News archive for 19th November 2019

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Oxford Union debate: President resigns over blind student row - BBC Lib Dems pledge to boost teacher numbers by 20,000 - Schools Week Lib Dems pledge £10bn schools spending rise and 20,000 extra teachers - Guardian AoC Student of the Year Award winners announced - FE Week Glasgow University increases security after west end sex attacks - BBC Sampling issues cast doubt on Canada's Pisa performance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lib Dems pledge 20,000 more teachers and an extra £10bn - Times Educational Supplement | TES We will stop Brexit and save our schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES School bans toilet trips during lessons telling kids to go at lunch or break - Mirror The manhandling of a blind man shows the Oxford Union still has a race problem | Afua Hirsch - Guardian Making sense of the NICDEX 2019 - FE Week Kendal College tops FE Week’s 2019 league table - FE Week End ‘shameful’ fire safety record with sprinklers for all schools, unions urge Williamson - Schools Week Prince Andrew mentor scheme at risk as firms withdraw support - Guardian University of Glasgow take extra security measures as police probe rape and sexual assaults - Herald Scotland UK universities are asked to curb impact of lecturers’ strike - Financial Times New guide for early years settings on recruiting more men - Nursery World High needs: allocated place numbers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2019 - Ofsted Do the general election skills policies really add up? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of childminders falls by a fifth - Nursery World Labour pledges on poverty - National Education Union Green Party Manifesto - National Education Union Government fire safety - National Education Union Student complaints and value for money - HEPI School readiness, early years education and neoliberal subjectivities - BERA UCU accuses universities of 'playing games' after they offer to talk about anything but pay - UCU UCU election manifesto calls for investment in staff - UCU NASUWT national trade dispute lodged with the Welsh Government - NASUWT Industrial action is not the way forward, say university leaders - Universities UK Liberal Democrats Education Pledges - National Education Union Scottish rollout of standardised tests ‘almost unique’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Extra £4 billion a year for schools' pledged - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exposure to sexual harm and explicit images a 'normal part' of life for children - SecEd Childline receives thousands of contacts over suicidal thoughts and self-harm - SecEd Sharp rise in 30-plus class sizes concerns teachers - SecEd A definition for mentoring - UKEdChat PISA education ranking naming Canada as a superpower is ‘misleading’ - IOE London Blog Councils report rise in number of home-educated children with complex needs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Early years leaders support calls to recruit more men to sector - CYPN | Children & Young People Now First ever AoC President's Award given to Brockenhurst students - AoC | Association of Colleges Four outstanding students win Student of the Year Awards - AoC | Association of Colleges Labour manifesto could pledge to write off student debts, John McDonnell suggests - PoliticsHome Is Canada really an education “superpower”? The evidence is not as clear-cut as you might think - FFT Education Datalab The cloak of the headteacher - SecEd China overtakes UK in ‘highly cited researchers’ table - Times Higher Education | THE Teachers threaten to strike in pay and discipline dispute with Welsh Government - Wales Online Oxford Union forcibly removing a blind student is as much about ableism as race - HuffPost School funding bidding war escalates as Green Party pledges extra £4bn - Schools Week Student sparks fury for refusing to vote because things 'haven't got better' - Mirror Labour could scrap tuition fee debt if they get into power, John McDonnell hints - Mirror AoC Beacon Awards 2020: shortlist announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted challenged on off-rolling consistency - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bank charges for colleges go up in wake of insolvencies - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need both vocational and community education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils crack down on home education as school attendance orders soar - Schools Week Ministers urged to do more to tackle inequality in Stem - Times Educational Supplement | TES Conservatives unveil Prison Education Service plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour could write off student debts worth billions suggests shadow chancellor John McDonnell - Mail Sport leaders unite over PE 'alarming public health emergency' - Telegraph Prince Andrew could be removed as University chancellor after student vote - Mirror Here’s an election idea: why not let anyone sit Oxbridge finals? | Laura McInerney - Guardian ‘It hasn’t been easy being a Tory in education’: meet the teachers standing for election - Guardian Heriot-Watt University plans new campus in Dubai which will open in 2021 - Scotsman George Watson's College pupils to leave school after drug probe amid 'ecstasy dealing' claims - Scotsman Financial education fails to add up for young people - Financial Times The future of colleges: Can edtech deliver its utopia? - FE Week The UK’s young people are losing out to baby boomers – but tuition fees are not the problem - Times Higher Education | THE UCU chief urges v-cs to speak out to avert UK pensions strike - Times Higher Education | THE Oxford Union chief faces ousting motion over blind student dragged from seat - Times Huddersfield University students tell Prince Andrew to quit as chancellor - Times Undergraduates go back to school in search of advice - Times Landlords ‘exploit’ students by keeping their deposits - Times Scotland: Sensitive students at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland stifling free speech - Times Scotland: University of Edinburgh fined over lab health risks - Times Ireland: Teachers will strike over two-tier ‘pay discrimination’ - Times