News archive for 24th January 2019

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Six UTCs received ESFA bailouts totalling £1m last year - FE Week England's worst schools revealed - Mirror Oxford College abandons tradition of standing to address dons at formal dinners - Telegraph The new Cardiff West Community High has been rated adequate and improving by inspectors Estyn - Wales Online Scotland: Private schools contribute £125m to Edinburgh economy, report finds - Scotsman List of schools by EBacc language entry - DfE Destinations of KS4 and KS5 pupils: 2017 - DfE A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2017 to 2018 (revised) - DfE School performance: key stage 4 similar schools - DfE School and college performance tables in England: 2017 to 2018 - DfE Statistics: 16 to 19 attainment - DfE Secondary accountability measures (including Progress 8 and Attainment 8) - DfE 16 to 18 accountability headline measures - DfE Apprenticeships and traineeships data - DfE Statistics: GCSEs (key stage 4) - DfE Statistics: further education and skills - DfE Destination measures for key stage 4 and 16 to 18 students - DfE Secondary school performance tables in England: 2018 (revised) - DfE Key Stage 4 performance tables 2018: Four key points from this year’s data - FFT Education Datalab Key Stage 5 performance tables 2018: Where have all the applied general entries gone? - FFT Education Datalab Key Stage 4 performance tables 2018: The impact of 9-1 grades and the removal of ECDL - FFT Education Datalab Secondary MAT league tables 2018: A first look at year-on-year performance - FFT Education Datalab English Baccalaureate (EBacc) - DfE Higher education outcomes for EBacc subject entry - DfE White children are least likely to make good progress in secondary school - Mail Key stage 4 and multi-academy trust performance, 2018 (revised) - DfE Apprenticeships and traineeships: January 2019 - DfE DfE hands £4m in bailouts to schools that closed - Schools Week Education generates billions for UK economy - DfE Standards continue to rise in England’s schools - DfE Investment Minister champions the UK education sector at BETT - DfE Drop in younger apprentices 'could be a major problem' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Seven ways to help A-level students find a job - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE ‘dependency culture’ warning over academy bailouts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Diagnosing dyslexia is ‘wrong’, says leading geneticist - Times Educational Supplement | TES No blank cheques for schools, DfE funding head warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Official zero-hours figures unlikely to stem ‘casualisation’ row - Times Higher Education | THE John Swinney: ‘Teachers in Scotland deserve fair pay rise’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES The juggling act of retraining to become a teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why teachers should be open about their politics - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers in Scotland would strike – but it’s not inevitable - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inclusive assessment: Where next? - Advance HE Youth parliamentarians target knife crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Inspections of 'outstanding' schools reveal falling standards - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Youth groups handed £700,000 to tackle social injustice and inequality - CYPN | Children & Young People Now NUS international office protests cuts - PIE News Too many children with autism are let down by schools and end up in prison - The Conversation 800 schoolbags line the steps of St Paul’s in moving tribute to daily child deaths - PoliticsHome Dealing with conflict: When relationships go wrong - Teacher Toolkit Academy failures ‘harm pupils’ education’ - The Educator “Country brand” driving international students decisions - PIE News Sexual misconduct and university disciplinary processes - Wonkhe Jersey teachers prepared to strike over pay - NASUWT Police in the classroom: a new handbook for police and PSHE teachers - NAHT Strikes on next week at New College Swindon as talks break down - UCU University admissions overhaul needed to tackle unconditional offers, says UCU - UCU Performance tables - National Education Union Reaching out beyond Brexit: community engagement at the University of Lincoln - Universities UK Secondary school performance tables are inherently flawed - ASCL Rescuing differentiation from the checklist of bad practice - Teacherhead Lessons learned from learning scientists teacher workshops - Learning Scientists Aggregated headline GCSE results mask the truth about EAL pupil performance - Bell Foundation New guidance supports the teaching of evolution - Nuffield Foundation UK revenue from education related exports and TNE activity increases to £20 billion - Universities UK Office for Students: ‘fining council’ or facing impossible job? - Times Higher Education | THE The week in higher education – 24 January 