News archive for 15th March 2019

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Prisoners to be taught coding in £1.2m government scheme - Public Technology Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 15 March - Pearson 10 steps to harness the ‘power of maths’ revealed in new Pearson report - Pearson Response to Ofsted’s Draft Education Inspection Framework - Headteachers' Roundtable Professor Julia Buckingham CBE elected next President of Universities UK - Universities UK Commission questions whether English Language GCSE is fit for purpose - ASCL ASCL survey reveals rising tide of pupil poverty - ASCL Schools need an extra £5.7 billion to deliver basic expectation - ASCL Ten colleges face strike action in third wave of walkouts - UCU Strikes off at New College Swindon as deal agreed - UCU In the news 15 March 2019 - UCU Inclusion and diversity in higher education – key thoughts from the HEPI / Oracle roundtable - HEPI Linking school teachers’ practice with research in educational technology: A call to action - BERA Schools desperately need £5.7bn more funding - union - The Educator Supporting early career teachers - DfE UK students in the EU: continuing your studies - DfE Student finance arrangements in a no deal scenario - DfE Evidence to the STRB: 2019 pay award for school staff - DfE Support on wellbeing for teachers in schools and colleges - DfE Damian Hinds speech at the Association of School and College Leaders' annual conference 2019 - DfE Letter to academy trusts: March 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship funding rules - Education & Skills Funding Agency Young people with SEND discuss support received in school and college - UK Parliament UCU statement on the New Zealand terror attack - UCU There’s only so much teachers can do about online safety - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE Podcast 15 March 2019: A new approach to GCSE resits - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE: Get pupils, not teachers, to tell parents about their behaviour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head's plea: 'I’m scared stabbing is being normalised' - Times Educational Supplement | TES IfATE advertises for chief executive post - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hundreds of UK students have joined thousands across the globe in climate change protest - Mail Climate strike: US students walk out of classes as part of global protest - Guardian Students around the world go on climate strike (video) - Guardian Pupils across UK leave lessons to join climate change protests - Mirror Thousands of students leave lessons for climate protests on global day of action - Mail Ofsted watch: Four providers improve to ‘good’ in busy week for FE - FE Week British kids walk out of lessons to join school ‘strikes’ across the world demanding action on climate change - The Sun It's short-sighted to dismiss the pupil strikes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents lose High Court challenge over SEND funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads question the point of English language GCSE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ciarán Devane, Chief Executive of the British Council, response to International Education Strategy - British Council Trust rapped for £1.9k booze bill - Schools Week Julia Buckingham to be next Universities UK president - Times Higher Education | THE Climate change protest: Students from 80 countries walk out of school for demonstration - Express Council leaders slam £10m NCS rebrand - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Charity raises concerns over restraint at children's mental health unit - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 3 ways to maintain your professional integrity as a teacher - UKEdChat New inquiry: Creating a vision for FE and skills in England - Learning & Work Institute The Tes Podcast: Funding, GCSEs and dopamine - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK headteachers told they have 'strong case' for extra funding - Guardian Teacher reveals pupils are 'freezing, starving and have holes in their shoes' - Mirror Interserve seeks to reassure schools amid administration reports - Schools Week Four ways you can support the YouthStrike4Climate movement | UK Student Climate Network - Guardian Global climate strike: students take to the streets – in pictures - Guardian Interserve seeks to reassure thousands of apprentices amid administration reports - FE Week Three-day strike at New College Swindon called off after 2% staff pay rise agreed - FE Week Students skip class to stage climate change protest - Financial Times Climate strike: Give detentions to children who skip school to protest environmental catastrophe, headteachers' union leader says - Independent Damian Hinds promises to make ‘moral’ case for more funding as headteachers warn schools are in danger of closing - Independent DfE threatens to terminate Inspiration Trust academy's funding agreement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds: