News archive for 18th November 2019

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Be 'menopause-friendly' or lose teachers, heads told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: Are EHCPs a problem or the solution for SEND? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election 2019: Teachers quit as pupils are treated like battery hens - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academic curriculum 'alienates pupils and fuels gangs’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students call for Prince Andrew to quit as chancellor of Huddersfield University - Independent University students vote on bid to ask Duke of York to resign as chancellor - Herald Scotland Blind black student dragged out of Oxford University debating chamber 'by the ankles' - Independent How to keep a work-life balance after paternity leave - The Educator No change in direction for education, vows Swinney - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huddersfield students debate call for duke to quit as chancellor - Times Higher Education | THE 10 lessons from an inspection under Ofsted's new regime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher added 'favourite' student on Facebook - Times Educational Supplement | TES I revel in the primary curriculum's lack of detail - Times Educational Supplement | TES The dilemma of a left-leaning private school teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Last chance saloon means subcontracting rules for the sector must be tightened up - AELP 100 years of randomised controlled trials: A researcher’s perspective - NFER More than 30 sixth form colleges on strike Wednesday - National Education Union Education unions call for urgent pay increase to tackle recruitment and retention crisis in the teaching profession - Voice Road Safety Week (videos) - Teacher Toolkit Mindful Education named Edtech Company of the Year - Collab Group Prime Minister commits to reducing business rates - Nursery World Westminster schools awarded £2.1m to increase SEND provision - Nursery World Comment on Labour apprenticeships policy - Collab Group Strikes to begin on Thursday at Coventry University in appraisal row - UCU Welsh bill set to see 16- and 17-year-olds able to vote in local elections - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Charity finds 22,000 young people in England face homelessness this Christmas - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Guide set to promote LGBT-inclusivity in primary schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now We must teach children to be discerning, says GSA President - GSA 1 in 2 UK engineering and tech firms are concerned that a shortage of engineers is a business threat - PoliticsHome LGBT-inclusive curriculum guide launched for UK primary schools - Pearson Schools less important than parents in determining higher education aspirations - UKEdChat Beyond Brexit: Five things the general election should focus on - Learning & Work Institute Getting students ready for the changing workplace - Jisc Students’ letter calls for extension of UK PSW - PIE News The Centenary Commission for Adult Education - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges School exclusion reviews data collection 2020: guide for LAs - DfE The way to tackle the child obesity epidemic? Teach cooking in schools - Telegraph Oxford Union debate: Blind student 'violently' pulled from seat - BBC Labour pledges 80k 'climate apprenticeships' per year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Narrowing choice has 'profound implications' for pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why collaboration is crucial for adult education - Times Educational Supplement | TES State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted AELP fear funding agency considering outright subcontracting ban - FE Week British Embassy exhibits at the International Education Fair in Ashgabat - GOV.UK Ex-WCAT schools won't get any money back - Schools Week Jisc geospatial data gives academics access to millions of open data maps - Jisc University Awards 2020: entries now open - Guardian Unions ‘desperate’ call for more teacher pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour will create 320,000 green apprenticeships, Corbyn to tell CBI conference - FE Week Oxford Union security staff appear to manhandle blind student – video - Guardian Googling could endanger reading ability, head warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our schools are free of narrow EBacc, says private head - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adult education needs its own minister, says commission - Times Educational Supplement | TES Birmingham University refused to look into student's off-campus rape claim - Guardian Yorkshire schools will not get back millions lost in trust's collapse - Guardian Movers and Shakers: Edition 297 - FE Week Children coming to school so poor teachers have to give them money to eat, says headteacher - Wales Online Back in class: Parents return to school to help job prospects and young pupils - Herald Scotland The Centenary Commission on Adult Education - HEPI In this skills election, the real question is about choice - Wonkhe Finding the humanity in higher education leadership - Wonkhe Impact should be included in promotion and tenure criteria - Times Higher Education | THE Good grades and a desk 'key for university hopes' - BBC Initiation rituals put students off university sport - Times Cladding fears after fire at Bolton student flats - Times Scotland: Third of Catholic school pupils lack Protestant friends - Times Ireland: Review to make third-level education ‘sustainable’ - Times