2019 - Times Higher Education | THE UK research laboratories fear supply shortages after Brexit - Times Higher Education | THE Website offers ‘complete PhD service’ for £36K - Times Higher Education | THE Apprenticeships: Modest rise in quarterly starts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edtech hasn't reduced workload: it's added to it - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two industry experts talk about their new roles as Taking Teaching Further lecturers - Education & Training Foundation Curriculum coherence - ASCL GCSE floor standard missed by 346 secondaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: Best and worst performing academy trusts named - Times Educational Supplement | TES England’s worst schools revealed – full list of 2018’s under-performing secondary schools - The Sun National Union of Students cuts half of staff over financial woes - BBC More than 280,000 children in under-performing secondary schools - Mail Damian Hinds on funding, black history and LGBT students - BBC Steiner state school in Bristol launches legal action against Ofsted - Guardian Remembering the Holocaust: a school’s story of compassion and connection - IOE London Blog Let's not forget our colleges' international staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Steiner academy plans legal challenge against damning Ofsted rating - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two in five say term-time holidays OK for primary pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tougher GCSEs widen gap between poorer and better-off pupils - Guardian Secondary school league table: Search for the top schools for A-level results - Telegraph Primary school league table: Search and compare the best primary schools in your area - Telegraph Secondary school league table: Search for the top schools for GCSE results - Telegraph Academy trusts' GCSE scores below national average on Progress 8 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of pupils want regulation of unconditional offers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Just 15% of adults see academic qualifications as key to success - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disadvantage gap widens and 6 other facts from today's GCSE statistics - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE performance tables have had their day. End of. - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three steps to managing the behaviour of pupils with SEND - Times Educational Supplement | TES Steiner free school vows to fight ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating in court - Schools Week Secondary school league tables: White children are least likely to achieve their potential by age 16 - Telegraph January 2019 apprenticeships and traineeships starts still 15% below pre-levy - sector response - FE News Secondary tables - poor pupils behind for next 70 years - BBC Why smart people say stupid things: a response to Jack Ma - The Learning Spy Academy chains perform below average for GCSE progress, new figures show - Independent Learners starting FE loans funded courses falls for third consecutive year - FE Week School league tables: The best and worst-performing MATs, and other findings - Schools Week Apprenticeship starts up on 2017/18 – but still down on 2016/17 - FE Week School league tables: 346 secondaries below floor standards in 2018 - Schools Week In it together - Teacher Toolkit Teachers won't see pay rise without extra government cash, heads warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Progress 8 ‘punishes schools in deprived areas’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES School funding crisis 'leading to cheaper edtech' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads ‘should challenge each other’ to end off-rolling - Times Educational Supplement | TES New partnership with Energy and Utility Skills - Collab Group I couldn't have gone to university without support for my disability | Caroline Butterwick - Guardian Darren Eadie: After the former Norwich winger retired from football, he went back to school to become a teacher - The Sun Teachers 'lack the maths skills' to use P1 Scottish standardised assessment data - Herald Scotland It’s time to recognise the vital role colleges play in careers education - FE News Sexual misconduct and university disciplinary processes - Wonkhe Narratives on higher education: slumming it on civic engagement - Wonkhe Apple launches new programme to teach blind children in the UK how to code - Mirror England's secondary school league tables to be published - BBC Government league tables ‘punish’ schools by failing to take pupil background into account - Independent Over 40% of ‘underperforming’ schools improve when Progress 8 includes pupil background - Schools Week League tables ‘punish schools in poor areas’ - Times Top ratings from Ofsted lowered on return visit - Times Scotland: Principal backs transgender students over ‘hurtful’ stickers - Times Scotland: Academics turn screw on Swinney over P1 tests - Times