News archive for 14th March 2019

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10 top tips for school leaders and governing boards - Sutton Trust How can FE providers drive value from their data? - Collab Group NEU Cymru pension funding - National Education Union Character education is a deliberate process - Teacher Toolkit Primary school suspends LGBT lessons after parents hold protest - Express Transformative pedagogy in teacher education: Lessons from PE teacher educators - BERA Ofsted slams civil service apprentices scheme for inappropriate management courses - FE Week Prison education can unlock youngsters' potential - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We prefer the robot to the teacher,' students say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Functional skills still not ready for September start - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: We don’t know enough about managed moves - Times Educational Supplement | TES Personal learner accounts could reshape learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge International insists iGCSEs won’t change name amid ‘legal’ threat - Schools Week Children arrive at school with holes in shoes and feel they have to work to get food, headteachers warn - Independent Oxford provost at centre of 'poison pen' campaign is to step down - Telegraph Boss of charity behind the UTC programme to step down - FE Week Boss of charity behind the UTC programme to step down - Schools Week The spirit of people in our system is incredible - Headguruteacher A fifth of deprived children never spend time in nature, study finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 16 to 18 minimum standards - Education & Skills Funding Agency Autistic people asked for their views to help transform support - DfE Universities asked to do more to support care leavers - DfE Government drive to boost attainment in North East schools - DfE Principles to guide HE providers on improving care leavers access and participation in HE - DfE September Guarantee: education and training for young people - DfE Youth work academy launches with training to tackle gang crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted urges support for schools to fight knife crime - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Birmingham primary school at centre of LGBT row halts equality lessons - HuffPost Inspecting independent schools: pre-registration and material change inspections - Ofsted Inspecting non-association independent schools: leaflet for schools - Ofsted School inspection update: academic year 2018 to 2019 - Ofsted Brexit: Damage to Scottish universities would be ‘utter madness’ - Scotsman Report examines origins and nature of ‘maths anxiety’ - UKEdChat Engaging teaching - UKEdChat Early-warning toolkit to help schools identify students at risk of dropping out - UKEdChat Digest #138: What can (and can't) neuroscience tell us about education - Learning Scientists Running rural primary schools efficiently - DfE 3 in 10 parents don’t use academic performance to choose a secondary - Times Educational Supplement | TES The plastic-free primary school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Too often early years is seen through the prism of older phases - Times Educational Supplement | TES I know the panic of ‘maths anxiety’. But hope may be the best solution | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - Guardian Youth climate strikes to take place in more than 100 countries - Guardian Birmingham primary school suspends LGBT lessons indefinitely - Guardian The dire state of Welsh university finances revealed as costs spiral, debt balloons and incomes fall - Wales Online Birmingham primary school suspends LGBT+ lessons after weekly protests from parents - Independent If children don’t join the climate strike, their schools are underachieving | David Reed - Guardian Primary school stops gay teacher’s LGBT lessons after 300 Muslim parents protest - The Sun Wales: Mum's anger over 'mixed sex school toilets' which school says are not mixed - Wales Online Parkfield School: Protests called off as LGBT lessons ended - BBC 'Forgotten third' of GCSE pupils found in all school types - Times Educational Supplement | TES Up to 60,000 teenagers in post-16 education limbo - Times Educational Supplement | TES School rethinks plans to re-start LGBT lessons amid protests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Even successful rural schools struggle to recruit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher escapes ban as touching was 'non-sexual' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edtech has transformed education for our pupils with SEND - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers may 'unwittingly contribute to maths anxiety' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The best and worst MATs for progress after GCSE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Comic Relief: School shuns red nose plastic because of pollution fears - BBC Parkfield’s LGBT lessons cancelled until ‘resolution’ found over parent protests - Schools Week New resource to teach four-year-olds about online dangers - Nursery World Do universities contribute enough to the UK economy? - Guardian Majority of MATs achieve ‘below average’ progress for 16 to 18-year-olds - Schools Week Small rural schools could share headteachers to stay afloat, DfE study suggests - Schools Week International School Meals Day: who gets a ‘proper’ dinner, who gets less and who gets nothing? - IOE London Blog Off-rolling: Should schools be held to account for ex-pupils? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost 1 in 4 pupils 'have seen classmates pressured to share nude selfies' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon launches £400k education fund inspired by Malala Yousafzai - Scotsman Adult education budget devolution is the iron curtain of funding rules - FE News Universities have lost the country: Here’s how UUK must reform to win it back - HEPI Scotland: Teacher who forced toast into autistic boy's mouth and mistreated other pupils barred from the classroom - Herald Scotland Hinds’ ‘interventions’ seen as softening ground for Augar reforms - Times Higher Education | THE Gold standard of PhD ‘under threat’, professors claim - Times Higher Education | THE The Augar review should beware of pandering to political whim - Times Higher Education | THE Narratives on Higher Education: Prosperous cheating - Wonkhe How can the US experience advance the civic university? - Wonkhe Universities are 'seen as self-serving oligarchies' over attitudes to pay, free speech and money - Mail Parents and teachers are giving pupils 'maths anxiety' - Mail Can you answer these maths questions aimed at 11-year-olds? - Independent ‘Maths anxiety’ causing fear and despair in children as young as six - Guardian Children with ‘maths anxiety’ experience rage and despair with some reduced to tears, researchers find - Independent 'Maths anxiety' may be fuelling a national crisis, researchers say - Telegraph Lecturer James Mooney questioned for hate crime over Trainspotting slur on English - Times Poor maths teaching gives primary pupils panic attacks - Times We must stop the snobbery about apprenticeships | Dan Swords - Times Ireland: Tampons in all public buildings to end ‘period poverty’ - Times Ireland: Children’s climate strikes should push adults into action | Cara Augustenborg - Times