News archive for 29th May 2019

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Theresa May to urge next Tory leader to axe George Osborne’s £1bn cuts to student grants - The Sun Theresa May calls for the return of student maintenance grants axed by George Osborne - PoliticsHome Bring back grants for less well-off students, May urges next PM - HuffPost Memorandum of understanding: DfE and The Insolvency Service - DfE Subject knowledge enhancement (SKE): course directory - DfE ESFA: college financial planning handbook and financial plan - Education & Skills Funding Agency Adult education budget (AEB) funding rules 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 29 May 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA announces European Social Fund providers in 38 local enterprise partnership areas - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESF 2014 to 2020 programme – list of contracts - Education & Skills Funding Agency The decision on teachers' visas: 'Are they effing mad?’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to press Home Office on teacher visas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students 'using window sills as desks' in large classes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Post-18 Review: AoC response - AoC | Association of Colleges The big winners of the controversial £310m European Social Fund tender - FE Week Dominic Raab 'more rightwing on education than Thatcher' - Guardian Insolvency Service to help DfE ban rule-breaking trustees - Schools Week Universities in firing line as Farage builds populist movement - Times Higher Education | THE Government to take back control as universities get their most thoughtful kicking to date - Wonkhe The impact of teacher supply challenges on high-quality subject-specific mentoring - BERA Music should be the beating heart of primary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney: No proof of ‘explosion’ in multi-level classes - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Disbelief’ at overseas teachers visa decision - Times Educational Supplement | TES Do extra-curricular activities equate to better education? - The Educator House of Commons Education Committee Opportunity Areas inquiry: NFER submission - NFER Ofsted’s complaints process explained … - Teacher Toolkit Government accused over school spending claims - The Educator Running an extra curricular activity (why, what and how) - UKEdChat Children of similar cognitive ability have very different chances of educational success - Nuffield Foundation Researchers claim that educational success among children of similar cognitive ability depends on their background - UKEdChat SkillHUBS – pioneering in prison education reform - Learning & Work Institute Don’t ‘hide’ periods in schools, urges charity at head of government taskforce - Schools Week Erasmus+ program not a “one-trick pony”, reports indicate - PIE News LSE professor named one of 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy 2019 - London School of Economics | LSE LSE and Fudan University launch new Research Centre in Shanghai - London School of Economics | LSE The Youth Jobs Gap: Does the employment support sector have the answers? - ERSA ‘More apprenticeships for prisoners would cut the £15bn annual bill for reoffending’, say employment and skills bodies - ERSA UCL research project explores evidence for the benefits of language learning - IOE London Blog Ofsted demands written statement from council over SEND provision problems - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ADCS criticises Home Office plan to tackle serious violence - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The Augar review: the essential overview for HE - Wonkhe Will Augar offer a vision for lifelong learning? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE recruits teachers from Spain to ease shortage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish Ballet launches programme that helps children tackle racism and homophobia through dance - Herald Scotland John Swinney 'does not believe' subject choice reduced in Scots schools - Scotsman No expansion of shortage occupation list for teachers, rules Migration Advisory Committee - Schools Week Why teachers must learn to interrogate AI's algorithms - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Serious questions' over free school finance failings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'fail to report knife exclusions to police' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Calls to give more teachers visa priority rejected - Times Educational Supplement | TES School subject choice has not narrowed, insists Education Secretary - Mail Rise in diversity of students at Scotland's universities and colleges - Mail Anti-Semitism row: University of Essex sacks lecturer - BBC What it was like to go to the first Welsh language school in Cardiff - Wales Online 5 tips for being a teacher at the school your child attends - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘More apprenticeships for prisoners would cut the £15bn annual bill for reoffending’, say employment and skills bodies - AELP Secrets of the Kenyan friar who became the ‘world’s best teacher’ - Telegraph Education unions launch website showing how much individual schools in Wales have lost in funding since 2015 - Wales Online How the Open University helped to reshape global higher education - Times Higher Education | THE Working-class academics are not disadvantaged - Times Higher Education | THE Teenagers go back to basics for exam revision by ditching smartphones and tablets - Mail 'Swallow your pride and ask for help', first-time students told - BBC University of Essex 'sorry' for sex complaint delays - BBC Schoolgirl Elizabeth Ormston aces solo flight test hours after GCSE exam - Times Trade war with US drives Chinese students to Britain - Times Students need better teaching, not lower fees | Alice Thomson - Times Irish Leaving Certificate is failing the test of time | Siobhan Brett - Times Going to university pays off faster for women than for men, new analysis finds - Telegraph