News archive for 3rd May 2019

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Green light to scrap floor and coasting standards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxbridge: ‘Contextual’ offers don’t go far enough - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds' defends pay snub for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships vs sixth-formers: will the DfE have to choose? - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Sats, academies and mindfulness - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hinds: 'Teachers should not face social media abuse' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 3 May - Pearson Mind the doors: young people are now getting more chances - FE Week Schools denied access to PFI ‘centre of excellence’ - Schools Week Hinds launches evidence review into school SEND funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now EEA pupils at UK independent schools up despite Brexit uncertainty - PIE News Maternal mental health: how does it impact on children and young people? - EPI 2019 Further Education and Workforce Data for England report published - Education & Training Foundation Effective feedback - Research Schools Network 10 new research schools wanted to boost EEF’s regional work - Research Schools Network ‘Improving Language, Improving Lives’ ESOL tutor resource shortlisted for innovation award - Learning & Work Institute What changes are being made to Relationships and Sex Education in English schools? - PoliticsHome Councils' approach to supporting children with SEND examined - UK Parliament Ofsted watch: Universities stand out, while some big colleges fall short - FE Week Wales: Anglesey primary school closures could be put on hold - BBC The competing discourses of school readiness - BERA SEND consultation - National Education Union School improvement support for 2018 to 2019: summary statistics - DfE Identifying schools for support - DfE SEND and AP provision: call for evidence - DfE School census autumn 2019 to summer 2020: school summary report - DfE UCU calls for Secretary of State's intervention on prison education job cuts - UCU UCU warns of further disruption as figures reveal falling pay in colleges - UCU Union slams BMet decision to sell off Stourbridge College - UCU Education Secretary to work with sector on special needs funding - DfE Education Secretary confirms plans to simplify school accountability - DfE Damian Hinds' speech at the 2019 NAHT conference - DfE In the news 3 May 2019 - UCU DfE launches consultation on improving SEND funding arrangements for colleges - FE Week Teacher education - change, complexity and challenges - MillionPlus Education secretary launches SEND funding ‘call for evidence’ at NAHT Annual Conference - NAHT Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not - Office for Students Recruiting teachers for primary schools - Teach First School data is now ridiculous: the DfE has lost its way - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fifth of struggling schools turn down DfE support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Justice secretary asked to intervene in substantial prison education job losses - FE Week Ministers concerned over ‘continuing drift’ of SEND pupils to special and AP schools - Schools Week DfE launches call for evidence on SEND funding system - Nursery World Pre-school citywide strategy leads to fall in obesity rates - Nursery World MPs to investigate careers spending as quango gets more DfE funding - Schools Week AoC Sport National Championships: south east reigns victorious - FE Week Minister and local MP in ‘shock’ at ‘tragic’ decision to close Stourbridge College - FE Week PAC to scrutinise careers quango that is failing to pay its way - FE Week Cambridge University assigns white academic to look at slavery links - Guardian Clare Sealy appointed Guernsey's head of curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted 'should not police its own complaints' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Birmingham Met to demerge Stourbridge College - Times Educational Supplement | TES College teacher pay continues to drop - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former college staff get a chance to challenge FE Commissioner reports - FE Week Education minister brands lowering of A-level grades as 'lunacy' - Guardian School expels eight-year-old boy with ADHD because staff say he is ‘dangerous’ - Mail Hinds calls for ideas to improve SEND funding system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy option reopened for sixth-form colleges - Schools Week Hundreds of schools offered government improvement support - Schools Week England's largest teacher union wants colleges back under local authority control - FE Week HS2 college needed last-minute DfE bailout to sign off accounts - FE Week English and math GCSE resit policy is proving successful but remains misunderstood - FE Week English and maths GCSE resit policy helping tens of thousands - FE Week Opening up school sports facilities would give every child a healthy summer | Tanni Grey-Thompson and Lawrence Dallaglio - Guardian Well, fancy that - HEPI Labour could replace Sats with Pisa-style sampling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Auditors ‘failed to spot problems’ at academy trusts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of heads considering quitting early - Times Educational Supplement | TES Improving pupils' short-term memory boosts maths results, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES How students recognise ‘fake news’ in digital literacy tasks - UKEdChat 7 ways to improve staff meetings - UKEdChat Effective group work - UKEdChat Exclusions: schools need support, not sanctions - Times Educational Supplement | TES BMet to close Stourbridge College in bid to pay back debt - FE Week Degrees for E-Grade pupils? It's mad, says minister - Mail Scotland: Edinburgh University under fire for post without summer pay - Scotsman DfE set to reopen academisation option for sixth-form colleges - FE Week Ofsted mulls creating school reviews website - Schools Week Mum's outrage as son, 8, kicked out of school for being 'danger' to pupils - Mirror Who are today’s university chaplains and what role do they play in universities? - Wonkhe Fury over Edinburgh fellowship with no pay for summer months - Times Higher Education | THE Ex-Harrow head warns that the Left sees being middle-class as 'obscene' - Mail Hinds asks heads how to solve special-needs budget squeeze - BBC Heads ‘not scared’ of industrial action over funding, says union leader - Schools Week Help me sort out special needs funding, Hinds tells heads - Schools Week Almost one in seven graduates admits they'd paid others for essays- so who is behind Cheating Inc? - Mail Hinds calls for evidence from schools on special needs funding - Mail Online memory games can boost maths scores by 3 months, says EEF - Schools Week Fury as primary school bans teachers from calling children ‘boys and girls’ - The Sun Hinds to seek views on funding for children with special needs - Guardian Middle class are seen as sinners, says schools chief - Times Elite universities hit by fall in student numbers - Times Clifton College hired staff unchecked - Times Scotland: Cutting number of exams is creating an opportunity gap - Times