News archive for 28th June 2019

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Inside the schools plagued by gang fights - The Sun Private school gets visit from £20m military helicopter at taxpayers' expense - Mirror Fiona Phillips: Nurseries are vitally important and should be properly funded - Mirror Ofsted won't make allowances for budget cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Confessions of an exam-cheat tutor: ‘For £3,000 I will write your child’s A-level paper’ - Times Trust fears £800k reserves will be 'raided' under merger - Schools Week 4 key questions to progress the MAT governance debate - Schools Week Why you shouldn’t count on school funding promises - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bright Tribe and ALAT could face £1.8m bill for ‘improper use of historic grants’ - Schools Week Ofsted watch: Dismal week for general FE and specialist colleges - FE Week Charities call on education secretary to challenge 'devastating' cuts to SEND provision - Nursery World IfA rejects level 2 business admin apprenticeship leaving employers ‘disappointed’ and ‘upset’ - FE Week Edward Timpson questioned on his review of school exclusions - UK Parliament Amanda Spielman at the National Day Nurseries Association - Ofsted Thousands of new teachers to benefit from extra support - DfE Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in June 2019 - Pearson Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 28 June - Pearson Staffordshire school closure: GCSE students face repeating year - BBC DfE writes off failed Schools Company Trust's £3m debt - Schools Week NASUWT former president excluded after speaking out - Schools Week Raft of financial failings revealed at doomed MAT - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sir Mark Walport: end ‘fury’ over ‘top-down’ funding decisions - Times Higher Education | THE Jim Al-Khalili: boost public engagement to beat pseudoscience - Times Higher Education | THE UCU plans strike ballots over pay and pensions - Times Higher Education | THE Video emerges of 'Thursday fights' at school where teachers have gone on strike over knives - Independent £12m tender launched to develop early career framework training - Schools Week David Willetts: new universities ‘converge on old models’ - Times Higher Education | THE ESFA to stop funding apprentices without an assessment organisation - FE Week Queen welcomed to school with Gaelic greeting - Herald Scotland 'Inadequate?' Don't worry - have the school down the road - Schools Week Don’t use bid writers, apprentice register re-applicants warned - FE Week Bertram nurseries expands in Scotland - Nursery World Why adults abandon more books than children - Financial Times Fraudsters pose as college principal in bid to con recipients out of money - FE Week Student debt forgiveness is attractive but not very fair - Financial Times New DfE programme to support disadvantaged children's language development - Nursery World Ofsted’s new framework is not a good fit with FE providers - FE Week ‘I’m just too much sauce’: An exit interview with NUS president - FE Week Ofqual to remove independent advisers from exams procedure review service - Schools Week College run by famous private hospital in the dock over ‘serious’ safety issues - FE Week Scottish government told it is 'afraid' to debate education - Times Educational Supplement | TES There is no point ignoring the looming overspend – employer apprenticeship levy usage needs to be restricted - FE Week SQA exam body selling its services 'all over planet' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools struggle to find time to mentor NQTs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Judge rules NASUWT can sack whistleblowing employee - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academies pay classroom teachers less - but heads more - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nottingham College staff to strike over pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Casual work in education: 'I even contemplated suicide' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two more Steiner schools warned to improve - Times Educational Supplement | TES AELP Annual Conference 2019 - FE Week Forget the 2.4% target for research and development spending - HEPI School workforce in England: Is the ‘perfect storm’ subsiding? - NFER Should technology be used more in lessons? - The Educator 3 reasons to get passionate about creative writing - Teacher Toolkit Organised violence at outstanding ranked school - Mail DfE facing legal action after ‘insulting’ £100 offer to would-be teachers it wrongly failed - Schools Week Scotland: Queen to receive Gaelic greeting on school visit - Mail Study claims parents don't want their children to learn about Islam - Mail 400,000 secondary school kids are taught in super-sized classes of over 30 pupils, new figures reveal - The Sun Ofsted fears reading bedtime stories has become a 'dying art' - Mail Sam Carlisle: Why are SEND parents having to sue the government? - The Sun Officials blocking my MAT league tables, says Nick Gibb - Times Educational Supplement | TES Billions of pounds in student loans will be written off by the taxpayer - Mail Casual FE staff struggling to make ends meet, says UCU - Times Educational Supplement | TES Clearer LGBT guidance needed, says Spielman - Times Educational Supplement | TES Proportion of colleges with over half of lecturers on casual contracts triples - FE Week Richard Littlejohn: Nurseries are replacing the naughty step with a 'shining cloud' cushion - Mail Taxpayer to meet 47% of student debt - Times English GCSE pupils betrayed by erratic marking, reveals examiner - Times Anti-LGBT protesters want us back in the closet - Times Academies without parents on boards 'risk community rejection' - Guardian Teachers at ‘outstanding’ school strike over violence - Times