News archive for 25th March 2019

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Schools in Britain have suffered £5.4billion in budget cuts in four years - Mirror How to be an outstanding teacher without classroom management skills? - The Educator Teachers call for car ban outside schools - The Educator ‘Socially selective’ faith schools must introduce fairer admissions to increase poorer students, charity says - Independent Teacher Professional Learning Frameworks in Northern Ireland – final report - UCET NFER celebrates inaugural ‘Item Response Theory and Assessment Week’ - NFER School funding: New analysis shows £5.4bn cut from school budgets in England since 2015 - National Education Union The Welsh government finally confirms funding to cover the increases to employer contribution costs - NAHT Chris Skidmore: A STEP further for students - DfE 'Rogue' private landlords must stop exploiting students - DfE Industry placements - DfE ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Top DfE official tells PAC of difficult decisions to avoid apprenticeship levy overspend - FE Week Current apprenticeship funding might require 'choices to be made' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Great leadership must be allowed to flourish in colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need to talk about the curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Want to become a nuclear scientist? Try an apprenticeship - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why are there no headlines when behaviour in school improves? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted removed LGBT concerns from published report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gender pay gap expert among top professors quitting Brexit Britain - Guardian Special educational needs require inclusion | Letters - Guardian Schools have lost £5.4bn since 2015, unions claim - Schools Week Universities’ anti-cheating efforts need an overhaul | Letters - Guardian Schools funding shortfall of £5.4bn 'worse than estimated' - Guardian Academy boss 'ordered schools to cheat on Sats tests' - BBC Scotland: Cash-strapped school forced to consider 4-and-a-half-day week to save money - Mirror Birmingham LGBT lessons row school staff 'distraught' - BBC Kenyan teacher who gives 80% of his salary to help poorest students wins top $1m prize - Independent The head teacher battling unpaid school bills - BBC £5.4bn funding shortfall leaves schools at 'breaking point' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Charitable foundation to deliver £200m youth crime prevention fund - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Guardianship standards review expected – BSA - PIE News DfE withdraws 'mythbuster' following charity's legal threat - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Parents and children talk and interact less with electronic books compared to print books - UKEdChat Marking, buckets, & that cognitive load theory question - Teacher Tapp Education and Training Foundation chosen to manage Centres for Excellence in Maths programme - Education & Training Foundation | ETF One in six students say they have no ‘true friends’ at university, according to study - Independent Celebrating UK skills for nuclear - GOV.UK The best and worst high schools in Edinburgh for getting pupils into work, training or further study - Scotsman Dr Jordan Peterson: 'Anti-Islam shirt' behind fellowship U-turn - BBC Working-class academics ‘face discrimination throughout careers’ - Times Higher Education | THE UK business school leaders predict closures and mergers - Times Higher Education | THE Cardiff’s German link aims to protect funding access post-Brexit - Times Higher Education | THE £5.4bn shortfall in school funding since 2015, unions say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Departing school leader’s warning over ‘pernicious accountability system’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs make video to raise awareness of peer abuse guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Abide by Britain’s laws, ex-Ofsted chief tells parents in same-sex lessons row - HuffPost I didn't realise how ill anxiety was making me - Wales Online Tinder for teacher recruitment, anyone? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jordan Peterson: Alt-right figurehead's Cambridge fellowship revoked after photo with man in Islamophobic t-shirt - Independent Birmingham school should resume LGBT lessons, says ex-Ofsted chief - Guardian World's best teacher Peter Tabichi can call me any time, says former winner from London - Evening Standard Reinstate LGBT classes, says Sir Michael Wilshaw - BBC DfE ‘considering options’ for free sanitary products in primaries - Schools Week Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes: Evidence from a developing country - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics Most teachers 'support car-free roads outside schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eat, sleep, revise, repeat - Teacher Toolkit Need to know: How struggling schools get support - Times Educational Supplement | TES School’s not out – Britain must become a nation of lifelong learners - City AM We need more female entrepreneurs. Universities can help create them | Alice Gast and Alexsis de Raadt St James - Guardian ‘Time is up’ for rogue landlords who provide poor student living conditions, minister warns - Independent Movers and Shakers: Edition 275 - FE Week 4:00 p.m. - Oral evidence session re the apprenticeships programme: progress review inquiry - Accountability Hearings Air pollution: Two-thirds of teachers would support banning cars near schools, survey finds - Independent ESFA spends over £500k on cash awards for staff - Schools Week Brexit nudges funding formula to the back of the line - Schools Week DfE plans new national computing SCITT despite other centres struggling to recruit - Schools Week Ban cars outside UK schools to tackle air pollution, teachers say - Guardian School climate strike pupils invited to Holyrood - Herald Scotland Wildlife filmmaker backs drive to expand outdoor nurseries - Herald Scotland Engage children in wonders of natural world - Herald Scotland Scottish students demand more cash for universities and colleges - Herald Scotland Nurseries urged to let children play in the great outdoors - Herald Scotland Reflection in learning and teaching: Reflective practitioner - Advance HE Only the lonely – loneliness, student activities and mental wellbeing - Wonkhe Getting HESA ready for designation - Wonkhe Thriving academic community demands social learning - Wonkhe More than papering over cracks: futureproofing the university - Wonkhe Should we meet or transform student expectations? - Wonkhe Response to Anthony Seldon’s call for reform to UUK - HEPI Outsourced schools: the Essex mums fighting back (podcast) - Guardian Tim Peake joins Scouts Association to launch a new science badge for scouts. - BBC Teachers want to ban cars from school run so kids don't breathe toxic fumes - Mirror The nursery where there are no toys: Games replaced with cardboard boxes in 'back to basics' trial - Mail HMRC investigations into levy underpayments more than doubles in a year - FE Week Ethics professors are no more ethical than the rest of us - Times Scotland: Boarding school Glenalmond College’s mobile phone ban boosts learning - Times