News archive for 29th January 2019

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Clarks workers are told to speak to ‘engage and chat’ with young customers - Mail Vietnam, Ali, reading and the powerful knowledge gap - Headguruteacher Erasmus+ and EU Solidarity Corps in the UK if there's no Brexit deal - DfE Revisions to music and dance GCSE, AS and A levels - Ofqual Education Secretary opens the Bett Show 2019 - DfE Boost for national mission to improve early literacy and language - DfE ESFA: Our governance - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA welcomes new Management Board Chair - Education & Skills Funding Agency In pictures: UCU college strike - Times Educational Supplement | TES MP: Switch PRU funding to mainstream schools to cut risk of violence - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exclusions build a school-to-prison pipeline - Times Educational Supplement | TES Virtual reality: not the edu-fad it is made out to be? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council may scrap morning registration to save money - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds calls for more faith schools to become academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ark Schools still in financial deficit - Times Educational Supplement | TES How the Early Career Framework has won hearts and minds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school confiscates children's coats at the gates in new uniform crackdown - Mail Clarks shoe shop staff to be trained to speak to children amid Government drive to improve language skills - Telegraph Pupils won’t lose SATs marks for back-to-front commas, DfE tells primary heads - Schools Week Hinds meets with faith leaders to push academisation - Schools Week No serving teachers on DfE’s new education apps advisory panel - Schools Week Sustainability of maintained nursery schools - UK Parliament Parents protest over Birmingham school's LGBT equality teaching - BBC Boost for Leicester College strikers as local MP offers full support - UCU Erasmus+ students facing no-deal Brexit upheaval - Universities UK Translating evidence into practice - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring The 7 characteristics of effective professional development - Teacher Toolkit Anger as Welsh language nurseries told they will have to teach some English to children - Wales Online Gaming addiction inquiry - SecEd Technology at school – the edtech market in Russia - UKEdChat Our ‘science capital’ research story - BERA Half of boys in YOIs are from BME backgrounds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now LSE champions female entrepreneurs - London School of Economics | LSE Ofqual confirm arrangements for GCSE Computer Science - Computing at School Report says most vulnerable missing out on opportunities to improve skills - UCU No deal plans for EU citizens - Russell Group High court rules that nurseries cannot benefit from same planning rights as schools - Nursery World Digital Skills Solutions and Collab Group partners with HACT to deliver digital apprenticeships - Collab Group Help the low skilled ride out the rise of the robots - Financial Times No pay rise for highest-paid academy chief for the first time in six years - Schools Week College insolvency regime: 7 things we learned from DfE’s new guidance - FE Week MPs warned of a ‘postcode lottery’ for post-16 SEND learners - FE Week Warwickshire school closed after body of member of staff is found on premises - HuffPost 'Moslem terrorists': 'Racist' attack on Islamic school once the set of Byker Grove leaves staff afraid of arson - Independent More than half of 3aaa’s former apprentices are still without a new provider - FE Week More than 5 per cent of young children have their own smartphone - Nursery World The battle of the shared classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES Halfon: Post-16 SEND framework is a ‘tangled mess’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can't bear to chuck your NQT work? You're not the only one - Times Educational Supplement | TES Experts recruited to advise DfE on early years apps - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish colleges enrol more schoolchildren - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reporter’s take: #LetThemTeach – 'the end of the beginning' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Take early education outdoors – even in winter - Times Educational Supplement | TES Music and dance GCSEs changed after 'disproportionately severe' marking - Times Educational Supplement | TES Luke Tryl announced as New Schools Network director - Times Educational Supplement | TES The ECF recognises that teaching must be evidence-based - Times Educational Supplement | TES School shut after member of staff discovered dead as gates were unlocked - Mirror The Early Career Framework: disconnected, piecemeal and lacking ambition! - Schools Week Mould, mice and mess: how to handle nightmare student housing - Guardian ESFA appoints new chair to management board - FE Week Scotland: More students from deprived areas completing college courses - Mail Wales' GCSEs will have to change again or be scrapped under the new curriculum - Wales Online Overworked and isolated: the rising epidemic of loneliness in academia - The Conversation Degree apprenticeships: disadvantaged students have to travel 12 times further than those in affluent areas - Jisc Can ‘creativity’ be taught? - The Learning Spy Can apprenticeships address the UK's STEM skills gap? - FE News Ofqual confirms changes to music and dance exams - Schools Week Scotland: Will £20,000 teacher bursaries save home economics? - Herald Scotland 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities - Accountability Hearings Full list of school closures in Scotland due to bad weather - Scotsman Ofsted strategy director Luke Tryl to lead New Schools Network - Schools Week Supply and demand: Looking to the past to meet the inclusive challenge ahead - IOE London Blog Ring-fence training funds for older men - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Cold spots' miss out on degree apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES 84% of school leaders back Ofsted curriculum plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads oppose Ofsted plan for 150 mins inspection notice - Times Educational Supplement | TES It's a good thing that the middle class are embracing apprenticeships - Telegraph New data show complexities around casualisation - HEPI Dear Damian Hinds: tree climbing, lifesaving classes … why this policy flurry? - Guardian Star of the Week … do some primary school rewards do more harm than good? - Guardian Low-skilled adults are missing out on training: the skills gap - Social Mobility Commission UK businesses urged to register for continued Horizon 2020 research funding - GOV.UK Adults skills gap - Social Mobility Commission Scots is a language and not ‘slang’ - Scotsman Hundreds of Scottish teachers face uncertainty over contracts - Herald Scotland The debate: No excuses v nurture - what's the best behaviour policy? - Schools Week Are we on the right track with degree apprenticeships? - Wonkhe All the ins and outs: big branch campus developments - Wonkhe UK back on top for European Union research funding - Times Higher Education | THE Bangor’s £237 million PFI bill ‘behind job losses’, says union - Times Higher Education | THE Foreign staff call for clarity over Birmingham attendance policy - Times Higher Education | THE Committee holds roundtable discussion on post-16 support - UK Parliament The day the T. rex came to school - BBC Social Mobility Commission report warns of ‘virtuous’ and ‘vicious’ cycle of adult learning - FE Week Low-skilled UK workers stuck in ‘vicious cycle’ - Financial Times The mums who hope you can buy manners: They pay for their little darlings to have etiquette lessons - Mail Facebook's popularity dips with UK children, says Ofcom - BBC Government must prioritise and invest in training for low-skilled workers, social mobility commission says - Independent Most boys in custody are from ethnic minorities - Times Dean’s ‘immoral conduct’ was a pay row, admits Christ Church college, Oxford - Times Delivery apps thwart child obesity efforts - Times Scotland: Racism warning as Muslim pupils asked to draw God - Times Scotland: Don’t mock the Scots, students at Edinburgh University are told - Times Ireland: Get faith out of sex education - Times