News archive for 5th March 2019

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Muslim parents vow to continue boycotting school until ‘gay relationship lessons’ are axed - The Sun Labour MP tells PM ‘f*** your little extras’ as son’s school to shut early to save cash - Express Taking a job in teaching 'boosts your status' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes award winners on how to develop an English curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Mental health target missed for more than 5,000 young people - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edinburgh pupils will not be punished for joining climate-change protests - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE needs an independent council of elders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reporter's take: can the latest Baseline assessment win over critics? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Investing in apprenticeships - GOV.UK Local greenspaces important for children of all ages and backgrounds - GOV.UK Birmingham school 'to resume LGBT equality lessons' - Mail Post-16 institutions and providers omnibus: wave 6 survey - DfE Identifying schools for support - DfE Guidance for applicants to the strategic college improvement fund - DfE Top employers to help all primary schools offer careers education to pupils - DfE ‘Think I’ll leave him on steps of Downing St’: MP tweets PM over cuts at son’s school - Guardian Oxford dean accused of trying to remove tutors from salary committee after pay rise request was refused - Telegraph Labour MP Jess Phillips tells Theresa May and Phillip Hammond to 'f*** your little extras' as son's school prepares to close early on Fridays to save cash - Evening Standard Steep fall in apprenticeships take-up by young people - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Stoke council ditches pupil movement policy after school rapped for off-rolling - Schools Week By opposing equality in sex education, Shabana Mahmood is underestimating children and othering LGBTQ people - New Statesman National Offer Day: Parents to protest after hundreds of children left without any secondary school places - Independent Nursery groups continuing to expand - Nursery World Inclusive values, not harmful religious beliefs, should inform the curriculum - HuffPost Apprenticeships can boost the NHS workforce – but it's not a quick fix - Guardian Apprenticeships: A game changer for the common good? - Training Journal How the arts can help students who struggle most - UKEdChat Students: don't let rising rents drive you out of university - Guardian Catholic sixth forms suffer ‘double discrimination’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools ask parents for money for staff and books as cruel Tory cuts bite - Mirror Head who let London Bridge terrorist teach banned from running schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES New initiatives to improve teacher retention - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Social Metrics: Measuring the outcomes of non-accredited learning - Learning & Work Institute Second teaching union announces Scottish strike ballot - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND inquiry hears minister admit funding is 'difficult' for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gibb hints at 16-18 funding boost in spending review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Technology ideas sought to support young people's mental health - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Call to tackle 'catastrophic' effect of domestic abuse on children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scotland's teachers need a new deal - NASUWT The Augar review must be judged on Britain’s best interests - Universities UK Labour blasts 'national disgrace' as cash-strapped schools ask parents for donations - PoliticsHome Sleep - the silver bullet? - Research Schools Network Pupils shouldn’t be denied LGBT lessons – whatever their parents say | Benali Hamdache - Guardian Positive results for early years maths apps - Best Evidence in Brief Test anxiety and performance in high-stakes testing - Best Evidence in Brief Effects of initial skill and group size in the ROOTS Tier-2 maths intervention - Best Evidence in Brief No impact for sleep education pilot - Best Evidence in Brief What does good professional development for teaching language look like? - Best Evidence in Brief Voice Cymru welcomes Welsh Government's response to pay and conditions review - Voice Taking the chance out of CPD - Research Schools Network 20% off the job training: Let’s celebrate the importance of learning on the job! - FE News What are you talking about? - Research Schools Network NEU Cymru warns that securing pay parity for teachers in Wales is a fundamental principle - National Education Union Mental health is ‘everyone’s business’ - UKEdChat 'Defending parents' rights in the sex ed debate is a straw man' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school will continue LGBT lessons for children as young as 3 despite parent uproar - Express Best of both: how degree-level apprenticeships blend work and study - Guardian Resource-based policies in education: a brief introduction to an important theme in education economics - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics How schools and businesses are addressing the Stem diversity gap - Guardian Elite UK school fees paid via tax haven firms, leak reveals - Guardian Why proposals to inspect curriculum will be as subjective as GBBO - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted defends controversial 'good' verdict on off-rolling school - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK rated 10th best in world for teaching '21st-century skills' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers advice: ‘If you weren't going to uni you were ignored' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Extra school inset day set for Wales next year - this is why - Wales Online Retraining experienced NHS medics: ‘They don’t care if you are 60 or 16' - Guardian Studying with dyspraxia: 'I never truly understood an academic text' - Guardian Scotland: Edinburgh pupils can skip school for climate protest, council rules - Scotsman MPs ‘disappointed’ as minister claims schools have ‘more money than ever before’ - Schools Week Scotland: Pupils 'will not be punished' for climate change strikes - Herald Scotland Wales: Fury as school turns off free water forcing kids to buy expensive bottled drinks - Wales Online Two years in, is the apprenticeship levy still working? - Guardian Apprentices on learning to teach: ‘It’s not about the status, it’s about getting better at it’ - Guardian Schools to ‘grow their own’ teachers with PGCE apprenticeships - Guardian Parkfield Community School LGBT protests: School denies 'U-turn' - BBC ‘Final exams day is pretty intensive. It takes place with the employer in the workplace’ - Guardian Third school rapped for off-rolling had backing of local council - Schools Week Second Scottish teaching union ballots for strikes over pay - Herald Scotland Extra inset day plan for Welsh schools - BBC Five ways that reading with children helps their education - The Conversation Banned: Headteacher who let London Bridge attacker teach children unsupervised - Schools Week AET recruits Harris leader to turnaround its London secondaries - Schools Week The lie of ‘they’re just doing it for attention’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary halts LGBT lessons as parents continue 'upsetting' protests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Devastated owner to close setting due to 30 hours - Nursery World Apprenticeships offer an alternative to uni and debt – why are schools ignoring them? - Guardian ‘I don’t want to have to apologise for wanting a career at 60’: staff development for older workers - IOE London Blog New recruitment goals give public sector apprenticeships a lift - Guardian Tailoring's back in style as apprenticeships arrive on Savile Row - Guardian The advertising industry has a diversity problem – apprenticeships can help - Guardian Decline in 'storytime' affecting pupil wellbeing, says publisher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds promises career education in all primaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Sport buddies' aim to help students' mental health - BBC Ruskin at 120: has the workers’ college lost its way? - Guardian Don't waste it: unusual apprenticeships for a career lift - Guardian Award-winning teacher among staff needing charity to scrape by - Guardian A shoe-in: how apprenticeships put farriery back on track - Guardian How will the end of free movement impact independent schools? - Cambridge Network 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities - Accountability Hearings The NHS apprenticeships offering a new route to health and social care - Guardian The grim reality of life as a pupil in a Scottish school - Scotsman Outward Bound does not reflect society’s diversity - Scotsman SMEs must be brought centre stage on apprenticeships - FE Week 9:30 a.m. - House of Commons debate re the future of Catholic sixth form colleges - Accountability Hearings Getting on the new (tougher) RoATP – 5 things to consider before submitting your application - FE News US-UK alliance to share ‘experiments’ on research commercialisation - Times Higher Education | THE Some universities ‘make long-term loss’ on £9K fee students - Times Higher Education | THE Oxford college in turmoil over priestly pay row - Financial Times From the desk of the Secretary of State: another letter of note - Wonkhe The essential elements of TEF - Wonkhe Dream on dreamer – TEF gets in the way - Wonkhe Cash-strapped schools beg parents to pay for textbooks and repairs and donate hundreds of pounds a year - The Sun Children give out fake parking tickets to polluting parents - BBC Primary school axes anti-homophobia lessons after protests from Muslim parents - Mail Levels of distress and illness among students in UK 'alarmingly high' - Guardian Give older children story time to halt fall in young readers, urge experts - Guardian Domestic abuse victims school priority call - BBC DfE pledges ‘career-related learning’ in all primary schools - Schools Week Parents asked to pay for teachers’ salaries and school repairs - Times School heads clean toilets and wash dishes after budget cuts - Times Primary school drops trans rights classes after boycott - Times Scotland: Teachers to make a stand over pay offer, says union - Times