News archive for 25th June 2019

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Philip Augar questioned on implications of Post-18 review for research - UK Parliament Requesting initial teacher training places: 2020 to 2021 - DfE Changes to personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) and relationships and sex education (RSE) - DfE Relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education - DfE Speech to AELP Annual Conference 2019 - Ofqual ESFA: college financial planning handbook and financial plan - Education & Skills Funding Agency "Positive step for LGBT inclusion" as RSHE guidance published - DfE Two arrested by police over Edexcel A-level maths leak - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds' guidance won't stop LGBT protests, warns head - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels more academic than expected, says provider - Times Educational Supplement | TES College staff to protest against campus closure - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former First Minister Jack McConnell installed as Stirling University chancellor - Scotsman LGBT classes: we aren't getting back in the closet, MP says - Guardian The Guardian view on social immobility: time to rebalance | Editorial - Guardian MP gives tearful speech in debate on LGBT teaching in schools - Mail Apprenticeships quango reveals extra £40 per learner charge - FE Week Two men arrested on suspicion on theft over A-level exam paper leak - Independent Two arrests over leaked A-level paper - BBC Women lead at half time, but men’s salaries overtake them in the long run - Wonkhe Inspectors find rising levels of violence and force in YOI - CYPN | Children & Young People Now SEND funding crisis prompts High Court judicial review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ISC response to “Elitist Britain 2019” report - Independent Schools Council | ISC The Sheffield College becomes Society for Education and Training corporate partner - Education & Training Foundation | ETF UK government launches global edtech hub - PIE News Race and gender equality celebrated at Advance HE awards ceremony - Advance HE What really is the point of vocabulary tests in MFL? - Research Schools Network Decisions, decisions, decisions - Teacher Toolkit We need to talk about language: The researcher view - BERA Protests in Stourbridge over plans to sell off college - UCU Teachers at second North Lanarkshire school join strike action over health and safety - NASUWT Better schools for all? - Best Evidence in Brief Career education in secondary schools - Best Evidence in Brief Is there a gender gap in IT? - Best Evidence in Brief An evaluation of QuickSmart Numeracy - Best Evidence in Brief Can teachers have tattoos? What does the law say? - Teacher Tapp No need for school innovation now ‘we know what works’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Headteacher who sexually harassed staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools are a canary in the pensions mineshaft - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Bill is ‘put out of its misery’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Bill is ‘put out of its misery’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds 'strongly encourages' LGBT primary lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should teachers be using trigger warnings in class? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE sticks with LGBT guidance, but gets unions onside with tougher talk - Schools Week Over 8,000 young people with SEND are ‘awaiting provision’ - National Education Union Government to face High Court judge over SEND funding - Nursery World John Swinney ditches flagship Education Bill - Herald Scotland Two men arrested in A-level exam leak investigation - Guardian Put down your mobile phones and learn poetry - Schools Week Nursery group expansion - Nursery World Council backtracks over plan to 'privatise' school music tuition - Herald Scotland Two people arrested over alleged leak of Edexcel maths paper - Schools Week Milton: Let's not 'turn off the tap' on apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Milton: 'FE minister is the best job in government' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Britain is still ruled by a privately educated elite. Let’s end this culture of deference | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - Guardian Pre-apprenticeship salary cap ‘palatable’ to limit demand, says skills minister - FE Week Teachers from second 'blue water' school In Scotland go on strike - Herald Scotland UK: Privately educated getting five times as many top jobs as the rest of us - Herald Scotland Elitist Britain – Sutton Trust/Social Mobility Commission report - National Education Union The State of the Relationship report reveals resilience in the higher education sector in the face of impending change - HEPI Should pets ever be kept in classrooms? - Guardian ASCL comment on ‘Elitist Britain’ - ASCL Britain's most powerful people 5 times more likely to go to private school - Sutton Trust Forest schools: is yours more a marketing gimmick than an outdoors education? - Guardian Why are Britain’s most powerful positions still dominated by private school alumni? - Independent More than 8,000 with SEND have no access to education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prisoners 'should spend 40 hours a week training' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Elite five times more likely to have private education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dear Damian Hinds, you must be dying to correct Jeremy Hunt’s nonsense about children’s reading | Michael Rosen - Guardian Midlothian Council put music tuition cuts back on the table - Scotsman Britain ‘increasingly divided’ with most influential people five times more likely to have gone to private school - Independent THE Young University Rankings 2019: Golden Age results out now - Times Higher Education | THE Augar: protecting ‘failing’ universities not in review remit - Times Higher Education | THE Academics oppose advertising heads of department posts externally - Times Higher Education | THE More vice-chancellors with Oxbridge educations appointed - Times Higher Education | THE USS whistleblower ‘sidelined’ and faces conduct investigation - Times Higher Education | THE 10:15 a.m. - Oral evidence session re science research funding in universities - Lords Select Committee Britain’s elite still drawn from fee-paying schools - Financial Times Private school and Oxbridge 'take top jobs' - BBC Daniel Webster: Boy with leg amputated faces school place battle - BBC Britain's most powerful people 'more likely to have attended private school' - Mail Britain’s top jobs still in hands of private school elite, study finds - Guardian Admissions shake-up call as report reveals lack of diversity in top roles - Schools Week Labour accuses Government of moving at ‘snail’s pace’ on tackling childhood obesity - Nursery World Privately educated elite tightens its grip on politics and the professions - Times School system is failing 8,500 children with special needs - Times Rent pushes student costs in Irish capital to €13,000 a year - Times