News archive for 17th May 2019

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Exploring MAT Ofsted ratings - FFT Education Datalab Inclusion not exclusion: defending LGBT+ inclusive education - National Education Union NASUWT comments on TUC LGBT sexual harassment at work report - NASUWT Flexible higher apprenticeships help bridge the skills gap in financial services - IfATE Vital role of school and college support staff recognised - NASUWT In the news: 17 May 2019 - UCU Damning vote of no confidence in University of Surrey vice-chancellor - UCU Protests at SOAS against extreme right-wing German party - UCU Lowering lunch breaks: Who is eating their sarnies in speed time? - Teacher Tapp Education and Employers’ latest report suggests that encounters with the world of work can improve GCSE results - Education and Employers Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 17 May - Pearson It's time to take speaking seriously in schools - PoliticsHome Hadlow College: a statement from Association of Colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Lords debates equal opportunities for young people - UK Parliament Committee discusses the impact of science research funding in universities - UK Parliament Help Ofqual evaluate 2019's GCSEs, AS and A levels - Ofqual Letter to awarding organisations: Annual Statement to Ofqual 2019 - Ofqual ESFA appoints new Director - Education & Skills Funding Agency Experts question call to link school admission with MMR vaccine - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why teachers should become school governors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: ‘Culture of fear’ is driving teacher workload, admits Swinney - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union claims 'victory' over troubled AET academy chain - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the academy boss who wants to scrap performance-related pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dundee teachers reject controversial school ‘faculty’ plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex education: new guidance for teaching about consent - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tes Podcast: Sats and sixth forms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy trust top-sliced £376k from school with £1m deficit - Schools Week SOAS staff ‘appalled’ by colleague standing for far-right AfD - Times Higher Education | THE Inspectors call for DfE to step in over SEND failings in Surrey - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted watch: Two providers rated ‘inadequate’ for apprenticeships - FE Week Former principal died by suicide, coroner rules - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT has removed heads' final say over permanent exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Non EBacc subjects pushed into 'after school sessions' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why #LoveourColleges should be redundant - FE Week Non-EBacc subjects being taught after-school, during tutor time or on ‘intensive’ days, DfE study finds - Schools Week Learning can be modelled like a rolodex - UKEdChat Universities unveil joint commitment on degree classifications - Universities UK Glasgow School of Art hits back at MSPs' criticism over fires - Guardian Former receptionist loses discrimination claim against Michaela Community School - Schools Week School sixth forms forced to close across country amid funding cuts, figures reveal - Independent Further education college faces insolvency - BBC New guidelines to help Scottish teachers talk ‘confidently’ on relationships and consent - Herald Scotland Students and academics protest against lecturer standing for far-right AfD in European elections - Independent Grammar schools get more condition improvement funding - Schools Week University backtracks on disputed Voynich manuscript theory - Guardian Scottish union to urge teachers to reclaim profession from 'bean counters' - Mail Love Our Colleges Week re-convenes ahead of the comprehensive spending review - FE Week Pressure to cut exclusions in Scotland 'puts teachers at risk of violence' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hadlow College insolvency: How to ensure it doesn't happen again - Times Educational Supplement | TES Applications to train as language teachers up by a fifth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted's new MAT check would take 80 years to assess all trusts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Angela Rayner: Colleges' funding 'nowhere near what they need' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Montessori college approved to run three-year degree - Nursery World Providers face further wait on tender outcome as GLA wrestles with queries - FE Week NDNA launches its workforce surveys for Scotland and Wales - Nursery World Malvern St James Girls' School taught wrong exam book - BBC Mystery surrounds second delay to Havering College merger plans - FE Week First college set to go into insolvency regime - Times Educational Supplement | TES MATs ranked by Ofsted primary ratings - Times Educational Supplement | TES School ‘unaffected’ by college insolvency - Schools Week Scandal-hit Hadlow College first to go through insolvency regime - FE Week Hadlow College scandal and government response is an FE watershed moment - FE Week Inspectors will talk to teachers, not look at spreadsheets - Schools Week Knowledge organisers: a gigantic leap forward or a step back for learning? - The Educator ‘We are restless for solutions’: Grenfell community meets the PM about ‘threat’ to local college - FE Week Universities told to stamp out antisemitism on campus - DfE Jewish student societies should not have to pay thousands of pounds for security at campus events amid antisemitism concerns, minister says - Independent Verbal abuse from pupils ranked top ‘stress-inducing factor’, by Scottish union leader - Times Educational Supplement | TES Safeguarding: heads lack confidence tackling online abuse - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers talks 'boost GCSE results' - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 70 school sixth forms closing as cuts bite - Times Educational Supplement | TES MATs ranked by Ofsted secondary ratings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tierney: Ofsted might have a new framework, but the same old problems remain - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huge variation in MAT schools' Ofsted ratings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should have one meat-free day a week, says charity - Guardian Investigation: Number of pupils in private alternative provision soars - Schools Week Scottish secondary teachers call for the return of hour-long lunch breaks - Herald Scotland Attack on drive to give Scottish pupils ‘what they want, when they want it’ - Herald Scotland School ‘cuddle culture’ blamed for rising indiscipline in Scottish schools - Herald Scotland Employability: panacea or Pandora’s box? - Times Higher Education | THE Jewish students ‘forced to pay extra for campus security’ - Times Higher Education | THE Universities' journal costs still outstripping inflation - Times Higher Education | THE What about graduate job satisfaction? - Wonkhe Research, anti-semitism, social mobility, car parking (podcast) - Wonkhe Time for universities to declare a climate emergency - Wonkhe What do MPs think about universities? - Wonkhe Careers talks boost pupil motivation and grades, says new research - Schools Week Careers lessons push up GCSE grades - BBC Campus anti-Semitism must be stamped out, says universities minister - BBC UK universities urged to adopt IHRA wording on antisemitism - Guardian Minister orders universities to crack down on anti-Semites - Mail Give measles jab to 250,000 teenagers, say health chiefs - Times Hard Times for GCSE girls who studied wrong book - Times Universities told to adopt definition of antisemitism - Times Universities must act to stamp out antisemitism on campus | Chris Skidmore - Times