News archive for 18th March 2019

back to standard EdNews format

IGCSE exam board denies tests are 'easier' than GCSEs as they say private school pupils tend to do better - Telegraph Accountability is the noose strangling teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don’t demonise all apprenticeship subcontractors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Securing a future for humanities: the clue is in the name| Letters - Guardian The Guardian view on special educational needs: segregation is not the answer | Editorial - Guardian Principal suspended pending outcome of investigation has resigned - FE Week Top computer scientist chosen to lead National Centre for Computing Education - DfE Children paying the price of cuts to crisis support, warns charity - Nursery World The impact of restricting TV advertising of junk food would depend on how firms respond - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS International Education Strategy: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges GCSEs: How building resilience leads to better results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Safeguarding teams aren't given the time they desperately need - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trust has 'contentious' bar bills queried by DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years: ‘Am I going to be hugged or ignored?’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES T level contracts worth more than £30m up for grabs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spending review must confirm colleges' importance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental health experts to advise DfE on teacher wellbeing - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sector reacts to UK “lollipop” growth strategy - PIE News Getting to grips with cognitive load theory - Teacher Toolkit The invisible killer on our streets - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Second T-levels tender for awarding bodies launched - FE Week YouGov/More Than A Score survey on testing - National Education Union What is school science for? - BERA Further education: flexible learning fund - DfE NAHT secures extensive amendments to the revised school complaints guidance - NAHT Selective Schools Expansion Fund - DfE Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Free school meals supplementary grant: 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency High needs: allocated place numbers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Deals for schools - DfE External Quality Assurance (EQA) starts to get to grips with the building momentum - FE News NAHT (NI) responds to Derek Baker’s comments on the lack of an education minister in Northern Ireland - NAHT Ten things schools can do to address the climate crisis - Schools Week News about the early rollout of the Early Career Framework - NAHT Cracking the culture: helping staff and pupils become champions - Ambition Institute Wales: Suspended Swansea University lecturer to pursue legal action over 'extensive breach of trust' - Wales Online Two-fifths of schools have buckets catching drips from leaky roofs - Schools Week Revision tips: Sniffing lemons and squeezing ears - BBC Reporter's take: Are schools finally winning the funding debate? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for urgent inquiry into schools admissions system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted 'rejected idea of considering private tuition when rating schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Community' pressured Muslim school to stop girls scuba diving - Times Educational Supplement | TES Microsoft researcher to head up new National Centre for Computing Education - Schools Week Future of last girls-only state school hangs in the balance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Computing teachers’ leader to chair National Centre for Computing Education - Times Educational Supplement | TES All-through schools are proving a missed opportunity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free sanitary products and spare underwear to be made more available to all girls in Cardiff schools - Wales Online How to take the teacher blame game out of lesson observations - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted finds workers being forced onto provider’s apprenticeship programme - FE Week New digital tool becoming a key part in supporting practitioners with their teaching and training - Education & Training Foundation Northamptonshire County Council proposes cuts to early years - Nursery World Meet the Welsh teenager who has already completed 1,000 hours of volunteering - Wales Online Twenty times more English children could cycle to school with better transport planning - The Conversation ‘It is an end-of-tether moment’ – Estelle Morris on the schools crisis, cuts and child poverty - Guardian Do we ask too much of trainee teachers? - The Educator Need to know: What is off-rolling? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads seek talks with Ofsted on off-rolling crackdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Deaf pupils’ education in ‘crisis’ over teacher shortage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rate of young people getting degrees halves - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs call for tax on social media companies - BBC Movers and Shakers: Edition 274 - FE Week ‘Crazy’ quality assurance system for apprenticeships should be handed over to Ofqual says Halfon - FE News How should we judge the Augar proposals when they appear? - HEPI Inspectors must declare all consultancy work after rule change - Schools Week How should providers interpret the ‘new’ ESFA guidance on prior learning? - FE Week Scotland: Will the Pupil Equity Fund close the attainment gap? - Herald Scotland Attainment versus grade inflation: which students are caught in the middle? - Times Higher Education | THE Students in poorer areas ‘don’t see universities’ online adverts’ - Times Higher Education | THE Apprenticeship levy fuels business school boom - Financial Times The great recruitment crisis: planning for rapid student number growth - Wonkhe Has coregulation met an untimely demise? - Wonkhe Vigilance in the face of risk - Wonkhe OfS is one year older – but how much wiser? - Wonkhe We’ve got an international education strategy – what next? COMMENT - Wonkhe The politics of the great recruitment crisis - Wonkhe Growing up with gangs, poverty and knife crime (podcast) - Guardian Forced marriage: 'Dad said he would kill me if he found me' - BBC Government urged to fund teachers for deaf children to avoid 'staffing crisis' - Nursery World SEND nursery may close after LA cutbacks - Nursery World Council tells DfE of settings in financial crisis - Nursery World Mayor tackles low uptake of funded two-year-old places - Nursery World Exam tips: sniff a lemon or squeeze your ear, says ’neuroscience’ guide - Times British science needs to remain open to the world after Brexit | Alice Gast - Times The head teacher who also cleans the school loos - Times Scotland: Funding for vulnerable pupils has shrunk by a quarter, charities say - Times Ireland: School-starting age should not be a guessing game | Mary McCarthy - Times Ireland: Dublin City University given go ahead for off-licence on campus - Times