News archive for 11th January 2019

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Russell Group university courses are providing less than six hours a week face-to-face - Mail Four in five teachers pay for school resources amid funding pressures, headteachers say - Independent Four in five heads contribute to their schools’ finances - Schools Week Oxford ends women-only fellowship after university rules that it breaches equality law  - Telegraph Three teacher wellbeing problems and how to conquer them - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the man who thinks grammar schools are the answer - Times Educational Supplement | TES The college mergers on the horizon for 2019 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t worry about applying to broke unis, Ucas tells pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Autistic pupil’s support ‘slashed’, Nicola Sturgeon told - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to publish new model music curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Dramatic decline' in quantity and quality of arts in primaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Council could cut teaching hours and close primary schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damian Hinds MP appears before Education Committee - UK Parliament Lords debates contribution of free schools - UK Parliament SEND - roundtable discussion with teachers and school staff - UK Parliament The Tes Podcast: Funding, ethics and languages - Times Educational Supplement | TES We don’t think John Finnis should teach at Oxford University. Here’s why | Alex Benn and Daniel Taylor - Guardian Schools facing 'financial cliff edge' - BBC Multi-million pound super-school which opened two years ago is only 'adequate' according to inspectors - Wales Online Scotland: Strike ballot in teachers´ pay row a step closer - Mail Teachers in England take 51,000 sick days a week - Mail School debt climbs nearly fourfold, warns think-tank - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs criticise government's child mental health plans - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Are the robots coming to take away STEM jobs? - Advance HE The Duchess of Sussex takes on ACU patronage - PIE News ASCL response to PAC report on mental health services for children - ASCL Students take mobile phones into exams as they feel 'anxious' without them, exam officers say - Independent Key stage 3 is a victim of high-stakes accountability - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tim Brighouse's nine ways to minimise exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar school opponents need to find some new arguments - Schools Week Ofsted watch: Mixed week for FE providers - FE Week Online university courses for the masses fail to materialise - Times Higher Education | THE Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 11 January - Pearson The future of music education in schools - The Educator Beyond the gate: 12 risk factors of youth violence - Teacher Toolkit Analysis shows impact of poverty and ethnicity in inspections - Schools NorthEast School finances - National Education Union PAC report: Poor NHS mental health provision for young people - National Education Union England’s schools’ funding problems ‘worsen’ - The Educator Let’s make education fairer - BERA What I would like to see happen in 2019 - Headteachers' Roundtable EPI report shows schools have hit financial cliff edge - ASCL Strike ballot at 143 universities - UCU Losing more than money - Russell Group Ucas deadline 2019: When is the application day and what do I do if I miss it? - Independent Young Brits say they feel pushed to go to university by parents and teachers - The Sun Contribute to a podcast on the future of education - Guardian Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon apologises to ‘misrepresented’ academics - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish teachers could move closer to strike action - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cuts see cash-strapped schools covering for police and mental health services - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland’s largest teaching union recommends ballot over strikes - Scotsman How to boost teachers' wellbeing (without spending a penny) - Times Educational Supplement | TES Essex council selling money-spinning school improvement service - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers take more than 50,000 days a week off sick - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Little time’ given to adult learners in Augar review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t blame independent schools for choosing IGCSEs - Schools Week Skills minister vows to ‘dig deeper’ into level 2 apprenticeships drop - FE Week Skill=knowledge+practice - The Learning Spy Oxford University professor defends himself against homophobia claim - Mirror Knowing how to make friends most important for starting school - Nursery World Rise in children with SEN in PVI nurseries - Nursery World This year, if nothing else, won’t be boring for us in the FE and skills sector - FE Week Welsh Government plans to end the disparity in childcare funding - Nursery World My professor couldn’t pay rent, so she moved in with me | Leslie Oberhofer - Guardian 2019: The year ahead in FE and skills - FE Week Irish and NI students will receive tuition fees support post-Brexit - Mail Careers and Enterprise Company says it can’t provide apprenticeship advisers - FE Week Hinds to face education committee grilling over academy accountability and exclusions - Schools Week London’s largest college group abandons an appeal against a £3 million HMRC bill - FE Week Ministers turn to musicians to design new ‘model curriculum’ - Schools Week School revenue balances in England - EPI Malnourished children are taking food from school bins to stifle hunger, headteacher says - Independent 'Unhappiness' as exams tighten their grip on the curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Local authority schools overspend more than academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES How schools conquered the languages decline - Times Educational Supplement | TES NHS 'failing' pupils on mental health, say MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities earn record £50m from FE courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government backs young musicians - DfE Making Kids Cleverer – Conclusion: Shifting the bell curve - The Learning Spy More on the comparability of international GCSEs and GCSEs - FFT Education Datalab College ends use of corporate credit cards after its former principal claimed £40k expenses - FE Week Tory peer’s academy trust seeks unpaid workers - Schools Week Government urged to step up action to increase mental health staff numbers - Mail DfE to test and ‘quality-mark’ education apps - Schools Week Writtle fined £250K over shortfall on promised outreach spending - Times Higher Education | THE I lost my job for warning university bosses about grade inflation | Anonymous academic - Guardian Scotland: Increase in student mental health issues means support must be efficient - Scotsman NASUWT comments on EPI's school funding report - NASUWT Wonkhe Weekly: Grammar schools, silly season, 2019 - Wonkhe A lack of aspiration is not the problem - Wonkhe Communicating research creatively. With cake. - Wonkhe Policy Watch: TEF year 4 data release - Wonkhe School budgets raided of £22m to replace scrapped ESG funding - Schools Week Highbury College in £1.4m legal battle with Nigerian state - FE Week The Seldon List: OECD chief and schools minister top trad-dominated education influencers list - Schools Week 'Worsening' funding problems for schools - BBC Ethnic minority academics speak out over unfair pay - BBC 'I went to Oxford with undiagnosed TB' - BBC Almost one in three council-run secondary schools in deficit, study finds - Independent Almost one in three English secondary schools in the red - Financial Times Four-fifths of LAs could wipe out school deficits by clawing back ‘excess’ surplus, EPI study finds - Schools Week ‘We fight for every penny’: teachers say not enough resources for arts education - Guardian England's schools still feeling budget crunch, analysis finds - Guardian Update us annually on school mental health plan progress, MPs tell ministers - Schools Week Forget Spotify: I want every child to leave primary school able to read music | Nick Gibb - Times Oxford students are wrong to damn their law professor | Blathnaid Breslin - Times Ireland: Call for rent cap on student rooms as costs spiral - Times Almost a third of council-run secondary schools in the red, new data shows - HuffPost