News archive for 31st May 2019

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Ex-teachers say mental health issues drove them out - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gender stereotypes: is it all in the language? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Crusader' jailed for teacher stalking and school arson - Times Educational Supplement | TES PE has 'failed' to get pupils active, academic says - Times Educational Supplement | TES High court bans Birmingham school protests against LGBT lessons - Guardian Protesters against LGBT teaching banned from gathering outside Birmingham school - Mail Scots college lecturers get better pay offer in bid to end strikes - Scotsman Oxbridge struggles to ditch bastion of white privilege label - Financial Times Birmingham Council granted injunction to prevent protests against LGBT lessons - HuffPost The UK must end its ‘one degree and you’re out’ education system - Financial Times Pay deal reached in Scottish college lecturers dispute - BBC Average A-level Music class now has just three students, study finds - Telegraph Pay deal agreed in bid to end Scottish college lecturers' dispute - Mail Headmaster of 30 years who used school funds to build sex dungeon is struck off - Telegraph Cambridge University discriminates against white, conservative men, academic claims - Telegraph LGBT lessons: Birmingham council wins injunction blocking protests outside school - Independent Analysing the purpose and value of universities | Letters - Guardian Jo Swinson: ‘It is a fact many more young people in Bearsden go to university than go from Govan’ - Scotsman Teachers in Scotland to be offered more 'flexible' career options - Scotsman SNP and Jo Swinson clash over Question Time comments on Scottish education - Scotsman DfE rapped by watchdog over use of statistics - again - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kings partners with University of Bristol - PIE News Schools get ‘insufficient information’ on mental health - Times Educational Supplement | TES Principal banned over sex offender in school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Costing the Augar reforms to higher education - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Revised guidelines will smooth transition to open access - Jisc The Tes Podcast: Teacher recruitment and school data - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Augar review is the worst of all worlds for universities and students - PoliticsHome Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in May 2019 - Pearson Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 31 May - Pearson Poorer pupils missing out on A-level music - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council defends response to schoolgirl radicalisation case - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Rise in child race hate crimes - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The new Education Inspection Framework has arrived - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Funding model changes don’t have the effect you might expect - Wonkhe Independent providers left behind by Augar - Wonkhe More funds for 'Taking Teaching Further' in FE - The Educator Culture change needed to embrace new career pathways for teachers - NASUWT TLPD Top Tips guides and subject-specific resources now available - Education & Training Foundation Outcomes of the second round of the £5 million Taking Teaching Further programme announced - Education & Training Foundation 160 more industry professionals to be recruited as FE teachers - DfE The Augar Review: what it could mean for students and universities - The Conversation Headteacher who used school funds to build ‘sex dungeon’ banned from profession - Independent You can’t teach schoolkids ‘resilience’ when they’re micromanaged every day | Richard Godwin - Guardian Ofsted watch: Poor week for multiple new apprenticeship providers - FE Week 'Sex dungeon' head banned from teaching for life - Times Educational Supplement | TES Augar review: what's in it for adult education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why ministers' commitment to school diversity is a sham - Times Educational Supplement | TES New tests are useful, say majority of primary leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers demand 'culture change' in career progression - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex dungeon headmaster, 74, banned for life - Mail Mental health services must better address needs of young in Scotland - Mail Racial abuse in the playground? That’s just England in 2019 | Lola Okolosie - Guardian Procurement at DfE: Bidding for Department for Education (DfE) contracts - DfE Sawtry Village Academy: Ex-head James Stewart banned for life - BBC Why are students at university so stressed? - Guardian What’s the big deal with Big Questions? - The Learning Spy Embed mental health in school curriculum, says Scotland's first Youth Commission on Mental Health - BBC Let’s be honest: most revision classes are worthless - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Media Studies should be seen as a valuable subject in schools - The Educator Children from disadvantaged backgrounds do less vigorous physical activity - UKEdChat Across the country, fundamentalist Muslims are protesting over LGBT lessons in class - Mail What are our universities for? Taxpayers have a right to know | Simon Jenkins - Guardian Could this school win Britain's Got Talent? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Data reveals poor pupils' Xmas jumper shame - Times Educational Supplement | TES How schools can protect their pupils' data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Investigation: Schools heading for pupil data scandal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Open access: Plan S launch delayed until 2021 - Times Higher Education | THE Offensive student evaluations ‘leave academics in fear’ - Times Higher Education | THE The success of the Access to HE students is an example of widening participation in action - HEPI Martin Lewis says slashing university tuition fees and increasing loan length would mean students pay more for longer - The Sun Calls to slash uni tuition fees to £7,500 sparks fury as it ‘helps rich kids’ - The Sun Fury over proposed cut to tuition fees amid claims the highest earners will benefit most - Mail Student finance: Boost for part-time study in Wales - BBC 54 colleges and providers chosen for second wave of Taking Teaching Further funding - FE Week Highest earning graduates the big winners of proposed fee changes - Times Esther McVey backs parents opposed to lessons on LGBT relationships - Times