News archive for 4th November 2019

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Attainment gap between rich and poor 'has widened in Scotland's schools under new curriculum' - Telegraph New teachers to be taught how to 'rest and recover' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU strikes off at Bradford and Nottingham colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council looking at cutting teachers to save money - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why colleges must be the heart of general election 2019 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Black students with mental health issues being ‘failed’ by university system, regulator warns - Independent Getting connected for Education 4.0 - Jisc Why I’m moving on from CfEY to Ofsted - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Early years apps pilot: home learning environment - DfE Response to BBC story about minicab driver qualifications - Ofqual Young people to benefit from £155 million funding boost - DfE 16 to 19 education: funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding: information for 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Even if the Conservatives win the election, we’re likely to see reform of the capitalist model - Wonkhe ISC response to report in The Times about missing Vietnamese children - Independent Schools Council | ISC SET announce new Chair and Vice Chair - Education & Training Foundation | ETF DfE announces an extra £18m for Opportunity Areas - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Strikes in sixth form colleges - National Education Union Universities facing the future – creating a wonk manifesto for the general election - Wonkhe Scandal-hit Wakefield City Academies Trust is wound up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why is Ofsted blaming school leaders for workload? - Times Educational Supplement | TES College funding: which subjects will get £120m boost? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Concern UK schools are targeted for child trafficking - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils to advise AQA on GCSE and A-level exam papers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nottingham College strikes suspended at eleventh hour - UCU Deal agreed to end long-running dispute at Bradford College - UCU Government trust in universities ‘diminished’, says EUA head - Times Higher Education | THE UK non-participation in Horizon Europe is becoming ever more possible - Times Higher Education | THE UCU agrees deal to end long-running dispute at cash-strapped college - FE Week Protect BTECs and boost sixth-form cash, say colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES The subjects that qualify for extra post-16 funding - Schools Week Children 'put at risk by often-barbaric practices’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES London mayor Sadiq Khan announces £4.7m to ‘cut school exclusions’ - Schools Week ESFA announce 16-18 funding uplift for ‘crucial’ subjects - FE Week Should all teachers complete a Master’s Degree? - Schools Week Student, 33, vows to take his fight to sue University of South Wales for £200,000 to the High Court - Mail How much does private schooling raise your pay, and does it make you give more to the community? - IOE London Blog £18m extension to Opportunity Area programme - DfE Is children’s mental health given high priority by everyone? - Teacher Toolkit Practical suggestions for the run up to Christmas - The Educator £18m funding boost for Opportunity Area programme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can you solve it? Would you get into Oxford? - Guardian Evaluating the increased importance of the impact component in the UK’s research excellence framework - BERA Movers and Shakers: Edition 295 - FE Week DfE reverts to backing sole supplier for Teach First - Schools Week Universities must defend their international outlook - Wonkhe The MIT of the North? How we’re building an innovation-driven economy in Leeds - Wonkhe Business is most popular degree subject in UK universities - Financial Times £18m to fund opportunity areas until 2021 - Schools Week Vice-chancellor says BAME inclusion vital to improve universities - Mail Gangs use top schools to traffic Asian girls - Times The vanishing Vietnamese students - Times Scotland: Outcry over restraint and seclusion of pupils with additional needs - Times