy than fathers, figures show - Independent AoC: T levels will 'operate at a loss' without more funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher pay: Unions urge review body to ignore DfE pressure - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to pay for early learning apps for poor families - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex offender pupil allowed to return to the school where assault took place - Independent Disadvantaged families to benefit from free early learning apps - DfE Role models are important for LGBT youngsters - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities should be punished for giving black students lower grades | Steven Spier - Guardian Open University will help you gain vital skills, so don’t call it a day on learning - Scotsman T Levels won't succeed unless they are implemented correctly - AoC | Association of Colleges A more refined employment metric - Wonkhe Sudden v-c exits raise big question: who should run universities? - Times Higher Education | THE Plan S leaders resist pressure for slower open access transition - Times Higher Education | THE Impostor syndrome: two-thirds of female scholars suffer badly - Times Higher Education | THE Grade point average misses the pass mark in the UK - Times Higher Education | THE Recruitment strategies are failing academics from ethnic minorities - Times Higher Education | THE Forced marriage: Union warns over 'criminalising' teachers - BBC Parents should install educational apps on their children's iPads and smartphones - Mail When class sizes fall so does teachers' pay - BBC Parents should use phone and tablet apps with pre-school children to close literacy gap, education secretary says - Independent AoC increases funding rate demands after crunching the T-level numbers - FE Week Poorer families to get text messages in trial to support early learning - Guardian Hundreds of schools sought for new home learning trials - Schools Week Government flagship T Levels skills policy at risk say those tasked with delivering it - FE News Ignore government’s proposed pay cap, unions urge review body - Schools Week Jean McCormick: Judge lambasts trial of teacher who grabbed unruly pupil - Times Jewish nursery wins appeal over sacking teacher ‘living in sin’ - Times Children get free access to apps that aid learning - Times