News archive for 8th January 2019

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Fair, please! The bus offering education for all, from stargazing to curry-making - Guardian School that banned pupils from talking threatens to sue mum for slamming ‘power hungry’ teachers on Facebook - The Sun Get help to improve teaching, retention and career progression - DfE UK Parliament welcomes new apprenticeship partnerships - UK Parliament Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund: programmes for teachers and school leaders - DfE Join the Teaching Leaders programme to develop future leaders - DfE 16 to 18 minimum standards - Education & Skills Funding Agency Universities needn’t fear a no-deal Brexit | Letters - Guardian Reporter's take: Are the DfE's TV teaching ads a waste of money? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Fast track into teaching recruits just 25 students in first year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Work experience: Is it really worthwhile? - Times Educational Supplement | TES College brings in four-day teaching week - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: What subjects can you take? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills minister responds to concern apprenticeship budget will be overspent - FE Week Suspended Swansea vice-chancellor makes formal complaint - Guardian Kidzrus nursery group faces legal challenge to name - Nursery World Statements of SEN and EHC plans: England, 2018 - DfE British Council relaunches international student MOOC - PIE News Judith Cummins MP: We desperately need a radical overhaul of our skills policy to help places like Bradford - PoliticsHome Global Teacher Prize winner stresses the importance of the arts in UCL Institute of Education talk - IOE London Blog Teachers make all the difference – including in virtual reality teaching - UKEdChat Shelagh Legrave is appointed as the new Collab Group Chair - Collab Group Onward report – A Question of Degree - HEPI Where’s the nuance in the debate about university governance? - Wonkhe AI is changing the world; who will change AI? - Nesta Smarter professional development - Teacher Toolkit 5 tips for live displays - Teacher Toolkit Neurodiversity: Unleashing potential in learners - Education & Training Foundation Suspended Swansea v-c attacks ‘negligently flawed’ investigation - Times Higher Education | THE Access hurdles facing white working-class males ‘overblown’ - Times Higher Education | THE Parents furious as seven-week summer holiday announced - but schools explain why - Mirror Teachers and pupils don’t always agree on learning styles - Best Evidence in Brief Examining restorative practices in schools - Best Evidence in Brief The principles of success in maths - Best Evidence in Brief Do young children favour boys over girls? - Best Evidence in Brief Computer-supported collaborative learning - Best Evidence in Brief International school student numbers forecast to reach 7 million by 2023 - PIE News Teaching chemistry students how to cook? That’s an experiment I can get behind | Rhik Samadder - Guardian Britain’s social mobility problem has been misunderstood – education is not the great leveller - The Conversation Scottish universities targeted by anti-Islamic group - Herald Scotland Parents in Essex withdraw children from RE lessons over objections to Islam - Independent Tring school concern at polling station voter abuse - BBC Government ‘pushed’ to reveal more about national retraining scheme - FE Week Schools need cash to replace crumbing tech infrastructure, MPs told - Schools Week Thousands of new teachers quit Scotland’s schools - Scotsman Drop in international school pupils choosing UK universities - Times Educational Supplement | TES A teacher's gender has nothing to do with discipline, Mr Bailey - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted finally contacts local authorities over new inspection handbook - Times Educational Supplement | TES International schools leave body as standards overhauled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Concerns over funding for introduction of T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must change our definition of teacher wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mobile technology 'will destroy high stakes assessment’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-thirds of teachers have no recent LGBT training - Times Educational Supplement | TES How would Ofsted judge this Gradgrind curriculum? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities must listen more closely to their BAME staff and students | Deborah Husbands - Guardian College gets its ‘good’ Ofsted rating back a year after mega-merger - FE Week University can be wonderful but it’s not for everyone | Stephen Pollard - Express Are educational networks the new panacea for system reform? Here’s how to ensure a more thoughtful approach - IOE London Blog Some pupils may not access new school mental health services for a decade - Schools Week 'End exam tricks and willy-nilly off-rolling,' heads told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Change4Life teaching resources help pupils cut back on sugar - UKEdChat 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re the Fourth Industrial Revolution Inquiry - Commons Select Committee Phonics resources to tackle childhood obesity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding announced to train 900 new children’s social workers - DfE Girls are still missing school because of period poverty. There is an answer | Amika George - Guardian University chiefs angry over ‘elitist’ student loan plans - Guardian How do you teach children to be resilient? Ask a limbless veteran - Guardian Teachers are facing a barrage of questions about Brexit. They can’t stay quiet | Iesha Small - Guardian Is difference between private and state schools £3,200 per pupil? - Scotsman 3 best practices I've seen in apprentice recruitment - FE News Are there individual differences in developing spatial thinking skills of university students within a web‐based GIS mapping environment? - BERA The final step of the apprenticeship journey: End-Point Assessment - FE News Let’s go fly a kite: access and participation - Wonkhe Let’s go fly a kite: the higher education landscape - Wonkhe Let’s go fly a kite: international - Wonkhe Let’s go fly a kite: teaching and learning - Wonkhe Let’s go fly a kite: Changing the way we do things - Wonkhe Schools told to teach pupils about cutting back on sugar in maths and English lessons - Independent Nurseries urged to interact with older people to boost children's life chances - Nursery World Cooking classes give science students a taste of real world - Times Technology leaders worry schools are not preparing their children for the future | Antony Walker - Times Scotland: Don’t be a numpty - Students given lessons in Glaswegian - Times Scotland: Beware of targets that come with temptation | Alex Massie - Times Scotland: Teachers’ strike in no one’s interest, says Nicola Sturgeon - Times Scotland: Needless homework is robbing children of vital family time | Samantha Tassiker - Times