News archive for 21st February 2019

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President of the National Union of Students tells critics to ‘f*** off’ in a Facebook rant - The Sun Parents banned from school runs in drastic bid to save kids from toxic fumes - Mirror Actions speak louder than words - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Strategic School Improvement Fund - DfE 16 to 19 funding allocations supporting documents for 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency T Levels capital fund - DfE Industry placements: capacity and delivery fund (CDF) for 2019 to 2020 for providers not in receipt of CDF in 2018 to 2019 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Industry placements: capacity and delivery fund (CDF) for 2019 to 2020 for providers in receipt of CDF in academic year 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency What are the rules on teaching about LGBT+ issues and relationships in schools? - Independent Top universities will need to accept fewer middle class students to meet diversity targets, regulator admits - Telegraph Scotland: Cash-strapped councils 'could cut teachers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs may not be scrapped, but we have other options - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Flattening the grass' MATs must set record straight, says top Tory - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: ‘Desperate’ secondary teachers accept pay deal - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Heartbroken' mothers being forced out of teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary and secondary shouldn't see each other as aliens - Times Educational Supplement | TES The unspoken conspiracy on recruiting sixth-formers must end - Times Educational Supplement | TES Strikes loom as Scottish teachers reject teacher pay deal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching children coding is a waste of time, OECD chief says - Telegraph Strike action looms as Scotland’s biggest teaching union rejects pay offer - Scotsman How likely are Scottish school strikes over pay? - Herald Scotland Essex University lecturer accused of antisemitic Facebook posts - Guardian School strike threat 'within weeks' as teachers reject pay deal - Herald Scotland £200 million to create a new generation of artificial intelligence leaders - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Disadvantaged boys benefit most from early school years - UKEdChat MPs granted rare debate on detail of DfE’s school spending plans - Schools Week Joint Letter to Secretary of State, Damian Hinds MP (pdf) - UCET Unions urge review body to ignore government’s suggested pay cap for teachers - National Education Union Social mobility - National Education Union Teachers angry over pay, but warn that workload and pupil indiscipline are of equal concern - NASUWT New findings inform the laptop versus longhand note-taking debate - Learning Scientists The Nuffield Early Language Intervention has been awarded a 3+ evidence rating - Nuffield Foundation Urgent need to tackle social mobility 'coldspots', say MPs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Disadvantaged boys benefit most from earlier schooling, say researchers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government to send parents ‘text message tips’ to improve literacy of disadvantaged children - Public Technology Pupils should be taught that some children have 'two mummies or two daddies', Ofsted chief says - Telegraph Report a serious child safeguarding incident - DfE National Union of Students president tells critics to f*** off’ in Facebook post amid no-confidence motions - Independent Ofsted chief backs teaching about same-sex couples after parent protests - Guardian College interim leader earned £143,000 for seven months' work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted backs Global Teacher Prize nominee on LGBT lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Labour's lifelong learning commission matters - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student take: Why GCSEs shouldn't be scrapped - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs may not be scrapped, but we have other options - Times Educational Supplement | TES No point teaching coding, says Pisa chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gove to meet pupils who went on strike over climate change - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hollywood star Hugh Jackman tells teachers they are the real superheroes (video) - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anti-semitism row in Essex University student society vote - BBC LGBT-row teacher up for $1m global prize - BBC Scottish secondary teachers back pay deal - Herald Scotland LGBT-row teacher on teaching kids about equality - BBC Scotland: Here's what you need to know about the SQA strike threat - Herald Scotland Unions threaten first ever strike at Scotland's exam body - Herald Scotland Gap likely to grow in social mobility 'coldspots' - Nursery World Schools should teach pupils about same-sex couples, Ofsted boss says - Independent Involve teachers in reform to make profession more ‘intellectually attractive’, urges OECD chief - Schools Week UCL’s first Arabic MOOC will bring education opportunities to refugees in Lebanon - IOE London Blog ASCL response to APPG report on social mobility - ASCL Pupil premium reform and 9 other ways to close the gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Look after teachers to improve social mobility - Times Educational Supplement | TES British PSHE teacher up for Global Teacher Prize - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early schooling helps narrow boys’ disadvantage gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social mobility ‘coldspots’ likely to fall back further - Sutton Trust Tackling the regional attainment gap - Sutton Trust Colleges need support if social mobility is to be improved - AoC | Association of Colleges Teachers to join climate protests to demand curriculum reform - Guardian 'Google isn't interested in degrees': is the UK snobby about technical education? - Guardian Next generation of artificial intelligence talent to be trained at UK universities - GOV.UK Scotland: No reliable data on school standards until at least 2020 admits John Swinney - Herald Scotland Everything you think you know about universities and technology is wrong - Wonkhe Narratives on higher education: An exit from engagement - Wonkhe Are universities hotbeds of left-wing bias? - Times Higher Education | THE Universities may have to shut door on elite to hit access targets - Times Higher Education | THE Campuses told to offset carbon emissions from student mobility - Times Higher Education | THE Ofsted says schools should teach pupils about same-sex couples - BBC Erasmus: What will happen to scheme after Brexit? - BBC LGBT-row teacher in top 10 award - BBC Teacher targeted over LGBT work shortlisted for $1m global award - Guardian Social mobility cold spots will get worse unless action is taken to close attainment gap, MPs warn - Independent Gay teacher threatened over LGBT lessons named as finalist for world's top teaching award - Independent Re-focus pupil premium on teacher retention and CPD, say MPs - Schools Week Pay teachers more at deprived schools - Times Lecturer Malcolm Anderson was overworked, says widow - Times Boys only suffer from late school start if they’re poor - Times Scotland: Swinney doubts expert’s view on ‘useless’ P1 tests - Times Ireland: Teachers struggling to pay bills as tax error drags on - Times Ireland: Enrol Syrian refugees in schools, says watchdog for children - Times Hugh Jackman reveals a Birmingham 'superhero' has made the global teacher prize finals - HuffPost