News archive for 27th June 2019

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Male heads paid 12 per cent more than women - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam board accused of ‘betraying’ GCSE English pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council objects to a 'tough love' MAT sponsoring school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Striking teachers demand school knife audit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Campaigning Essex parents win reprieve from academy takeover - Guardian Teachers walkout over knife fears at out-of-control school where pupils 'act like gangsters' - Mail Legal & General's academic tie-up has a degree of exclusivity | Nils Pratley - Guardian West 'failed' university forced from Hungary - BBC Headmaster gets temporary teaching ban after groping staff between legs - Mirror Trusts seeks legal advice after council claims parents are ‘fearful’ of ‘tough love’ approach - Schools Week Trust seeks legal advice after council claims parents are 'fearful' of 'tough love' approach - Schools Week Millions of pounds 'missing' in school meals funding - Nursery World Three charts that explain the secondary teaching crisis - EPI Fewer teachers but more pupils: the reality for secondary schools - Guardian Horses pulling automobiles: The impact of AI on education - Independent Head Parents and teachers win postponement to academy transfer - National Education Union CBI on getting young people ‘work ready’ - National Education Union Schools, pupils and their characteristics - Teacher Toolkit 2019 John Nisbet Fellows announced - BERA Teachers strike over pupils 'carrying knives and brawling' - Guardian Could private training provider cash-in after college sell-off? - FE Week 10 ways to tempt teachers into tough schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Training providers: how to boost apprenticeship starts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 28 February 2019 - Ofsted Retention rates worsen for new teachers - ASCL Teacher workforce and class sizes - National Education Union Research and innovation key to plans for UK prosperity - Universities UK Nearly 120,000 more secondary pupils in large classes - ASCL The deployment of teaching assistants in schools - DfE Relationships, sex and health education: guides for schools - DfE Trailblazing the new food and drink Apprenticeship Standards - IfATE Teaching in challenging schools and situations - DfE Retrieval practice and Bloom's taxonomy - Learning Scientists Reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention - DfE Restraint in mainstream settings and alternative provision - DfE TOEIC students appeal to Home Secretary - PIE News English for speakers of other languages: access and progression - DfE Jeremy Hunt's tax and spending policies: what would they cost and who would benefit? - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Student loan forecasts, England: 2018 to 2019 - DfE Education provision: children under 5 years of age, January 2019 - DfE Implementing the Augar report will be 'another nail in the coffin' of the Northern Powerhouse | Lord Blunkett - PoliticsHome English language tests: MPs to hold inquiry into cheating row - Guardian New group to boost support for disabled students - DfE Education Secretary's speech at NSPCC conference - DfE Strengthened guidance on academy trust finances - DfE Government reveals student loan contribution - DfE Academies Financial Handbook - Education & Skills Funding Agency Call for urgent action on funding for two-year-olds childcare offer as take-up drops - CYPN | Children & Young People Now National Collaborative Outreach Programme Phase two guidance - Office for Students Coventry University looks to go global with online learning - Public Technology Promoting positive cultural and behavioural change in HE - Advance HE Teaching union members strike over safety fears - Mail Birkbeck encourages trade union members to explore higher education - Unionlearn DfE under more pressure to increase funding as take-up of two-year-old places drops - Nursery World Children with learning disabilities can achieve anything, if only government would support them - Metro Give good teachers secondments in challenging schools, says new report - Schools Week L&G and Oxford University team up for £4bn housing scheme - Guardian Employers lose £11m apprenticeship levy after missing first monthly deadline - FE Week Starbank school teachers strike over violence fears - BBC Schools face axing more teaching assistants, DfE-commissioned report finds - Schools Week East End sixth form launches 'etiquette' lessons to help students get top jobs - Evening Standard Secondary school class sizes continue to rise - Mail Animal activists insist school pets should be banned but classroom with 14 disagree - Mail One in three teachers leaves within five years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Ofsted's focus on exercise books could be harmful - Times Educational Supplement | TES Focus on character skills at school, say businesses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Food banks braced for busiest summer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer schools ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’, DfE admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Taskforce set up to deliver ‘gender-neutral education’ in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bigger schools and four other things we learned today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why coastal towns must be a priority for funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are the GCSEs a reliable measure of education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school class sizes rise for fourth year - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE crackdown on academy leaders’ pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of secondary teachers in England drops again - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE may call for less pupil restraint in all schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Strengthening oversight and improving customer services at the heart of ESFA’s 2019 to 2020 business plan - Education & Skills Funding Agency Parents slam 'prison-like' playground rules that say who children play with - Mirror Teacher retention rates are worsening, and 7 other school workforce findings - Schools Week Top ten tips to encourage FE staff to get on board with technology - Jisc Secondary class sizes rise for fourth year running - Schools Week New academy handbook beefs-up rules on pay, whistleblowing and banning trustees - Schools Week Welsh nurseries awarded £7.7m in capital funding for 30 hours - Nursery World Sixth form college in one of Britain's poorest areas gives elocution and etiquette lessons - Mail Ofsted’s worrying reliability findings won’t comfort heads who get ‘the call’ in a couple of months - Schools Week Ch-ch-ch-changes: influencing change as an HR professional - Wonkhe Why it is so important to protect free speech in universities - HEPI Call for the next Prime Minister to back R&D - Russell Group Free speech and censorship on campus - HEPI AGENDA – a new resource for educators - National Education Union Deborah Ross: The advantages of my state education — I know all the wrong people - Times Snake oil or panacea: can technology improve student mental health? - Guardian Don't ignore Augar Review, principals urge government - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t allow parents to take pupils out of RE, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Worrying’ DfE tops Parliamentary watchdog’s concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of parents unaware about compulsory RSE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents should be stopped from withdrawing children from religious education over Islam lessons, headteachers say - Independent Prevent: Government’s counterterrorism programme is ‘single biggest threat’ to free speech at universities, report finds - Independent Scottish science facing 'terrifying prospect' of falling behind the rest of the world - Herald Scotland The REF’s star system leaves a black hole in fairness - Times Higher Education | THE Oxford partners with Legal & General on £4 billion development - Times Higher Education | THE Pessimistic prognosis for subject TEF as Pearce review nears - Times Higher Education | THE One in six universities worldwide led by a woman - Times Higher Education | THE Taking Up Space: What it's like being black at Cambridge University - BBC Hundreds of children wait years for asylum decisions - BBC DfE tops ‘departments of concern’ list in watchdog’s end-of-year report - Schools Week 203 college leaders write to the Chancellor and Secretary of State - AoC | Association of Colleges ‘Genuine crisis’ in funding for children with special educational needs risks ‘blighting their lives forever’, High Court hears - The Sun College leaders unite – all 203 of them – to demand an end to funding bias towards higher education - FE Week More than nine in ten nursery workers are banned from calling children 'naughty' - Mail UK's Prevent strategy 'biggest threat to free speech on campus' - Guardian School funding and NHS recruitment 'must be new PM´s first priorities' - Mail Coming to a school near you? The four-and-a-half-day week - BBC Government urged to enforce mandatory limits on free sugars in baby food - Nursery World Playground tower sucks pollution from school air - Times Oxford joins forces with Legal and General to build £4bn of homes - Times University of Stirling honours World Cup winner Lilian Thuram - Times