News archive for 27th February 2019

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DCMS launches new youth voice projects - GOV.UK Teacher subject specialism training (TSST) courses - DfE ESFA Update: 27 February 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA financial assurance: monitoring the funding rules - Education & Skills Funding Agency Schools warn suicide game is appearing in Peppa Pig videos - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils' favourite books revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE needs visionary leaders, not bank managers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plans to broaden baseline beyond maths and literacy dropped - Times Educational Supplement | TES My plan for saving languages in our schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Governors warn £2bn needed 'to give pupils the education they deserve' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only quarter of pupils get recommended reading for pleasure time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vice-chancellor who used £1,600 of university cash to relocate dog warns of potential job cuts amid £15m deficit - Independent ‘Suicide game’ breaks into Peppa Pig YouTube videos - Scotsman DfE urges colleges to report whether they are adopting AoC’s controversial senior pay code - FE Week Meet Jimmy Chipolata, every stressed-out student’s four-legged friend - Guardian NAO says National Apprenticeship Week a ‘good time’ to publish damning report into government oversight - FE Week ‘Pointless’ baseline assessment pilot for 4 year olds announced by Government - National Education Union Graduate contributions statement - Russell Group Ask your MP to attend the debate on school funding on 4 March - NAHT Pre-key stage standards for use in 2018/19 - NAHT What's so special about literacy? - ASCL How to help students prepare during major educational transition periods - UKEdChat Gender pay gap report 2018 - Teach First Preparing for literacy - one school's implementation journey - Research Schools Network Table arrangement choices - Teacher Toolkit Teenagers worry where their education will take them - The Educator Ofsted and your wellbeing - SecEd Bullying: A new approach? - SecEd At the chalkface: Strike! - SecEd Diary of a headteacher: We’ve come out fighting - SecEd Scotland: Music tuition denied to 100,000 children, report finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Diary of an NQT: Taking on the residential trip - SecEd DfE: Get young people to speak about T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Music: concerns raised as exam board awarded curriculum contract - Times Educational Supplement | TES Formally recruiting subject advisers 'too bureaucratic', says Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs call for expanded Pupil Premium to boost social mobility - SecEd Working conditions identified as key battle in retention crisis - SecEd Report offers tips on making a success of project-based learning - SecEd Teenage cannabis use linked to depression in later life - SecEd UCL Institute of Education retains world number one position for Education in QS subject rankings - IOE London Blog Shrinking number of apprentices are young people starting careers; Government is missing its own target and the point - Edge Foundation Majority of child gang members unknown to councils, commissioner warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now LSE ranked second in the world for social sciences - London School of Economics | LSE Momo Challenge: Schools warn ‘be vigilant’ on YouTube Kids amid fears videos could emerge - Express Martin Lewis tells students to rip up "misleading and dangerous" loan statements - Mirror Nursery workers stripped of Universal Credit worth £100s in huge payments flaw - Mirror Pro-life student society approved at Birmingham University amid row over freedom of speech - Independent The truth behind sinister Momo Challenge suicide game that’s been linked to a string of deaths and is spreading panic around UK - The Sun School budgets under 'huge pressure', says ex-DfE minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher convicted but not punished for slapping four-year-old boy - Times Educational Supplement | TES England will need 80 more special schools by 2027 - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to make project-based learning work - Times Educational Supplement | TES To the outsider, this can look draconian - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ireland: Enniskillen schoolboy guilty in upskirting case - BBC Fly-tipping closes Bishop's Stortford school sports field - BBC Ofsted publishes first academy trust ‘summary evaluation’ - Schools Week Schools invited to pilot Reception baseline as opposition against it grows - Nursery World The gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students at ‘top’ universities has increased – here’s why - The Conversation Interleaving: are we getting it all wrong? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children must be freed from the chokehold of curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let's enable local leaders to provide opportunities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Baseline 'unfair', say three-quarters of primary heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: ‘No formal recruitment process’ for subject curriculum groups - Schools Week Ireland: Pupil guilty of making 'upskirting' videos of teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES There's no shortcut to quality relationships and sex education - Schools Week Where have the pupils in mainstream schools with education, health and care plans gone? - FFT Education Datalab The mobile phone in schools debate rumbles on - The Educator Schools invited to sign up for controversial baseline pilot - Times Educational Supplement | TES Testing of under-fives goes ahead despite teaching union objections - Guardian Scottish universities still out of reach for poorer pupils - Scotsman Language learning: German and French drop by half in UK schools - BBC 100,000 Scottish pupils missing out on school music tuition - Herald Scotland Herald awards celebrate best of Scottish colleges and universities - Herald Scotland Are we addicted to problemifying interdisciplinary research? - Wonkhe Review of ‘Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem’ - HEPI UCU needs ‘honest conversation’ about low turnout in strike ballot - Times Higher Education | THE Universities need to better communicate the value of the student experience - Times Higher Education | THE Rise in foreign students means fewer British undergraduates are getting into Oxford and Cambridge - Mail Schools sought for autumn 2019 baseline pilot - Schools Week UK global university ranking Brexit warning - BBC Oxford and Cambridge universities fail to raise UK student numbers - Guardian British universities flourish in worldwide league table - Times UK students squeezed out of Cambridge and Oxford - Times Head teacher shortens school week to boost happiness - Times Scotland: School lessons will not lead to a music career, say tutors - Times Scotland: St Margaret’s girls’ school fees repaid a decade after closure - Times Ireland: Outbreak of mumps hits universities - Times