News archive for 26th November 2019

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Winter vomiting bug hits NI schools - BBC Testing 'has made teaching a misaligned profession' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Election 2019 manifesto promises for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hundreds of Edinburgh pupils hit by winter bug including one quarter of Gaelic primary - Scotsman Teachers in schools with poorer pupils asked to collect more attainment data, prompting fears over workload - Independent China is using our university sector to support its military programmes - a cause for concern? - Montrose42 General election 2019: Questions answered - tuition fees - BBC Protests over LGBT lessons at Birmingham school permanently banned - Times Schools with lower Ofsted ratings have to provide performance data more often - Schools Week Complete the school census (guidance) - DfE School census autumn 2019 to summer 2020: school summary report - DfE No evidence of impact for a modularisation and self-paced computer-assisted approach to college maths - Best Evidence in Brief Do private schools give students an educational advantage? - Best Evidence in Brief The effect of linguistic comprehension training on language and reading comprehension - Best Evidence in Brief Play-based curriculum benefits young children and teachers - Best Evidence in Brief Beware your unconscious bias - UKEdChat Promoting and developing metacognitive talk in the classroom - Research Schools Network Teachers seeing increased evidence of child poverty in the classroom - SecEd Eating breakfast leads to better GCSE results, researchers find - SecEd A new dawn for education technology? - SecEd Teacher pensions discriminating against men - Times Educational Supplement | TES Counselling offered to all Scottish secondary students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher who gave colleagues the finger is struck off - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further education needs a vision, not just money - Times Educational Supplement | TES High Court judge bans protesters from outside primary school in LGBT teaching row - CYPN | Children & Young People Now General election: Child poverty could reach 60-year high under Conservatives, report warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Newcastle Uni floats £15m Huawei support contract - Public Technology Busy Bees to close ‘unviable’ nursery next month - Nursery World LGBT teaching row: Birmingham primary school protests permanently banned - BBC Fresh strike ballots at 13 UK universities over pay and pensions - Times Higher Education | THE Demonstrations banned in LGBT school row - BBC How to make relationships education work - Teacher Toolkit ‘No Soy Other’ – A Spotlight on Latinx young people in the UK - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth 2019 BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award - BERA How do you measure the impact of a think tank? How do we spend your money? And what should we do in future? - HEPI UCU criticises Sheffield Hallam University for trying to turn students into snitches - UCU Unions secure recognition agreement with training provider Total People - UCU More universities to be balloted for strikes - UCU Educational leadership: Post-conference reflections on an ever-changing field - BERA Anti-LGBT teaching protesters claim 'white' bias after school gates ban upheld - Mail University of Manchester to review fossil fuel shares after student protest - Guardian The distorting lens of perspective (and why teachers need to be professionally sceptical) - The Learning Spy Adult care employers welcome switch to rail academy for apprenticeship oversight - FE Week Scottish University students take over lecture hall in solidarity with striking staff - Herald Scotland General election 2019: Labour plans to teach British Empire injustice in schools - BBC Anti-LGBT protesters banned by judge from campaigning against lessons at Birmingham school - The Sun UK universities must open their doors to refugees to prevent a 'lost generation' | Joanna Newman - Guardian Poor maths skills cost the economy £388m per week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa data ‘incredibly underused’, says academic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Young offenders' mental health care 'falls short' - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGBT primary teaching protests permanently banned - Times Educational Supplement | TES Training provider in college group given union recognition - FE Week Birmingham anti-LGBT school protesters had 'misinterpreted' teachings, judge says - Guardian Anti-LGBT teaching protests outside Birmingham school permanently banned - Mirror General election 2019: Child poverty 'will rise' under Conservative plans - BBC Anti-LGBT teaching protesters get permanent school gates ban - Mail Imam falsely accused teachers of being paedophiles during 'hateful Islamist extremism' protests against LGBT equality lessons - Mail High Court grants permanent exclusion zone at school in LGBT teaching row - Schools Week Protests against LGBT+ lessons permanently banned from outside Birmingham primary school - Independent UK universities reach new national open access deal - Jisc Jeremy Corbyn vows to teach schoolkids about evils of British empire in manifesto pledge - The Sun Thatcher’s market era is over in education. This election could offer a time of hope to rival Attlee’s | Tim Brighouse - Guardian ‘Xenophobia in the system’: university staff launch fightback against hostile environment - Guardian Open University ‘at the heart of switch to a green UK economy’ - Guardian Should England continue participating in PISA? - IOE London Blog Building a numerate nation: confidence, belief and skills - National Numeracy Politicians and business leaders support call for a new focus on adult numeracy - National Numeracy Edtech reforms that ignore FE’s ‘dual professionalism’ will make things worse - FE Week Children would be taught about colonialism and injustice of British Empire under Labour - Mirror Staff need digital skills to give students the best digital experience - Wonkhe We need more nurses, but this is not the way to get them - Wonkhe Jeremy Corbyn has backed a wave of university strikes involving a walkout of 43,000 staff - Mail The rise of children joining high-IQ society Mensa - BBC Corbyn unveils ‘staggeringly hypocritical’ plan to teach kids about British Empire racism - Express Death threats sent to Hongkongers studying in Britain - Times Hong Kong crisis: Beat Edinburgh University student to death, Chinese citizens told - Times