News archive for 2nd May 2019

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Number of schools failing to recruit senior leaders rises to record high, survey suggests - Independent Couple who took child out of school for holiday face prison if they do it again - Mirror Students going to university with EEE grades at A-levels is 'lunacy', education minister says - Telegraph New EEF trial results: +3 months’ boost for primary pupils’ maths results - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Muslim students shouldn't feel that Oxbridge isn't for them - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private-school leader: 'The middle classes are being ignored' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister suggests state-school teachers are ungrateful for their pensions - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Keep Sats,' say ministers – but they've already made the tests a sideshow - Times Educational Supplement | TES Evidence in the absence of impact - lessons learnt from applying neuroscience in the classroom - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF University of Bristol told to learn lessons after Ben Murray's suicide - BBC SQA defends biology exam after thousands of Scots pupils say it is 'too hard' - Scotsman Training firm with 2,000 learners goes bust - FE Week Scottish university declares climate emergency - Herald Scotland Coroner calls on universities to destigmatise mental health issues - Guardian Student, 19, fell to his death from a bridge after being kicked out of college - Mail T levels no guaranteed success story yet - Times Educational Supplement | TES GSA partnership to encourage more women Heads celebrates success - GSA Spielman: We won't penalise you for old results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Open University & FutureLearn take £50m investment from SEEK - PIE News Our post-16 skills system is far from optimal - PoliticsHome DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (May 2019) - UCET Action for Children wins £5m contract to run children's centres in Norfolk - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ministers stress new UK strategy “sector-led” - PIE News Who is responsible for students' success? - Advance HE Advance HE welcomes the new report, ‘Black, Asian and minority ethnic student attainment at UK universities - Advance HE Schools sports facilities may be forced to open in summer to help fight child obesity - Guardian Universities told to close race ‘degree gap’ - The Educator Academy and school governance: professional development - DfE Warning notices to independent schools - DfE Amanda Spielman's speech to the North Yorkshire Coast Opportunity Area - Ofsted Withdrawal of apprenticeship frameworks - Education & Skills Funding Agency Unistats 2019: Timetable and arrangements for the submission and publication of data - Office for Students The pain, potential and promise of university policy - Wonkhe Show not tell: the knowledge exchange concordat - Wonkhe EU students, over-education, BME attainment, Cambridge and slavery (podcast) - Wonkhe What are Residence Life programmes and why do they matter? - Wonkhe Opportunity Areas accused of 'draining resources' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Funding to cover the increased employer pension contribution costs confirmed for schools in England - NAHT Don't send students under 16 on work experience - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head warns schools are 'building food banks' for hungry pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted will keep grading schools! - Teacher Toolkit Fair access: are comprehensive universities the answer? - IOE London Blog Parents threatened with jail after taking child on holiday in term time - Express For the sector to thrive, staff must be properly rewarded - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister says letting pupils into university with three Es is 'lunacy' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers need more help to support refugee children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Parents think our outstanding grade has been devalued - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted’s evidence is so unfounded that their case for retaining grades collapses - Schools Week Law student forced to quit university after 'attack' in halls left her terrified - Mirror Cambridge university college sacks academic over links to far-right extremists - Independent The blame for knife crime lies with austerity - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 17 FE projects to share £57m Skills for Londoners Capital Fund - FE Week Universities urged to close 'degree gap' between black and white students - Guardian Move work experience to sixth form and spread it throughout the year, says think tank - Schools Week Post-18 education and funding: options for the government review - EPI As a black student, I know why our grades are worse: universities don’t listen to us | Adesewa Esther Adebisi - Guardian Universities told to 'decolonise' their teaching as black and Asian students are put off - Mail Universities acting to close BAME student attainment gap - Universities UK OGAT under fire for plans to make misbehaving pupils repeat a year - Schools Week Effective work experience: Let’s talk about WEX - LKMco Cambridge University criticised for hosting anti-feminist group - Guardian We'll hold badly behaved pupils back a year, say academies - Guardian Lack of role models ‘key cause’ of ethnic minority attainment gap - Times Higher Education | THE Scotland: Parents 'left in the dark' over curriculum reforms - Herald Scotland The sector is failing BME students unless closing the attainment gap is made a priority - Wonkhe The multiple equality measure – an alternative to POLAR - Wonkhe The state of the discipline: English studies - Times Higher Education | THE Renowned trio lose out in Russell Group student recruitment race - Times Higher Education | THE Engage with climate deniers and anti-vaxxers, says science chief - Times Higher Education | THE 'Long way to go' to eliminate BAME attainment gap at universities - Mail Universities told to tackle race attainment gap - BBC Universities must 'decolonise' the curriculum to boost black students' grades, vice-Chancellors say - Telegraph Bristol University kicked student out weeks before he took his own life - Times Academics defend racism row scholar Noah Carl - Times Universities told to publish ‘ethnic gap’ - Times Scotland: Deprived areas ‘place greater restrictions on school subjects’ - Times