News archive for 28th February 2019

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Thousands of university students could be ‘put off’ Scotland by hard Brexit - Scotsman Tory budget cuts force primary school head to pay for cleaner and student trips - Mirror Mystery no-notice ESFA audits spark provider anger - FE Week Gambling cost me my teaching career and almost my life - Times Educational Supplement | TES SFC commits £10 million to Scottish pay harmonisation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Suicide game with 'Momo' character was a hoax - Times Educational Supplement | TES The award-winning primary that made its staff feel amazing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why is self-confidence being driven out of teachers? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lecturer sacked at uni where student was banned over halal comments - Metro School places 2019: What time are secondary school places announced and how to appeal - Express An illiberal tide is sweeping British universities and thwarting debate - New Statesman Scotland: Unions warn of 'damaging consequences' over university budget funding - Mail University group wants 'bizarre' three-year EU visa plan scrapped - Mail Three criticisms of sex education – and why they're wrong - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are level 4 and 5 qualifications? - Times Educational Supplement | TES So-called character education is 'offensive' to working class - Times Educational Supplement | TES 16 to 19 discretionary bursary fund: allocation methodology - Education & Skills Funding Agency Further education and skills data - Education & Skills Funding Agency 19+ funding allocation guidance - Education & Skills Funding Agency 19+ funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Children and Families Minister announces new early years funding - DfE Universities Minister calls for greater improvement on access - DfE Level 4 and 5 qualifications and provider market - DfE Case review highlights early help failures in Croydon - CYPN | Children & Young People Now When done right, PSHE can be transformative - Times Educational Supplement | TES 5 ways to make teachers happy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Better pay and 7 other ways to increase science teacher numbers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrap plans for No Deal visas - Russell Group Rethinking sex and relationship education in the age of #MeToo - BERA Childcare costs continue to rise across the UK - Financial Times UCU Scotland comment on funding announcement for universities - UCU NASUWT welcomes verdict in upskirting case - NASUWT Time for more visibility from LGBT leaders in the further education sector - Collab Group Don't rob Peter to pay Paul to fund post-18 English education system - CBI New hub aims to help universities eliminate equality gaps - Villiers Park Educational Trust Can we teach critical thinking? - Learning Scientists Ready to learn - UKEdChat Universities warned to plan for EU funding gap as talks stall - Times Higher Education | THE Knowledge exchange: how should universities engage with business? - Times Higher Education | THE Overseas student numbers in UK up, but EU numbers fall - Times Higher Education | THE CBI calls on government to invest in skills and education; a sector response - AoC | Association of Colleges Minister announces extension to nursery school supplementary funding - Early Education AIIMS & UCL sign partnership with dual focus - PIE News Moving the dial on contextual admissions - Sutton Trust Turning students from consumers to creators - Jisc Barham Primary School welcomed Damien Hinds - Education and Employers A qualified success: An investigation into T-levels and the wider vocational system - Policy Exchange Storytelling for assessment - UKEdChat Further education corporations and sixth-form college corporations: governance guide - DfE Schools financial value standard (SFVS) - DfE Lord Glenamara Memorial prize winners - DfE Early years providers cost study: 2018 - DfE Maintained nursery schools: contribution to early years provision - DfE Academy transfers: information for academy trusts - DfE Due diligence in academies and maintained schools - DfE Depression is on the rise among young people, but antisocial behaviour is down, new research shows - IOE London Blog Scottish families face rising tide of childcare costs as prices rise again - Coram Family & Childcare Families face rising tide of childcare costs as prices rise again - Coram Family & Childcare 30 hours offer hitting childcare places for disadvantaged two-year-olds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Welsh families face rising tide of childcare costs as prices rise again - Coram Family & Childcare Apprenticeship and levy statistics: February 2019 - DfE NEET statistics annual brief: 2018 - DfE Higher Education Staff Data, 2017 to 2018 - DfE Public sector apprenticeship target reporting: research brief - DfE FE learners and apprentices study: reasons for non-completion - DfE Online adult learning: rapid evidence assessment - DfE Health visitors to be trained to close the word gap - Nursery World Ofsted warns of secondaries 'gaming' EAL qualification - Times Educational