News archive for 23rd May 2019

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Labour would make climate change core part of school curriculum - Independent Labour pledges to put climate emergency on school curriculum - Guardian Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - DfE Statements of SEN and EHC Plans: England 2019 - DfE Letters to academy trusts about poor performance - DfE AoC Beacon Awards winners to share secrets of their success - Times Educational Supplement | TES Russell Group universities scrap list of 'facilitating subjects' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for national curriculum to include complex grammar - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Secretary condemns protests outside LGBT lessons row primary school - Mail Bright teenagers risk having university plans 'scuppered' by bad A-levels advice, Russell Group warns - Telegraph The 5 winners of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough AEB tender - FE Week Birmingham LGBT protest school to close early - BBC ‘It’s time for these protests to stop’ – Hinds weighs in on Anderton Park LGBT education row - Schools Week Chef says ban on takeaways near schools is 'inherently racist' - Guardian UK ELT passes the half a million student mark, but growth has slowed - PIE News Scotland: Don’t judge Curriculum for Excellence on a single year, say exam bosses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers strike over Welsh school staff changes - BBC Top UK universities plot course for disadvantaged students - Financial Times Ofsted's framework: what it means for pupil mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to review why Hadlow College problems 'went on too long' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School closing early over LGBT protest fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ombudsman slams council over excessive EHC plan waiting times - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Strikes suspended as Winchester University rules out compulsory job cuts - UCU The academy I dreamed of for 20 years no longer exists, and I am waking up - Times Higher Education | THE LGBT+ lessons: 'Increasingly unpleasant' protests force primary school to close early amid fears for pupils' safety - Independent King’s College London to probe allegations of lecturer verbally abusing remainer - Guardian Cash incentives for maths and physics teachers - National Education Union Teachers will get £2,000 deprived area boost - The Educator Does ‘teacher expectation’ make a difference? - Teacher Toolkit School choice system is unfair to households in areas given fewer choices - UKEdChat Labour to make climate change core part of school curriculum - National Education Union Cognition Education: government funded work placement programme - UCET Sultan of Brunei hands back Oxford degree over LGBT laws - BBC LGBT lessons row primary school to close early over safety fears - Mail Ofsted finds learners unaware they are on an apprenticeship programme - FE Week Students go online to report alleged sexual abuse - BBC Students share sexual abuse allegations online because they feel ignored by university staff - Independent 'I feel empowered and scared': pupils speak before climate strike - Guardian Russell Group scraps preferred A-levels list after arts subjects hit - Guardian David Ross Education Trust given 4 Ofsted visits to improve academy - Schools Week David Ross Education Trust warned over failing school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers need a fair and well-paid career-development structure - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hadlow leaders 'put sustainability of two colleges at risk' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two more Cardiff schools are shutting early - but deny it is to save money - Wales Online Oxford poetry professor contest kicks off amid growing controversy - Guardian Rayner: Labour will put climate change ‘at the core’ of the curriculum - Schools Week Russell Group ditches ‘facilitating subjects’ A-level list - Schools Week Hadlow Group colleges scandal: The FE Commissioner’s 6 key findings - FE Week How an apprenticeship in the arts helps bridge the move from care into further education and fulfilling work - IOE London Blog The university has become an anxiety machine - HEPI Informed Choices relaunch - Russell Group New report shows big increase in demand for mental health support among higher education staff - HEPI Excessive workloads and lack of job security behind rise in stress at universities - UCU Pressure Vessels: The epidemic of poor mental health among higher education staff - HEPI Cash incentives for maths and physics teachers - DfE Apply for mathematics and physics teacher retention payments - DfE Maintained schools 'more likely to stay 'good' than academies' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Maths and physics teachers to get £2K retention payments - Times Educational Supplement | TES BME pupils less likely than white students to get first-choice school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leading Scottish colleges and universities to be celebrated at Herald awards ceremony - Herald Scotland Maths and physics teachers to be offered extra cash to stop them leaving profession - Independent Declaring a climate emergency is an important first step. What do we do next? - Wonkhe The Augar review could derail NHS workforce planning - Wonkhe Does university assessment still pass muster? - Times Higher Education | THE London university develops ‘Indigenous-led’ teaching and research - Times Higher Education | THE University staff ‘at breaking point’ as counselling demand soars - Times Higher Education | THE Universities ‘contribute little to generic skill development’ - Times Higher Education | THE EU academics in the UK do not live in a Brexit-proof bubble - Times Higher Education | THE Teenagers given updated advice on A-level choices - BBC New maths and physics teachers will get an extra £2,000 a year if they work in 'tough' areas - Mail University counselling services 'inundated by stressed academics' - BBC Most parents reject nearest school - BBC Failing schools more likely to improve under LA control, new study claims - Schools Week Peacehaven academy plans axed after parent and staff campaign - Guardian Higher education staff suffer 'epidemic' of poor mental health - Guardian Sheffield’s success flags funding pay gap - Financial Times New maths and physics teachers will get £2k annual ‘incentive’ payment - Schools Week Emeli Sande named as Sunderland University chancellor - BBC Theology and Religious Studies risk 'disappearing' from universities, report warns - Telegraph Teachers get £2,000 extra to work in deprived areas - Times Universities take law study into prisons - Times Black and Asian parents are more ambitious in applying for good schools, study finds - Telegraph