News archive for 1st October 2019

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Which pupils are the world’s biggest 'bullshitters'? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools use pupil premium to buy children's uniform - Times Educational Supplement | TES Love saves day for head targeted by homophobic bullies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ormiston school rapped for off-rolling pupils to PRU - Schools Week Kid Inc opens £1m nursery - Nursery World Sheffield college chief claimed almost £9,000 for a chauffeur driven car - Mail Cardiff council takes away primary school's green play area as it's earmarked for a car park - Wales Online At Sellafield, public-private partnerships are closing the skills gap - PoliticsHome Unrealised potential: The role of independent training providers in meeting skills needs - AELP Bucks 11-plus test error ‘not sufficient grounds’ for grammar school appeals - Schools Week Unions call on Williamson to pledge nursery school rescue package - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK science minister wants multi-year research funding framework - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Human error’ blamed for union’s Holocaust email omitting Jews - Times Higher Education | THE Rising to the digital challenge needs new thinking on leadership, management and governance - Wonkhe Banned: Primary teacher made 'crass' comments to girls - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: 'We have to break the cycle of resitting' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: What colleges need to do better to get to good - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits: Influential Tory MP urges policy change - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don't make closing private schools education's Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Follow the research, follow the evidence: Tim Oates - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Why aren’t there more academic experts in the media? - Wonkhe Black Intellectual Capital: Towards a 'pedagogy of hope' - Advance HE Enabling digital evolution at Weston College - Jisc Who are the world’s biggest bull****ters? A light-hearted look at PISA data - FFT Education Datalab Study UK launches fourth online campaign - British Council Williamson: An Institute of Technology in every city - SecEd Providers selected to deliver T Levels and providers planning to deliver the T Level Transition Programme - Education & Skills Funding Agency Higher and degree apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency New measures announced to help boost the nation’s skills - DfE Keeping children safe in education - DfE Lord Glenamara Memorial Prize awards - DfE Beating Germany needs more than quick fixes - FE Week Effects of positive emotion interventions on Chinese adolescents - Best Evidence in Brief Northern Ireland - industrial action update - NAHT Children learning to read - UKEdChat Applications open for the Nuffield Foundation Strategic Fund - Nuffield Foundation Bringing Europe together to better support the adult learning workforce - Learning & Work Institute How Coram is supporting schools to improve reading, resilience and relationships education - NAHT Improving attendance by improving school conditions - Best Evidence in Brief Improving the language and communication of secondary school children with language difficulties - Best Evidence in Brief New review of evidence on parental engagement - Best Evidence in Brief Let’s Talk about language development - Best Evidence in Brief Music school pupil abused by violin teacher at 15 - BBC Obscenity judge's copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover to stay in UK - Guardian Student voter registration service gains its 1,000th sign up - Jisc How Brexit changed the way politics is taught - New Statesman Removing parent governors will be seen as power grab to stifle dissent - Schools Week Nursery businesses join forces against closures - Nursery World Do teachers on the frontline need one-to-one support? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers feel ‘blackmailed’ into multi-course classes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sector warns that proposed rise to national wage will ‘inflict significant damage’ - Nursery World DfE forced to update progress 8 scores again after GCSE statistics error - Schools Week T-levels dropped by education secretary’s former sixth form ahead of 2020 launch - FE Week ‘Sadfishing’ is playing into hands of paedophiles and bullies - Metro New report explores impact of automation on UK research - Jisc Base education around pupils' genetics, schools advised - Times Educational Supplement | TES What is the IB diploma programme? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Creativity 'undervalued' in music education - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘If you get a good inspector, it can be magic’: Is Labour right to want Ofsted gone? - Guardian Oxford professor’s children refused visas to join her in UK - Guardian Sadfishing: Social media trend threatens teenagers’ mental health, report warns - Independent Where will our working-class playwrights come from, now the arts have been sidelined? | Selina Todd - Guardian Who are the world’s biggest bullshitters? A light-hearted look at PISA data - IOE London Blog The future of colleges: lessons from Scotland’s regionalisation - FE Week The UK’s two-year work visa is nothing to do with attracting talent - Times Higher Education | THE Provide alcohol-free accommodation for care leavers, says report - Times Higher Education | THE Academic mothers criticise ‘consistent lack of support’ - Times Higher Education | THE Refusals under private school cap ‘would top 1,000 on campuses’ - Times Higher Education | THE 'Sadfishing' social media warning from school heads - BBC Vulnerable pupils bullied online over 'sadfishing' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Young people who seek support online being accused of 'sadfishing' - Guardian School pupils are making themselves vulnerable to online bullying by 'sadfishing' on social media - Mail This vaccine battle won’t be won easily, Mr Hancock | Sara Tor - Times Irish universities spend €1.8m on lab animals - Times