News archive for 11th June 2019

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Financial advice on offer to NI teenagers - BBC Study shows teacher qualifications positively impact pupil performance - Best Evidence in Brief Sure Start had positive health benefits for children in poorer neighbourhoods - Best Evidence in Brief Do expert teachers look at their class differently? - Best Evidence in Brief Improving times table fluency - Best Evidence in Brief School exclusions review: call for evidence - DfE ESFA assurance work on post-16 funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency 30 hours free childcare: Summer term 2019 - DfE ‘Scant evidence of children being upset’ by P1 tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Where will all this extra schools funding go? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge buys Durham Uni 11-plus test provider - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police investigate embezzlement at college - Times Educational Supplement | TES Off-rolling schools to be named and shamed - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE counting calories question defended by exam board - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should stay open during evenings and weekends to tackle knife crime, Children’s Commissioner says - Telegraph Pressure grows over Coatbridge school health fears - BBC Controversial P1 tests to continue with modifications, says John Swinney - Scotsman Controversial P1 tests to continue with modifications, Education Secretary says - Mail Teachers at a secondary school in Wales are set to strike again over management - BBC Nurseries reducing fresh fruit and vegetable portions given to children amid funding shortfall, charity warns - Independent 11-plus provider CEM bought by Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press - Schools Week Education for justice - BERA NEU Cymru welcome plans to tackle workload and new education workforce survey - National Education Union Children’s Commissioner report on Speech and Language Therapy services - National Education Union P1 assessments to continue with 'important modifications' - BBC States Employment Board offer unacceptable, says NASUWT - NASUWT Supporting universities must be a top priority for the next prime minister - Universities UK MSPs meet private schools over plan to axe rates relief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Testing of five-year-olds should continue, review says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Age discrimination: Time to celebrate experience - SecEd Diary of a headteacher: We have got to be protected… - SecEd Research review reveals six approaches to improve pupil behaviour - SecEd Children with speech and language needs face postcode lottery - SecEd The Bell Foundation, finalist in the prestigious ELTons Award for the second year in a row - Bell Foundation School reforms have not bridged gaps in pupils’ attainment levels - Nuffield Foundation Is meta-analysis the best we can do? - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Improving student engagement via a chatbot - Advance HE The Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring joins the Cambridge family - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring ELTons award winners 2019 - British Council Teacher recruitment, progression and retention in multi-academy trusts - EPI Why Corbyn is right to ditch social mobility | Dawn Foster - Guardian Review of post-16 qualifications at Level 3 and below in England - AoC | Association of Colleges Teaching in the United Arab Emirates - Teacher Toolkit Closing the barriers to global research partnerships - Wonkhe Fifth of nurseries in deprived areas face closure - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Gaps in pupil attainment still exist, despite government overhaul of secondary education - IOE London Blog Conservative leadership candidates: early years and schools round-up - Nursery World Keep schools open late to tackle knife crime, says children's commissioner - Schools Week Scottish Government to continue P1 tests after backing from independent review - Herald Scotland Theresa May’s former school plans to close early on Friday amid ‘enormous’ budget pressures - Independent Evolution: as a religious professor of science education, I believe we should rethink how we teach it - IOE London Blog The extent of speech and language therapy spending cuts across England - Schools Week NAHT NI update: industrial action meeting on 13 June 2019 - NAHT New survey asks about child-friendly transitions to KS1 - Nursery World Academy teachers promoted three years earlier than those in LA schools - Schools Week Scottish teachers to strike over 'blue water' cancer fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wellbeing: When ‘I’m fine!’ is far from the truth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Isolation booths 'intolerable', says children's tsar - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don't take axe to applied generals, says exam boards - Times Educational Supplement | TES School librarian of the year award - shortlist - Times Educational Supplement | TES The ETF’s Enhance Digital Teaching Platform continues to hit milestones and evolve - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Nurseries in poor areas facing closure - Nursery World Birmingham anti-LGBT protesters banned from school by injunction - Guardian Beano readers vote Sussex school pupils funniest in the UK - BBC School exclusions are on the up – but training teachers in trauma could help - The Conversation How St Andrews edged above Oxford in this year’s university rankings - Scotsman John Swinney pressed again to scrap controversial Primary 1 tests - Scotsman The Herald Higher Education Awards in pictures - Herald Scotland Universities condemn ‘catastrophic’ plan to link fees to graduate pay - Guardian Ending exclusion: specialist teachers trained to support most vulnerable - Guardian All hail to the Augar - HEPI As an academic, should I worry about my conference carbon footprint? | Sophia Kier-Byfield - Guardian Vulnerable children risk missing out on speech and language therapy amid ‘postcode lottery’ - Independent The Augar report pits arts against sciences – and both lose out | Simon Marginson - Guardian College staff feel unsafe as students bring in machetes, hammers and metal bars, says union - Independent Phone habits piling pressure on school chefs - Scotsman One in five pupils starts school unable to speak well - Times Educational Supplement | TES Communication fears as two-year-olds use social media - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted must look at school funding, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Machetes, metal bars and gun found in colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGBT protests: Heads urge DfE to give stronger support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted’s new framework? It's a mass of contradictions - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Good’ schools add little more value than ‘bad’ schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re accountability - Accountability Hearings Toxic legacy of former Scottish landfill site fuels fears over safety of schools - Herald Scotland The scientist trying to stop you falling asleep at conferences - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Trolling’ fears over Leeds’ anonymous student feedback plan - Times Higher Education | THE Business must speak up for kids from poor families - Financial Times GCSE exams: They're stressful enough without the strange behaviour of invigilators - BBC Postcode lottery for speech therapy, says commissioner - BBC Quarter of college staff have caught students with weapons including knives, machetes and metal bars - Mail Nurseries in deprived areas 'face closure over funding gap' - BBC John Swinney to make statement on P1 assessments - BBC Choosing a nursery could be more important than school when it comes academic achievement, study finds - Telegraph Children in need of speech and language therapy face postcode lottery - Guardian Children as young as two using social media, research suggests - Mail Education Secretary urged to use speech to scrap P1 tests - Mail Children with speech and language problems 'face postcode lottery' - Mail Schools account for ‘relatively small’ variance in pupils’ grades, and 4 more key findings - Schools Week Children's Commissioner warns of speech and language therapy postcode lottery - Nursery World Guns, machetes and iron bars: Why Unison wants college staff trained - FE Week Birmingham MP should lose whip over LGBT school protests, says head teacher - Times Why social media could be putting your toddler at risk - Times Scotland: Taxman slams door on Glasgow art school’s £500k refund claim - Times Objections to Scottish principal’s £282k payoff - Times