News archive for 23rd January 2019

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Parliament debated “Increase college funding to sustainable levels - all students deserve equality! - UK Parliament UK weather forecast: Britain plunges to -7C with hundreds of schools forced to shut - Mirror Schools to be warned by DfE over Baker Clause compliance - SecEd Rise in least advantaged university entrants in Scotland - SecEd New curriculum proposals come under fire in Wales - SecEd Pay austerity anger as school reserves reach £4bn - SecEd Ofsted ‘calls time’ on teaching to the test and off-rolling pupils - SecEd Diary of an NQT: Leading a CPD session - SecEd Countering the noise: Multi-academy trusts vs local authorities? - SecEd At the chalkface: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - SecEd Education creates the engaged citizens the UK needs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rise in legal challenges to Ofsted reports - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who had 4-year affair with underage pupil - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE computer science will include programming exam from 2022 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leading PRU to launch academy chain - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA Update: 23 January 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Damian Hinds: School leaders should ditch email culture to cut workload - DfE Education Secretary calls on more schools to become an academy - DfE Long-term plan for GCSE computer science confirmed - Ofqual Accelerated degrees approved by MPs - DfE Sponsored academy performance - DfE The proportion of pupils in academies and free schools, in England, in October 2018 - DfE Over £35 million to support Scottish universities tackling global challenges - GOV.UK New Northern Powerhouse Partners unite for ‘Cumbria Day’ - GOV.UK 'Impossible' to measure if SNP government is closing attainment gap in Scottish schools, experts warn - Telegraph Teachers tired of pointless emails - BBC Teaching for distinction, the Oldham College CPD in FE programme is working! - Teacherhead Plans for ‘winter break’ on Scottish forced evictions - Scotsman Schools ‘could be forced to close in No Deal Brexit – and Kent flooded with migrants’ - The Sun Colleges will put learners on inappropriate courses without funding increase, warns Ofsted boss - FE Week Scottish primary students to be taught about sexual consent - Scotsman Revealed: The 36 providers in the running for Manchester’s AEB funding - FE Week Scotland: Pupils to learn online dangers of grooming and sexting - Herald Scotland Having a handle on time, sacrifice and resilience: Further anecdotal tales in pursuit of the elusive doctorate - BERA Asbestos updates - Voice Damian Hinds calls on more schools to become academies - National Education Union PAC report on academy failures and misuse of funding is a wake-up call to DfE - National Education Union PAC ‘seriously concerned’ about the Government’s approach to asbestos management in schools - National Education Union Is the shift to outcomes as simple as it sounds? - Wonkhe The end of targeted free tuition, eh? - Wonkhe ESFA delays changes to English and maths funding rules - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU comment on raising of fees for two-year degrees - UCU Boost for Abingdon and Witney College strikers as local MP backs pay campaign - UCU JUAC comment on the PAC's 'concerns’ about the Government’s approach to asbestos management in schools - NAHT Teachers Working Longer report finally released - NAHT DfE launches new national teacher vacancy service for schools - NAHT How to encourage students to create what they know - The Educator Education and Employers and OECD launch report at Davos - Education and Employers Primary Futures comes to Davos - Education and Employers Crumbling Britain: How English schools are paying the price for austerity - New Statesman MPs issue warning over academies governance - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Study claims Class Dojo encourages an archaic approach to school discipline - UKEdChat Starting careers learning in primary schools - Teach First New guiding principles for practitioners working with EAL learners in the Early Years Foundation Stage - Bell Foundation Edtech’s potential not fulfilled yet, says OECD - PIE News Over 50% of pupils in England now attend an academy - UKEdChat ASCL response to PAC report on academy accounts - ASCL Scotland: Education Secretary announces improvements to teaching of PSE in schools - Mail Plymouth keeps report on private college cheating claims secret - Times Higher Education | THE MPs back £11K fees for two-year degrees in England - Times Higher Education | THE Justine Greening has just stepped up the sabotage on May’s post-18 review - Times Higher Education | THE Chartered College backtracks on Ofsted research criticism - Times Educational Supplement | TES Debating empowers pupils – but it needs funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: PSE must be ‘vastly improved', says review - Times Educational Supplement | TES AI can regurgitate facts, so why teach pupils to do it? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Whole-class feedback: fad or workload saviour? