News archive for 5th June 2019

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Stabbed teacher to warn about dangers of knife crime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam board apologises after 'triggering' students over choice of GCSE English passage - Telegraph Urgent question on IFS report noting benefits of Sure Start - UK Parliament Department for Education commercial pipeline data: 2019 to 2020 - DfE Last chance to apply for International Trade Summer School - GOV.UK ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 5 June 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted chief inspector says parents cannot 'pick and choose' over LGBT lessons - HuffPost Schools in England to give extra lessons on dangers of knives - Guardian London council launches free school meals pilot scheme - Guardian Are outdoor lessons just a distraction? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The problem of transition: why 'taster' days don't work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher mental health training goes national - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to embed mental health into the school curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Not enough 'bodies on the ground' to deliver school Stem education in Scotland - Herald Scotland Artificial deadline for End Point Assessment further risks the reputation of apprenticeships - AELP High quality provision is key to filling the ‘missing middle’ - HEPI Universities promise ‘concrete’ action on inequality and climate - Times Higher Education | THE Post Augar, what will it take to reform degree apprenticeships? - Wonkhe From Browne to Augar: the lessons to be learned - Wonkhe 5 ways to keep up motivation - The Educator Make the most of modelling - Teacher Toolkit Keeping our promises to students - Wonkhe ‘Block teaching’ guru laments ‘resistance’ to education research - Times Higher Education | THE DfE team to monitor impact of AI - Public Technology Rise in violence against children and staff at Feltham YOI - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Rising childcare costs and patchy availability lock London parents out of full-time work - Coram Family & Childcare UK’s Augar review “silent” on international student issues - PIE News Using spaced practice in inform curriculum design - Research Schools Network Engaging with parents: just another thing for teachers to do? - Research Schools Network Staff to protest over threats to impose new contracts at Nottingham College - UCU Teaching school hubs - test and learn phase - NAHT ASCL sets out vital education issues to Conservative leadership candidates - ASCL The UK is missing out on a huge skills dividend by failing to invest in ESOL - AoC | Association of Colleges Education website launched offering free revision courses in English and Maths - Express DfE sets up group to explore benefits of AI in the classroom - Schools Week The 7 per cent problem: how to reform private schools - New Statesman Speedy Ofsted criticism of provider just months after multi-million pound purchase - FE Week At Andrew Moffat's Birmingham school, no one is an outsider - HuffPost Esther McVey says parents should be allowed to remove kids from LGBT lessons until age 16 - HuffPost Milton backs Gove to be next Prime Minister - FE Week Schools slashing lunch and break times - SecEd School staff on alert ahead of FGM ‘cutting season’ - SecEd Careers talks can boost GCSE results, study finds - SecEd Concern over ‘grim statistics’ on teacher mental health - SecEd Irish language education drive - SecEd Schools urged to do more for young carers - SecEd FIP inspection scheme stalled - SecEd SEND funding in crisis: Parents demand action - SecEd Lecturer sacked over claims he wrote ‘racist’ on controversial Prevent programme poster - Independent Age discrimination: Time to celebrate experience - SecEd Equality: A fact, not a choice - SecEd NQT Special Edition: Looking back on my NQT year - SecEd The July EPA deadline risks harming apprenticeships? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Staff 'held to ransom' by college over new contracts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads tell wannabe PMs: 'Schools need more money' - Times Educational Supplement | TES £1bn extra and 4 other ways to improve Northern schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching staff urged to supervise tooth-brushing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the battle to save BTECs must be won - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE launches campaign to raise awareness of 30 hours among low-income families - Nursery World University to host free early years pedagogy and curriculum conference - Nursery World The danger of growth mindset - SecEd RSC ‘chaos’ is hampering school improvement, warn Northern Powerhouse leaders - Schools Week Children should be taught how to clean their teeth through supervised brushing in school - Evening Standard Inside pupil referral unit where ‘unteachable’ kids as young as five often ask teachers for a hug - The Sun The UK’s unique scientific versions of the 7-Up series - IOE London Blog Grab the Tories' funding promises with both hands... - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edtech: Connectivity is ‘biggest’ barrier for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES cOAlition S appoints Jisc expert to accelerate open access - Jisc I was fined for taking my child to Jamaica, but I'm one of the lucky ones | Kehinde Andrews - Guardian Positive writing 'boosts poorer pupils' maths scores' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Insecure employment for postdoc researchers is leading to bad science - Guardian 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re education in the north - Accountability Hearings Student mental health: now is the time for change - Office for Students University regulator unveils £14m mental health scheme to reduce student suicides - Independent Falling through the gaps: Focus on school exclusion long overdue - SecEd The roles of school leaders and teachers in a technology-facilitated instructional reform - BERA The Augar Review brings a wave of welcome recommendations: but without action it’s just an FE wishlist - FE News Academics: Scotland's school subject squeeze hitting deprived pupils - Herald Scotland Scotland: Why greater choice also means a subject squeeze - Herald Scotland Universities must do more to support students without a family home - Times Higher Education | THE Plymouth spends £375K on v-c office project while cutting jobs - Times Higher Education | THE Plan U: funders urged to mandate immediate preprint publication - Times Higher Education | THE Knowledge diplomacy: can academics help heal the world’s rifts? - Times Higher Education | THE Universities to trawl through students’ social media to look for suicide risk, under new project - Telegraph Lothian schoolgirl's sign design could make life easier for people with 'hidden' disabilities - Herald Scotland Father creates early warning system for student suicides after death at Bristol - Times