News archive for 7th March 2019

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Government unveils commitments to tackle abuse against men - GOV.UK UK performance indicators 2017 to 2018: non-continuation rates - DfE Experimental UK performance indicators 2017 to 2018: widening participation and non-continuation rates - DfE Education Secretary warns universities over dropout rates - DfE Maximum loan amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advanced learner loans funding rules 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 19+ allocations: 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget (AEB): funding rates and formula 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Continued increased flexibility for learners in receipt of low wage, Adult Education Budget (AEB) 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget (AEB) funding rules 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Mental wellbeing: let’s find new ways to support students - Office for Students Teaching first aid in primary schools could save lives - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for DfE exclusions review to help adopted pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Invest in arts and PE to boost attainment and engagement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds defends heads over exclusions and knife-crime claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES The awful price paid by children permanently excluded from school and left in limbo - Wales Online Khan and crime chiefs tie stabbings to school exclusion - Financial Times Fact check: What are the links between school exclusions and knife crime? - Schools Week Damian Hinds defends head teachers after claims exclusions linked to stabbings - Times Schools have a key role in fight against knife crime but cannot do it alone | Damian Hinds - Times University drop out rates are worse among disadvantaged students, official data shows - Telegraph From meerkats to volcanoes - primary pupils' unexpectedly 'sophisticated' vocab - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anxious hours lie ahead for those vying for a place on Team UK - Times Educational Supplement | TES The importance of using Scots language in the classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revealed: The candidates bidding to lead UCU - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding trial for adults on low wages to continue - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher sabbaticals: Could time out stop burnout? - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need a reality check about exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poorer students now even more likely to drop out of university than richer peers - Independent Can I succeed as a working-class academic? - Times Higher Education | THE NUS to cut posts and sell London HQ in cost-saving rescue plan - Guardian 'Broken’ school exclusion system linked to knife crime surge, police chiefs warn Theresa May - Independent Knife crime: Are school exclusions to blame? - BBC Readers' World Book Day costumes – from the Cat in the Hat to Mr Tickle - Guardian What I learned from my semester studying with prisoners - Guardian Leadsom: ‘No exact date’ for delayed Timpson exclusions review - Schools Week Freshers to be offered training to overcome pressures of starting university, Government announces - Telegraph Scotland's 1,140 childcare scheme at risk if 'flaws' not fixed, warn MSPs - Nursery World 'Broken' school exclusion system linked to knife crime, police chiefs warn May - Mail H is for Harry review – hard lessons to be learned - Guardian Safeguarding has become too complex for teachers to manage alone - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds urges academies to listen to local communities - Times Educational Supplement | TES How apprenticeships can help address social mobility - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Your comments are truly disappointing' - an open letter to Sadiq Khan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister urges business figures to become school governors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police chiefs link off-rolling to knife crime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: 'Don't punish pupils' for climate change strikes say MSPs - Herald Scotland Deaf charity launches story competition on World Book Day - Nursery World Consultation agreed on letting boys into Scotland's last state-run girls' school - Herald Scotland Early sex education is essential if we want a more tolerant, inclusive society - HuffPost PM urged to fix school exclusion system to tackle knife crime - Guardian Cracking the code with Codio Cymru - Welsh Government Ministers turn to big business for help running schools - Schools Week Neuron Pod: Will Alsop's intergalactic porcupine of knowledge - Guardian Majority of university students report poor quality sleep, putting them at higher risk of mental health problems - The Conversation Scotland: Manga-loving librarian is ‘stellar example of whole-school literacy’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Uni life can be difficult and lonely – our new taskforce will help students struggling to adjust - HuffPost World Book Day should renew the debate about early intervention - PoliticsHome Find Schools Like Yours - FFT Education Datalab App hopes to aid students’ mental health - PIE News Supporting students through the transition from school to university - Universities UK NAHT Cymru responds to Welsh Government consultation on proposals for new National Professional Learning INSET days - NAHT University of Surrey staff say controversial plans to axe jobs are unjustified - UCU New training courses launched to support teachers working with EAL learners - Bell Foundation Our comments on correlation between exclusions and knife crime - Ambition School Leadership Students back bailouts: Students’ views on the financial health of universities - HEPI University – the best times of our lives? - HEPI Harry's story shows the challenge of illiteracy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Special needs teachers ‘receive little or no training’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ban on off-rolling among calls to tackle youth crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Grants aim to boost take-up of free childcare for two-year-olds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Call to boost BAME engagement with youth mental health services - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Students back bailouts – new poll shows students want Government action if their university fails - HEPI Government creates new student mental health taskforce - DfE Scotland: SNP is politicising schoolkids while ignoring teachers union advice - Scotsman Campaigners warn of 'book poverty' as UK celebrates World Book Day - Guardian Knife crime: Excluded pupils 'sucked into criminality' - BBC Scottish schools teach French to pupils who struggle to read English - Scotsman Universities see huge increase in students seeking help for mental health problems - HuffPost Scotland: Pupils with special needs facing ‘traumatic’ experiences in school - Herald Scotland How to equip graduates for the future - Times Higher Education | THE Many university staff back prosecuting students over essay mills - Times Higher Education | THE The agony of microaggression and discrimination knocked me out - Times Higher Education | THE Students say failing English universities must be rescued - Times Higher Education | THE Building resilient communities rather than resilient individuals - Wonkhe Narratives on higher education: crime and punishment - Wonkhe The time for mindfulness in universities has come - Wonkhe “Thank you” seem to be the hardest words - Wonkhe Apprentices #BlazeATrail, but the government scheme is off track - FE News 'Universities at risk if they admit to cash crisis' - BBC £2m to improve mental health and well-being at Welsh universities - Welsh Government Several UK universities in such financial difficulties that 'they are close to bankruptcy' - Mail National Apprenticeship Week: How to win at work - BBC Wales faces child obesity crisis, says assembly committee - Guardian Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN - Nursery World Schools should have gender neutral uniform policies | Layla Moran - Times Scotland: Pupil climate protesters told to save planet by attending maths and physics classes - Times Scotland: Students with autism ‘traumatised’ - Times Scotland: Teach pupils to drive at 11, says TV star - Times The Times’s view on the Scottish school climate protests: Pupil Power - Times Ireland: Glasgow University finds bag ‘linked to bombs’ - Times