News archive for 19th June 2019

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Learning Rainforest as CPD. Values + Experience + Evidence = Wisdom! - Headguruteacher School abuse victims losing faith in Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES What Talis tells us about schools and teachers today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds writes: 'Teachers' workload must be sustainable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers in England work longest hours in Europe - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extra funding for work with universities - GOV.UK Teachers in primary and secondary schools: TALIS 2018 - DfE Provide training for postgraduate teaching apprenticeships - DfE ESFA Update: 19 June 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Traineeships help young people to access jobs and further study - DfE It’s time to talk about language - BERA Sending new teachers to difficult schools could be driving them out of the profession - Guardian Reasons to be cheerful (part 8) - HEPI Grove Academy action - National Education Union Talis shows government failing England’s teachers and head teachers - National Education Union Three-day strike at Bradford College in rows over pay and jobs - UCU ASCL comment on TALIS report - ASCL Important international study lends weight to the NASUWT's concerns - NASUWT Learning at life transitions - Learning & Work Institute The EEF guide to pupil premium - Research Schools Network 10 key findings for secondary school teachers from TALIS 2018 - FFT Education Datalab The Education and Training Foundation announces three Centres for Excellence in SEND - Education & Training Foundation | ETF 10 key findings for primary school teachers from TALIS 2018 - FFT Education Datalab Steve Frampton confirmed as 2019/20 AoC President - AoC | Association of Colleges Taking on “fake news” in our classrooms - Advance HE TALIS 2018 results (volume I) - Teachers and school leaders as lifelong learners - OECD College in ‘cash crisis’ to cut 51 jobs - FE Week Cowbridge Comprehensive School has been given an absolutely perfect Estyn inspection - Wales Online Nicola Benedetti joins more than 1,000 pupils for orchestral performance in Scotland - Mail T-levels implementation should be delayed again, says chair of social mobility commission - FE Week All pupils should learn Welsh history say opposition AMs - BBC Bradford College teaching staff set to go on strike - BBC 68 winners scoop silver Pearson Teaching Awards for 2019 - Schools Week Female academics are too scarce. So their applications are going to the top of the pile | Frank Baaijens - Guardian Minister hopes for ‘significant uplift’ in QR funding next year - Times Higher Education | THE Teaching excellence framework (TEF) 2019: results announced - Times Higher Education | THE Private schools 'could close' over plans to scrap charitable relief in Scotland - Scotsman Should parents have the right to withdraw pupils from relationships and sex education? - The Educator Who’s cracking the champers at their TEF4 results? - Wonkhe The deciding factor: why we need to be trained in ethical leadership - Headteachers' Roundtable English head teachers report highest level of cyber bullying in global survey - Mail Childminder numbers drop 19 per cent in four years - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Changes to post-16 qualifications 'risk to disadvantaged young people' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The graduate wellbeing questions are an accident waiting to happen - Wonkhe Rates reform could mean Scottish private schools ‘go under - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford ‘immersion’ for Scottish state school pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES John Swinney: 'Everywhere I go I see fantastic work' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Steve Frampton re-elected as AoC president - Times Educational Supplement | TES Andreas Schleicher: Your teachers are too busy to learn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Goldsmiths anti-racism protest marks 100th day with rally - Guardian Bringing parents back into the fees conversation - Wonkhe Imam who attacked Johnson in BBC debate suspended from school after anti-Israel tweets - Express England's schools 'worst for cyber-bullying' - BBC How satisfied are teachers in England with their pay? It depends upon the perspective you take - IOE London Blog Challenger for AoC president withdraws due to ‘personal reasons’ - FE Week I had special needs help in school. But the doors that were opened for me are closing | Gerry Hart - Guardian Exeter University: Arrest after students threatened with fake gun - BBC Trump-supporting billionaire gives Oxford University £150m to help stop AI destroying humanity - Independent Children attempt to break cuddly toy hugging record - Nursery World England one of worst countries for bullying among school pupils, global survey suggests - Independent My baby’s still learning to crawl. Must he really be taught ‘British values’? | Amelia Granger - Guardian New trust