News archive for 17th January 2019

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Education Secretary warns more school leavers should get jobs and work their way up - Mail Oxford college bans octopus from menu in bid to make disadvantaged students feel more 'comfortable' - Telegraph Teacher's long sexual emails to ex-pupil exposed as he is banned from profession - Mirror Huawei funding suspended by Oxford University due to ‘public concerns’ over partnerships with Chinese tech giant - Independent Using the apprenticeship brand - Education & Skills Funding Agency Call for universities to improve support for disabled students - DfE Annual report of the Chief Schools Adjudicator for England - DfE Teacher Recruitment Bulletin - DfE Dstl's latest apprenticeship opportunities are now open - GOV.UK National mentoring initiative to tackle employment inequality across UK - GOV.UK Who do Ofsted think they are, treating teachers so disrespectfully? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why it's time to better pay and better train our Early Years workforce - Times Educational Supplement | TES Demanding perfection leads to fear of failure… - Times Educational Supplement | TES What to do when students have poor mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stats watchdog criticises union school funding figures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish pay offer 'best in UK public sector’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fresh blow to Scottish Government´s named person scheme - Mail More schools refusing pupils with SEND as admissions get harder to police - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Science teacher caught with Class A drugs - Times Educational Supplement | TES How will Ofsted evaluate how much a four-year-old knows? - Times Educational Supplement | TES College group told to improve student outcomes by OfS - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Named Person plan suffers new blow as panel reveals ‘challenges’ - Scotsman Universities can do more to support their disabled students | Chris Skidmore - Guardian Oxford places ban on donations and research grants from Huawei - Guardian School funding campaign criticised for claiming 91 per cent of schools face funding cuts - Telegraph Highest number of first class degrees on record as almost one in three students graduate with top marks  - Telegraph Record number of UK university students awarded first-class degrees, figures show - Independent 'Sometimes you feel alone': studying at university with a disability - Guardian The state school with a ‘secret formula’ for getting 41 pupils into Oxbridge - Telegraph Teenagers taking GCSE early in Wales got more top grades in maths and English but none got A* for Welsh - Wales Online Wales: A university that paid huge sums for new buildings seeks job cuts as it faces £10m a year interest bill - Wales Online Graduates given up to £25,000 to train as teachers in Wales - Wales Online Challenging notions of academic freedom | Letters - Guardian GCHQ gives girls free cyber-classes to tackle gender gap - Times Grade inflation is an injustice to hardworking students | Nicola Dandridge - Times Record number of firsts prompts warnings of university grade inflation - Times Incentives in education - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics Youth fund for transforming spaces awards £1.5m - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Childcare workers face increasing financial pressures and have low qualification levels - Nuffield Foundation Managerialism in UK schools erodes teachers’ mental health and well-being - UKEdChat Critical pedagogy - UKEdChat Enhanced pay offer for teachers funded by Scottish Government - Mail Creating identity-safe classrooms - Teacher Toolkit Schools pushing children into home schooling, say councils - Guardian Oxford blocks Huawei contracts amid security concerns - Times Higher Education | THE Share of UK students getting a first goes up again - Times Higher Education | THE Timing of parents’ split matters for children’s mental health, new research reveals - IOE London Blog Ombudsman slams council over SEN failings - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Teachers' pay plummets while £4 billion sits in school balances - NASUWT EPI on childcare workers - National Education Union School Cuts coalition stands by figures challenged by Deputy Chair of Conservative Party - National Education Union Ofsted’s new framework receives mixed response - Nursery World University of Liverpool apologises after cheating email ‘targets’ Chinese students - Independent Scotland: World’s oldest classroom periodic table found at St Andrews University - Scotsman Stats watchdog rebukes School Cuts website for ‘misleading’ funding figures - Schools Week Record number of poorest Scots studying at university full-time - Scotsman Scotland: St Andrews find may be oldest surviving wall chart of periodic table - Guardian University should be free for all students, not just the wealthiest | Eric Lybeck - Guardian Wales: Inspirational winner of Vocational Qualification Awards urges entries for 2019 competition - Wales Online Increase in objections to school admissions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears that new Ofsted framework 'narrows' KS1 - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits: English and maths pass rate drops - Times Educational Supplement | TES Book scrutiny: a tool for support or monitoring? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The new college insolvency regime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Universities accept record number of students from deprived areas - Mail Almost three in five teachers still haven't received pay award - Times Educational Supplement | TES Targets and workload affecting teachers' mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for children's screen time to be restricted to two hours a day - Nursery World OSA chief: Number of poor pupils at grammars ‘not increased in the ways hoped for’ - Schools Week Rapid growth in EU enrolments at UK universities reverses - Financial Times State school in one of London's poorest boroughs secures 41 offers to study at Oxford and Cambridge universities - Independent Physical activity programmes in schools aren’t working – here’s why - The Conversation Does Ofsted’s draft inspection framework pass the inclusion test? - Schools Week The early years workforce in England - EPI College funding to get its day in the sun with House of Commons debate - FE Week Government launches £2.5m apprenticeship campaign - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huge spending disparities in flagship DfE social mobility programme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Angry head says ministers must stop 'humiliating' schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Raising aspirations - Teacher Toolkit Strategy and investment needed for early years workforce - Voice 11:00 a.m. - The House of Lords will debate the relationship between the use of digital technology and the health and wellbeing of children and young people - Lords Library Ofsted inspections find three Steiner schools to be ‘inadequate’ - Guardian New Apprenticeship Campaign 'Fire It Up' launches - DfE Ofsted inspections to focus on 'quality of education' over performance data - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Major new report on the STEM skills shortage - FE News Academics who work when sick risk burnout, professor warns - Times Higher Education | THE It is time to close the management/staff divide - Times Higher Education | THE The week in higher education – 17 January 2019 - Times Higher Education | THE Warning over impact of cuts on Scottish universities dismissed by John Swinney - Herald Scotland Narratives on higher education: spiralling inflation - Wonkhe The key to contextualised admissions - Wonkhe London state school secures 41 Oxbridge offers - BBC GCHQ sets up all-female cyber-training classes - BBC DfE launches new ‘Fire It Up’ apprenticeships campaign - FE Week Schools hit with warning letters after flouting Baker clause - FE Week Trusts hit with warning letters after flouting Baker clause - Schools Week Scotland: Access to free sanitary products expanded with £4m funding - Mail Early years staff face financial pressure as wages drop - Nursery World Children risk falling behind by age four because nursery teachers are poorly educated, report suggests  - Telegraph School for poorest pupils gets 37 Oxbridge offers - Times Leading academies ordered to promote apprenticeships - Times Scotland: Glasgow School of Art’s fire system was removed before blaze - Times Scotland: Colleges chief accused of lying over strike claims - Times Ireland: Disadvantaged pupils fall behind after Leaving Cert exam reforms - Times Ireland: Demand for stiffer penalty if your child misses school - Times Childcare workers forced to benefits after being slapped by 5% pay cut - Mirror