News archive for 15th November 2019

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Headteacher wrongly sacked over threesome with boys, 17, awarded £700,000 - Metro Academies beating private schools for university places - Telegraph Academy boss paid £550,000 calls for greater scrutiny of headteacher pay - Independent Headteacher sacked for sex with two boys, 17, is awarded £700,000 compensation - Mirror Teacher sacked over gay dating app activity wins £700,000 payout - Guardian Banned: Teacher let student take cocaine in his flat - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edexcel chief: 'Don't blame technology for exam leaks' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges 'can't afford to be complacent', says AoC boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outstanding leadership must come from all college staff - Times Educational Supplement | TES Majority of top universities recall exchange students from Hong Kong over protests - Independent DfE expects school improvement too quickly, says former RSC - Schools Week Tribunal awards £700k to headteacher sacked over gay dating app activity - Guardian Fact check: Conservative figures for Labour education spending don't add up - Schools Week Tribunal awards gay primary school teacher, 42, nearly £700,000 after he was wrongly sacked - Mail Head teacher sacked for having sex with two 17-year-old boys is awarded £700,000 compensation - Wales Online As a university leader, I think we can afford a better pensions deal for striking staff | Anthony Forster - Guardian What drives us to experiment in the classroom? - Teacher Tapp Two thirds of teachers rate send provision as 'poor' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Weekly news: 15 November 2019 - UCU What a week for further education - AoC | Association of Colleges NSPCC reports rise in children seeking mental health support - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Policy Eye - highlights of week ending 15 November - Pearson Climate Commission meets for the first time - AoC | Association of Colleges How to keep a work-life balance after maternity leave - The Educator Don't overwork and micro-manage heads, governors told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Punishing strikes at Nottingham College officially end - FE Week Survey launched to discover pupils' dream jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES How flaws in post-16 policy damage our young people - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour deserves credit on lifelong learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES 3.7 million refugee children are out of school - Teacher Toolkit SEND provision poll results - National Education Union Long-running dispute at Nottingham College ends as college agrees deal on pay and workload - UCU Norwegian researchers explore how to crack the reading code - UKEdChat Should we bring back contextual value added? - FFT Education Datalab CEO: My trust ‘pays the price’ for being inclusive - Schools Week Tory candidate wants grammar school in Croydon despite ban - Schools Week Ofsted watch: Healthcare providers criticised in ‘outstanding’ week for colleges - FE Week GE2019: Simplify the sector and put colleges at the heart of communities - FE Week ‘They think it’s exclusive…but it’s done on a massive scale’ – inside the glossy mag that charges schools £3,500 for exposure - Schools Week The Tes Podcast: Pay, PRU's and teaching without Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Shut down the internet, student housing edition - Financial Times Teaching vacancies fall sharply, new figures show - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lifelong learning is a social justice issue - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney hits out at ‘culture of negativity’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Just 2% of teachers 'say DfE is good enough on SEND' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why colleges are choosing GCSE resits over alternatives - FE Week Fury as kids in East Dunbartonshire may be turned away from nearest school in catchment area - Scotsman Small business fury over Hadlow administration - FE Week College to spend £250k paying off learner loans after subcontracting scandal - FE Week 4 key proposals from the Headteachers' Roundtable election manifesto - Schools Week Heads turn away from teacher performance pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Numbers in low grade PRUs 'underestimated' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Probe high academy pay, says £550k Moynihan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers’ Roundtable Doorstop Manifesto – General Election 2019 - Schools Week Big questions over the quality of alternative provision - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Parents' complaints 'distract 84% of school leaders' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'need more training' to combat sexual abuse - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes Independent School Awards: the shortlist unveiled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson’s plea for festive joy falls on deaf ears - Schools Week Ofsted: Campus grades on the cards for 2020 - FE Week Facebook use harms less able students’ grades, says study - Times Higher Education | THE Tory spending plans include £800 million budget for ‘UK Darpa’ - Times Higher Education | THE Senior technicians at UK universities overwhelmingly male - Times Higher Education | THE Universities ‘central’ to solutions on UK regional inequality - Times Higher Education | THE Working with education officers in SUs - Wonkhe Labour, residential HE, PTES, academic freedom (podcast) - Wonkhe New study reveals that two-thirds of the working class are socially mobile - Mail Universities including Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester see their credit ratings hit - Mail Labour Party manifesto savaged by leading British analysts - ‘Unrealistic empty promises’ - Express Warwick University recalls all its exchange students from Hong Kong - Mail Students ban beef in bars and shops to save the planet - Times University halts game shoots after animal rights campaign - Times Progress stalls for poorest applicants to top universities - Times