News archive for 28th January 2019

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Scotland: Teacher banned after sex talk and racist remark - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rayner calls for teacher pay rise to solve workforce crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES IfA to take on T levels role on Thursday - Times Educational Supplement | TES Community apprenticeships to change lives in Cumbria - GOV.UK Targeted Support Fund 2017 to 2018: analysis of the participant survey - DfE Teacher, school and post-16 institutions surveys - DfE Leadership Equality and Diversity Fund: participant survey analysis - DfE Curriculum fund programme pilots: list of lead schools - DfE Flexible working practices in schools: literature review - DfE School snapshot survey: summer 2018 - DfE New national strategy unveiled to boost teacher numbers - DfE New schemes to help care leavers access education and employment - DfE Opposition question new Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy - UK Parliament The damage that private schools do to their pupils and to society | Letters - Guardian How to retain teachers in the current climate? | Letters - Guardian Will teaching become a more attractive profession under new government plans? - Independent The Guardian view on teacher shortages: the trouble with data | Editorial - Guardian Teacher shortages due to strong economy, claims minister - Mail T-levels timescale still ‘worryingly tight’, IfA boss says ahead of technical education takeover - FE Week CBeebies app teaches children how to make 'well-balanced meals' and dress appropriately - Mail Teachers to receive extra pay to stop them leaving the profession under government plans - Independent Losing your passion for teaching? Form a rock band - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to get every pupil focused on learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adverts for creative-writing competitions? File them in the bin - Times Educational Supplement | TES Strikes suspended at Hugh Baird College following breakthrough in talks - UCU Cash offered to teachers to stay in secondary schools - The Educator Curriculum misgivings for young people - Teacher Toolkit Response to the new recruitment and retention strategy - Ambition School Leadership North East to pilot new £130m national teacher recruitment and retention strategy - Schools NorthEast Government's recruitment and retention strategy - Teach First Do you know anyone who could make a good teacher? - Teacher Tapp Government announces new strategy for teacher recruitment and retention - Nuffield Foundation Allowing pre-school children to play on iPads affects development - Mail IOE launches new research centre to examine equity and social justice in education - IOE London Blog Achieving a ‘school-led’ system - SecEd New measures announced to reduce workload for teachers - UKEdChat Look what happens when the teacher works with the school librarian - UKEdChat Screen time 'may harm toddlers' - BBC Voice welcomes teacher recruitment and retention strategy - Voice Joint union statement on teachers' pay - Voice Teachers’ pay: Joint union call for 5% increase - National Education Union Teacher recruitment and retention - National Education Union NFER welcomes DfE Teacher teacher recruitment and retention strategy - NFER Sellafield is funding fifty community apprenticeships for small companies throughout Cumbria - PoliticsHome Breakthrough at Hugh Baird College as UCU members set to walk out at 14 colleges - UCU Teachers' pay: Joint union call for 5% increase - ASCL Millionplus welcomes the government’s teacher recruitment and retention strategy - MillionPlus Downgrading degree apprenticeships would be a mistake - Universities UK Strikes suspended at New College Swindon following eleventh hour breakthrough in talks - UCU IOE informs report outlining plans to allow teachers more time for professional development - IOE London Blog Fulbright Forum at the University of Southampton - Fulbright Commission Early career framework, recruitment and retention - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Charity receives £6.65m to boost disadvantaged children's access to sport - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Unconditional offers and two-year degrees? Our profit-driven university system is broken - New Statesman EEF welcomes Dept for Education’s new Early Career Framework - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Action needed over 'significantly weak' SEND provision in Sheffield - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Mums protest outside Birmingham school for 'promoting homosexuality' to kids - HuffPost Nine in ten schools struggle to recruit EBacc teachers, and eight other findings from the DfE’s school snapshot survey - Schools Week Nearly 200 schools have shut in Wales since 2013 - Wales Online Holiday in term time: Parents ignoring 'taking children out of school ban' soars - Express Maths: should English schools look to Switzerland rather than Shanghai for inspiration? - The Conversation Unions demand fully-funded 5% pay rise for all teachers and leaders in 2019-20 - Schools Week Four in ten parents have risked a £1,000 fine and even prison to take kids out of school for term-time holidays to save money - The Sun What now for prevent? Anti-radicalisation strategy must be reformed not scrapped - FE News Strikes suspended at two colleges to ratify pay deals - FE Week 'Bold and system-defining': the new teacher recruitment strategy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: Hinds' teacher recruitment and retention strategy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nine in 10 heads struggle with EBacc recruitment, DfE data shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to give your pupils a deeper understanding of maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES Damian Hinds: We'll transform support for new teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Some common sense on teacher recruitment - at last - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads can report Ofsted inspectors on new workload hotline - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers let down by school efforts to cut workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES £1.7m to boost careers advice for disadvantaged - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions demand 5% pay rise for teachers and heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vast majority of teachers face barriers to accessing CPD - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eleven winners of curriculum fund revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bursary reforms to reward teachers who stay - Times Educational Supplement | TES This recruitment strategy could save the teaching profession - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools may be allowed to build homes for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted 'requires improvement' grade to replace floor and coasting standards - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 11 schools picked to lead £2.4m curriculum fund programme pilots - Schools Week Hinds is right to shift focus from recruitment to retention - Schools Week Students are still firmly in favour of Britain staying within the European Union but are less certain in their support for Labour - HEPI The new DfE teacher recruitment and retention strategy – what’s the plan? - LKMco The importance of student feedback - Teacher Toolkit The DfE’s recruitment and retention strategy: the good the bad and the ugly… - LKMco Victory for #LetThemTeach as DfE commits to teacher visa review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early Career Framework: everything you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher recruitment and retention strategy: the 11 new policies - Schools Week Supporting early career teachers - DfE School capital funding allocations - DfE Identifying schools for support - DfE Teacher recruitment and retention strategy - DfE New funding will help drive diversity in cyber security - GOV.UK Support for new teachers key to DfE recruitment strategy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers in their second year to get time off for training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers And Shakers: Edition 268 - FE Week What will the National Retraining Scheme look like? - FE Week Working to strengthen the further education sector - FE News How research can help address students’ recurring mistakes - Schools Week Two-year degrees: sector’s £11K cap concerns could undermine plan - Times Higher Education | THE Students are the future of democracy: don’t muzzle them - Wonkhe Unconditional offers, pressure selling, and consumer law - Wonkhe A beginners’ guide to debt in higher education - Wonkhe Biggest shake-up of Wales' school curriculum since the 1980s moves a step closer in law - Wales Online Wales’ radical new curriculum reaches legal milestone - Welsh Government Muslim parents protest over LGBT sex education in a primary school (video) - Mail Teachers to be offered cash to stay in school - BBC Exam results will no longer be used to define 'failing' schools - Guardian Teachers work too many hours, says Education Secretary - Mail Recruitment and retention strategy pledges £130m for new teacher induction - Schools Week Muslim pupils at Trojan Horse schools meet Holocaust survivors - Times Poor locked out of degree apprenticeships - Times Scotland: Teachers demanding pay rise must earn one | Magnus Linklater - Times Ireland: Teachers ‘in tears’ as half pay taken in tax - Times Ireland: Student homes locals feared would be ‘party flats’ blocked - Times Ireland: Aspiring young engineers needed to plug skills gap - Times