News archive for 3rd June 2019

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T Levels: The NexT Level branding - DfE Expert Group launched with £4.6 million investment in EdTech - DfE PM hopefuls compete on school funding crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Schools made no difference to obesity problem - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Fake news' on GCSE papers spreading panic among pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edtech innovators urged to bid for DfE money - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trusts need a new standard of governance - Times Educational Supplement | TES It’s time to rise up against the bias in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson's schools pledge is more a matter of difference than cost - Guardian I’ve had children at school for 27 years. At last I can stop pretending to like it | Suzanne Moore - Guardian Augar on the ground: implications for widening participation - Wonkhe GPS tracking pilot for knife offenders expands in London - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DfE warned over ministers' use of data - Public Technology Judicial review into council decision to close children's centres - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Peterborough by-election and school cuts - National Education Union School leadership action planning - Teacher Toolkit Strikes on at West Thames and New City College this week over pay - UCU Edtech companies called on to tackle challenges facing the education system - Nesta Exploring synchronous, remote collaborative interaction between learners using multi-touch tables in UK primary schools - BERA Building the widening participation evidence base - Wonkhe On social mobility, Augar pays the price for politics - Wonkhe Paralympic swimmer to chair new edtech expert group - Schools Week West Thames College strike days this year hit double figures - FE Week How often do teachers dream about schools? (and other stories of the week…) - Teacher Tapp Esther McVey unfit to be an MP after LGBT comments, says Labour - Guardian A few thoughts about teaching poetry - The Learning Spy Boris Johnson promises major school funding boost if he wins Tory leadership race - PoliticsHome Competition opens for ideas to boost future of UK research - Jisc Bringing the impossible into the classroom with mixed reality - Jisc Augar Review: through the lens of social mobility - Sutton Trust More graduates could make financial claims after former student receives £61k over ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree - Independent Protests against LGBT lessons in Birmingham move to local council following school gate ban - HuffPost Former CEO taking legal action against trust that ‘forced’ his resignation - Schools Week Johnson's school funding pledge amounts to 0.1% increase - Schools Week Primary school protests against LGBT teaching to continue despite injunction - Mail Could colleges end up as 'delivery arms of the state'? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats: What are the KS1 threshold scores? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rates reform ‘restricts’ work of independent schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the Augar review shouldn't be forgotten - Times Educational Supplement | TES Biology GCSE criticised for confusing sex and gender - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headmistress, 41, banned from teaching for life after she invited paedophile boyfriend into school - Mail Cuts blamed as nine in 10 parents of disabled children say they do not get enough support to care for them safely - Independent Guernsey College becomes SET corporate partner - Education & Training Foundation Early years recruitment research team seeks more practitioners - Nursery World Dumfries' North West Community Campus fully reopens - BBC Gove and Johnson make school funding pledges as education becomes key campaign issue - Schools Week GCSE English language: what's the point? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union to ‘strongly resist’ tech that replaces teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Data analytics software now available for UK research and education - Jisc Scaled scores for 2019 key stage 1 SATs published - Schools Week How to help pupils improve exam results - Teacher Toolkit Benefits of extra-curricular activities for students - The Educator If the EBacc were scrapped, would anything change? - FFT Education Datalab Implementing Augar - HEPI Brexit 'may bar UK scientists from €100bn EU research fund' - Guardian 'It removes stigma': how tech breaks down barriers for disabled students - Guardian New benefit for low-income families for cost of sending children to school in Scotland - Scotsman Scottish union will debate calls to cut teachers’ time in class to 20 hours a week or less - Scotsman Teachers set to vote on cutting class time to 17.5 hours a week - Herald Scotland Why don't we hear about the Muslims campaigning for LGBT education? - HuffPost The Manchester model: universities lead urban revival - Financial Times Jim Al-Khalili: if you just want to be educated, read a textbook - Times Higher Education | THE Business university title approved ‘in error’ - Times Higher Education | THE Plans to reform UK student finance would reverse social mobility - Financial Times Inquiry demanded over universities’ pension fund - Financial Times The value of higher education reaches across the generations - Wonkhe Crossing the gulf: the true challenge of Augar - Wonkhe Why £7,500 fees? The underpinning evidence on cost is thin - Wonkhe Higher education amounts to more than a heap of beans - Wonkhe Boris Johnson pledges to spend £5,000 on every secondary school pupil to 'level up' UK's education - Mail Boris Johnson pledges to reverse school cuts and spend £5,000 on every secondary school pupil - The Sun Alzheimer's funding boost for Scots scientists - BBC Boris Johnson pledges to raise secondary school spending - Guardian Scotland: Calls to cut teachers' time in classroom to 20 hours a week or less - Mail Anglia Ruskin graduate wins £61,000 over her ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree - Times Top schools add nothing to grades, says geneticist - Times GCSEs are a form of child abuse by the state | Edward Lucas - Times Children’s literature expert warns on low reading skills in Scotland - Times Tired Scottish teachers beg union for fewer classroom hours and students - Times Irish apprenticeship schemes get an extra €7.5m - Times Boris Johnson vows to increase secondary school spending by £5,000 per pupil in England - Independent