News archive for 4th March 2019

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Now schools ask parents to donate hundreds of pounds each year to help pay for teachers and building repairs - Mail Almost two thirds of Scottish universities in the red, accounts reveal - Scotsman Languages should be compulsory from ages 5 to 18 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inquiry aims to provide vision for skills system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Teacher pay - no new deal for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools must not be blamed for knife crime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Every school to be linked with apprentice role model - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: 'Talk about what's good and bad' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of teachers on brink of homelessness doubles in 4 years - Times Educational Supplement | TES School funding is a 'national emergency', MPs say - Times Educational Supplement | TES An LGBT education would have spared me years of misery | Letters - Guardian 250 HS2 apprentices on track for success - GOV.UK New learning centre honours diplomat and codebreaker Lady Cicely Mayhew - GOV.UK New leader board to celebrate top apprenticeship employers - DfE Academy trusts: themes arising from ESFA's assurance work - Education & Skills Funding Agency Evidence for impact on access and participation - Office for Students Government responds to Nursing degree apprenticeships report - UK Parliament 'Financial issues' threatened 90 academy trusts, auditors warned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police investigate alleged racist abuse after video from Newcastle student halls emerges - Independent Teacher, 66, at £10,000-a-year Rudolf Steiner school who said he was being 'grandfatherly' - Mail Scotland: Teaching union to proceed with strike action ballot over pay - Mail Scotland's largest teaching union to proceed with strike action ballot over pay - Herald Scotland Does having a higher IQ than Einstein guarantee success? - Guardian Teachers forced to forage in skips for woodwork materials as cuts leave schools bereft of resources, MPs told - Independent My daughter’s school asks for donations by direct debit - Times People feel they have no choice but to help out - Times Finalists for AAC Apprenticeship Awards 2019 celebrated in Parliament - FE Week Irish plan offers European roadmap to improve teaching - Times Higher Education | THE Early years policy should tackle the social mobility divide - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF MPs and Peers in urgent call for a National Recovery Programme to revolutionise language skills in the UK - British Council Let’s flex the apprenticeship levy to help employers engage with schools - FE News Could Core Maths encourage more students to continue with maths beyond GCSE? - Edge Foundation The world is in a bad way. Students need the skills to fix it | Tom Whyman - Guardian 490 MPs contacted by NEU members ahead of Westminster Hall debate on school funding - National Education Union Curriculum development through professional enquiry: Developments in Wales - BERA BBC work with National Numeracy to change ‘maths mindsets’ - National Numeracy The ethics of AI - Independent Head Award win for ed tech start up Mindful Education - Collab Group What skills do school leavers need to thrive in employment? - ASCL Reception baseline assessment: national voluntary pilot sign-up - NAHT Reception baseline assessment: NAHT’s position - NAHT Study to examine poor outcomes of care leavers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scottish schools face strike action as crunch talks break down - Scotsman What next for the UCU after Sally Hunt’s exit? - Times Higher Education | THE Resources to support care leavers into apprenticeships - Learning & Work Institute Ofsted rates 'off-rolling' school as 'good' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Music education 'must tackle digital disconnect' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Landmark judicial review into SEND funding given go-ahead - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister backs #InspiringApprentices campaign - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Crisis’ of pupils not offered any secondary place for September - Times Educational Supplement | TES Steiner teacher banned for 'grandfatherly' behaviour - BBC E-petition prompts MPs to debate school funding - BBC Birmingham school stops LGBT lessons after parental protests - Guardian Scotland: Education secretary - ‘I’ve seen tremendous joy in the education system’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hertfordshire secondary school places: Nearly 200 left without - BBC Hinds insists apprenticeship reform is working - Financial Times Bananarama meets Gardeners' World - Reflecting on EEF's guidance report - Research Schools Network Using group work for effective learning - Research Schools Network Using evidence to make a difference for disadvantaged pupils - Research Schools Network Government set for High Court showdown over legality of SEND funding cuts - Schools Week Government rules out giving employers more time to spend their apprenticeship levy funds - FE Week Parental engagement - EEF's evidence day - Research Schools Network An evidence based approach to improving oral language skills of disadvantaged pupils - Research Schools Network Think you're too old to re-start your career? Meet the apprentices in their 30s, 40s and 50s - Telegraph Meet our apprentices at UCAS - UCAS Scotland: Claims of historic sex abuse at top Glasgow Catholic college - Scotsman Parents fear for children's job prospects - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents ‘not comfortable’ on post-16 options - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: What is Labour's academies policy? - Times Educational Supplement | TES New league table to highlight employers leading ‘apprenticeship revolution’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Yes, the grade reliability problem can be solved - HEPI Colleges to ramp up momentum ahead of Spring Statement - AoC | Association of Colleges Penny Mordaunt launches new funds to tackle period poverty globally - GOV.UK Biscuits, 4 year-olds and being honest with Ofsted - Teacher Tapp Mental health – society’s problem left for schools to sort - The Educator Risk-averse schools drive me “potty” - Teacher Toolkit Movers And Shakers: Edition 272 - FE Week The proposals for compulsory Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) are undoubtedly a huge step forward - PoliticsHome How we're redesigning our MAT curriculum - Schools Week Tackling sexual violence and harassment in higher education - Wonkhe No more steps. It’s time for a leap on gender equality - Wonkhe A beginner’s guide to university estates - Wonkhe Augar’s recommendations must be judged on how they benefit Britain - Wonkhe Is sector expansion harming social mobility? - Wonkhe Employers want a more flexible levy - FE News Current HE funding supports universities’ social mobility mission - Times Higher Education | THE How important is social status at a certain age? - Financial Times Virtual reality technology ‘does not improve learning outcomes’ - Times Higher Education | THE Doubts raised over minister’s demand for more English v-c pay probes - Times Higher Education | THE Music education 'risks being outdated by technology' - BBC Save UK's 'dwindling' language skills, say MPs and peers - BBC Wales: School experience is not just learning - BBC Music education 'must move into 21st century or risk failing young musicians' - Mail Call for ‘inspection holiday’ for nursery owners - Nursery World Baseline pilot go-ahead sparks outcry - Nursery World Pupils need more lessons in music and languages - Times Scotland: The root causes of child mental illness must be addressed - Times Ireland: No education cuts to pay for National Children’s Hospital, minister says - Times Ireland: Momo hoax shows that children need to be safer online - Times