News archive for 14th November 2019

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‘Shameful’ slave auction re-enactment prompts outrage at university conference - Independent Heads calling for revolution in SEND support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why is teacher wellbeing in such a dire state? - Times Educational Supplement | TES University applications: Are schools or colleges best? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges outstrip grammar schools on university offers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academies beat private schools in uni applications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish students told to return home from Hong Kong amid increased civil unrest - Scotsman Tight-loose and the folly of prescriptive lesson structures - Headguruteacher Relationships and sex education: 1 in 10 schools won't consult parents - Schools Week Child hospitalised 'after school's toilet roll policy' left her scared to use loo - Mirror Warwick University Hong Kong exchange students called back to UK - BBC Improving teacher and pupil feedback - EEF scales up Embedding Formative Assessment programme - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Destination unknown…the importance of knowing who you are to get to where you want to be - Advance HE London mayor ploughs £4.7m into tackling exclusions and violence in schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Independent Commission on the College of the Future releases interim report - Jisc Collab Group statement on Conservative capital funding announcement - Collab Group Global interest to study music at the UK’s prestigious conservatoires hits new high - UCAS Child taken to hospital with constipation 'because school's strict loo roll policy left her too scared to go to the toilet' - Wales Online Do we like to live beside the seaside? - Teach First Do rewards work? Exploring research evidence around how best to use rewards in school - Research Schools Network Making playground duty child’s play - UKEdChat LSE helps launch CIVICA –The European University of Social Sciences - London School of Economics | LSE Government fails to meet ICO deadline on childcare funding calculations - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Charity's early support in children's centres halves in two years - CYPN | Children & Young People Now DfE refuses to explain how funding rates were calculated - Nursery World Almost a million children in class sizes of 31 or more pupils - Nursery World The ideals of the Middle Ages are still holding back scholars - Times Higher Education | THE National College with 24 students criticised by Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'failed' by Scottish government, Labour claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES Head's dilemma - Cutting 20 TAs vs 4.5 day week? - Times Educational Supplement | TES William Whyte provides a timely and relevant contribution to the developing discussion on student accommodation and affordability - HEPI Progress report published by the Independent Commission on the College of the Future - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Erasmus+ announces call for 2020 proposals - PIE News Chinglish versus China English: A need to determine ‘correct’ English among our Chinese students - BERA Edinburgh University recalls exchange students in Hong Kong amid rising civil unrest - Herald Scotland School funding crisis is blamed for surge in supersized classes - Guardian Pupils call for more lessons from outside agencies on online sexual abuse - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Teacher warned learners of ‘terror’ attack in latest college hack - FE Week Are 16-year-olds prepared for politics? Or are they over-protected from controversy and debate? - IOE London Blog The private education risk premium - Financial Times Why social justice is integral to education policy - Montrose42 First college rated outstanding in new Ofsted framework - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free adult education is vital for a healthy economy – and UK politicians are finally starting to get this - The Conversation Working collaboratively for a bright future in further education - Jisc Can this student's flatshare reviews beat dodgy landlords? - Guardian UNISON survey shows public service workers are ready to learn - Unionlearn Could job sharing solve universities' big gender pay gap problem? | Emma Watton and Sarah Stables - Guardian Ofsted reveals National College surviving on bailouts has just 24 classroom students - FE Week First ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating for FE college under new framework - FE Week The 20 areas with the biggest class sizes - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 20 areas with the smallest class sizes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two in five support staff fear their job may be cut - Times Educational Supplement | TES Talk about the election to help tackle polarisation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Class sizes bigger since 2010 in 'nine out of 10' areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES Class size: The top priority for the next Government - National Education Union What damage does residential higher education do? - Wonkhe The personal cost of teaching abroad - Independent Head Want to save the humanities? Try getting off your pedestal - Wonkhe Reassess value of student ‘mass migration’ within UK, says report - Times Higher Education | THE Chinese students ‘unfairly demonised for political purposes’ - Times Higher Education | THE The REF must face up to reproduction’s true impact on academics - Times Higher Education | THE One in three PhD students seeks mental health help, says survey - Times Higher Education | THE Why do so many UK students live away from home and why does it matter? - HEPI One in 50 'children in need' are not yet born - BBC Lib Dem manifesto: Taxes to soar, Brexit scrapped, and bizarre education funding plan - Express Reducing class sizes top priority for next government, say teachers - Schools Week Nottingham Trent University will cut number of firsts to tackle grade inflation - Times Ex-military head teaches Ashgate Primary pupils how to cook in wild - Times Call to overhaul ‘prison-like’ student accommodation - Times Scotland: Academics criticise professor over ‘dubious research’ in his Curriculum for Excellence study - Times