I've heard school funding message 'loud and clear' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE coursework lost in ransomware attack - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Government publishes Brexit action plan for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Self-regulation dropped from Reception baseline - Nursery World Less than 1 in 5 teachers download DfE’s workload reduction toolkit - Schools Week How teenagers' brains work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Police launch ‘formal criminal investigation’ into 3aaa after DfE fraud allegations - FE Week Scrap funding rule that stops providers from transferring their unspent levy, says UEL - FE Week Heads warn of £5.7bn school funding gap - BBC DfE 'minded' to rebroker school from Inspiration Trust - Schools Week DfE paid £1m to settle Hadlow Group’s legal case - FE Week The 10 colleges in third wave of strike action over pay - FE Week Prisoners will be taught coding to help them return to world of work - Mirror Is social justice central to education policy? - Montrose42 Many wonderful, dedicated teachers won’t be teaching in September. Why? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges face days of strike disruption next week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools face £5.7 billion funding gap, heads warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES How teens are chatting right under your nose - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students strike for climate action around the world - Mail Climate strikes spread worldwide as students call for action - BBC Schools need an extra £5.7 billion, says ASCL - Schools Week Plan S may ‘consolidate power of big publishers’, academy warns - Times Higher Education | THE London’s high earners are poorer than graduate professionals in regions - Times Higher Education | THE Paul Gilroy: is the academy taking race seriously at last? - Times Higher Education | THE School teachers’ pay and conditions: guidance - DfE Reducing workload in your school - DfE How West Nottinghamshire College is fighting for survival - FE Week Schools now a 'fourth emergency service' for poor pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL ‘forgotten third’ inquiry mulls ‘stage not age’ testing call - Schools Week Hinds unveils latest plan to create 'happy teachers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES The stories I hear of pupil poverty are getting worse - Times Educational Supplement | TES 1 in 3 would-be Sats moderators failed first training attempt - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do we roll out (rather than rush out!) an evidence-informed curriculum in our schools? - Research Schools Network My struggling students desperately need maintenance grants back | Anonymous academic - Guardian Improving maths at KS2 and KS3: Exploring the EEF guidance report - Research Schools Network Podcast episode 47: The challenges of developing primary school leadership - Research Schools Network Climate protests: Poll finds public back striking pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: John Muir’s legacy gets pupils enthused about learning - Scotsman Hundreds set to skip classes for climate strike - Scotsman We must be more ‘forensic’ in funding campaign, Barton warns - Schools Week Baker U-turns by telling all UTCs they could survive by joining multi-academy trusts - FE Week UTCs told to join MATs after Lord Baker U-turn - Schools Week Surge in pupils with weapons sparks calls for more support - Schools Week Pacific islanders plea to Scottish climate strike pupils: Help us save our paradise - Herald Scotland Scotland: Autistic and disabled pupils 'physically injured and traumatised' in schools, charities claim - Herald Scotland Driving attainment to increase university access - Wonkhe Subjects of study and students with disabilities - Wonkhe A touch of class: HESA data on first undergraduate degree outcomes - Wonkhe Data, housing, funding and cheating (podcast) - Wonkhe Climate strikes: students around the world walk out to demand change – live - Guardian Coding to be taught in prison to help offenders return to the world of work - GOV.UK 'Pupil poverty' pressure on school cash - BBC 'Half of senior schools forced to wash poor pupils' clothing' according to a study - Mail Poorer pupils ‘catch up’ by end of primary, but fall behind again at GCSE - Schools Week Hinds to announce wellbeing focus at ASCL conference - Schools Week Ex-pupils' possessions tell poignant story of boarding school life - Guardian Schools have become 'fourth emergency service' for poorest families - Guardian 'Super worried' about the planet - in Spain, Kenya, Bangladesh - BBC Half of headteachers claim to have done laundry for pupils, survey finds - Telegraph Hackers hold school GCSE work hostage - Times Schools wash clothes for deprived pupils - Times Regular school sport should be a right not a privilege | Malcolm Tozer - Times Schools are providing clothes to pupils in poverty, shocking study reveals - HuffPost