News archive for 22nd March 2019

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Childcare and early years providers survey: 2018 - DfE Governance handbook and competency framework - DfE ESFA introduces new arrangements for related party transactions - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeships: off-the-job training - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted programme for minority ethnic school leaders in London - Ofsted Link between rise in exclusions and increase in knife crime explored - UK Parliament Anti-LGBT protests by pupils ‘very hurtful’, says teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Would PM Gove want to finish his unfinished schools revolution? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE preparing for pupils who 'can't get home' in no deal Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE spent £15k defending nationality data collection months before it was scrapped - Schools Week University barred 10 students from campus during Queen's visit - Guardian Scotland: Police probe 'inappropriate pupil restraint' at school - BBC Children 'left in tears' by protests at sex education row school - Mail Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 22 March - Pearson When will Britain acknowledge our countryside poverty? - HuffPost Graduate scoops international research award - Leeds Beckett University Maintained nurseries: 'the jewel in the social mobility crown' - Sutton Trust Too many teachers still fear being honest about their mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nuffield students win at the Big Bang UK Science and Engineering Competition - Nuffield Foundation The science of early learning - Research Schools Network Call to put Wikipedia editing on national curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES College spends almost £1m on consultants and temps - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the ex-Tory adviser who wants Labour to love free schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES In the news 22 March 2019 - UCU NFER publish 2018 Impact Review - NFER New school funding campaign to launch next week - Schools NorthEast Helping leaders to keep getting better - Ambition Institute How we’re working towards joining the higher education community - Ambition Institute ESFA reveals church school exemption to related-party transactions rule - Schools Week Wales: The Brexit plans drawn up by councils to ensure schools can keep serving dinners - Wales Online No Deal Brexit could leave thousands of Kent pupils stranded - as heads face cancelling classes - Mail Scotland: Investigation into 'inappropriate restraint' of pupils - Herald Scotland Hundreds of parents join WhatsApp group to rage about LGBT lessons in schools - Mirror Ofsted watch: Private provider straight in with grade one - FE Week Losing teachers, cutting curriculum and parent donations: heads speak out about funding woes - Schools Week Parkfield School LGBT lessons 'not axed' despite protests - BBC Mary Warnock embodied the best of Britain’s ruling class before Thatcher | Andrew Brown - Guardian Teaching assistants are invaluable to learning – so why are we being axed? | Darell J Philip - Guardian Wales: Council threatens to leave controversial scheme diverting cash from schools to 'bureaucrats' - Wales Online New grammar school could pave the way for dozens more - Mail Academy trusts turn to ‘grammar streams’ in selective areas - Schools Week Are Scottish universities heading for a financial precipice? - Herald Scotland The real ‘graduate schools’ for teachers already exist - Schools Week Some things are more important than Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of primary pupils haven’t received road safety training - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Ofsted, Sats and vaccinations - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges ticked off for ‘over-optimistic’ forecasts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will the future be of robot teachers? Or teacher robots? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Too soon' for AI to monitor pupil writing, study suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales expands childcare training scheme - Nursery World The best performing secondary schools in Glasgow ranked by Highers results - Scotsman We need to show more girls science 'is for them', says teacher named among world’s top 50 - Evening Standard The 20 best secondary schools in Scotland ranked by Higher results - Scotsman Scotland: The worst performing secondary schools in Glasgow ranked by Highers results - Scotsman Public Accounts Committee to quiz top civil servants from DfE, ESFA and IfATE - FE Week ‘Urgent actions’ needed at two cash-strapped colleges, FE Commissioner warns - FE Week Employers having control over UK skills policy is ‘rhetoric, not reality’ - FE Week Scottish university axes jobs amidst funding crisis - Herald Scotland Listen to parents before making decisions, DfE tells school governors - Schools Week Bradford academy trust in ‘unprecedented’ pay and conditions change - Schools Week Erasmus gave me an opportunity I would never otherwise have had | Eloise Millard - Guardian Meet the Rebel Headmaster fighting education cuts - New Statesman The numbers expose the truth – level 6 and 7 is mostly ‘dead weight’ and unaffordable - FE Week Teachers at risk of ‘one of the most infectious diseases’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE is paying 'excessive' free-school rent to ex Tory chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES MATs warned not to ditch national pay and conditions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brexit: ‘Give nursery workers priority for visas’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outwood Grange won't say how much it spent on crisis managers - Times Educational Supplement | TES How artificial intelligence tools can be used to improve education - Nesta Joining a union – essential or personal choice? - The Educator 'Information isn't just for the elite': the academic turning research into hip-hop - Guardian Shakira Martin on widening participation - HEPI Scotland: Napier University teacher training builds a bigger picture - Scotsman The truth behind plans to cull 300 staff at England’s largest college group - FE Week 10,000 children to benefit from new £5 million performing arts programme - GOV.UK Scotland: St Andrews periodic table confirmed as world’s oldest - Scotsman The Birmingham protest shows we still can’t take LGBT equality for granted | Gaby Hinsliff - Guardian Getting schools ready for RSHE - Schools Week Holland Park school spent £15k on Farrow & Ball paint and £6k on Jo Malone candles - Schools Week Brexit could ‘double the pressure on teacher recruitment’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than quarter of UK HE institutions post deficits - Times Higher Education | THE Nature editor: researchers should be forced to make data public - Times Higher Education | THE School holiday fines double in just one year as councils crack down on trips during term time - The Sun HESA institutional finance 2019 release: KFI is going to rock you - Wonkhe International, cheating, skills, demography (podcast) - Wonkhe Partnering to transform student mental health - Wonkhe A big letter in Wales - Wonkhe The coming demographic spike will differ by region - Wonkhe Apprenticeships vital for tackling future workplace challenges - FE News New grammar school could pave the way for dozens more - Mail School holiday fines 'double in one year' after ruling it is illegal to take pupils out of term time - Mail Posh academy school is asking parents to buy presents for snowflake teachers to help them cope with stress - The Sun Children's centres facing a fight for survival, warn councils - Nursery World Teacher, the dog aids my schoolwork - Times Baroness Warnock, IVF ethics pioneer, dies - Times Anti-PC professor Jordan Peterson attacks Cambridge ‘cowards’ after job is withdrawn - Times School holiday fines rise by 75% in a year - Times School exclusions are too often a one-way ticket to the scrap-heap | Robert Halfon - Times Scotland: Glasgow University students get help from US anti-abortion activists - Times