News archive for 13th November 2019

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Conservatives announce £1.8bn for college buildings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chair quits and principal suspended at Highbury College - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top DfE adviser welcomes Ofsted off-rolling crackdown - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three things teachers can do to tackle knife crime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Conservatives pledge £1.8bn capital investment for FE colleges - FE Week How Strathclyde University drives innovation with entrepreneurial spirit - Scotsman DfE facing action over 'wide ranging and serious' data protection breaches - Schools Week People shouldn’t have to choose between education and financial security, says Labour - Wonkhe Call to ban councils from cutting primary teaching week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Can compulsory cycling education at primary school solve child obesity? - The Educator How 'learner leave' could revolutionise adult education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why pupils should learn first aid and CPR at school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education is a hot election issue, about to get hotter - Times Educational Supplement | TES Regional consortia positive impact on schools - National Education Union Staff wellbeing must be a priority - National Education Union Use of unqualified staff - National Education Union Welsh schools need a national plan for music - National Education Union BAME role models that will inspire diversity in tech - Nesta Curriculum and sequencing - Research Schools Network The ‘value’ of higher education is too important and multifaceted to reduce to mere metrics - HEPI Impact of austerity on schools - National Education Union University reading lists dominated by white European men, research reveals - IOE London Blog Conservative Party plans for college investment - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges UK educators triumph at EuroAsia Awards - PIE News Accessible e-books – addressing inequality in information - Jisc BBC shines the spotlight on an exemplary primary school - Education and Employers Time to reboot your teaching career? Five ways to help you decide - Teach First The most powerful word of all - UKEdChat ESFA Update: 13 November 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency EdTech Demonstrator schools and colleges programme - DfE Stella suspended following FE Commissioner intervention - FE Week Rise to Living Wage will be felt by Scottish nurseries, warns NDNA - Nursery World More than 80 per cent of providers good or outstanding under EIF - Nursery World High-profile college leader to retire - FE Week Department for Education flouted rules when it secretly shared pupil data with Home Office, says watchdog - Independent Just 3% of EdTech Innovation funding goes to resolving timetabling issues - Schools Week Teachers buying coats to stop pupils shivering in class - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five lessons from an inspection under Ofsted's new regime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election 2019: Take the TES teacher survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted downgrades outstanding secondary for off-rolling - Times Educational Supplement | TES What does data really say about Scotland's curriculum? - Times Educational Supplement | TES 12% increase in referrals to teaching watchdog - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vice-chancellor claims he was ‘grabbed around neck’ by restaurant-goer over Brexit speech - Independent Parents’ anger after CCTV is installed in loos at Neasden primary school - Evening Standard Birmingham LA school downgraded from 'outstanding' for off-rolling - Schools Week Unite signs breakthrough agreement with Nissan - Unionlearn White Eurocentric males overrepresented in university reading lists, study finds - Independent The key to educational success? Side with the teacher, not your child - Telegraph Bidding war over schools’ extra billions - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We're at breaking point': will UK scientists' big ideas survive Brexit? - Guardian ‘I would burn in hell before returning’ – why British teachers are fleeing overseas - Guardian Change starts with kids in tackling the bullies - Scotsman Teaching critical thinking is not universities’ raison d’être - Times Higher Education | THE Call for increased teacher efficacy to counter rise in work-related stress - SecEd One in 10 students has missed school due to bullying - SecEd Why the general election is an opportunity for politicians to get the public behind a single, simple strategy for skills and lifelong learning - FE News Why my university is glad to be awarding less first class degrees - Wonkhe Sector agencies told to take lead on diversifying reading lists - Times Higher Education | THE Chaplain at top Methodist school quits after saying gay and lesbian people should stay single - Mail Oxford students revolt over head of college's 'woke' plan to scrap saying grace before meals - Mail Meningitis alert as student dies suddenly - Times Stressed law students learn how to chill - Times University reading lists are too colonial, study finds - Times Students have every right to ban speakers | Alice Thomson - Times