News archive for 25th January 2019

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Private school bursaries are being used to top up fees of middle class children, leading head says - Telegraph Teachers to be helped to job share to prevent classroom exodus - Guardian Job sharing might solve a problem, but teachers need help with workloads - Guardian Teachers urged to reject ‘fair’ 9 per cent pay offer - Scotsman Schools should be judged on how they support vulnerable pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES University of Birmingham forms Dublin links over Brexit - BBC Fusion an example of Government science ambitions, says Minister - GOV.UK Early Childhood Development programme - GOV.UK Making science work, together: how can we build the best possible future for science, research and innovation in the UK? - GOV.UK Shanghai maths exchange shows power of international partnership - DfE Single-academy trust may have to give up its only school - Schools Week Committee holds roundtable discussion on post-16 support - UK Parliament The Tes Podcast: Edtech, academies and genetics - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Strike action still looming as pay offer rejected - Times Educational Supplement | TES When the hunger of the game outweighs everything else - Times Educational Supplement | TES Realistic targets help students aim higher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: National tests for youngest pupils: review starts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brexit: the topic that stretches across every subject - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted watch: Up-and-down week for FE - FE Week Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 25 January - Pearson New EAL webinar series launched by The Bell Foundation - Bell Foundation Work with me to deliver Brexit, minister tells researchers - Times Higher Education | THE Regulator warns against unconditional offer ‘pressure selling’ - Times Higher Education | THE Ofsted exposes apprenticeship firm for recruiting without ‘integrity’ and breaking funding rules - FE Week Britain's highest paying degrees, according to graduate salary - Telegraph Scotland: Experiences of P1 pupil assessments sought in review - Scotsman Number of approved apprenticeship standards to hit 400 next week - FE Week EU state school in UK could lose year of pupils in no-deal Brexit - Guardian IOE contributes to new ethical code for schools leaders - IOE London Blog Support inclusion for those who stammer in university - Advance HE TOEIC students campaign marks next step with MPs support - PIE News UK education exports hit £19.9bn - PIE News New funding will alleviate financial pressures on pupil referral units and high needs schools - PoliticsHome Steiner school plans legal challenge against critical Ofsted report - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Education secretary urges school leaders to ‘shift away from email culture’ - Public Technology The gender wars, academic freedom and education - BERA Ofqual confirms its long-term plan for GCSE computer science assessments - NAHT Wales: Managing change – curriculum, assessment and the professional voice - Education matters Ambition School Leadership and Institute for Teaching CEO leaves after eight years at the helm - Ambition School Leadership Workload: Are teachers just too greedy? - Teacher Toolkit League tables are ‘punishing’ schools in poor areas - The Educator Does Progress 8 need refining to make it fairer? - NFER Children's climate rallies gain momentum in Europe - BBC UK education: 300,000 pupils stuck in 'substandard' secondary schools - Express In the news 25 January 2019 - UCU Boost for City of Wolverhampton College strikers as local MP offers full support - UCU Boost for West Thames College strikers as local MP offers full support - UCU UCU secures better deal for over 4,000 Open University staff - UCU New report will help school and college leaders navigate the educational moral maze - ASCL Who let the dogs in? - Headteachers' Roundtable CBI gives evidence to the Education Select Committee about the importance of lifelong learning - CBI Graduate underemployment and how unpaid internships are contributing to the problem - ERSA Academy headteacher sees pay rise to £260,000 despite crackdown on excessive salaries - Independent Scotland: The inherent flaw in testing 5-year-olds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to research how schools spend their money - Times Educational Supplement | TES Seven deadly sins for teachers to avoid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Public speaking is an essential skill at school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Augar should knock universities off their pedestal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Experiences of P1 pupil assessments sought in review - Mail Scottish teachers told to reject improved pay offer of at least 9% - Herald Scotland Will the new Ofsted framework work for FE? - FE Week Researchers to track impact of arts activities from birth to 25 - Guardian Providers that plan for less than 20% off-the-job training will have ‘all funding recovered’ - FE Week Apprenticeship upturn