News archive for 27th March 2019

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Parents 'hire private tutors for help understanding their children's homework' - Evening Standard Scotland: Students 'turning to sugar daddies to help finance their university life' - Mirror Bad behaviour in classrooms fuelled by fashionable 'restorative justice' schemes, teacher union chief says - Telegraph Kids to spend an extra hour in school after damning report into ‘failing teachers’ - The Sun Chinese investors buying UK private schools will help keep sector afloat, says ex-Harrow head - Telegraph Police officers in schools to double in response to knife crime epidemic, Met chief says - Telegraph Recruitment crisis could see YouTube replacing teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edtech can make pupils with SEND independent, minister says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Campaigns against LGBT lessons spreading - Times Educational Supplement | TES Knife carrying should not mean automatic exclusion, says former Ofsted chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES Knife crime: Stop and search should be used in schools, top police officer says - Independent A strategic approach to IT budget planning - Independent Head Anger at job loss plans for Knowsley and St Helens colleges - UCU Scrapping popular qualification would be reckless - ASCL Scottish teachers' pay claim 2018/19: update - Voice Subcontracted delivery of apprenticeships dropped significantly in first year of the levy, FOI data reveals - AELP Seeking simple solutions to complex problems: The careers conundrum - HEPI Five educators receive Ambition Institute special recognition awards - Ambition Institute Groups applying to open fully selective faith schools with government funding revealed - Independent Stop and search should be used in schools in knife crime areas - Mail Apprenticeship quality not improving, says Ofsted chief inspector - FE Week Knife crime: Met to double number of police in schools - Guardian You can learn a lot about a school from how it greets its visitors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why do we have to keep bashing the PGCE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further education makes a difference every day. We need to prove it - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher Recruitment Bulletin - DfE Effective feedback to maximise progress - Research Schools Network Nurseries under pressure from wage and pensions increases - CYPN | Children & Young People Now GCSE English literature: how to help pupils achieve - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrapping BTECs 'rash and reckless', warn principals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Planning primary poetry - Teacher Toolkit Adult education budget: S31 grant determination letters - DfE Minister Skidmore: My vision for global higher education - DfE Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education: strategic guidance - DfE ESFA Update: 27 March 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget (AEB) devolution - Education & Skills Funding Agency Amanda Spielman at the 2019 Annual Apprenticeships Conference - Ofsted IBM Robo Challenge focusses on girls who STEM - Education Development Trust | EDT The 24 schools in Scotland with the lowest rate for getting pupils into work, training or further study - Scotsman Why is metacognition so important yet elusive? - Research Schools Network Police in schools increase after knife crime - BBC DfE hires finance expert to advise on university collapses - Times Higher Education | THE Stop and search in schools would be a terrible indictment of society | Gill Burbridge - Guardian Expert 'fails' Scottish Government report on future of science teaching - Herald Scotland The 30 best schools in Scotland for getting pupils into work, training or further study - Scotsman ESFA says 30 hour cap to off-the-job calculation has always been in funding rules - FE Week School adds extra hour onto day so that Year 6 pupils can 'make up for lost time' - Mirror 65 more jobs under threat at merged college - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should model mobile use, not ban them - Times Educational Supplement | TES Breast ironing awareness should be taught in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why evening classes could protect students from knife crime - Times Educational Supplement | TES How much will Scottish teachers earn? - Herald Scotland Piers Morgan slams parents pulling kids out of schools over LGBT lessons - The Sun 'Rogue' student landlords warned they can now be sued over 'squalor' conditions - Mirror Scotland: Teachers accept 13% pay proposal after 'successful campaign' - Mail Scottish teachers accept 13% pay rise after ‘successful campaign’ - Scotsman Knife crime: Doubling of police in London schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish teachers overwhelmingly accept pay offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES £630m in adult education funds handed to mayors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils wary of challenging ‘powerful’ academy CEOs over exclusions, warns Wilshaw - Schools Week Cheltenham early years centre wins Shine a Light Award - Nursery World Baffled parents are hiring £40-an-hour tutors so they can understand their children's homework - Mail For richer, for poorer – should MATs have a joint bank account? - Schools Week 'I feel caught in the middle': queer Muslims on the LGBTQ lessons row - Guardian Annual Apprenticeships Conference 2019 gets underway - FE Week Pooling school budgets ‘wasn’t as painful as you might think’, says academy trust boss - Schools Week Scots private schools face £37m bill in move to axe tax breaks - Scotsman Independent training providers lose apprenticeship market share - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Master Craftsman’ title would raise status for apprenticeships - Social Market Foundation | SMF Making apprenticeships work - Social Market Foundation | SMF 3:15 p.m. - Oral evidence session re detention of young people with learning disabilities and autism - Accountability Hearings University of East Anglia: 'Mental health improvements needed' - BBC How Scotland could be £4.5bn a year richer - Scotsman Scotland: Edinburgh politicians give cool reception to ‘random ballot’ plan for school catchment areas - Scotsman The C-word that means much more than ‘could do better’ - FE Week Scotland: Private schools to be hit with £37m bill amid plans to remove charity tax relief - Herald Scotland Scotland: Vulnerable girls being bullied at school - Herald Scotland Clear ethical lines are needed for industry collaboration - Times Higher Education | THE Once upon a time: hearing student stories - Wonkhe Is collective student engagement still a thing? - Wonkhe Employer confidence plunges as uncertainty over Brexit bites - FE News 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re knife crime - Accountability Hearings Dozens of parents and children protest outside second Birmingham primary school - Mail Craft workers 'need their own titles' - BBC 'Helicopter parents' are to blame for snowflake 'Gen-Z' youngsters struggling at university - Mail Extremism is global education fight, says Blair - BBC Cherie Blair tells pupils 'most African women's first sexual experience is rape' - Mail Proportion of apprenticeships delivered by subcontractors falls dramatically - FE Week Sex education: Parents' right to withdraw children could go - BBC Apprenticeships should bring back 'Master Craftsman' title to boost status, says think-tank - Telegraph Baffled parents hire their own tutors - Times Protests force Bristol University free speech society to cancel event - Times Medieval idea to make apprentices masters of their craft - Times Scotland: ‘Vindictive’ rate reforms set to cost private schools millions of pounds - Times Scotland: Edinburgh students accused of wearing ‘yellow face’ at China party - Times