News archive for 18th January 2019

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Independent reviewer of TEF asks for views - Office for Students Tailored support programme: system leader support - DfE A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2017 to 2018 (provisional) - DfE My activity passport - DfE Ofsted research for new inspections 'based on uni students' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Every teacher needs a 'reflection buddy' to keep them sane - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted must wean itself off its damaging grading system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes profile: 'Schools must build aspiration,' says Ucas chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Debate will be FE's chance to push for real change - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to get black pupils into Oxbridge - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Ofsted and pupil mental health services - Times Educational Supplement | TES College leaves Saudi owed £500k by government - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching staff need confidence in their digital skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Beloved head's coffin covered in pupils' drawings - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Extreme concern’ over schools rejecting vulnerable pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK independent school numbers in China “surge” - PIE News HESA: UK recruitment growing, but EU intake dips - PIE News Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 18 January - Pearson Evaluation of provider-level TEF 2016 to 2017 (year 2) - DfE Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework - DfE Review of UK university rating system launched - DfE Future skills: we all have a role to play - Nesta Headteachers are worried by plans to abolish second-language Welsh in schools - Wales Online Parents ‘pushed’ into teaching unruly pupils at home - The Educator 8 ways schools can respond to youth violence - Teacher Toolkit Parents' anger over SEND failures in Swindon - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New online tool to cut costs of supply teaching - Public Technology Lords debates digital technology and young people - UK Parliament In the news 18 January 2019 - UCU Leading schools in the 21st century - NAHT School Cuts Coalition stands by figures challenged by Deputy Chair of Conservative Party - ASCL What I’ve learned about what works and what doesn’t work - Headteachers' Roundtable New development week to welcome research students - Leeds Beckett University Scotland: Police called to school after 10 pupils consume tablets - Mail Inside the super state schools getting dozens of pupils into Oxbridge - Telegraph Ofsted watch: Two NHS trusts hit with poor reports - FE Week Scotland: Dunfermline High School pupils fall ill after ‘taking tablets’ - Scotsman Scotland: Pupils in hospital after 'drug-related' incident at Dunfermline High School - BBC Top-performing college owed £500k pulls out of Saudi Arabia programme - FE Week Durand Academy wrote off £1.6 million from failed boarding school project - Schools Week Colleges congratulated as FE funding tops DfE’s correspondence league tables - FE Week Publishers ‘taking funders for a ride’ with mirror journals - Times Higher Education | THE Germans fear UK exclusion from Macron’s ‘European universities’ - Times Higher Education | THE These Steiner ‘failures’ are really a failure of the free school agenda | Zoe Williams - Guardian Stonewall defends 'vital' LGBT children's books after spate of ban attempts - Guardian Cutting tuition fees won’t help poorer students – reduce interest rates instead | David Blunkett - Guardian Birmingham University in row over 'racist' treatment of non-EU staff - Guardian Students unaware of Teaching Excellence Framework - Times Educational Supplement | TES Embrace social media – but don’t be a slave to it - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three things I did to beat anxiety - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why should skills be the victim of a 'knowledge-rich' curriculum? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Subjects ‘disappearing’ amid staff shortages - Times Educational Supplement | TES Consultation on Teaching Excellence Framework launched - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Over £50m for disadvantaged pupils goes unspent - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual fine and legal costs land an awarding organisation with a six-figure bill - FE Week College hiding principal’s expenses ‘skirting with possible criminal offence’ - FE Week Deficit hits £10m in three years as KCC continues to seek merger solution - FE Week Councils claim schools are 'coercing' parents to home-educate in bid to avoid excluding pupils - Mail Principal ‘not right’ for next stage of college journey given £150k payment - FE Week Ofsted talk tough on integrity in new regime, but they can’t do it alone - FE Week Provider integrity at heart of Ofsted’s new Common Inspection Framework - FE Week IfA boss refuses to say whether he wants to remain in post as DfE forced to re-advertise role - FE Week DfE rule sees trainees drop out over classroom 'shock' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Remote schools facing 'educational isolation' new report warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of British schools in China to more than double - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ucas warns against scrapping student loans for low grade pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ormiston Academies Trust got £1.1m government loan - Schools Week Unions unite to tell the government: Enough is enough - The Educator Top tips to help you minimise your marking - The Educator A Friday thought: Should universities do more to help deliver non-selective schooling? - HEPI Conflicted inclusion? Ofsted’s new framework and SEND - Headteachers' Roundtable New ‘witness charter’ to protect teachers in misconduct hearings - Schools Week How Ofsted is trying to tackle the culture of teaching to the test - Schools Week Blame culture following an error of judgement now at unacceptable levels - It's time for intervention - FE News Ofsted and DfE staff nabbed for Brexit planning - Schools Week Six-figure settlement by academy trust angers union - Schools Week How thousands of foreign students were failed by the Home Office - Financial Times Wonkhe Weekly: Augar, PQA, student debt (podcast) - Wonkhe Data spring – HESA Student Statistics 2017-18 - Wonkhe Forget fees – it’s the payback threshold that matters - Wonkhe The subject of second language Welsh is being abolished in schools in Wales - Wales Online Oxford president demands octopus is taken off college menu - Mail Wales: Learners to experience new languages at an earlier age - Welsh Government English-medium education to put more emphasis on Welsh - BBC Oxford University suspends grants from Huawei amid spying fears - Times Parents of badly behaved pupils pushed into teaching them at home - Times Scotland: Fire protection system ‘ineffective’ at time of Glasgow School of Art blaze - Times Scotland: Vulnerable pupils left in limbo after New School Butterstone closure - Times