News archive for 26th February 2019

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Inspecting initial teacher education: guidance for inspectors - Ofsted Free school meals supplementary grant: 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Higher and degree apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency Educational psychologists ‘boost children's mental health’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE Podcast: Stepping backward to go forward - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tech revolution 'could make arts more important than maths' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers in Scotland formally reject latest pay offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa chief: Prioritise skills, as ‘Google knows everything’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Halfon: FE cuts were 'not an accident' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary schools must teach computing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boys less likely to feel safe in school than girls - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost half of Scotland's colleges 'very good' for student outcomes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outwood Grange hits back at ‘flattening the grass’ accounts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Flattening the grass ‘frightening to watch’, say new sources - Times Educational Supplement | TES British undergraduates at Oxbridge fall amid concern they are being “squeezed out” by foreign students - Telegraph Ministers investigating ‘perverse incentives’ in high needs funding - Schools Week Labour Party to use National Apprenticeship Week to highlight lack of apprentices in the civil service - FE Week Is a criminal investigation into 3aaa about to begin? - FE Week School governors call on government to increase funding in ‘unprecedented’ action - Independent Scotland: Teacher pay talks continue as strikes loom - Herald Scotland Licence to copy - Teacher Toolkit Relationships will be taught to all school pupils - The Educator Mentally Healthy Schools – access quality-assured information, advice and resources on mental health and well-being - NAHT Safeguarding: NSPCC resources to support staff dealing with disclosures - NAHT Better together: Sharing expertise makes financial sense, but it's also the best way for the profession to learn - ASCL Government puts tech apprentice programme on hiatus - Public Technology Children's services 'at breaking point' due to funding cuts, charities warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Compulsory health and relationships education – a new era for PSHE - PoliticsHome Pupil premium provision in the sixth form - Research Schools Network We should cheer this push to teach good mental health - Express Scotland: More school leavers in work, education and training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex-ed reforms are ‘fundamental shift of power to the state’, say MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted accused of 'pedagogical bias' over subject advisers for new inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES I know how to get businesses to sponsor academies… - Times Educational Supplement | TES Speech, language and communication needs: a quick guide - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of funding mean colleges will have to turn employers away - Times Educational Supplement | TES So when will teachers be left to talk about sex? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers will need to become mentors, not knowledge deliverers, says Pisa boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES What do parents think makes the biggest difference in pupil outcomes? - Times Educational Supplement | TES London state school to introduce four-and-a-half day week to make teachers happier - Independent Wealth gap at Scotland's universities widens with little progress in closing gulf in school attainment - Telegraph Exclusion and mental health difficulties: unravelling cause and effect and seeking answers in classroom practice - IOE London Blog Scotland: 'Class divide' as richest pupils still dominate university places - Herald Scotland Scotland: Rise in number of pupils in work, training or study after leaving school - Mail Relationships, sex and health education: What do schools need to know? - Schools Week Children's services in England face cash crisis, warn charities - Nursery World What is your experience of zero tolerance behaviour policies in schools? - Guardian Top UK state secondary school to switch to four-and-a-half-day week after successful trial in New Zealand - Evening Standard Mr Men books ‘harder than Roald Dahl' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted accused of promoting ‘snake oil’ school-improvement industry - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Hardest and easiest’ books for children revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re the role of technology in the classroom - Accountability Hearings It is time we start listening to teenagers on careers - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 100 rural schools to get super-fast broadband - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education system not focused on future careers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should children be allowed time off school to strike? - Guardian Grammar school expansion still locking out the poor - Guardian Only a quarter of student rapes reported, survey suggests - BBC More than 100 rural schools to get gigabit speed broadband - DfE Dear Damian Hinds: free apps for families? I thought you wanted pupils off screens | Michael Rosen - Guardian Half of female students subjected to unwanted sexual touching, poll finds  - Telegraph Dons revolt against Oxford’s new ‘university-run’ college - Times Higher Education | THE Pop-up goes the curriculum - Wonkhe Will Augar knock down barriers? - Wonkhe Victory for the UCU requires a unified front - Times Higher Education | THE Tanja Bueltmann: thick-skinned in fight for EU citizens’ rights - Times Higher Education | THE More than half British students claim to have suffered sexual misconduct but only fraction report it - Mail Left-wing dogma has been ruinous for school children - Mail Now all primary school pupils 'will have to learn about periods by the age of 11' - Mail Toddlers who cannot use the toilet or dress themselves could be sent on ‘bootcamps’ to get ‘ready for school’ - The Sun Thousand fewer UK students at Oxbridge - BBC Children 'failed in first 1,000 days', says MPs - BBC More than half of university students experience unwanted sexual behaviour, survey finds - Independent More than half of UK students say they have faced unwanted sexual behaviour - Guardian Amazon to create over 1,000 new jobs in UK apprentice scheme - Telegraph 'Government must kick start an early years revolution', urge MPs - Nursery World Growing up near green spaces is linked to better mental health - Times Heads ‘can choose when not if’ they give gay and transgender lessons - Times Lecturer Michael Blackburn who railed at ‘smug little minds’ leaves University of Lincoln - Times Health inequalities we tolerate now can affect children for life | Paul Williams - Times We need to focus teaching on what computers can’t do | David Richards - Times Amoral sex education undermines parents | Melanie Phillips - Times Scotland: Children ‘dragged into cupboards by overworked staff’ - Times Scotland: Primary school closed after lead found in water - Times Scotland: Read between lines to grasp teacher pay row | Alex Massie - Times Sexual violence and harassment is rife at university, but students aren't reporting it - HuffPost Majority of university students exposed to unwanted sexual behaviour - Mail