News archive for 9th January 2019

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ESFA Update: 9 January 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted: 'Insufficient progress' at 1 in 5 new providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must lead by example to curtail toxic femininity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Buckle in, the race to GCSEs has begun - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: No college should charge for graduation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who had sexual activity with two pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship reform delays a ‘barrier to growth’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Assessment of youngest pupils used 'unethically' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is workload getting in the way of NQT support? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gates Foundation to invest millions in training teachers on curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four ways teachers can avoid dodgy research - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why education should be more like the NHS - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why is the UK so ‘snobby’ about technical education? - Independent Schools refusing to let colleges speak to students about apprenticeships and technical qualifications, think tank says - Independent Hanging around the school gates won’t tell you how happy your child will be there - Guardian Brexit row 'dreadful lesson' for children - BBC Wales' new curriculum ‘does not have enough of what actually matters’, say school leaders - Wales Online Reading with children before they start school puts them eight months ahead of peers, study shows - Telegraph Ofsted: It is possible to inspect your school’s curriculum offer - SecEd Training of mental health support team workers begins - SecEd Damian Hinds backs teaching of first aid and CPR as part of health education - SecEd Schools urged to eliminate single-use plastics by 2022 - SecEd Jisc presents to MPs on education’s role in Industry 4.0 - Jisc What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Married teacher had sex with schoolboy - after boozy one-night stand with another pupil - Mirror Diary of an NQT: Planning a scheme of work - SecEd Diary of a headteacher: Values-driven leadership - SecEd Girls more prone to depressive symptoms linked to social media use, researchers warn - SecEd Edge comments on IPPR reports that schools are failing to comply with the Baker Clause - Edge Foundation Why we need to do more to support pre-Entry and Entry Level 1 ESOL - Learning & Work Institute Funding, inspection, statistics - SecEd At the chalkface: Every lesson shapes a life - SecEd Funding worth £9m allocated for summer 2019 holiday clubs - SecEd Scottish teachers' pay claim 2018/19: update - Voice KEF: showing excellence in a framework? - HEPI Reading with pre-school children boosts language skills by eight months - Nuffield Foundation The Baker clause: One year on - IPPR Colour-coded differentiation - Teacher Toolkit More win-win New Year’s resolutions for teachers - The Educator Digital skills gap narrows but still persists from classroom to boardroom - Cambridge Network Committee considers pressures facing teachers in Northern Ireland - UK Parliament 2019 National Teaching Fellowship Scheme and Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence launch - Advance HE DfE faces legal action over 'misleading' safeguarding guidance - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Spending on children's centres and youth services down £140m - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Analysis: Academic asks "Was Scottish Government stupid or deliberately misleading?" - Herald Scotland Scotland: Man tried to jump in car with child near Dundee primary school - Scotsman Harassment of MPs teaching 'dreadful lessons' to young, warns Gordonstoun head - Mail Primary school league table 2018: Search and compare the best primary schools in your area - Telegraph Unions call for major review of education system in Northern Ireland - Mail Best independent schools in the UK: Compare league table results for GCSEs - Telegraph Top grammar schools in the UK according to GCSE league tables - Telegraph Best independent schools in the UK: Compare league table results for A-levels - Telegraph Secondary school league tables: Search for the top schools for GCSE results  - Telegraph Scotland: Schools using test data for unethical purposes, MSPs warned - Mail Schools failing to let pupils hear about A level alternatives - Times Educational Supplement | TES New teachers in Northern Ireland worst paid in UK and Republic, claim unions - Mail Wellbeing is an issue for everyone, including headteachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish government 'brazenly twisted' top academic’s work’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES England's fragmented schools system ‘hindering edtech takeup’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister rejects funding calls for Gypsy, Traveller and Roma pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Misleading’ advert for essay-writing service banned by watchdog over promoting cheating - Independent Dad claims school 'keeps kicking son out of class for pulling faces' - Mirror DfE publishes 20% off-the-job training ‘mythbusters’ - FE Week Oxford and Cambridge must launch new colleges for disadvantaged young people | Andrew Adonis - Guardian Making Kids Cleverer – Chapter 9: Practice makes permanent - The Learning Spy Lords debates contribution of free schools - UK Parliament ESFA seeking views on ‘long-term operation’ of apprenticeship levy - FE Week DfE plans first ever FE workforce survey exclusively for non-colleges - FE Week Dad’s anger as son keeps getting kicked out of class for ‘pulling faces’ - Metro Mum removes son, 15, from school and pays £500 for homemade classroom after pupils banned from talking - The Sun DfE has ‘long way to go’ to deliver for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils, minister admits - Schools Week Oxford students call for professor’s removal over alleged homophobia - Guardian Brexit, xenophobia and international students: how to combat ‘public paranoia’ over immigration - The Conversation Vocational education is key to filling regional skills shortages - FE News The people who struggle to read or write and how it impacts on their lives in so many ways - Wales Online Gloucestershire nursery group expands - Nursery World Mum takes son out of school after kids were banned from talking in corridors - Mirror The responsibility to end period poverty lies with government – not teachers - Metro First ever loans-only provider to get Ofsted ‘outstanding’ - FE Week Scotland: John Swinney ‘should say sorry for fabricating support for P1 testing’ - Scotsman Academy boss Richard Gill appointed Teaching Schools Council chair - Schools Week School CPD spending falls for first time in six years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads fear Ofsted will penalise three-year GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES 12 percent drop in teacher training budgets for the first time - Teacher Development Trust | TDT 10:30 a.m. - Final evidence session re EU student exchanges and funding for university research after Brexit - Commons Select Committee Watchdog bans ‘misleading’ Oxbridge Essays advertisement - Times Higher Education | THE Proposed metrics for knowledge exchange framework announced - Times Higher Education | THE Top academic: 'I was misrepresented by Scottish Government on P1 testing' - Herald Scotland Apprenticeship funding for non-levy payers (in England): Is the solution 1990...? - FE News Top composer calls for music tuition to be given protected status in Scotland’s schools - Scotsman Prue Leith: Teaching young people cooking skills will help to beat society’s ills - Scotsman Discovering the beauty of science through a GCSE course - Financial Times Target of 3m apprenticeships by 2020 set to be missed - Financial Times KEF will recognise universities as important economic actors - Wonkhe What could KEF achieve for universities and knowledge exchange staff? - Wonkhe KEF details are now open for consultation - Wonkhe Prosecutions of parents for their child's truancy soar to 20,000 a year after a ban on term-time holidays - Mail 'Over-ambitious parents' are landing their children in the worst schools - Mail Sack Roman Catholic professor for 'criticising homosexuality', students say - Mail Northern Irish parents spend hundreds a year per child on school supplies after Stormont power-sharing collapse - Independent Parents plugging school funding gap as NI without government for two years - Mail Two thirds of schools still flouting Baker clause rules, study finds - Schools Week School CPD spending plummets by £23m as funding pressures bite - Schools Week Schools' spending on teacher training drops for first time in decade amid budget pressures - Independent Parents looking for top primaries should make reconnaissance trip to school gates, Good Schools Guide says - Telegraph Students want ‘homophobic’ Oxford don John Finnis to be fired - Times Pupils ‘steered away from vocational courses over funding fears’ - Times How we’re equipping our workforce with digital skills they need | Margot James - Times Ireland: Skills shortages in static jobs market - Times