News archive for 1st March 2019

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Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 1 March - Pearson Policy Tracker - Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in February 2019 - Pearson 115,000 children to miss out on first choice of school as pupil numbers surge - Mirror Academy trust financial management good practice guides - Education & Skills Funding Agency Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and the health sector examined - UK Parliament National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the educational research chief who is in awe of schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES One third miss top school choice in London - Times Educational Supplement | TES History tells us the College of Teaching will struggle to succeed - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Sex ed, gambling and the future of teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils who take AS levels do better in A levels, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers walk out for six days over lesson grading - Times Educational Supplement | TES School-inspection ratings could be scrapped in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy suspected of off-rolling could have funding terminated - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Offer Day shows us we need more free schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES There is a gap in opportunities for young people - Times Educational Supplement | TES Section 251: Information about local authority education funding and expenditure plans for 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Private firm defends school factsheet on Momo hoax - Guardian Surge in demand for schools leaves councils struggling to cope - Guardian Scotland: Teaching union tells Swinney: improve pay deal or risk strikes - Mail Scandal as the better your postcode the better your child's education - Express Legal disputes between parents over where to send their child to school is on the rise, leading family lawyer says - Telegraph School leaders in Northern Ireland have reluctantly moved a step closer to a formal ballot on industrial action - NAHT In the news 1 March 2019 - UCU Children’s wellbeing unaffected by selective education, research shows - IOE London Blog Teachers lack confidence to help pupils who self-harm, study finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Health visitors to be trained to spot communication problems earlier - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Supporting National Careers Week - Education Development Trust | EDT Campaign guides launched to encourage colleges to lobby for more funding - AoC | Association of Colleges Anger at job loss plans for Stockport College and Trafford College - UCU Ofsted Watch: Adult and community learning providers make great gains - FE Week Lack of funds leads to school closing early - The Educator Ex-education secretary Michael Gove wants to abolish private schools by making state ones better - The Sun Invisible educators or connecting professionals? Post-compulsory teacher educators - BERA SNOW - schools no one wants - Headteachers' Roundtable Steiner school handed finance warning after failing to submit accounts on time - Schools Week School accused of off-rolling by Ofsted could have funding axed - Schools Week Will boys be let into Scotland's last remaining single-sex state school? - Herald Scotland Scotland: John Swinney in stand-off with unions over teachers' pay deal - Herald Scotland Reception baseline provider defends the ‘robust assessment’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents should be accountable to schools, says Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two more colleges out of commissioner intervention - Times Educational Supplement | TES School leaders need to do their homework on governance - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can we rejuvenate languages learning in Britain? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school offers day: 115,000 to miss out on first choice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Use deep breathing to control exam stress, says Ofqual - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils' mental wellbeing not affected by taking 11-plus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching jobs under threat at newly merged college - Times Educational Supplement | TES Up to 25% of children could miss out on preferred secondary school - Mail Trained teacher named as Independent MPs' education lead - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Offer Day: Unprecedented squeeze on places forcing poorest children into lowest-rated schools, analysis shows - Independent Intervention in struggling colleges is painful but necessary - FE Week Twitter row erupts after This Morning debate on new plans to teach children about sex education - Mail Government-funded research shows rising costs for nurseries and childminders - Nursery World Youth climate strikers: 'We are going to change the fate of humanity' - Guardian National Offer Day 2019: What to do if your child doesn't get their first choice of secondary school - Independent Crack down on staff who do too much colour printing, says new DfE guidance - Schools Week ESFA to explore ‘flexibilities’ for T-level industry placement - FE Week Up to 50 jobs at risk at college group following £30m merger bailout - FE Week Wales: The most oversubscribed secondary schools in Cardiff - Wales Online Economic report to advise on boosting Scottish university links with industry - Mail Exam stress is ‘not necessarily a bad thing’, says Ofqual - Schools Week Secondary school places 2019 - Mirror Student over-draught: visiting Europe's first university microbrewery - Guardian Mum who let child miss school for entire year fined just £585 - Mirror Britain could not have picked a worse time to give up learning languages | David Cannadine - Guardian So much about the ESFA’s register of end-point assessment organisations makes no sense - FE Week Gap grows between rich and poor pupils attending good schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES NCG temporarily abandons search for new chief executive - FE Week Teachers work more unpaid overtime than anyone else - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents still prefer university to apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Penny Up’ gambling craze causing upset in playgrounds across the country - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cuts to arts in schools ‘a disaster,’ says Steve McQueen - Times Educational Supplement | TES Building students thoughts - UKEdChat Are GCSEs no longer fit for purpose? - The Educator Scrap subject-level TEF - Russell Group Tuition fees: views and perceptions of prospective students - HEPI National Offer Day: Record number of children to miss out on first-choice secondary school places, analysis suggests - Independent Church schools hit by related-party transaction rules - Schools Week Critics question winning bid for new model music curriculum - Schools Week General debate on the future of Catholic sixth form colleges - UK Parliament How to appeal a secondary school admission on National Offer Day 2019 - HuffPost ESFA apprenticeship assessment register needs to be ‘purged’ - FE Week Sex education is not a matter for ministers | Simon Jenkins - Guardian Investigation: The highs (and occasional lows) of academy CEO pay - Schools Week 4 reasons why you should adopt blended training - FE News Parents lose millions of pounds in the maze of childcare funding - Financial Times DfE won’t issue guidance on ‘exceptional circumstances’ for sex education withdrawal - Schools Week The Scottish universities 'struggling to make ends meet' - Herald Scotland Scotland: At last some good news for Glasgow School of Art - Herald Scotland Universities switch on to YouTube student influencers - Times Higher Education | THE The squeezed one-percenters: are they right to feel worried? - Financial Times A poor deal for women in higher education - Wonkhe Subject level TEF isn’t fit for purpose – but institutional awards could be - Wonkhe Written in the stars: a new approach to uni applications - Wonkhe Strike complaints, access, harassment (podcast) - Wonkhe Let’s listen to the experts in student experience - Wonkhe Ethnic representation in UK higher education - Wonkhe Apprenticeship funds being spent on legacy training or left idle - Financial Times Instagram biggest for child grooming online - NSPCC finds - BBC Putting children through the 11-plus has little impact on their mental health or anxiety levels, study suggests - Mail One in five children are set to miss out on their first-choice secondary school - Mail Hundreds of Muslim parents protest against ‘gay lessons brainwashing their kids’ - The Sun 'I love concrete', says woman causing stir in construction - BBC Tuition fees review 'facing Brexit delay' - BBC Record number of children to miss out on first-choice secondary school places, analysis suggests - Independent Polymaths wanted at London Interdisciplinary School, Britain’s first new university in 40 years - Times Soaring numbers will miss out on first school choices - Times Grammars are not key to happiness, parents told - Times Free speech under attack, says lecturer Dr Chris Hill in faith row - Times Chinese students ‘cash in with money laundering scam’ - Times Record numbers to miss out on first choice for secondary school places - Telegraph Families to learn secondary school places decision - Mail