News archive for 15th January 2019

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Children told they are not allowed hot meal if school dinner money is owed - Mirror DfE helps schools compare supply agency fees - Times Educational Supplement | TES The state of Camhs is a national disgrace - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why should teachers bother with a master’s degree? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Principals make mistakes. They need support, not blame - Times Educational Supplement | TES London state school says 41 students offered Oxbridge place - Guardian Primary school launches £20k fundraising campaign to provide necessary teaching and resources for pupils - Independent UK university in social media blackout - and urges students to do same - Evening Standard Degree apprenticeships a key element of a broad apprenticeship offer - FE News Ditch interventions, just focus on quality-first teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Additional support needs: what the stats show - Times Educational Supplement | TES Workload problem? It's time to cut corners and coast - Times Educational Supplement | TES Do you trust Ofsted not to 'raise the bar' for your school? - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND - roundtable discussion with teachers and school staff - UK Parliament New site to help schools save thousands on recruitment costs - DfE Funding increases to teachers’ pensions employer contributions - DfE Recruit teachers from Spain to teach modern foreign languages - DfE NAHT secures extensive amendments to the revised school complaints guidance - NAHT Strike dates announced at 16 English colleges in pay row - UCU Birkenhead school's meal threat angers parents - BBC Call to reimagine artificial intelligence for developing world - Times Higher Education | THE Tackling sexism in school: can we change the world? - LKMco Testing, testing: the 123's of testing - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics Online course launched to help international students study in the UK - British Council 8 steps to becoming a better leader - Advance HE Labour calls for 'radical overhaul' in apprenticeships - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Richest students paying least for university, research finds - Independent Scotland: College lecturers set for strikes over pay - Herald Scotland Scottish Government urged to review support for vulnerable children - Mail Ofqual issues warning over GCSE tiers - Times Educational Supplement | TES We have to widen access to apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Strike is in no one's interest,' says FE minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Special-needs pupil numbers hit all-time high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted must set out its role vs FE commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU announces date for 48-hour college pay strike - Times Educational Supplement | TES Confused by school data? You’re not the only one - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher pensions to cost state schools £830m extra a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universal credit 'prompting dramatic drop in school funding' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Educational psychologists forced to identify pupils’ needs ‘in one visit’, MPs told - Schools Week University switches off social media to help student well-being - BBC Strike dates announced for 16 colleges locked in pay disputes - FE Week Controversial management degree apprenticeship celebrates third birthday - FE Week Fifth consecutive grade three Ofsted report for troubled London college - FE Week DfE launches consultation on plans to fund schools’ £830m pension contribution hike - Schools Week Ofqual: No more leniency for higher tier GCSE grade boundaries - Schools Week DfE launches consultation on plans to fund £80m college pension contribution increase - FE Week A look at Ofsted’s ‘stuck’ schools - FFT Education Datalab DfE fears over Brexit delay to teacher recruitment strategy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Questions over Ofsted plans to set bar for new inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two in five sixth formers considering uni abroad - Times Educational Supplement | TES Higher Education Policy Institute report on access: the debate rages on - IOE London Blog 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities inquiry - Commons Select Committee Britain’s university offers system is unfit for purpose and needs replacing | Graeme Atherton - Guardian UK classrooms take lessons from Sandy Hook school shooting - Guardian Student loan ban: some universities could lose a third of their intake - Guardian A century of adult education has been tossed aside – is it too late to rescue it? | Laura McInerney - Guardian One in 10 students in England 'rich enough to avoid big debts' - Guardian School starts £20k crowdfunding bid to help ease budget cuts - BBC 'Together, we'll flourish': the Birmingham school tackling segregation - Guardian Many in UK lose virginity before they are ready – study - Guardian RoATP refresh - what’s needed now? - FE News Scotland: Vulnerable pupil numbers reach record high - Herald Scotland Thomas Tallis - The school using inclusion to reduce exclusion - Schools Week Selling Britain by the pound: helping universities recruit overseas - Wonkhe Local children challenged to ‘do the robot’ with University of Cambridge engineers - Cambridge Network The view from Gibraltar - Wonkhe Employer engagement hasn’t gone to plan - FE Week Scotland: Mixed messages and cash cuts damaging support for vulnerable pupils - Herald Scotland School segregation: a lesson from Birmingham (podcast) - Guardian Rich students save by paying fees up front - BBC Call for urgent action to improve provision for children with cerebral palsy - Nursery World Almost 50 infants a day attack teachers - Times Mental health risk of screens ‘no greater than wearing glasses’ - Times Ireland: Donegal teacher ‘made world a better place’ - Times