News archive for 20th November 2019

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Winners of the WEA 2019 Educational Impact Awards revealed - FE Week 'Strictest school' gets top marks from Pisa chief - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE commissioner: College board chairs should be paid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election 2019: Tories drop to third in teacher vote - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election 2019: Teachers back Labour on education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union warns of further strikes in universities row - Guardian University strikes: Students could see exams disrupted amid second wave of action in 2020 - Independent From difficult to transformative – the art of handling those hard-to-have conversations - Advance HE Strikes at 60 universities to go ahead over pay, conditions and pensions - Scotsman ESFA Update: 20 November 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency The UK must look beyond the EU for skills excellence - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dear Mr Johnson, Mr Corbyn and Ms Swinson… - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skipping breakfast linked to lower GCSE grades - UKEdChat Is it time to introduce super courses for university degrees? - The Educator Representation, engagement and participation: Latinx students in higher education - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Convention on the rights of the child: Two-thirds of young people ‘have never heard of act’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Election 2019: Liberal Democrats manifesto pledges £500m for youth services - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Statement on Liberal Democrats manifesto - Collab Group Government's 'shameful' record on fire safety must end, says joint union letter to Gavin Williamson - UCU Election Briefing: How and why this election matters for students, staff and higher education institutions - HEPI Liberal Democrats Manifesto - National Education Union 100 years of Randomised Controlled Trials: a teacher’s perspective - NFER Which is the best pre-election higher education briefing? - Wonkhe Simple wellbeing: Just be - Teacher Toolkit Lib Dems vow £10bn 'emergency' boost for schools as they lift lid on election manifesto - PoliticsHome Liberal Democrats pledge rail fare freeze and free school meals extension in election manifesto - PoliticsHome Solving the virtual learning environment headache - Jisc Liberal Democrats pledge extra £1bn for further education - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Green Party launch general election manifesto - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges GTUC pledge their commitment to teaching excellence - Advance HE Early years organisation publishes wishlist ahead of general election - Nursery World Prioritise mental health support for children in care, demands charity - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Technical education and T levels election statement - Collab Group Three quarters of under-fives have access to internet-connected devices - Nursery World UK politicians make a play for votes with childcare pledge - Financial Times Parents win right to prayer-free alternative to religious assemblies - Guardian Parents furious over school's 'strict and ridiculous' new lunch rules - Mirror Liberal Democrats promise £1 billion for colleges in their manifesto - FE Week What have the parties pledged on education? - Mail Lib Dem manifesto: More SEND funding, no more EBacc and gender neutral school uniforms pledged - Schools Week Prince Andrew: The companies and colleges cutting ties with Duke of York - Guardian Oxford Union president resigns after blind black student dragged out of debate 'by the ankles' - Independent Schools urged to offer inclusive assemblies after trust concedes collective worship challenge - Schools Week MAT backs down in legal case on religious assemblies - Times Educational Supplement | TES £1bn funding and a wider levy: The Lib Dem manifesto - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election 2019: Lib Dems' manifesto pledges for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Huge challenge of closing attainment gap is laid bare - Times Educational Supplement | TES General election 2019: Lib Dems promise 20,000 more teachers - BBC Primary school expansion gains backing - Scotsman Kicking off Career Kickstart Reviews - Unionlearn Kids are speaking out but still adults don’t take us seriously: Children show the way on rights and the future - IOE London Blog School leaders' role for Chartered College - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chartered College survives lack of members - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children who rarely eat breakfast secure lower GCSE grades than classmates, study finds - Independent Oxford Union president steps down in wake of blind student row - Guardian 2019 Election briefing - HEPI Waning opportunity? - Sutton Trust Almost half of the public say today’s youth will be worse off than their parents - Sutton Trust Lack of awareness ‘major barrier’ to improving campus diversity - Times Higher Education | THE Chartered College tells ministers it won’t need further handouts - Schools Week Oxford Brookes University cancels feminist speaker Rachel Ara after students accuse her of transphobia - Times GCSEs belong in the Victorian era, say heads - Times