News archive for 31st January 2019

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What it's like to lose your local nursery - HuffPost Cash-strapped college reveals shock deficit on the same day insolvency regime goes live - FE Week Steiner schools failing to protect children should be shut down, Ofsted says - Independent Steiner schools: Damian Hinds writes to Amanda Spielman - DfE Apprenticeship and levy statistics: January 2019 - DfE Evidence to the STRB: 2019 pay award for school staff - DfE School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) reports - DfE The Education (Student Fees and Support) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - DfE Gove kicks off Year of Green Action - DfE Universities Minister sets vision for higher education - DfE Damian Hinds announces drive to create more good school places - DfE School defends LGBT lessons after religious parents complain - Guardian Statistics: further education and skills - DfE Scotland: Move to raise criminal age to 14 or 16 is rejected - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Restraining of children in schools must be last resort - Times Educational Supplement | TES Women 'terrified' as students allowed to return after rape messages - Guardian Music teacher job losses 'show contempt for creative subjects' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The danger of labelling pupils as "working class" - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in five teachers denied national pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Agnew calls for debate on whether MAT chairs should be paid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Steiner schools warned of closure after first Ofsted inspections reveal 'deep concerns' over child safety - Telegraph Education bosses will lose right to check EU teachers after No Deal Brexit - The Sun Concerned Meghan Markle talks about how periods affect girls' education - Mirror Warwick University students banned for 'shameful' Facebook chats allowed back to studies - Mail Wales' £139m-a-year school improvement service criticised over 'stuck schools' - Wales Online Proving or improving? What's next for school leadership? - Ambition School Leadership It's about finding the avenue that works best for you - Villiers Park Educational Trust Tips for implementing evidence-based learning strategies in your classes - Learning Scientists The less flexible the teaching, the more poorly boys read - UKEdChat Challenging perceptions of millennials in the workplace and building resilience in young employees - UKEdChat Academy schools are struggling with deficits - report - The Educator Association for Project Management response to CBI report on apprenticeships - PoliticsHome UK teachers lead the way - Education and Employers The school bell - a necessary evil? - Teacher Toolkit Universities offer disability support, but finding it is another matter - Guardian No-deal Brexit would end 'reciprocal recognition' of EU teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCAS End of Cycle Report 2018 - Advance HE One in 10 YOTs 'miss opportunities' to divert children from crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now US and UK schools join Quality English - PIE News Labour fury over loss of data about shamed EU teachers after Brexit - PoliticsHome A lack of investment in adult skills is stalling progression, particularly for the most excluded - PoliticsHome Allowing REF submission of redundant staff's research is a "breach of faith", says UCU - UCU Astrea academy trust calls in forensic auditors - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE mocks: have you made the most of the data? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Muslim school does not allow girl pupils to eat lunch until after the boys have finished, Ofsted chief tells MPs - Mail Private school watchdog School Inspection Service closes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fair apprenticeships access requires incentives - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five ways to manage the SBM workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES Country’s largest primary MAT pools schools’ cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Secretary’s evidence on teachers’ pay is extremely disappointing - ASCL Measuring What You Value: Connecting governance and leadership to promote a positive culture in your organisation - ASCL Coffield: '7 problems with inspections Ofsted must fix' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NAHT comments on Welsh government’s consultation on new curriculum legislation - NAHT Be cautious of sweeping statements about topic-based learning - NAHT How will Ofsted evaluate how much a four-year-old knows? - NAHT Edtech hasn't reduced workload: it's added to it - NAHT Short inspections - NAHT DfE teacher pay increase ‘derisory’ - National Education Union NEU pay survey - National Education Union Free schools - National Education Union NAHT submits evidence on teachers' pay increases to the School Teachers' Review Body - NAHT NAHT Cymru submits evidence to the Children, Young People and Education committee - NAHT In their haste to get 'bums on seats', universities are destroying academic rigour - Telegraph DfE: Tell EU staff about settlement scheme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jump in part-time students accessing support following introduction of most generous support package in the UK - Welsh Government Accounts delayed as trust calls in forensic auditors - Schools Week Rock star welcome for Meghan at London university - Mail Brexit threat to school dinners comes as stockpiling intensifies - Guardian Warwick university students banned over rape threats and racial slurs allowed back early - Independent Campaigners against the Baseline to speak at the Nursery World Show - Nursery World No-deal Brexit will end access to European teacher misconduct sanctions - Schools Week Scotland: Teachers urged to accept pay deal as vote begins - Mail Has end-point assessment removed the need for on-programme assessment? - FE News Teachers' pay should be capped at 2%, says government - BBC Wales school colour codes 2019: These are the schools ranked amber - Wales Online Wales school colour codes 2019: These are the schools ranked yellow - Wales Online Muslim school ‘stops girls from eating lunch until after boys have finished’ - The Sun 'Disgraceful' and 'derisory' - unions react to Hinds' 2% pay offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES These are the schools closing early on Thursday, January 31 because of snow - Wales Online KS2 Sats: why and how we targeted tier 2 words - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds: