News archive for 19th March 2019

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Four more Birmingham primary schools halt equality lessons - Mail Four more schools stop teaching about homosexuality and transgender issues after protests from parents - The Sun Swinney: The moral purpose of Scottish education has never been clearer - Times Educational Supplement | TES 300 jobs at risk as 19 training centres set to close - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools must ‘fiercely protect’ teacher training despite cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of this week's college strikes cancelled or paused - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted could stop reporting on frequency of bullying in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES I want Lib Dems to be the party of education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Review of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below in England - DfE Students and qualifications at level 3 and below in England - DfE Non-GCSE qualifications in England: key stage 4 entries and absence and exclusions outcomes - DfE Plans launched to boost quality of post -16 qualifications - DfE Apprenticeship funding bands - Education & Skills Funding Agency UCAS announces new Chair of the Board of Trustees - UCAS Milton denies qualifications shake-up ahead of T-level roll-out is market manipulation - FE Week Parents complain to Manchester schools about LGBT lessons - Guardian England’s biggest college group plans to downsize putting 300 jobs at risk - FE Week LGBT lessons row: More Birmingham schools stop classes - BBC Strike ballot opens at Writtle University College in pay row - UCU Strikes still on at five colleges as progress is made in some disputes - UCU Half of college strikes planned for this week called off - FE Week Young people need clear, high-quality and easy to understand options - CBI International education strategy - National Education Union Toxic schools: 16 things teachers have said - Teacher Toolkit When pupils don’t return homework – what can we do? - UKEdChat 'We're not just SEND, we're humans,' pupils tell MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mistrust of new teachers leads to poor mental wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs call for arts to be added to the EBacc - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exploring self-efficacy - Research Schools Network Teacher training - ​the challenge of change - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Personal Education & Skills Accounts: AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Assessment: what’s the point? - Jisc High Court backs Surrey Council over SEND funding challenge - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Cambridge v-c seeks cuts to ease £30 million deficit - Times Higher Education | THE 'We're not problems,' Send youngsters tell MPs - BBC Muslim community pressures private Islamic school in Croydon to stop girl pupils from scuba diving - Mail IOE academic conferred as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences - IOE London Blog Secondary school teacher who made 'inappropriate comments' escapes being banned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unisex toilets at new £47m Scots school could be removed over privacy fears - Scotsman Small ‘good’ schools may get exemption from longer inspections - Schools Week Ethnic minority pupils disproportionately identified with special educational needs - Best Evidence in Brief How do young children develop agency, literacy, and numeracy - Best Evidence in Brief The effects of self-assessment - Best Evidence in Brief Does school entry age matter? - Best Evidence in Brief School mobile phone bans are doomed to fail, says leading head - Evening Standard Racist graffiti scrawled across wall at University of Lincoln prompts investigation - Independent A-level results day 2019: need to know dates and information - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lower absence and exclusion in non-GCSE courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted may rethink plan to give just 150-minutes' notice of inspectors' arrival - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to talk to pupils to help judge a school's curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES 6 ways to measure student participation in discussion tasks - Times Educational Supplement | TES IoD executive director appointed Fife College chair - Times Educational Supplement | TES Milton: Qualifications must 'have currency' in the job market - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let's raise the roof about school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES The judges’ decision: finalists for the Guardian University Awards 2019 - Guardian Schools call for overhaul of primary school testing - Nursery World Hadlow Group appoint interim chairs – including one very familiar face - FE Week Ofsted director brands legal challenges ‘colossal waste of money’, tells schools to ‘bring it on’ - Schools Week Overseas students choose UK business schools despite Brexit - Financial Times Sats create needless pressure for teachers and pupils, heads warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE launches crackdown on post-16 courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE reform could delay help for struggling schools by two years - Times Educational Supplement | TES School climate strikes: 1.4 million people took part, say campaigners - Guardian Fund to boost female and black physicist numbers - BBC What ever happened to open data? - HEPI Life-changing research at UK universities could be days away from stalling - Universities UK Erasmus scheme in chaos as UK students left in limbo - Guardian ‘A riskier place to go’: academics avoid conferences in Brexit Britain - Guardian GCSE English and maths post-16 re-sits under scrutiny as only one in five students pass - SecEd While the UK government runs down schools, other countries pour money into theirs | Laura McInerney - Guardian Climate science is not ‘liberal propaganda’ - Scotsman Scotland: Parents 'kept in the dark' over teacher struck off for force-feeding toast to autistic boy - Herald Scotland 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities - Accountability Hearings Escape to the classroom: challenging learning environments - Wonkhe Running the gauntlet of Ofsted inspection of higher apprenticeships - Wonkhe The Brexit failings cast a long shadow on universities’ relationship with Europe - Times Higher Education | THE Academics fight Birmingham’s plan to cut time for research - Times Higher Education | THE 'You can fly planes': The students who are inspiring younger siblings - BBC No-deal Brexit could mean £130m hit to research budgets - Guardian England’s post-16 qualifications to be streamlined - Guardian Scotland: MSPs to debate introduction of minimum income for students - Mail Scotland: No-deal Brexit puts funding grants at risk, warn universities - Mail Government consults on plans to withdraw funding for BTECs - Schools Week Government consults on plans to withdraw funding for applied generals including BTECs - FE Week Master’s degree gives elite sports coaches an edge - Times