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam boards to choose own programming assessments for computer science GCSE - Schools Week Tuition fees set to rise to £11k for two-year degrees after MPs back legislation - Independent Mum fears son will go hungry after school sends 'threatening text' over 30p - Mirror Data from Scottish P1 tests could be ‘invalid’, says academic - Scotsman Until school hair policies take race into account, they remain tools of white oppression - Metro College in £1.4m legal battle with Nigerian state unblocks staff access to FE Week - FE Week Jisc helps protect Irish education institutions from cyber attacks - Jisc Scotland: Primary one national test data could be 'invalidated', academic warns - Mail Ofsted has turned our attention back to what makes a good curriculum. We now need better answers - IOE London Blog We can't let education fall victim to edtech - Times Educational Supplement | TES Closing the gap? Scotland lacks the data to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learning through play: what are the benefits? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students could graduate in just two years after 'accelerated degrees' plan backed by MPs - HuffPost Hinds calls for more schools to become academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES All schools should be scrutinised in the way MATs are - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE finds ‘substantial variation’ in sponsored academy performance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Home Office to review Prevent strategy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Staff working weekends to secure school placements - Times Educational Supplement | TES What will colleges look like in the future? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lib Dems back college strike over pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE U-turns over study programme rule change - FE Week Norfolk County Council gives green light to children's centre closures - Nursery World Postgrad pressure: 'the expectations can feel impossible to sustain' - Guardian No-deal Brexit could force Kent schools into ‘lockdown’ due to air pollution from traffic congestion - Independent Teen shuts down 'champagne socialist' trolls after winning Eton scholarship - Mirror 'Appalling' ignorance of child-protection pressures - BBC DfE: School improvement has ‘arrested or reversed’ in some sponsored academies - Schools Week Hasan Patel’s place at Eton will help break the vicious circle of privilege | Biba Kang - Guardian Cuts and Brexit uncertainty putting children's health at risk - Nursery World Music curriculum plans 'deeply concerning' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trends Shaping Education 2019 - OECD Boost careers advice in primaries, says Teach First - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE ‘still doesn’t understand’ impact of school funding squeeze - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds to tell schools to spare teachers out-of-hours emails - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs: Academy failures damage children’s education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Name and shame schools that fail to give asbestos information - Times Educational Supplement | TES £850K Durand payout a ‘shocking reward for failure’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 2:30 p.m. - PAC will question HMRC re the Government’s responses to recommendations on Ofsted’s inspection of schools - Commons Select Committee 3:00 p.m. - House of Lords debate re recruitment of Modern Foreign Language Teachers - Lords Library Think a robust EDI policy is enough? Avoid these 5 big equality, diversity and inclusion mistakes in 2019 - FE News Scotland: SNP policy of free university tuition 'vindicated' says expert - Herald Scotland ‘Don’t answer emails outside office hours’, education secretary tells teachers - Schools Week Justine Greening wanted to scrap tuition fees - BBC New research highlights importance of starting careers learning in primary schools - FE News Education damaged by academy failures and misuse of funds - FE News Education Secretary urges teachers to shun pushy parents’ out-of-hours emails in a desperate bid to stop them quitting - The Sun The 9 things the DfE must do to improve academy accountability, according to MPs - Schools Week Academy failures and misuse of funding is a wake-up call to DfE - FE News Education of academy pupils harmed by trust failures, MPs warn - Guardian Children’s education being ‘damaged’ by academy failures, MPs warn - Independent Academy failures have ‘damaged’ children’s education, warns cross-party committee of MPs - Schools Week Schools failing to report asbestos details - BBC Business leaders urged to help children broaden horizons - Financial Times Academy schools need better governance, says report - Financial Times Mismatch between career aspirations and labour market demand could undermine fourth industrial revolution #4IR - FE News Teachers should not spend evenings responding to emails from pushy parents, Education Secretary says - Telegraph Parents kept in the dark over wasted academy cash - Times Our nation’s children are simply not as healthy they could be | Jonathan Ashworth - Times Scotland: Skills shortage warning as fewer than 100,000 Scots out of work - Times Scotland: We pride ourselves on rights but we are failing children | Bruce Adamson - Times Teachers should ignore emails from 'pushy parents' says education minister - Mail