News archive for 11th March 2019

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The Choir: Our School by the Tower, review - A testament to the resilience, pride and talent of pupils the year after Grenfell - Telegraph Children's Minister pledges to make the case for more nursery funding during march - Mail School governors unite in 'deep concern' over cuts and staffing - Guardian Public Health England publishes air pollution evidence review - GOV.UK Teacher subject specialism training (TSST) courses - DfE Second chair resigns from college group embroiled in financial scandal - FE Week Thousands of places created in new special free schools - DfE DfE department responsible for apprenticeship policy has hardly any apprentices - FE Week Advanced learner loans: an overview - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeships: recognition of prior learning - Education & Skills Funding Agency There's no excuse for lagging behind on English and maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children with speech difficulties need 'urgent action' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding and staff levels in schools at crisis point | Letters - Guardian Setting great homework: The Mode A:Mode B approach - Teacherhead Hinds didn’t ‘snub’ headteachers over funding, claims minister - Schools Week Former academy head who gave contract to mother's firm banned from teaching - Independent Hinds announces SEND free schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now We must invest more in science teaching at primary level - PoliticsHome Scotland's teachers call off pay strike after deal - The Educator How to make lesson observation meaningful - Teacher Toolkit How our educators keep getting better: stories from schools - Ambition Institute Ambition Institute is launched to help educators keep getting better - Ambition Institute Worrinots & Essex County Council help with children’s positive well-being - The Worrinots Introducing Ambition Institute - Ambition Institute Scotland: 'Narrowing' of curriculum limiting pupil choice, politicians told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Controlling risk in an intuitive world - UKEdChat Boost adult education spending or UK will lag behind - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrap 'incredibly archaic' GCSEs, urge businesses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Manchester College buys new site in £100m estates overhaul - Times Educational Supplement | TES Women must 'ask for what they're worth' to help cut teacher pay gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Being bored - UKEdChat Risk it for a biscuit - UKEdChat Healing the wounds - UKEdChat 39 new special free schools to open in England - UKEdChat Scottish HE leaders brand Brexit visa plans ‘crass’ - PIE News Coffee, collective worship and dressing up - Teacher Tapp ‘Narrowing’ curriculum restricts subject choice for pupils at Scottish schools - Scotsman Headteachers are usually a quiet lot – but this is a crisis, and we’re desperate | Jules White - Guardian Dozens of new schools to be built for special educational needs and excluded pupils - Independent ESFA audits to check apprenticeship price reductions made to account for prior work experience - FE Week Nursery school heads call for secure funding - BBC Scotland: Children’s education in Glasgow rated ‘outstanding’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Independent education only marginally boosts income, study suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inspections: ‘Harsher’ school ratings revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can't ministers just be honest about education funding cuts? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to cut pollution by banning cars ‘idling’ near schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND inclusion can be tough – but segregation isn’t the answer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: School subject choice reduction a 'catastrophe', MSPs told - Mail Nurseries ‘hanging by a thread’ without adequate funding, heads warn - Independent Bertram nursery group acquired in management buyout - Nursery World Thousands of school places to be created for pupils with special needs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Team UK announced for WorldSkills 2019 in Kazan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary schools aren't about preparing pupils for the world of work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ambition Institute launched to support teachers and leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES New ‘Ambition Institute’ launched following ASL and IfT merger - Schools Week Government to build 37 new schools for troubled children to help tackle knife crime crisis - Mail Ban cars from idling near schools, says UK public health agency - Guardian Revealed: The 39 areas set to get new special and AP free schools - Schools Week Team UK selected for WorldSkills 2019 in Kazan - FE Week Long-term outcomes: How do independent school pupils’ outcomes differ from those of state school pupils? - FFT Education Datalab UK ‘will drop’ in world literacy and numeracy table - Times Educational Supplement | TES Need to know: Reception baseline assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nursery heads to march on Downing Street over funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills Vision 2030: learning and skills for economic growth and social justice - Learning & Work Institute School keeps top grade despite failing emergency inspections - Schools Week Can we actually teach creativity? - The Educator A manifesto for lifelong learning - Wonkhe Opportunity to reset: Labour’s lifelong learning commission - Wonkhe A beginner’s guide to academic workload modelling - Wonkhe Should we bail out universities? - Wonkhe Back to the future of lifelong learning - Wonkhe The town is the gown - Wonkhe What can we learn from other countries about abolishing tuition fees? - HEPI Time for action: the UK must act now to improve skills or risk falling further behind in the world - Learning & Work Institute Bright Scottish state pupils 'forced to enrol in private schools to study subjects they need', teachers warn - Telegraph Movers and Shakers: Edition 273 - FE Week Tuition fee cut 'would force universities to shrink course sizes' - Guardian Deloitte ‘gagged’ by DfE over WCAT chain closure - Schools Week Why has England seemingly set out to destroy adult learning opportunities? - FE Week How to use worked examples in the classroom - Schools Week Why ITE providers should deliver the early career framework - Schools Week Scotland: Parents and teachers attack ‘catastrophe’ of cuts to school subjects - Herald Scotland Scotland: 11-year-old pupil takes to world stage to sound climate change alarm - Herald Scotland Schools should have 'no idling zones', Public Health England chief says - BBC Royal Statistical Society: the TEF should have a health warning - Times Higher Education | THE Leeds pulls advert for ‘exploitative’ research assistant job - Times Higher Education | THE £1.3 billion Turnitin sale spotlights intellectual property fears - Times Higher Education | THE Nursery school heads to march on Downing Street - Nursery World Nursery heads demand chancellor ringfences spending in review - Guardian Health chiefs want ban on cars near schools to cut pollution - Times Weaker pupils removed before exams - Times We don’t need to tackle knife crime — we need to tackle poverty | Dame Louise Casey - Times Scotland: Councils give pupils Friday off to join climate change protests - Times Scotland: Students played game on anatomy class corpse - Times Scotland: Private schoolboy accused of racially abusing rugby opponent - Times