News archive for 29th March 2019

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Met police 'failing to tackle online child abuse' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 29 March - Pearson Policy Tracker - Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in March 2019 - Pearson Pedagogy, technology and implementation - Research Schools Network New guidance for schools on digital technology - Research Schools Network Using digital technology - Research Schools Network 5 ways to engage with a new EEF Guidance Report - Research Schools Network Edge Foundation announces recipients of 2018 Grant Awards - Edge Foundation Purchasing power: how university procurement teams benefit students and society - Universities UK In the news 29 March 2019 - UCU Having a secure and safe place to conduct the fieldwork: Further anecdotal tales in pursuit of the elusive doctorate - BERA NFER reveals latest gender pay gap figures - NFER Primary schools will deliver LGBT lessons - The Educator UKHO apprentice wins Somerset Apprenticeship Award - GOV.UK Phil Beach CBE - A regulated approach to EQA - Ofqual Supporting students to succeed: OfS allocates £1.4 billion for 2019-20 - Office for Students Education Ministers questioned on technology and school and college funding - UK Parliament UCAS wins at last night’s Management Consultancies Association's awards - UCAS Taiwanese Science and Technology Minister questioned on technology in schools - UK Parliament Four steps to a healthier relationship with tech - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Accountability, research crisis and edtech - Times Educational Supplement | TES Political climate ‘more worrying’ than ever for academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I remember being an outsider' - the teacher at the centre of LGBT row - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Fresh industrial action announced as college lecturers up pay dispute - Mail Universities must do more for black students, warns watchdog - Guardian Ofsted watch: Mixed results for FE providers - FE Week White students outperform black peers at all English universities, figures show - Mail Podcast 44 – Is education representative of diversity? - Teacher Toolkit Ofsted downgrades dozens of ‘outstanding’ schools - Schools Week Scotland: Councils rubber stamp teacher pay deal - Herald Scotland University of Bath pays £16,000 for oil painting of UK's highest-paid vice chancellor - Independent Guildford College Group joins Activate Learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES House of Commons short of public sector apprenticeships target - Times Educational Supplement | TES How Wales can avoid England's turmoil over LGBT-inclusive education - Wales Online PACEY launches #notababysitter campaign - Nursery World Why I have organised a march against UK-wide school funding cuts | Donna Ferguson - Guardian Parents of autistic children often face a tough linguistic choice – but bilingualism can be of huge benefit - The Conversation Edtech expert is ‘missing job’ in academy top teams, says Ark senior leader - Schools Week Testing kit or ban? How universities are tackling student drug use - Guardian Blow your own trumpet and shake off your victim mentality, providers told - FE Week Alert raised on the high volume of ‘tie-breaks’ in latest ESF tendering process - FE Week Funding clawback for college at risk of cash crisis - FE Week LGBT people 'never felt more vulnerable' in Birmingham - BBC Apprenticeship off-the-job calculation change? Wait for further clarification - FE Week This much-needed focus on colleges must be capitalised on - FE Week Why it's important that women help plug the cyber skills gap - Jisc The 22 councils given permission to top up high needs funding from the schools block - Schools Week IfA chief ‘stepping down’, claims headhunters - FE Week No to cost-cutting, yes to optimisation - Schools Week ‘Serious concern’ as training provider cashes in on controversial management consultancy apprenticeship - FE Week Maybe school league tables are good for something after all - Times Educational Supplement | TES New EEF guidance report published: ‘Using Digital Technology to Improve Learning’ - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Whose voice is heard in higher education? - HEPI AAC Awards 2019 winners crowned - FE Week Nobody takes responsibility for tackling racism in my university. Why? | Anonymous academic - Guardian Graduate gender pay gap is widening, official figures reveal - Guardian Older teachers 'bullied out of schools’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education research's 'terrifying existential crisis' sees thousands of studies reviewed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tory leadership race: What does it mean for education? - Schools Week Protests over religion and sex education reforms spread as MPs back changes - Schools Week Grade inflation, loneliness, mergers, Peterson (podcast) - Wonkhe REF must ‘bring hammer down’ on open access books, says professor - Times Higher Education | THE European copyright directive ‘opens door to mass digitalisation’ - Times Higher Education | THE Can universities heal the wounds of toxic Brexit politics? - Wonkhe Women fall even further behind men on graduate pay, figures show - Mail Education cuts: Half day on Friday for some schools - BBC Three quarters of schools rated outstanding by Ofsted are in decline - Times Bath university students angry at £16,000 portrait of vice-chancellor Glynis Breakwell - Times Gender pay gap: male graduates earning more than women - Times Young academics deserve better pay and more security | James Marriott - Times Scotland: Strike threat as councils question teachers’ pay deal - Times