News archive for 24th May 2019

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Does exercise improve children’s cognitive performance? - Best Evidence in Brief Nine teaching schools hubs created - The Educator Developing readers, developing selves - BERA Provisional entry statistics for GCSE, AS and A Level - National Education Union In the news 24 May 2019 - UCU Jo Grady elected UCU general secretary - UCU Systematic reviews and meta-analyses – what’s all the fuss? - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring The ETF to train teachers for the government’s free ‘essential digital skills’ qualification for adults - Education & Training Foundation School improvement through school-to-school support - DfE Anne Milton addresses Association of Colleges spring conference - DfE Thousands of schools to improve through shared expertise - DfE Increase in EBacc entries as modern foreign languages rise - DfE ESFA letters to academy trusts about high pay - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA financial assurance: monitoring the funding rules - Education & Skills Funding Agency In praise of POLAR - Office for Students Annual TRAC 2017-18: Sector summary and analysis by TRAC peer group - Office for Students Tes Podcast: Sats plastic bags and three-year GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Johnson or Raab: May’s successor is likely to usher in a new grammar school push - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than a third of children have never heard a cow moo - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam room heat may boost results for female students - but not males - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of student climate change protesters descend on central London in record-breaking turnout - The Sun Funding axe threat for academies that ignore the Baker clause - Schools Week Birmingham LGBT lessons row sees 600 pupils sent home as protests shut primary school - The Sun CPD programme for new digital skills courses announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES How will free schools fare under the new Ofsted framework? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to make school affordable for struggling families - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND schooling needs to counter fear and offer hope - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGBT lesson protests hijacked by religious extremists, MPs say - Guardian Boss of bust school support company is back in business - Schools Week Birmingham LGBT school row: Protests 'won't stop lessons' - BBC Network to promote ACE-aware policing in Wales gets £6.8m - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Is this what an inclusive education system looks like? - CYPN | Children & Young People Now NAO verdict: Innocent students may have been wrongly removed - PIE News Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 24 May - Pearson It’s a marathon, not a sprint - Sutton Trust Labour announces pledge to make climate change lessons 'core part' of school curriculum - PoliticsHome Labour is right: it’s crucial that children are taught about climate breakdown in school | Lola Okolosie - Guardian School student climate change strikes see thousands take to streets - Mail We must take this opportunity to consign EBacc to history - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE named and shamed trust for failing to justify CEO pay by mistake - Schools Week Two Welsh schools shut in hepatitis A outbreak in Barry and Penarth - Wales Online Ofsted watch: Tough week with one employer provider crashing to a grade four - FE Week Fewer students taking design and technology and music at GCSE, figures reveal - Independent School strike for climate: Protests staged around the world - BBC Protesters against school LGBT lessons vow to continue action - Mail UCU elects general secretary - FE Week How to put collaboration at the heart of FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jo Grady named next UCU general secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES No one policing 11-plus, campaigners claim - Times Educational Supplement | TES School climate strikes expected to be largest yet – as it happened - Guardian LGBT+ Muslims to lead Birmingham Pride march alongside Parkfield teacher threatened over equality lessons - Independent Nine new teaching school hubs to split £2m to improve failing schools - Schools Week Don’t create monopolies of ‘mega-MATs’, government warned - Schools Week Tens of thousands of students join fresh school climate strikes - Mail T-level students in rural areas still at disadvantage, despite DfE ‘tinkering’ - FE Week EBacc GCSE entries up as other subjects decline - Times Educational Supplement | TES Have modern foreign languages turned the corner? - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level entries: English down and sciences up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Statistics watchdog ‘content’ with DfE including unreliable data in achievement rate tables - FE Week Sector unites ahead of Government consultation on EYFS - Nursery World School students walk out in global climate strike - BBC DfE’s double standards over level 2 business admin apprenticeship - FE Week Labour government would make climate change core part of school curriculum - Evening Standard Students 'may have been unfairly deported' over English test cheat claims - BBC DfE leaving parents to police the 11-plus - Schools Week ‘We were genuinely shocked by what we found’ - FE Week East Sussex children's centres could close - Nursery World Pupils disrupted by building delay - BBC GCSE entries: Engineering and design technology flop as EBacc subjects soar - Schools Week Insolvency could have been avoided had the ESFA spotted Hadlow College’s crippling loans in 2017 - FE Week Scotland launches early years resources - Nursery World Former college leadership and ESFA financial oversight in the dock - FE Week I'm proud to back a University of London boycott – the outsourcing has to end | Dion Georgiou - Guardian Boy dies after getting trapped under locker at Essex school - Guardian The quarter-of-a-million pound brand to boost T-levels’ visibility - FE Week How gaming can make literacy teaching exciting for kids - The Educator Will new online guidance on ‘facilitating subjects’ help or hinder fair access to highly-selective universities? - HEPI ASCL comment on Labour’s plan for climate change education - ASCL Provider to stop delivering care apprentice standards after DfE rejects funding rate plea - FE Week What did dignity at work training teach me? Bullying isn't my university's problem | Anonymous academic - Guardian School failed to protect girl from pupil on double rape charge - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE teacher-training review head backs calls for specialist SEND teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Investigation: Will Ofsted end three-year GCSEs? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted failure over school where pupil rapist ‘groomed’ teenager - Times Educational Supplement | TES Creditors lose out as eResponse liquidators settle for just £200k - FE Week The three inconvenient truths about the EBacc - Schools Week Could an American liberal arts approach improve the British higher education system? - Times Higher Education | THE UK ‘failed to protect’ innocent students in cheating scandal - Times Higher Education | THE Retention challenges leave ‘debt-free’ promises sounding hollow - Times Higher Education | THE Why are we handing maintenance loans to landlords? - Wonkhe How can the UK retain a role in global higher education? - Wonkhe Staff wellbeing, degree classification, student health (podcast) - Wonkhe Phone-free Fridays help pupils in Wales worried about mobile addiction - BBC Latest global school climate strikes expected to beat turnout record - Guardian Russell Group universities scrap their list of preferred A-level subjects - Mail We'll teach children about climate change from the age of five, vows Labour - Mail English test students may have been wrongly accused, says watchdog - Guardian Minister accused of failing to back teachers over equality lessons - Times Home Office ‘failed to protect innocent students in cheat case’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford defends right to replace old dons - Times Tuition fee cut ‘would cost Scottish universities £31m’ - Times Scottish pupils plan second wave of climate protests - Times Scottish university finance reforms must be planned carefully - Times Irish scientists back pupil walkouts demanding action on climate change - Times