News archive for 3rd January 2019

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Back in Time for School review – alarmingly relevant lessons in empire - Guardian Teacher who stole pupils' school theatre trip money banned from classroom - Independent Fewer colleges plan to charge £9k tuition fees - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chartered Institution for FE 'can survive without DfE cash' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inspiration Trust hikes top-slice from school budgets to cover curriculum team costs - Schools Week 'Apprentices shouldn't be abandoned and invisible' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will Ofsted's curriculum vision be reduced to a box-ticking exercise? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Glasgow council spends £37,000 in court amid school placement appeals surge - Scotsman Can Swedish images of engineering help UK universities widen participation in engineering degrees? - BERA Safeguarding: What to do when something is wrong - UKEdChat The Careers and Enterprise Company launch new funding pot for primary school career programmes - NAHT ISC statement: Exam reforms and IGCSEs - GSA Why do children need the Worrinots? - The Worrinots The debate around postgraduate funding - Times Higher Education | THE The role of technology in the classroom examined - UK Parliament New research insight: Evaluating the ‘Achieving Race Equality in Higher Education’ programme - Advance HE Universal Credit parents 'in debt' over upfront childcare costs - Nursery World British Chambers of Commerce announce 80% skills shortage - FE News 'Why total immersion is the best way to teach languages' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pressure blamed for rise in mental health absence - Times Educational Supplement | TES New website launches to promote FE research - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE's TV advertising costs £4.3k per shortage subject sign-up - Schools Week Scotland: £500K spent on promoting teaching as a career - Times Educational Supplement | TES Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 4: Nature via nurture - The Learning Spy Student wellbeing and screen time - any link? - Montrose42 School leaders: who sits at your table? And four more questions for the new year - IOE London Blog Damian Hinds: Learning life-saving skills in school is crucial - DfE Changes to SEN information on performance tables - NAHT Hundreds of thousands of school days lost in Scotland thanks to teacher mental health problems - Telegraph Letters to Nicola Sturgeon reveal teachers ‘on the brink of breakdown’ - Scotsman Have the 2010 student protests (eventually) killed £9K fees? - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Don’t make monsters out of school inspectors’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Obsessing over Oxbridge is not the way to beat inequality - Guardian Nearly half the public think they’d be good teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE recruitment to include tasters in teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES From Classroom to Collaboratory: #EdTech works best when it brings people together. - FE News Two in five people think they would be a good teacher but low pay and workload deters them, unions say - Independent Scotland: Union-led project aiming to tackle impact of child poverty in schools - Mail University debt: credit crunch looms as debt spirals - Times Ministers will make it easier to 'try out' teaching as survey shows appetite for career change - Schools Week Scotland's primary schoolchildren love science but don't want to be scientists - Herald Scotland