found for failing Steiner schools - Schools Week This is why CPR should be compulsory in the school curriculum in Wales - Wales Online Hundreds of special needs pupils 'squeezed' out of school - BBC Cambridge falls to its lowest ever place in global league table - Mail DfE begins search for provider of £80m T-level support programme - FE Week College in fight to avoid merger after second grade 4 report published by Ofsted - FE Week Job satisfaction amongst secondary teachers in England is declining. Now we have some of the least satisfied teachers in the world  - IOE London Blog Teachers to strike over private school pension withdrawal - Schools Week Nursery groups growing through investment and acquisition - Nursery World Moulton College rated 'inadequate' again by Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who had sex with sixth former - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prestigious free school failed over staff safeguarding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Imam suspended as deputy head over offensive tweets row - Times Educational Supplement | TES TEF: 25 colleges recognised for HE teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil premium: If it's so powerful, why stop it at 16? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish private schools 'at risk of closure' if they lose tax breaks - Herald Scotland Deputy head suspended over Twitter posts after Tory leadership debate - Schools Week Nursery rhymes may help to develop children's maths skills - Nursery World Childminder numbers continue to drop, while early years quality remains high - Nursery World The Tories are now clambering to increase education spending. Here’s where teachers think they should spend their money - IOE London Blog Teacher workload has increased, and 8 other findings from TALIS 2018 - Schools Week The 3 colleges that will share £1.2m to open centres for excellence in SEND - FE Week Government efforts to reduce teacher workload have failed – it’s getting worse! - Schools Week Teachers in England have 'unmanageable' job – global survey - Guardian Advice to get children physically ready for school - Nursery World Young engineer Ahmed takes national title - GOV.UK Talis shows teachers need much more SEND training - Times Educational Supplement | TES England third-highest in Europe for teaching shortages - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why better pay for Scottish college teachers means job losses - Times Educational Supplement | TES England's teacher intimidation among world's worst - Times Educational Supplement | TES Maths professor made CBE in Queen's Birthday Honours - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Computer 'geek' stereotype puts girls off subject - BBC Edinburgh University’s stance on trans-exclusionary feminists raises questions about equality - Scotsman Cambridge slips to lowest-ever place in world university table - Guardian Schools to challenge ‘social segregation’ via sport - Times Educational Supplement | TES Report highlights success in tackling knife crime in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES 75% of traineeships lead to apprenticeships or jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish college facing £1m funding gap to cut jobs - Herald Scotland No let-up for Scottish colleges as job threats follow funding cuts and pay strikes - Herald Scotland BPP sale set to test appetite for for-profit investment - Times Higher Education | THE White academics should not shy away from the debate on race - Times Higher Education | THE Oxford receives £150 million gift to study humanities and AI - Times Higher Education | THE A private school gets a castle-library, while we fundraise for public school music lessons | Celina Ribeiro - Guardian How the Open Innovation Partnership is helping academics shape policy - Wonkhe Philip Hammond threatens to resign over Theresa May’s £27billion legacy school spend - The Sun New school curriculum 'gamble' for Wales says expert - BBC Oxford University gets its largest donation in 500 years as US billionaire hands over £150 million - Mail NUS Scotland says early drop-out fees for students 'unfair' - BBC 3:30 p.m. - Oral evidence session re science research funding in universities - Lords Select Committee Oxford University accepts £150m from US private equity boss - BBC Minister ‘thrilled’ with Traineeship progressions despite steady decline in take-up - FE Week Oxford to receive biggest single donation 'since the Renaissance' - Guardian Blackstone boss hands Oxford record £150m gift - Financial Times Oxford makes history with £150m donation from US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman - Times Philip Hammond threatens to resign over schools splurge by Theresa May - Times Sir James Dyson rewards Gresham’s with £19m for allowing him to study free after his father died - Times Cambridge falls in university rankings - Times St Andrews university club caught up in sexism row - Times Absences soar at Scottish schools on toxic waste dump site - Times Record number of Scottish school leavers in work - Times