News archive for 16th March 2019

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50 years of the Open University - Scotsman Lecturers pass no confidence vote on Colleges Scotland - Mail Hungry, unwashed children fill our schools – how has it come to this? | Barbara Ellen - Guardian 3 important pieces of education research - Teacher Toolkit The trouble with giant ants and the pitfalls of scaling up evidence - Research Schools Network Trials testing new educational methods in schools ‘often fail to produce useful evidence’ - UKEdChat UK government announces new international education strategy - PIE News Why today’s International Education Strategy is welcome but guaranteed to fail unless we adopt more ambitious policies - HEPI New international strategy - Russell Group ASCL General Secretary warns GCSE system rubs the noses of pupils in disappointment - ASCL MillionPlus welcomes the government’s International Education Strategy - MillionPlus International Education Strategy: global potential, global growth - DfE Plans to boost international student numbers and income - DfE Amanda Spielman's speech at the 2019 ASCL annual conference - Ofsted UK international student strategy sets 600K recruitment target - Times Educational Supplement | TES Improving schools won't suffer under new inspection framework - Spielman - Schools Week Primary Rocks: The tips, stories and ideas that inspire teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anti-bullying work should never stop, teachers told - Times Educational Supplement | TES WATCH: Geoff Barton on why schools need £5.7bn more - Times Educational Supplement | TES New group to ‘challenge fundamentals of education system’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES What if we gave pupils control of their curriculum? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Free GCSE resit students from cold functionalism' - Times Educational Supplement | TES League tables 'stigmatise schools and demoralise communities' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted plans to entice middle leaders for inspection secondments - Schools Week ‘Our children deserve better’: parents win judicial review of special needs spending - Guardian If you tolerate this then your children will be next - The Learning Spy Performance tables penalise schools with most vulnerable pupils, warns union boss - Schools Week GCSEs 'rub pupils' noses in disappointment', says heads' chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted’s off-rolling focus may drive exclusions, leading heads warn - Schools Week Ambition Institute plans apprenticeships so schools can dip into £200m levy pot - Schools Week Academy trust accused of using assemblies to intimidate students - Guardian Thousands skip lessons to take part in climate protests spread across Scotland - Scotsman Excluded children can still have hope: here’s the proof - Guardian The National Education Service: Suggestions on a postcard, please - FE Week Trusts fail to make use of £500k DfE takeover funding - Schools Week UK international student strategy sets 600K recruitment target - Times Higher Education | THE Foreign students can stay in UK for longer after their degree ends to boost post-Brexit economy - Telegraph Exclusions banned in drive to stop knife crime - Times Are winds to blame for bad behaviour? - Times Visa extension to boost numbers of overseas students in UK after Brexit - Guardian Private tutors creating rigged system, Ofsted warned - Times Parents use disclosure laws to find out why Oxbridge rejected children - Times 'We are rubbing pupils’ noses in disappointment' - union boss - Schools Week Skipping school to save the world - Times Ministers Gove and Hinds at odds over school climate change walkout - Times