News archive for 26th March 2019

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Meet the serial entrepreneur turned college champion - Times Educational Supplement | TES Another Birmingham school suspends lessons amid concerns from parents about relationships and sex education - Independent Ofsted rows back on judging schools' EBacc progress - Times Educational Supplement | TES Malpractice isn't just a problem for academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should schools or parents be responsible for the socialisation of pupils? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Every day, children are being raped in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools make up 58 of 100 biggest gender pay gaps - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools ‘jolly pleased’ by Chinese take-overs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Plans for new wave of religiously segregated schools revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES More Scots students going to university, but college numbers fall - Scotsman Use stop and search in schools to tackle knife crime, MP suggests - Guardian How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 3: Assessment - The Learning Spy Use ballots to allocate places at Scotland's top state schools, says major report - Herald Scotland First pictures inside the new £36m Cardiff West Community High which opens on April 2 - Wales Online Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 December 2018 - Ofsted Rise in staff costs risks nursery 'casualties', warns NDNA - Nursery World Early years and childcare statistics - Ofsted School workforce census 2019: technical information - DfE Manage school experience: information for schools - DfE Standards for school food in England - DfE Free school meals supplementary grant: 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency £5.4bn funding shortfall hits schools - The Educator Comparing a numbers cap with an attainment threshold - HEPI New Sutton Trust report calls for fairer admissions across Great Britain - NFER APS and Collab Group in a new partnership to boost sales apprenticeships across the UK - Collab Group Understanding international student mental health - Universities UK Alison Wolf: ministers ‘increasingly aware’ of HE growth failings - Times Higher Education | THE David Davis tips post-18 review to ‘look harder’ at variable fees - Times Higher Education | THE University hosting church summit where same-sex partners are banned to raise ‘ethical concerns’ with archbishop - Independent 5 steps to consistent behaviour management - Teacher Toolkit EPI response to NHS Digital report on children’s mental health - EPI Celebrating children's voices - Leeds Beckett University Brexit not affecting MBA intake – GMAC - PIE News Universities: increasingly stressful environments taking psychological toll – here’s what needs to change - The Conversation New project will use EEF trials to gain insights into educational interventions for children involved in social care - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Wiltshire College wins Edge sponsored Beacon Award - Edge Foundation Childminder numbers fall at a rate of eight a day - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Progressing the future of in-work progression - ERSA IOE academics explore the most pressing issues in world education at global conference - IOE London Blog ESFA appears to have changed the apprenticeship off-the-job calculation – again - FE Week Ofsted could give schools extra time to develop curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why schools must do better on apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grassroots heads' groups' damning verdict on Ofsted plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Crude school league tables demoralise teachers and pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Climate change petition: Oxford students campaign for better teaching on subject - BBC Scotland: Shooting range to open just yards from Midlothian college campus and housing estate - Scotsman Record number of students in higher education in Scotland - Mail Childminder numbers fall by 3 per cent in three months - Nursery World The green paper that should be required reading for Labour’s NES commission - FE Week The 10 best student cities in Britain - Telegraph Additional support needs research: key findings - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in 10 primary teachers should have science master’s, MSPs hear - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'High risk' of college insolvency, warns FE commissioner - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school extends class until 4.30pm to prepare children for secondary - Metro Jordan Peterson says his lectures prevent suicides - Times Providers of management apprenticeships to be increasingly audited for proof they are ‘additive’, MPs told - FE Week Chatbot talks up a storm for Bolton College - Jisc Mumps outbreak at Nottingham universities - BBC Whether you agree with Jordan Peterson or not - Cambridge University owes him an apology - Montrose42 David Ross Education Trust appoints Christine Counsell to help develop new curriculum - Schools Week Why are Scotland’s college lecturers on strike?: A statement by the EIS - Herald Scotland Scotland: Teachers get new guidance on supporting pupils with additional needs - Scotsman Scotland: Edinburgh Uni race row as students accused of ‘yellow face’ at Chinese New Year party - Scotsman Why the IfATE have decided to become more transparent about our plans - FE Week Excluded teens are often the most vulnerable – and they're falling through the gap - HuffPost Ballots would make school admissions fairer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Balancing out Britain’s state schools - Sutton Trust Top comprehensive schools take half the number of poorer pupils than the average - Sutton Trust Bring in a ballot for places at Scotland's top schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dear Damian Hinds, killing off BTecs won’t get it right for young people | Michael Rosen - Guardian Key to prison education handed to governors - Guardian Most of Scotland's best state schools 'in the 20 per cent wealthiest areas' - Telegraph Getting beyond the tired old student stereotypes - Wonkhe Poorer pupils less likely to get place at top Scots state schools - Scotsman Never gonna give EU up - Wonkhe Some students’ lives are more secret than others - Wonkhe Research at the chalk face: connecting academia and schools - Cambridge Network The DfE doesn’t like its own GCSE pass thresholds, claims Forgotten Third inquiry chair - Schools Week Working-class discrimination is the weed in Plato’s garden - Times Higher Education | THE University-powered fact-checker aims to restore faith in science - Times Higher Education | THE Lee Elliot Major: university access heading for ‘perfect storm’ - Times Higher Education | THE The digital future of further education - FE News Surgeons who want you to touch knife crime - BBC Wales' best schools: 'Random ballots' admissions call - BBC Scotland: School places ballot could help close attainment gap, study suggests - Mail Breast ironing awareness 'needed in school' - BBC Primary schools should restart lessons on gay and transgender issues despite furious protests from parents, says ex-Ofsted chief - The Sun Jordan Peterson: anti-PC scholar dropped by Cambridge over Islamophobia shirt - Times Chinese who study in UK can go home to graduate - Times Universities teach the suppression of ideas | Melanie Phillips - Times Scotland: Allocating schools by ballot ‘would help poorer children’ - Times Scotland: Budget cuts leave pupils facing shorter week - Times