News archive for 22nd January 2019

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Lessons start at new £30m education campus - GOV.UK Agnew admits government 'concerned' about SEND tribunal costs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers want all pupils to read music, but where are the teachers? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ucas 'needs extra funds to run apprenticeship portal' - Times Educational Supplement | TES I was wrong: parents do want us to teach soft skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teenage Corbyn fan rejects hypocrisy claim over Eton scholarship - Guardian Government to review counter-terrorism Prevent duty - Schools Week How to transfer our success in skills competitions into productivity - FE Week LSE to lead £15m research hub to promote gender equality - London School of Economics | LSE UK education minister confirmed new international strategy - PIE News BSC opens first school in Ireland in Brexit move - PIE News Migrant Voice launches petition for TOEIC students - PIE News Scotland: Nursery school teachers could face axe in council cutbacks - Nursery World Tailored support programme: system leader support - DfE Wales: Ceredigion teachers to strike - NASUWT Deconstructing the SATs process: Resistance is futile? - BERA Master's apprenticeships: elevating managers to the next level - Guardian Facing the challenge of Ofsted’s new framework for primary schools - Headteachers' Roundtable Scotland: Boy, 12, thrown to floor and kicked by rival school bullies in shocking attack - Mirror Postgrad courses must cultivate emotional and organisational traits too - Guardian In defence of DIRT: how to make it work - Times Educational Supplement | TES 5 steps to reducing exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reporter's take: How 'thoughtless' Ofsted is upsetting early years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jobs of the future: are you ready to join in? - Guardian ‘Try before you buy’ edtech scheme for cash-strapped schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Soft skills, hard to beat: why MBAs are an investment in your future - Guardian Two colleges among most LGBT-friendly employers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kent schools warned to prepare for no-deal Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs call for teachers’ views on addictive online gaming - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: More BAME teachers needed to defeat prejudice - Times Educational Supplement | TES The local authority failed: we had to fill the void - Times Educational Supplement | TES Screens have taken possession of us all: teachers, students, parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES Praise for colleges in Parliament is heartwarming - but where's the money? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds ‘ignored’ plight of schools ‘at breaking point’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who 'sexually touched' a pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Primary headteachers welcome latest pay proposals - Herald Scotland College claims Institute of Technology bid ‘not in jeopardy’ despite Ofsted grade three - FE Week Scottish teaching profession urged to reflect diversity of classrooms - Mail 'Pretty aint it … Mrs Yonge said so': the changing face of teaching poetry - Guardian MPs from all sides call for an end to six years of real-term FE funding rate cuts - FE Week Qualifications Wales: The penalties cap needs to fit - FE News Teachers start six-day strike in a row over 'intimidating' management and workload - Wales Online Greater diversity in Scotland's teaching profession needed, MSPs told - Herald Scotland Scotland: Childcare charity saved from closure - Nursery World Reskilling for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Industry-led action for the Future of Work - FE News Crowdfunding offers promise for women and junior academics - Times Higher Education | THE One in five London universities fails to break even - Times Higher Education | THE Universities urged to rethink support for stammerers - Times Higher Education | THE Are immigrant children more likely to pursue STEM careers? - Best Evidence in Brief Does a parent’s anxiety about maths negatively affect their child’s maths achievement? - Best Evidence in Brief Does personality matter for effective teaching and burnout? - Best Evidence in Brief Examining research on the Big Lift preschool initiative - Best Evidence in Brief Teenager from London council estate wins £76,000 scholarship to Eton - Independent Universities launch cyber attacks against each other to test defences - Jisc Schools denying teachers their national pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Behaviour management for NQTs: Term 2 - Teacher Toolkit UK college sector launches post-Brexit blueprint - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Music tuition should be free to all students - Times Educational Supplement | TES EBacc target ‘out of our hands’, say heads - Schools Week Management matters - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics Safeguarding: Five key themes for 2019 - FE News Should schools fill key roles with volunteers? - Guardian Oxford scholarships should be for the poorest, not just the brightest | Scarlett Mansfield - Guardian A student’s death: did her university do enough to help Natasha Abrahart? - Guardian The UK’s success post-Brexit relies on “a new social contract” and the delivery of a world-class technical and professional education system - AoC | Association of Colleges Music tuition in Scottish schools should be free, finds MSP inquiry - Telegraph Scotland: Music tuition ‘has to stay free’, councils told - Scotsman State education is a Cinderella service and both the Tories and Labour are to blame | Fiona Millar - Guardian TV series kicked us into action, says head - Schools Week Clive Webster, chief executive, Kent Catholic Schools Partnership - Schools Week Asterix's latest quest: To help Scottish primary pupils learn French - Herald Scotland We need more big data now - Wonkhe Runner up in the university rankings race? - Wonkhe Enhancing the curriculum with learning analytics - Wonkhe To learn another language, first nurture your own - Financial Times Welsh pupils refused hot school dinners due to credit debt - BBC When your dad decides to do the same apprenticeship as you - BBC 'I'm mixed-race, is Cambridge University right for me?' - BBC Fully fund level 3 to 5 training in ‘skills shortage areas’, AoC proposes - FE Week Education Secretary backs schools that enforce a strict uniform policy to prevent bullying - The Sun Scotland: All school music lessons 'should be free', MSPs say - BBC Labour activist who called public school absurd wins place at Eton - Times Union suspends its own official over student deaths leak - Times Scotland: Poorer pupils lose to tutored rich in contest for free music lessons - Times Scotland: MSP committee calls for councils to re-examine school music tuition fees - Mail