News archive for 8th March 2019

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Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 8 March - Pearson Chief Regulator and Chair of exams and qualifications regulator questioned - UK Parliament Review of Building Bulletin 100: design for fire safety in schools - DfE FE Commissioner: review of Cornwall's post-16 provision - DfE T Level accountability statement - DfE Apprenticeships take centre stage - GOV.UK PHE scientists lead workshops to inspire next generation of scientists - GOV.UK Parents paying for glue sticks to help cash-strapped schools, headteachers say - Mail National Apprenticeship Week 2019 - as it happens - Education & Skills Funding Agency More schools could be forced to close early as funding crisis worsens, union warns - Independent Scotland: Thousands of teachers assaulted in classrooms, union says - Mail Police investigate 'homophobic graffiti' at Parkfield Primary School in Birmingham - HuffPost Cambridge pits the olive-munchers against the rest - Financial Times Department for Education doublespeak exposes how out of touch with our schools it is - New Statesman School funding row deepens as ministers dismiss headteacher protest as 'ad hoc' - Telegraph Police investigate homophobic graffiti at sex education row school - Mail 'It's dangerous': full chaos of funding cuts in England's schools revealed - Guardian UK's Prevent guidance to universities unlawful, court rules - Guardian Look within teaching for strong female role models - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let’s talk about sexting, consent and online relationships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman denies link between exclusions and knife crime - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Knife crime, off-rolling and primary assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES It turns out my status improved when I became a teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Commissioner recommends single college for Cornwall - Times Educational Supplement | TES New EEF guide to support school governing boards published - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF 10 top tips for school governing boards - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Getting to grips with feedback - Research Schools Network Charities urge better teaching support for children in care - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Findings from 12 conversations with women shaping AI - Nesta What it means to be an educator in your community - The Educator Cracking the Code maths challenge for students open - Nesta Podcast episode 46: discussing how wellbeing issues are addressed in school - Research Schools Network Scotland: Teachers' strike move halted as fresh pay offer put on table - Mail Who gets a music education? - Teacher Tapp In the news: 8 March 2019 - UCU Parents protesting over LGBT+ lessons in Birmingham told they risk attracting ‘extreme fringe movements’ - Independent Scotland: Teacher strike halted after union strikes deal with Government - Scotsman Angela Rayner told to back second referendum if she wants to afford education reforms - HuffPost How much more will Scottish teachers earn under new proposals? - Herald Scotland Teacher strike threat lifted as Scottish Government finds extra cash for pay - Herald Scotland 'Schools perform miracles with nothing, and the nothing is getting less' - Guardian Not all is lost when children are excluded, for some it’s just the beginning - Schools Week Scotland: New teacher pay offer may avert historic strike action - Times Educational Supplement | TES Islamic school rated 'inadequate' over offensive library books - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Most schools welcome early arrival of inspectors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Head who gave contract to his mother's firm - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gangs target SEND pupils to sell drugs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sadiq Khan: 'I’m not blaming schools for knife crime rise' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: MSPs call for inquiry into devastating fires at Glasgow School of Art - Guardian Parental beliefs about returns to different types of investments in school children - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics Head teacher talks of cleaning loos amid funds shortfall - BBC Head steps down after test results are scrapped over claims pupils were helped - Evening Standard DfE launches review of fire safety in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ucas to offer degree apprenticeships applications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Phonics isn't just for kids: it works with adults too - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE seeks views on use of cladding and sprinklers in schools in wake of Grenfell - Schools Week School heads write to millions of parents over funding cuts - Guardian More pupils miss out on first choice of secondary school - Schools Week DfE gave academy trust £500k despite serious concerns about finances - Schools Week Universities with high dropout rates accused of only caring about 'bums on seats', by the Education Secretary - Mail Universities need to promote more women to professor | Chris Skidmore - Guardian CBI celebrates National Apprenticeship Week and National Careers Week - CBI NAHT needs you - a call for members to respond to the Ofsted consultation - NAHT NAHT secures extensive amendments to the revised school complaints guidance - NAHT Speaking out against baseline - National Education Union Scottish teachers' pay claim 2018/19: update - Voice Drop £30k visa salary threshold - Russell Group Peering through the looking glass: Making sense of the observation process in HE - BERA A whole new world? - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Non-completion – what’s not going on? - Wonkhe Meet the meat: high stakes higher ed competitions - Wonkhe Uni bailouts, subsidies, teaching excellence - Wonkhe Silver tortoises will help us to narrow the gender pay gap - Wonkhe Funding boost for schools in next week’s Spring Statement? - Schools NorthEast Heads’ anger at Government’s funding “snub” - Schools NorthEast Talking Heads – School funding battle isn’t over - Schools NorthEast Apprenticeships: Positive change for many businesses - Training Journal FFT Education DataLab launches “Schools Like Yours” tool - Schools NorthEast Getting better teaching (part 2) - the value of stability - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Does taking Friday afternoon off school do children any harm? | Letter - Guardian Cuts severely damaged Ruskin College’s role and reputation | Letter - Guardian We need to find better ways to restrict online content inciting self-harm and suicide - Scotsman The unanswered questions about a free school scandal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds shunned us over school funding concerns, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE won't say if it still pays 'excessive' school rent to ex Tory chief's firm - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE failed to ensure police investigated free school fraud - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE slammed for refusing to publish baseline trial results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wealthiest youngsters snap up degree apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Knife crime and school exclusions are symptoms of a wider malaise | Sonia Sodha - Guardian Student support at Scottish universities requires ‘radical reform’ - Scotsman New funding to support young women into maritime careers - GOV.UK Spielman ordered sanction of off-rolling school - Schools Week Damian Hinds faces criticism from school heads in parents' letter - Guardian More schools could be forced to cut teaching hours, union warns - Schools Week Scotland: Women face 20 year wait to break glass ceiling at universities - Herald Scotland Progress of female leadership stalls in world’s top universities - Times Higher Education | THE Privileged students fill majority of degree apprenticeship places - Times Higher Education | THE Russell Group fears impact of post-Brexit visa salary threshold - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Up to half’ of European papers to be open access under Plan S - Times Higher Education | THE Hundreds of Muslim parents launch new protest against primary school lessons they say promote homosexuality - Mail University chiefs told to shape up after some institutions saw a fifth of students quit after one year - The Sun Music lessons 'being stripped' out of schools in England - BBC Heads angry at minister's school funding 'snub' - BBC Degree apprenticeships dominated by white students and those from more affluent areas, report finds - Independent Music lecturer wrongly sacked for ‘gypo’ violinists memo - Times Simpler Ucas system to attract more student apprentices - Times Scotland: Private school head faces abuse allegations in UK - Times