News archive for 22nd May 2019

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Elite universities scrap list of ‘preferred’ A-Levels amid concerns about arts - Independent Nurses slam Health Secretary for suggesting school ban on unvaccinated children - Mirror Oxbridge can force old professors to retire in order to boost diversity, tribunal ruling suggests - Telegraph Why SEND pupils are victims of austerity - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Teacher' vs 'lecturer' debate: Teacher is better for FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five colleges to bid for Hadlow College provision - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish attainment plummets under new qualification regime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Montessori children's garden wins gold at Chelsea - Nursery World ‘Roadmap’ empowers institutions to set their course for digital excellence - Jisc Trainee teachers offered new support - The Educator Ministers 'very unlikely' to hit target of three million new apprentices by next year, MPs warn - PoliticsHome Documentary on TOEIC case launched in Westminster - PIE News 'Nearly half' of UK children in poverty by 2021, UN expert warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'Nearly half' of UK children in poverty by 2021, UN expert warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Prevent exclusions with better emotional health tools, urges charity - CYPN | Children & Young People Now PM in ‘outright denial’ over school funding, says Corbyn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher training 'will produce new generation of curriculum thinkers' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Memorandum of understanding between Ofsted and DfE: independent schools - Ofsted Are schools temporarily off-rolling pupils in league-table loophole? - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA Update: 22 May 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding allocations supporting documents for 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Should teachers be told if a pupil was born preterm? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Building a ‘no excuses’ fair access culture: A personal and professional journey - Office for Students Children issue 'do not disturb us' plea to protesters amid LGBT lessons row - Mail New education inspection framework - Teacher Toolkit UN Special Rapporteur on poverty in the UK - National Education Union Questioning ourselves - UKEdChat Self-directed learning - UKEdChat Mobile phone addiction harming children's health and education - Leeds Beckett University Co-teaching and 21st century pedagogy - BERA Getting started for new data managers - ASCL In defence of conditional unconditional offers - Wonkhe The curious case of the year 11 summer returners - FFT Education Datalab Schools offered resources to discuss disfigurement with pupils - SecEd USS controversy ‘raises likelihood of more pension strikes’ - Times Higher Education | THE The ETF announces new professional workforce development plans for 2019/20 - Education & Training Foundation Government accused of refusing to acknowledge extent of UK poverty - Nursery World Protests by parents and children stop primary schools from becoming academies - Independent High Court judge places Hadlow College into administration - FE Week Government accused of failing to close free childcare loophole in Scotland - Scotsman Hadlow College placed into education administration - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'School refuser' parents to challenge truancy laws - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'No' is not enough: why we changed our approach to behaviour - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in four primary pupils has 'hidden' social and mental health difficulties - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching: it should be scrutinised, but not standardised - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM in 'outright denial' over schools funding, claims Jeremy Corbyn - Mail Judge Curriculum for Excellence on whole senior phase, SQA boss tells MSPs - Mail Credibility of Scotland's National 4 qualifications a 'huge challenge' - Scotsman Grime over Mozart? Better music lessons 'changed my life' - BBC Two Cardiff schools want to shut earlier but parents are angry - Wales Online The 30 winners of the Greater London Authority AEB tender - FE Week White teachers like me should not be policing black pupils’ hair | Holly Rigby - Guardian My main priority is the students in Hadlow college insolvency - FE Week ‘My headteacher said: “Stop crying – you got into Oxford!”’ - Guardian How the best teachers teach reading - The Educator The Conservatoire Crisis: suggestions from Oxbridge - HEPI University sector rises to challenge from Education Secretary - DfE Swapping Mozart for Stormzy boosts literacy and numeracy - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do we give teachers the confidence to head outdoors? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unis pledge to end ‘strings attached’ unconditional offers - Times Educational Supplement | TES PAC: Apprenticeships 'are failing to deliver' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disadvantaged students risk being left behind by apprenticeships scheme, report finds - Independent Allowing pupils to study grime and hip-hop in class can improve attendance of pupils at risk of exclusion, study finds - Independent Minister hits back at vice-chancellors who claim admissions intervention is illegal - Independent HR for holograms: preparing for the future workforce - Wonkhe Damian Hinds: some v-cs trying to ‘justify damaging practices’ - Times Higher Education | THE Brexit fury: ‘Grotesque fees’ for non-EU students cannot continue, group claims - Express Universities are to stop offering 'unconditional' places to students amid fears it lowers grades - Mail School music lessons must ‘swap Mozart for Stormzy’ to improve attendance and grades, says charity - The Sun PAC apprenticeships progress report: The 6 recommendations - FE Week Apprenticeships programme ‘out of kilter’ with DfE’s own objectives, PAC warns - FE Week Eight universities ignore Hinds’ plea to ditch strings-attached offers - Schools Week School music lessons should cover hip-hop and grime, says charity - Guardian Apprenticeships are falling despite introduction of new levy, Public Accounts Committee finds - Telegraph Head is wrong to teach pupils about gay rights, says MP - Times University chiefs defy Damian Hinds, the education secretary, over ‘unethical’ offers - Times I will not let educational standards be eroded by unconditional offers | Damian Hinds - Times Ireland: Polling stations are taking over too many schools, parents say - Times