News archive for 1st November 2019

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New focus on cognitive science in teacher training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted looks into psychometric tests for inspectors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet NCG's new chief executive, Liz Bromley - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes Podcast: Election 2019 special - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE’s plans for new computing SCITT crash after no bids received - Schools Week General election: Hundreds of schools face disruption to nativity plays and Christmas concerts, survey suggests - Independent Inspectors should be ‘sensitive’ selecting small school ‘deep dives’ - Schools Week Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in October 2019 - Pearson Policy Eye - highlights of week ending 1 November - Pearson Strikes on the cards at Coventry University in row over pay and appraisals - UCU In the news 1 November 2019 - UCU Proposals for the next government - Russell Group The B3 moonwalking bear: OfS on minimum outcomes for students - Wonkhe Prepare your school for Brexit - DfE Cadet Expansion Programme reaches 500 unit target - DfE The highest-paying A-level subjects - Times Educational Supplement | TES School inspection update: academic year 2019 to 2020 - Ofsted Response to disruption caused by industrial action - Office for Students Post-16 education: earnings outcomes for level 3 achievements - DfE Initial teacher training (ITT): core content framework - DfE The nature and purpose of education: A personal philosophy - UKEdChat Election Manifestos: The Centre for Education and Youth’s priorities - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Two pupils feature in list of 30 inspiring young women - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could the apprenticeship levy face the axe? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our young people aren't defined by their disability - Times Educational Supplement | TES Researchers suggest that early writing be more about communication and less ABCs - UKEdChat ‘Absolutely devastated’: Free school stuck in temporary premises closed by DfE - Schools Week Parent champion programmes, a guide for family learning providers - Learning & Work Institute What the future holds for CPD - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Free school rapped over board meeting in Ibiza - Schools Week MPs call for end to 'brutal' detention of vulnerable children on mental health grounds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Narrowing attainment gaps through addressing assessment issues - Advance HE Click, connect... learn? - Nesta Ambition Institute welcomes early release of new ITT framework - Ambition Institute School whistle-blower says she was labelled a 'grass' and fired after reporting abusive teacher - Mail The rise in private tuition: Why are so many pupils having extra lessons outside school? - The Educator Forget unconditional offers – studying maths is more likely to lead to student non-continuation - Wonkhe How to ensure care leavers get the results they deserve - Wonkhe Leader of the pack: who has the power to change research cultures? - Wonkhe Explaining the science of learning to teachers - Ambition Institute More thoughts on the student vote (and pricking some of the nonsense) - HEPI 2019 Asian Apprenticeship Awards winners - FE Week Grammar expansions expose satellite loophole - Schools Week Stourbridge College building on verge of sale to 350 year-old £12k a year state boarding school - FE Week DfE rushes out new ITT framework ahead of election - Schools Week Pupils with top vocational qualifications earn more, study finds - Schools Week University staff to go on strike over pensions, working conditions and pay - Wales Online Ofsted watch: College struggling ahead of demerger, as ITPs see ups and downs - FE Week AAC Apprenticeship Awards 2020 deadline extended - FE Week Funding ban for new level 3 and below qualifications - FE Week Primary children should not head footballs - new advice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Think UK pupils are stressed? Try working in the US - Times Educational Supplement | TES NASUWT leaders' eligibility for office challenged - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'My autistic daughter was held in a cell for two years' - BBC New shorter Ofsted reports are ‘good’ for colleges - FE Week Colleges may need to ignore DfE bribes to avoid unethical T-level enrolments - FE Week In the dark days of this election, there is a light - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents lose battle to stop academy takeover of Essex school - Guardian Industry placement cold-spots? Exploring the toughest T-level challenge - FE Week Secret cameras have been in primary school's toilets for up to five years - Mail ‘Secret’ construction firm keeping Chartered Institution for FE afloat - FE Week The Speaker's business: Why John Bercow's successor must tackle unpaid internships in parliament - Sutton Trust Human rights of many people with a learning disability and/or autism are being breached in mental health hospitals - UK Parliament Parents horror as cameras found hidden in primary school’s toilets may have been there five years - The Sun The top 10 reasons for banning teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 80% drop in teacher sexual misconduct bans - Times Educational Supplement | TES AI: Beware the robots - GOV.UK Investigation: Hundreds of schools face nativity play disruption for December election - Schools Week Scottish head teachers spend £132m to help close attainment gap - Scotsman Graduates say their inescapable student loan debt is a life sentence that affects their everyday decisions - Metro 3aaa investigation stutters on as police confirm no contact has been made with top bosses - FE Week The Ofsted effect: Schools ditch three-year GCSEs - Schools Week Universities ‘complicit’ in tarnishing of internationalisation - Times Higher Education | THE Dundee principal suspended ‘over rent row’ - Times Higher Education | THE UK union members back strike action over pay and pensions - Times Higher Education | THE December election puts UK policy progress on hold - Times Higher Education | THE University students spend less than two hours a day in lectures - Mail Rise in job adverts points to deepening recruitment crisis - Schools Week Government gives £20m to pay for student counsellors - Times MPs warned of ‘genuine childcare crisis’ as figures indicate hundreds of nurseries and childminders are closing - Independent Promoting School Experience: increasing ITT applicants - UCET DfE: New ITT Core Content Framework published - UCET Sheffield University students banned from wearing sombrero fancy‑dress outfits - Times Tories set to promise an extra ten weeks of free childcare in family-first manifesto - Times Nurseries say subsidy does not cover their costs | Greg Hurst - Times Scotland: Dundee University suspends boss for ‘unpaid rent’ - Times Ireland: Teacher who had sex with her pupil, 16, is jailed - Times