News archive for 28th November 2019

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Conservatives pledge to boost Ofsted's power to inspect schools - Guardian Conservatives pledge to boost Ofsted rather than scrap it - BBC Johnson pledges ‘no-notice’ Ofsted inspections - Schools Week WorldSkills UK Live 2019 (pdf) - FE Week Conservatives pledge no notice Ofsted inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES What colleges will look like in 10 years' time - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils may eat less fruit and veg under new rules - Times Educational Supplement | TES Conservatives pledge no notice Ofsted inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities strike is over more than just pensions - Financial Times Serious safeguarding failures at ‘college’ - FE Week Moment screaming children flee in terror after school roof collapses during fierce blaze - Mail Scotland: Huge fire at school sees students run for cover from 'collapsing roof' - Mirror Climate change activism ‘reducing mental health symptoms among young people’ - Independent Secondary teacher recruitment in England falls short of targets - Guardian Picket lines are trespassing, University of Birmingham tells its striking lecturers - Telegraph Tories pledge to hand more powers to schools watchdog Labour wants to scrap - PoliticsHome Initial teacher training: trainee number census 2019 to 2020 - DfE Further education and skills: November 2019 - DfE Early years foundation stage profile results: 2018 to 2019 - DfE Why tackling the teacher supply challenge needs to be a top priority for the next Government - NFER Initial Teacher Training 2019 - National Education Union Student accommodation: A postgraduate reflects - HEPI General Election 2019 - BERA Adult education budget and devolution in England - Collab Group Six strategies for effective learning: A summary for teachers - Learning Scientists Improving Maths in Key Stages 2 and 3 - Research Schools Network Picture books – who needs them? - UKEdChat Universities UK welcomes UCAS figures on disadvantaged students - Universities UK NASUWT comments on initial teacher training enrolment figures - NASUWT ‘Me, my selfie and I’: An exploration of children’s perceptions of social media - BERA Youth charity the Challenge goes into administration - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Top five tips for supporting kinship carers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Alternative education provider rated 'outstanding' under new Ofsted framework - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Delivering employability to a global classroom - Advance HE Universal Credit, childcare and in-work progression - ERSA When done right, internet use among children can increase learning opportunities and build digital skills - London School of Economics | LSE 'Devastating' fire at Scottish Borders school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Charity that operates nurseries goes into liquidation - Nursery World General election: Parties urged to end ‘postcode lottery’ of early years attainment - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Devolution of adult education 'risks postcode lottery' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities have driven their workers into the ground. That’s why I’m striking | Amelia Horgan - Guardian Fraud police start formal Bright Tribe probe - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Explosion' in clay oven believed to have started blaze at Scottish high school - Scotsman State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2019 - Ofsted Will general election promises solve the recruitment and retention crisis? - Schools Week Bullying: Teachers share their stories in video for pupils - BBC Peebles High School: Roof collapses as firefighters tackle 'severe' blaze - Scotsman Peebles High School: Watch as blaze rips through Borders school - Scotsman Roof collapses as fire crews battle huge blaze at Peebles High School - Herald Scotland ‘Alarming’: Government misses teacher-training targets for seventh year in a row despite major staff shortages in schools - Independent University staff: Use this week's strike to protest against the hostile environment - Guardian Great Yarmouth Community Trust: Parents 'panicking' over nursery closures - BBC Scotland's last all-girls state school to admit boys after long dispute - Guardian Ban could see protests against LGBT+ lessons spread across UK, campaigners warn - Independent Teacher training targets for England missed - Mail Summer-born fall 19 points behind peers in early years - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Pisa rankings and Scotland: what you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Last state-funded girls’ school will admit boys - Times Educational Supplement | TES 18-month academisation wait for 51 failed schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Notre Dame: Boys to be admitted to Scotland's last all-girl state school - BBC Notre Dame High to admit boys for the first time - Herald Scotland Scotland's last all-girls state school will admit boys for the first time - Scotsman Government set to miss apprenticeship target by a massive 800,000 starts - FE Week Academies struggling with apprentice hiring target - Schools Week Apprenticeship starts for young people continue to fall – DfE reveal - FE Week Sharp drop in adults studying English and maths, new data reveals - FE Week DfE misses its own teacher training recruitment targets - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government misses secondary teacher training target for seventh year in row - Schools Week The UK used to be attractive to us academics. Now it’s just hostile | Asiya Islam - Guardian Will Tuesday's Pisa results be Gove's report card? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Campus constituencies: where do student voters wield the most power? - Guardian Half of 18-year-olds get into uni with lower grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES Make parents aware of the right to delay school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers told to do more to help poor students into uni - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCAS' 2019 End of Cycle Report reveals ‘unprecedented opportunity’ for anyone considering university - UCAS Navigating unpaid internships: Exploitative or a necessary evil? - Sutton Trust Anti-social behaviour fines for university students - BBC Royal embarrassment: Prince William's 'soft option' degree branded 'narrow' by Oxford prof - Express Tiered contributions under consideration with USS row at deadlock - Times Higher Education | THE What is on the horizon for European research funding? - Times Higher Education | THE How graduates are reshaping the UK’s electoral landscape - Times Higher Education | THE In assessment we need consistent values, not form filling - Wonkhe Our first look at 2019 UCAS end of cycle data - Wonkhe Scotland: Decision day for Glasgow all-girls school Notre Dame - BBC Half of students get degree place with lower grades - BBC University admissions gap between rich and poor students still 'far too wide' - Schools Week Half of university places go to 'substandard' students - Mail Ten commandments for influencing policymakers in turbulent times - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Transformative journal’ rules allow titles Plan S reprieve - Times Higher Education | THE Restrict researchers to one paper a year, says UCL professor - Times Higher Education | THE 'Best time ever': school-leavers have pick of university courses, says Ucas - Guardian Jesus College, Cambridge’s looted bronze cockerel will be returned home to Nigeria - Times Now is an ‘ideal time’ to get a university place, Ucas says - Times Scotland: Five Gordonstoun pupils charged with sex assault - Times Scotland: Universities may need new research funding sources - Times Beijing is backing attacks against us, say Hong Kong students in Scotland - Times