News archive for 21st January 2019

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Scotland: School music lessons must be free, say MSPs - Herald Scotland MPs make the case for FE funding in Westminster debate - Times Educational Supplement | TES Full STEAM ahead for new Cumbria education trail - GOV.UK Girls’ education should be a development priority for the Commonwealth - GOV.UK Secretary of State opens Education World Forum 2019 - DfE Egypt shares its education reform vision in London - GOV.UK Schoolboy from East End council estate wins £76,000 to study at Eton - Mail Milton: College leaders need mental health support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher pay and funding strike wins 82% support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why vocabulary matters in maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa boss: I like Ofsted's new inspection approach - Times Educational Supplement | TES Uniform stops 'footwear competitiveness', says Hinds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who sent ex-pupils late-night flirtatious emails - Times Educational Supplement | TES England to promote education exports - Financial Times Schools right to clamp down on uniform policy, says Education Secretary - Mail Highest graduate starting salary hits £60,000 for the first time - Telegraph Ofsted’s grade fixation fails pupils and teachers | Letters - Guardian Steiner schools aren’t cranky – we develop heart, head and soul | Letters - Guardian Lancashire school's '£1,000 holiday fine' warning denied - BBC Local MP sees new way of learning being piloted in North East schools - Edge Foundation £2.5 million to boost international exchanges for schools - British Council A new mathematics GCSE curriculum for post-16 resit students - Nuffield Foundation Most criticism of home education is smoke without fire - Times Educational Supplement | TES Every community needs a successful college - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Plan to remove nursery teachers and save £350,000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Calls grow for schools to teach lessons on porn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damian Hinds: £1K holiday fines won't be used - Times Educational Supplement | TES Horizon 2020 grant holders – have you submitted your details to UKRI's portal? - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 8 tips for becoming a teacher role model - Teacher Toolkit LSE named on list of top LGBT inclusive employers - London School of Economics | LSE Early years innovation receives Harvard University boost - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK: interest in study abroad rising – Unifrog - PIE News Collective voice key to international success, say Scottish universities - PIE News Is it time to change curriculum? - The Educator Counter-intuitive behaviour management - Teacher Toolkit Four fifths of NEU members ‘prepared to strike’ over school funding - Schools Week Consultation of members on school funding - National Education Union ASCL Cymru response to EPI report on pupil performance in England and Wales - ASCL Proactive approach needed to protect pupils and staff from asbestos in schools - NASUWT An update on maintained nursery school funding - NAHT Ofsted must remember that primaries and secondaries operate very differently - NAHT New Learndirect owner wins £20m in ESFA contracts - FE Week Parents receive warning of £1,000 term-time holiday fines, but council disputes plan - HuffPost Teachers should trust their gut more - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we may live to regret Ofsted ignoring internal data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Behaviour: ‘Don’t catch children being good; catch them being better’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'No evidence more testing drives pupil anxiety,' says Pisa boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Comparing GCSE performance in England and Wales – equivalent or not? - EPI Alternative maths GCSE resit curriculum to be tested - Times Educational Supplement | TES Storm proof schools, and three other ways world education will change - Times Educational Supplement | TES Traditional PE just doesn’t cut it – it never ha - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental health: 'One student told me we'd kept him alive' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edtech success: Bruno Reddy of Times Tables Rock Stars - Times Educational Supplement | TES A word to the wise: what does it mean to be an educated school-leaver? - IOE London Blog Finance your postgraduate degree: grant, scholarship and loan options - Guardian Charity to test new GCSE maths curriculum for controversial resits policy - FE Week England's pupils 'consistently' outperform Welsh peers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted framework: Heads warn audit culture will ‘switch’ to exercise books - Schools Week Fees and intragenerational unfairness - Wonkhe Where are the students with three Ds and below? - Wonkhe Are holes starting to emerge in sector regulation? - Wonkhe A beginner’s guide to the T level reforms - Wonkhe Augar’s work is not happening in a political vacuum - Wonkhe Movers and Shakers: Edition 267 - FE Week Teenagers in Wales do less well at school than those in England and GCSE changes make it harder for them to get jobs - Wales Online Let’s not have arbitrary caps on apprenticeship provider growth - FE Week How to interpret effect sizes in education - Schools Week Another expert panel? Let's ask the real experts about ed tech apps - Schools Week AP school opens with just eight pupils - Schools Week The insolvency regime - prevention is better than cure - FE News Returns for educating students offshore ‘derisory’, says study - Times Higher Education | THE TEF metric on graduate earnings ‘reflects distance from London’ - Times Higher Education | THE GCSE pupils in England outperform those in Wales - Guardian Ceeda Data: About Early Years 4 - Gaps in the market - Nursery World Education inspection framework 2019: key changes for early years - Nursery World The Big Picture - Montessori’s big year - Nursery World Pupils will count sugar cubes in maths to cut obesity - Times £1,000 fine for term-time holidays could be illegal - Times University has its own Maastricht treaty to brace against Brexit - Times The UK has educated the world’s leaders — long may it continue | Damian Hinds - Times We still make a meal of university and class | Libby Purves - Times Scotland: Universities ‘fail to ban hate preachers’ - Times Ireland: Take disadvantage away from children, not their mobiles | Una Power - Times Ireland: Immigrant pupils ‘more likely to succeed in Ireland’ - Times