Schools can only afford a 2% teacher pay rise next year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cost to taxpayer of free schools that never opened - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why colleges shouldn't be afraid of insolvency - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman calls on DfE to shut down failing Steiner schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Drop in number of applications for primary teacher training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship starts up 13% this academic year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Biggest MAT has only half reserves it needs for 'stability and sustainability' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds: 2% pay rise for teachers would be ‘affordable’ - Schools Week Wales school colour codes 2019: These are the schools ranked red - Wales Online Learning Rep - Spring 2019 Edition - Unionlearn Petition calling for funding to increase tops 6,000 signatures - Nursery World Scotland: ‘World-first’ as Edinburgh Napier student undertakes PhD in surf therapy - Scotsman Wales school colour codes 2019: These are the schools ranked green - Wales Online Warwick students banned for racist and misogynist group chat 'allowed to return to study' - HuffPost Ofsted demands investigation into Steiner education following failures - Schools Week E-book suppliers and digital platforms can now provide better accessibility support for disabled students - Jisc Students who wrote sick threat to 'rape 100 girls' are allowed to return to university - Mirror OFSTED’s worst practice – its four-grade scale – undermines the real advances in its new draft framework - IOE London Blog Office for Students board finally has FE representation - FE Week Sector response to CBI's 'Getting Apprenticeships Right: Next Steps' - FE News Apprenticeship dropouts are as important as university ones - FE News Wales: Latest school categorisation results published - Welsh Government Funding gloom as academy trusts run out of ‘easy savings’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Businesses back new blueprint for next stage of English apprenticeship reform - CBI Social media companies must be subject to legal ‘duty of care' - UK Parliament IfATE needs clout to hold policymakers to account - Times Educational Supplement | TES Next free-school wave to target 'underperforming areas' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Doomed WCAT chain finished year with £2m - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir Gerry: Apprenticeship and T level links ‘key’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Construction industry to be transformed through digital technology thanks to new £18 million UKRI funding - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) The universities that make ‘strings attached’ unconditional offers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disadvantage gap at top universities widens - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five-fold increase in number of nurseries in the red - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Internal politics’ stops MATs centralising academy cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES Drop in pay for leaders of biggest academy trusts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for teachers to protect mental health of young carers - Times Educational Supplement | TES What will be the next trend to cause concern for our children? - The Worrinots UCAS provides an unprecedented breadth of analysis on offer-making and equality in admissions at universities and colleges - UCAS Where next for admissions: soft PQA or hard clearing? - HEPI School closures: Snow forces schools to shut - Mirror Two-thirds of British children make music, study finds - Guardian Academy schools struggle with ‘unsustainable’ deficits - Guardian Scotland: Schools must not hinder brightest kids in name of ‘equality’ - Scotsman How schools are fighting fake news - Financial Times What does the new insolvency regime mean for colleges? - FE Week Scotland: Private companies 'seeking profits' from P1 testing - Herald Scotland Scotland: Primary tests - don't put pressure on teachers to raise standards, expert warns - Herald Scotland Scotland: P1 testing ‘will lead to more pupils with special needs’ - Herald Scotland Scholars divulge their biggest mistakes - Times Higher Education | THE REF 2021: funders let universities submit redundant staff’s work - Times Higher Education | THE One in three unconditional offers made by just seven universities - Times Higher Education | THE Call for sector guidelines on academic freedom on social media - Times Higher Education | THE Supporting workers in mid-life helps retain skills and expertise - Financial Times The REF guidance isn’t trying to catch you out - Wonkhe UCAS End of Cycle 2018: a new order - Wonkhe UCAS on unconditional offers: the last days of the gold standard? - Wonkhe Narratives on higher education: a leading question - Wonkhe Good grades no longer a must: ten universities now make more than half of offers unconditional - Mail Warwick students suspended over rape threats allowed to return early - BBC Hundreds of nursery schools could close next year without government funding, MP warns - Independent University of Nottingham ends unconditional offers - BBC Scotland: Teachers begin voting on offer of 9% pay rise - Mail Increased number of Scots from deprived areas in higher education, Ucas finds - Mail CBI calls for apprenticeship body to fix ‘failings’ - Financial Times Universities’ intake of disadvantaged students falls - Financial Times 20 universities account for bulk of rise in unconditional places - Guardian Allow employers to appeal for more time to spend their apprenticeship levy cash, CBI urges - FE Week MPs to tell ministers time is running out to save nursery schools - Nursery World Eight in ten offers are unconditional at one British university, Ucas figures show - Telegraph Universities named and shamed over unconditional offers - Times Abortion is like crimes of Nazis, campaigners tell pupils in school - Times Chinese studying in Britain rose by 10,000 in a year - Times Top universities give firsts to quarter of all their graduates - Times Group expelled over racist rant could return to Warwick - Times Pressure mounts to end ‘free passes’ for students - Times Scotland: Don’t test the slower-learning late bloomers in P1, literacy expert says - Times Scotland: Law review on schooling for pupils with support needs - Times Scotland: Glasgow School of Art bids to stop fire rumours - Times Gap between rich and poor students at top universities widens for first time in decade - Independent