News archive for 15th May 2019

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Lords debates mental health of children and young adults - UK Parliament Lords debates equal opportunities for young people - UK Parliament Teachers’ pension scheme regulations: proposed changes - DfE Register of apprenticeship training providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ways improving your numeracy skills has become easier - DfE Colleges and higher education institutions notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 15 May 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Meeting new application requirements and removal from Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP) - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: current notices of concern - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 study programmes: guide for providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Old SEND terms were awful. But are ours better? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top businesswoman appointed Teach First chair - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Simple' Sats tests will stay, says PM - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats: Too challenging? Maths tests divide opinion - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we must tackle inequality in apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Review into Scots pupils with additional needs announced - Scotsman University cancels EU election debate over Ukip candidate - Guardian Education Secretary pledges review of support plans for additional needs pupils - Mail Six months after RoAPT applications ESFA can’t say when outcomes will be revealed - FE Week Everything you need to know about the new financial help for post graduate students - Wales Online Empathetic leadership - Teacher Toolkit The impact of recreational sports on educational performance - UKEdChat Carly Kind appointed Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute - Nuffield Foundation The ‘Nation’s Lifesavers’ – The exceptional 100 keeping us healthy - Universities UK Creativity, criticality and reflexivity: A gentle approach to action research - BERA Colleges make commitment to support students and staff with their mental health and wellbeing - AoC | Association of Colleges Global HE market “hugely competitive” – British Council report - PIE News MPs unite to help broaden the horizons and raise the aspirations of children - Education and Employers New forecast warns that the economy risks £3.3 billion of lost output if government does not invest to close the skills gap - AoC | Association of Colleges School 'quiet' centre commemorates Dunstable brothers killed in Newbury - BBC IOE journal wins UCL award for institutional leadership - IOE London Blog Rethinking testing - Research Schools Network Scouts expands membership in deprived areas - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Zahawi defends Opportunity Areas initiative to MPs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Child poverty becoming the 'new normal', campaigners warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government to look at IGCSE university entrance 'loophole' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Equipping young people to thrive in a changing world of work - Nesta Motivation more important than qualifications, says minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: what has been the impact of the shift to linear exams? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three colleges served financial health notices - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE ministers at loggerheads over minimum A levels for uni - Times Educational Supplement | TES Be wary of what the DfE tells you about Sats - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister restates opposition to student loan grade threshold - Times Higher Education | THE Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education - IfATE FE Colleges demonstrate deep commitment to supporting good mental health by launch of Mental Health Charter - AoC | Association of Colleges Launch of new fund encourages parents to get involved with their children's maths education - Nesta Carl Benjamin: University hustings cancelled over safety fears after Ukip candidate doused with milkshake - Independent Teachers report 'fear-mongering' tactics used to off-roll students - SecEd Ofsted publishes final EIF and offers schools a grace period for curriculum reviews - SecEd In some areas of the UK, more than 60 per cent of children live in poverty - SecEd Three colleges handed DfE warnings over finances - FE Week Child poverty the 'new normal', warn charities - Nursery World Ofsted inspection framework: sector response - Nursery World Minister accidentally promotes 'National Numberacy Day' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pension boost for teachers in civil partnerships and same-sex marriages - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish pupils’ study choices expanding, not narrowing, say education bosses - Times Educational Supplement | TES What is Curriculum for Excellence – and why do the Welsh love it? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats are a symptom of the surveillance culture that envelops schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-thirds of parents say exam stress affects mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Female authors listed on just 30% of recent UK academic research - Guardian DfE consults on extending teacher pension survivor rights to civil and same-sex partners - FE Week Apprenticeship quango to review impact of their own controversial funding rate cuts - FE Week MSP raises concern about the availability of 1,140 hour childcare places - Nursery World DfE consults on extending teacher pension survivor rights to civil and same-sex partners - Schools Week How colleges can encourage more students to be active - FE Week Ambition Institute responds to new Ofsted inspection framework - Ambition Institute 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re accountability - Accountability Hearings Mental health charter launched for college staff and students - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can we tackle maths anxiety? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stevenage pupil taking GCSEs using eye movement - BBC College students face disruption as Scottish lecturers go back on strike - Herald Scotland Women and maths — what’s not adding up? - Financial Times For-profits waiting as English regulator mulls register refusals - Times Higher Education | THE London Met v-c: PM wants us to fail, but we’re not going anywhere - Times Higher Education | THE Are our children’s prospects fading? - Wonkhe In defence of academic freedom - Wonkhe Make numbers count this National Numeracy Day - National Numeracy Students win £1,000 payouts after university lecturer strike - Times Vulnerable pupils are paying the price for cuts | Alice Thomson - Times