News archive for 5th November 2019

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Councils asked to avoid using schools as polling stations - Mail The show must go on! Government steps in to save school nativities - Schools Week OCR reprimanded for letting exam markers check own work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Relief as continued funding secured for music hubs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exhausted teachers terrorised by nonsensical Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Schools must do more for forces pupils’, research says - Times Educational Supplement | TES It's official: some GCSEs have been easier than others - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exeter University reports student Facebook page to police over links to ‘Nazi propaganda’ - Independent French and German GCSEs to be marked less severely amid concerns pupils are being put off languages, regulator says - Independent Universities 'undermined by overseas autocracies' - BBC Government commits £79m to extend music education hubs - Schools Week Universities face 8-day strike as disputes rumble on - Financial Times University strike could affect more than a million students, says union - Guardian Gary Younge to join Manchester University as sociology professor - Guardian OCR becomes second exam board to breach re-mark rules - FE Week Teachers urged to boycott Wales' national school tests for primary pupils - Wales Online OCR becomes second exam board to breach re-mark rules - Schools Week UCU suspends 14 day strike after college offers new deal - FE Week School and college security - DfE Character education framework - DfE Additional payments for teaching: eligibility and payment details - DfE Inter-subject comparability in GCSE modern foreign languages - Ofqual GCSE modern foreign languages subject content review panel - DfE Research into further education subcontracting launched - Ofsted International GCSEs: letter from Nick Gibb - DfE Ofqual reduce £50,000 apprenticeship assessment body fine to £8,595 - FE Week ESFA funding agreements and contracts 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Mental health: Are all students being properly supported? - Office for Students ‘Look Beyond’ announced as the theme for National Apprenticeship Week 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 19+ funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Financial support for academy trusts in financial difficulty - Education & Skills Funding Agency The road to recognition - Advance HE University workers vote for eight-day strike - BBC Is PISA ‘fundamentally flawed’ because of the scaling methodology used? - FFT Education Datalab Rich resources of private schools give pupils educational advantage, IOE research shows - IOE London Blog Furniture apprenticeships to provide bespoke training for next generation of craftspeople - IfATE Podcast: Live from Wonkfest 2019 - Wonkhe There’s tension in this TEF review - Wonkhe Other countries are astonished by the complexity of our tertiary education system - Wonkhe The signal and the noise – Nate Silver in conversation - Wonkhe Can Edtech help with student wellbeing and mental health? - HEPI The power of technology in teaching - UKEdChat Learning lessons from the digital technology guidance report - Research Schools Network The impact of reader pens in exams for students with EAL, SEN or low reading ages - Research Schools Network Rona Tutt's SEND summary (October 2019) - NAHT Schools must remind us what it is to be human - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU announces eight days of strikes starting this month at 60 universities - UCU MillionPlus comment on Sir Adrian Smith’s Changes and Choices report - MillionPlus Where are you now and where do you want to be in the future? - Advance HE ISC statement: Publication of DfE’s report about comparability of GCSEs and International GCSEs - Independent Schools Council | ISC FAB boss takes break to fight election for Brexit Party - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted launches research into subcontracting in FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Six ways to develop pupils’ character, according to DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let's examine how mental health affects attendance - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE leaves security planning up to schools despite concern over new guidance - Schools Week Evaluation of Catalyst fund projects: Round three - Office for Students University workers to strike for eight days in disputes over pay and pensions - Mirror Student to take university to court after being 'kicked out for views on halal meat' - Mirror Scottish university lecturers set to strike over pay and pension disputes - Herald Scotland Jack and Jill Torquay: Nursery children 'possible sex assault victims' - BBC Ofsted to research subcontracting in FE - FE Week The DfE’s six new character education benchmarks - Schools Week French and German GCSEs to be marked less harshly, Ofqual rules - Guardian UK university strikes: Walkouts at 60 institutions to hit more than a million students - Independent 'Alarming' Chinese meddling at UK universities exposed in report - Guardian DfE review to make MFL subjects ‘more accessible’ - Schools Week Teaching staff need greater support to develop vital digital skills, survey finds - Jisc FE commissioner: college's finances 'terminal' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'need more time to improve digital skills' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs' varying degrees of difficulty – 6 key questions - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE MFL content could be made more 'accessible' by DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES iGCSE students 'perform worse at A level' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge accepts £6m Shell donation for oil extraction research - Guardian Sixth form college leaders failed to spot ‘terminal’ finances - FE Week Ofqual to make it easier to get top grades in GCSE French and German - Schools Week iGCSE top grades easier to achieve, government study finds - Schools Week A two-week half term in October is a really bad idea - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teens are making historical events go viral on TikTok – what does a history teacher think? - Guardian Pisa concerns 'overblown', claims academic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Year 3 Project, review: Steve McQueen's school photos are epic in scale but small in impact - Telegraph ‘Treacle of bureaucracy’: report on special educational needs is a huge relief for parents like me | John Harris - Guardian Teacher who helps migrant children turn pain into prize poetry - Guardian Fears that new tests will damage four-year-olds ‘unfounded’ - Guardian Moving stories: inside the book buses changing children's lives - Guardian Cyber training programme up for national award - GOV.UK Is PISA ‘fundamentally flawed’ because of the scaling methodology used? - IOE London Blog Sir John Kingman in conversation at wonkfest - Wonkhe UK union members back strike action over pay and pensions - Times Higher Education | THE Impact agenda ‘enables climate change scholar-activists’ - Times Higher Education | THE Domestic abuse 'biggest threat to child protection' - BBC Private school education pays huge benefits according to new research - Mail Don’t let Labour take charge of our children’s schools | Gavin Williamson - Times Private school pupils gain one A‑level grade over state rivals - Times Scotland: Last-ditch bid by girls to keep Notre Dame High School single-sex - Times Confusion over pupil exemptions from Irish language lessons - Times