need not be a predictable shift away from helping those in most need - FE Week The new Ofsted framework is great for AP - Schools Week London's secondary schools shine in league tables - Evening Standard Secondary school league tables 2019: Find out how your London school did in GCSE and A-Level standings - Evening Standard ‘It’s a dictatorship’ Angry parents fight back against school takeovers - Guardian Management apprenticeships continue to soar as Milton ‘thrilled’ with rise in starts - FE Week Saul Nasse: Paper-based exams will survive for at least a decade - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK government’s priorities fail homeschooled children - Financial Times Shanghai maths teacher exchange failed to boost KS2 outcomes, DfE report finds - Schools Week Scottish education expert moves to World Bank - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do you know when your leadership decision is the right one? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why every school should have a girls' football team - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE Shanghai maths programme has 'no impact' on KS2 results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning signs over 30-hour impact on poorer twos - Nursery World Long-delayed FE teacher apprenticeship standards ready for delivery next week - FE Week GLA ploughs ahead with subcontracting fees cap – but DfE still dragging its heels - FE Week Be brave and say ‘no’ to excessive executive pay - Schools Week EIS study finds majority of teachers in Scotland suffer from extreme stress - Herald Scotland College in £37m debt given permission to carry out banned tactical subcontracting - FE Week ‘Little extras’ money swallowed up by school deficits - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘High stress’ in exams is good, says exam board chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five ways to boost post-16 English and maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most schools can't afford essential furniture and computers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads' ethics code ‘could boost teacher recruitment and retention’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Survey reveals what teachers worry about most - Times Educational Supplement | TES Growth mindset is ‘bullshit’, says leading geneticist - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges report maths and English teacher shortage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unis face fines for unjustified unconditional offers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Tackle gender inequality in education - starting in nurseries - Times Educational Supplement | TES The impact of recent government policies on early years provision - EPI Does your head meet these new ethical standards? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Addressing rise of unconditional offers is a must, says AoC - AoC | Association of Colleges Make ministers sign off top academy CEO pay, say governors - Schools Week More than one in 10 secondary schools under-performing - Mail My toxic supervisor ruined my health – but my university did nothing | Anonymous academic - Guardian Union ordered to reinstate sacked employee after whistleblowing row - Schools Week Former learner warns he’ll take DfE and SLC to court over FE loans scandal - FE Week The hidden torture of homeschooled children: Are controversial checks the answer? - Telegraph Universities 'pressure-selling' place offers to school-leavers - Guardian We cannot ignore the link between school exclusion and violent crime - PoliticsHome Universities making unconditional offers may be breaking law by 'pressure selling' to students - Telegraph The schools saving thousands slashing executive salaries - Schools Week Investigation: Meet the head paid £260k to run one school - Schools Week Scottish teachers 'set up to fail' vulnerable pupils - Herald Scotland From fixed to porous: the permeability of our institutions - Wonkhe The OfS on unconditional offers - Wonkhe Wonkhe Weekly: Spending, Greening, extremism (podcast) - Wonkhe Clampdown on luring students with unconditional offers - BBC Universities face fines or deregistration over ‘pressure selling’ unconditional places to students, the regulator warns - The Sun Universities must stop pressuring students into accepting unconditional offers, watchdog warns - Mail Unconditional offers could be illegal, regulator warns - Schools Week Fewer pupils are getting top grades across the board at A-Level after new tougher exams were introduced last year - Mail James Toop to leave Ambition School Leadership and Institute for Teaching - Schools Week Universities could face fines for offering high number of degree places regardless of exam grades, regulator warns - Independent Scotland: Tackle gender inequality in education, experts recommend - Mail Thousands of teachers in Scotland 'feel stressed regularly or constantly' - Mail Universities ‘pressure sell’ with unconditional offers - Times Pupils struggle to pass core GCSE subjects - Times Scotland: Three in four Scottish teachers stressed - Times Universities face sanctions for unjustified unconditional offer making - Mail