News archive for 29th November 2019

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Birth rate pushes primaries to the edge - Times Educational Supplement | TES No-notice inspections are a zombie education policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES GORSE academy downgraded after taking pupils off roll - Times Educational Supplement | TES What do the latest Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results show? - FFT Education Datalab Jisc-supported startup's project wins THE award for innovation - Jisc General election: Charities and youth organisations call on next government to 'put children first' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now NCS launches £3m rebrand after criticism over plans - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Policy Eye - highlights of week ending 29 November - Pearson Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in November 2019 - Pearson 16 to 19 education: funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Skills devolution: a two-tiered adult education system? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why the Conservatives are playing politics with Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa education rankings: How did the UK perform? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students protest against Liverpool university's claim that support for strike is 'unlawful' - Guardian Disparities and devolution: how can the next government close divides in skills and employment? - Learning & Work Institute In the news: 29 November 2019 - UCU Church of England steps into Britain's sex education battle - Mail CBI/Pearson survey exposes the myth of strong employer support for GCSEs, says AELP - AELP School accountability by Progress 8: A critique of Conservative and Labour proposals - BERA Trust in university finances requires both sides to put the work in - HEPI Conservative plans for Ofsted - National Education Union Employer commitment to skills training strengthens - CBI Cognitive development - UKEdChat How to replace the extracurriculars that are being eliminated at elementary schools - The Educator Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - Education & Skills Funding Agency ‘Austerity and underfunding’ pushes nursery chain into liquidation - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Hundreds of thousands of students join global climate strikes - Guardian Tenby school is placed under special measures by Estyn - Wales Online Catholic academy trust bans ‘non-Catholic’ 11-plus exams in its schools - Schools Week Fire-ravaged Peebles High School to stay shut into next year - Scotsman Ofsted watch: Long-running commercial provider hit with grade 4 in poor week for FE - FE Week Gorse trust criticised by Ofsted after leaders fail to explain movements to AP - Schools Week Teaching unions criticise Tory plan for snap Ofsted visits - Guardian LGBT protest school head hopes court victory will help other schools - Schools Week National Apprenticeship Award winners of 2019 - FE Week Why primaries fear their falling rolls - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Tories’ Ofsted plans will damage staff retention - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gender gap in grammar among 5 primary testing insights - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are the Pisa international education rankings? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson: We were right to slash Ofsted's budget - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted unconvinced by GORSE on off-rolling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Backlash from teachers as Tories pledge to beef up Ofsted and bring in no-notice school inspections - Independent Police and schools top list of those missing apprenticeship targets - FE Week Colleges need certainty to deliver promise of social mobility - FE Week Schools will get share of £100bn capital cash despite manifesto omission, insists Williamson - Schools Week I'm striking because insecure academic contracts are ruining my mental health | Sarah Darley - Guardian Ofsted praise college therapy dogs as popularity on the rise - FE Week Paws for thought: Why an academy trust spent £12k on dogs to tackle pupil anxiety - Schools Week School accountability: Why multi-year measures would be fairer to everyone and how they could be implemented - IOE London Blog Questions over declaration of academy trust’s £20k flat for CEO - Schools Week Accountability reformed: The case for multi-year measures - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Age of criminal responsibility raised to 12 in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-thirds of businesses plan to grow apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Classroom safety fears after cuts to technician jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Inadequate’ provider hands £2m adult education budget contract back - FE Week Williamson taken to task on Conservative manifesto - FE Week Last single-sex state school to admit boys for the first time - Herald Scotland The climate change debate: How should schools respond? - Schools Week Applications, nurses, 21st century uni, voter registration (podcast) - Wonkhe Boris Johnson unveils £10million funding boost for education watchdog Ofsted to drive up school standards - The Sun The private school parents who are paying twice over in the new educational arms race - Mail Boris Johnson vows to boost Ofsted powers in bid to improve standards in schools - Mail Teacher fears pupils are so concerned with having perfect handwriting that it's distracting them from their work - Mail Education bosses have failed to recruit enough new maths and science teachers - Mail CBI: Don’t restrict how the apprenticeship levy is spent - FE Week Poor careers advice at university hits minority students hardest - Guardian Ofsted to launch surprise inspections to drive school standards in Tory plan - Express Schools face recruitment crisis as teacher shortage bites - Times Ofsted inspectors could visit schools with no warning under Conservative proposals - Times One in four teenagers ‘face mental health risk’ from phone addiction - Times Scotland: Art room blast blamed for school blaze - Times Scotland’s only girls’ state school will admit boys - Times Ireland: Dublin crèches exposed by RTÉ are ordered to close - Times