News archive for 8th May 2019

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New campaign launched to protect students from abuse - Scotsman 16 to 18 accountability headline measures - DfE GCSE new grading scale: factsheets - DfE High needs strategic planning - DfE ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 8 May 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 2018 to 2019 adult education budget and 19-24 traineeships funding over delivery - Education & Skills Funding Agency Stephen Fry backs calls to review relationships and sex education - Guardian Scrapping Sats not sensible, says Ofqual chair - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why T levels could be a 'game-changer' for catering - Times Educational Supplement | TES ​​​​​​​Swinney: We want ‘fully empowered’ teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ireland: Fewer A* GCSEs grades to be given due to change - BBC Teacher who sat on student's knee and kissed him spared ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES Air pollution: Turn off your engines, beg children outside school - Times Air pollution on streets is poisoning 2.6m schoolchildren - Times Air pollution fight: School Streets plan targets parents who leave car engines running - Times Air pollution: Parents plead for car bans in school streets - Times IfA launches recruitment drive for more route panel members - FE Week IOE project announced as a finalist for prestigious ESRC impact prize - IOE London Blog NEU Cymru figures show tax-payers money funds private supply teacher agencies - National Education Union Exams preparation: Go your own way - Teacher Toolkit Measuring wellbeing data matters. Improving services matters even more. - Wonkhe Research warning over school choice segregation link - SecEd DfE to consult over exclusion accountability plans - SecEd Better support call for Traveller community - SecEd The fight against classroom upskirting and student violence - SecEd A powerful case for universal free school meals... - SecEd Narrowing of the curriculum is spreading ‘like a virus’ - SecEd Coasting and floor standards to be scrapped, Hinds confirms - SecEd Sabbaticals and career breaks among leadership recruitment proposals - SecEd Headteachers take a stand on school and SEN funding - SecEd Ofsted to keep grading system despite criticism - SecEd STEM careers: A question of equity - SecEd Behaviour: We must say no to ‘no excuses’ - SecEd Supporting Deaf Awareness Week 2019 - Education & Training Foundation | ETF One primary head: ‘I can't think of a single successful Camhs referral in years’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES AQA to replace exam papers after batch goes missing in the post - Schools Week Teachers ‘lack understanding’ of the benefits of learning languages - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Edtech 50 demonstrates the power of edtech to support learners - Times Educational Supplement | TES Middlesex’s Tim Blackman appointed Open University v-c - Times Higher Education | THE Why colleges are 'indispensable civic institutions' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free school meals: Unused money 'taken away from pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Data links youth service cuts to knife crime rise - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DfE launches children's centres review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The ed-tech strategy: A great leap backwards? - SecEd Cambridge University hides bell over fears it was 'most likely' used on slave plantation - Independent Apprenticeship providers forced to report off-the-job hours after NAO criticises lack of oversight - FE Week Special needs exclusions in Walsall 'disproportionate' - BBC The children missing out on free school meals - BBC GCSE and AS-level papers go missing weeks before exams, forcing schools to get replacement papers - Independent Can you learn a language playing video games? What the research says - The Conversation Council sent letter to schools advising against applying for EHCPs - Schools Week Scotland: Schools in disadvantaged areas 'offering fewer languages' - Herald Scotland Scottish university students launch recruitment drive for new faculty boss - Herald Scotland Undergraduates: what’s the workload like on your course this term? - Guardian Scotland: Schools lack understanding on benefits of language learning, MSPs told - Mail Well trained nursery staff 'key to good care' - BBC Effective solutions to gender issues should be sustained: speech by Philip Smith - GOV.UK 'Too many children' going for SEND assessments, council boss claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE quadruples summer-holiday funding for disadvantaged pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES ICP Nurseries continues to expand - Nursery World MPs told action is needed on business rates for nurseries - Nursery World Nursery destroyed in fire urgently seeks new premises - Nursery World University rankings don't measure freedom of speech and academic freedom - why not? - Montrose42 Turnaround school leaders must be able to exclude to keep pupils safe - Schools Week 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities - Accountability Hearings How to prepare students for exams - The Educator Free meals and activities for 50,000 children over 2019 summer holidays - DfE Schools asked for loans by poverty-stricken parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Schools’ mental health support should be inspected by Ofsted' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ireland: Castlewellan controlled primary school set to close - BBC No CAMHS help for 200 miles for pupil in 'massive decline' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Computing lessons down by more than a third in five years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Self-harming pupils turned away four times in Camhs crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Staff shortages in schools are hitting subject choice, teachers have warned - Scotsman Computing education in ‘steep decline’ after government reforms, warns report - Schools Week First transgender headteacher reveals desire to change attitudes - Herald Scotland Who pays the price for Open Access? - Wonkhe UK universities trial social media monitoring tool - Times Higher Education | THE Universities in the cross-fire: taking back control and navigating the storm ahead - HEPI Universities in the cross-fire: taking back control and navigating the storm ahead - HEPI Was Damian Hinds’s intervention on conditional unconditional offers legal? - Wonkhe Shear genius: French school enrols sheep to keep class open - Guardian Cambridge College removes historic bell from view, amid fears it was used on a slave plantation - Telegraph Scotland: University under pressure over graduation fees - BBC Computing in schools in 'steep decline' - BBC Cambridge slavery: St Catharine’s College hides bell ‘from slave plantation’ - Times Eco protesters ‘caused £7,000 damage to walls at King’s College London’ - Times