Supplement | TES Amanda Spielman at the Youth Sport Trust 2019 Conference - Ofsted Sexual abuse in custody 'shockingly high', inquiry concludes - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Excellence is overrated. Let’s embrace being good enough instead | André Spicer - Guardian New Lamda boss Sarah Frankcom: 'radical' solutions required for drama schools - Guardian Labour won’t ‘return the past’ on school accountability - Schools Week Martin Lewis tells students to rip up ‘worryingly misleading and dangerous’ loan statements - The Sun Labour launches second National Education Service consultation - FE Week Public sector apprentices are older and more diverse - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only 200 apprenticeship levy transfers made - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels risk repeating past mistakes, says report - Times Educational Supplement | TES You can't knock colleges for taking risks - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers must not be forced to hide online - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE sector likely to see further de-mergers - Times Educational Supplement | TES EYFS: a guide to closing the disadvantage gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inspiration Trust battles Ofsted over special-measures judgement - Times Educational Supplement | TES CBI calls for extra year of education - BBC One in ten 16- to 24-year-olds classed as Neet - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE promotes baseline assessment in new video - Nursery World Ceeda roundtable pools ideas to tackle early years recruitment crisis - Nursery World Tuition fees not university deterrent, says Hinds - BBC Nursery schools granted £24m in stop-gap funding - Nursery World What it's like to run the worst funded high school in Wales - Wales Online Record numbers miss out on first choice of secondary school - Evening Standard This is how much UK parents are paying for nursery each week - HuffPost The new baseline assessment is fairer than what we have - Schools Week Secondary school places 2019: What to do if you don't get your first choice school - Telegraph Why are England's schools at breaking point? (video) - Guardian Inspiration Trust slams Ofsted inspectors after primary school put in special measures - Schools Week Scotland: Pupils docked vital allowances after going to climate change protest - Herald Scotland Taking back control of school accountability - IOE London Blog Hold schools ‘responsible’ for excluded pupils who join gangs, says children’s commissioner - Schools Week Monthly apprenticeships update: Aug – Dec starts up 10% but down 24% on 2016 - FE Week Work your proper hours day – teachers top league table for unpaid overtime - National Education Union NEU survey shows widespread funding and workload pressures on school support staff - National Education Union Childcare costs jump again to hit £127 a week and that's just for part time - Mirror CBI: More learners should go to colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish and Northern Irish pupils ‘top at reading’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 27,000 children in gangs, with exclusions seen as a trigger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union blames DfE over ‘flattening the grass’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Threatened' maintained nursery schools to get £24m boost - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must eradicate childhood hunger: here's how we do it - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Offer Day 2019: What to do if you don't get your first choice secondary school - Telegraph New push to help disadvantaged students in higher education - Financial Times School in Stockport to close early on Fridays for lack of funding - Guardian New training for health visitors to boost early language skills - DfE National Offer Day 2019: We missed the deadline for secondary school applications, what are our options? - Telegraph What works to promote equal opportunities? - Office for Students Scotland: Lack of training in mental health a concern in the classroom | Jonathan Wood - Scotsman Scotland census under fire for sidelining foreign languages - Scotsman Scottish children reading books which are ‘too easy’ - Scotsman One of the last Scottish private schools for girls to shut - Herald Scotland Commuting: a life sentence for academics - Times Higher Education | THE Sussex v-c: ‘dramatic change’ needed to tackle bullying culture - Times Higher Education | THE CBI: English tuition fee and funding cut will cause ‘profound harm’ - Times Higher Education | THE Is the Office for Students delivering the deliverables? - Wonkhe No surprises on access and participation - Wonkhe Evidence for impact on access and participation - Wonkhe Suffolk girl with autism misses school after transfer blunder - BBC Childcare costs rise by 3 per cent in a year - Nursery World Excluded pupils blamed for knife violence - Times Graduates ‘being scared into wasting money’ - Times Scotland: Parents warned as online game incites self-harm - Times Ireland: Teachers get refund from government after tax error - Times Scottish and Northern Irish pupils top reading comprehension survey - Mail