News archive for 2nd October 2019

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At least 3,600 university staff take home more than £100,000 a year - Mail Headmistress who’s cancelled school holidays for ever - Mail When big companies fund academic research, the truth often comes last - The Conversation Forced academisation is not the answer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rosenshine’s Principles: 10 FAQs. - Teacherhead Trio plead guilty to running illegal school after Ofsted investigation - Independent Councils spent thousands sending vulnerable kids to illegal school - Schools Week Eton's Tory alumni are part and parcel of what makes my old school so great - Telegraph Less than 1 in 5 teachers think Ofsted is ‘trusted and reliable’ - The Educator Ministers shouldn’t park funding for nursing students - Wonkhe New T levels contracts worth £20m for awarding bodies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads warn that schools still face cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Major MAT 'disappointed' by its off-rolling academy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disruptive technology trends in further education - Collab Group Asia outperforms continental Europe in top 500 universities for boosting student careers - PIE News Travel within UK is motivator for Chinese students - PIE News When is a word not a word? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF What does David Cameron’s book tell us about tuition fees and student numbers – and the relationship between the two? - HEPI Matt Hood to move on from Ambition Institute - Ambition Institute Initial teacher training: Challenges and opportunities - SecEd Building positive relationships - UKEdChat NTFS 2019: How to teach the most demanding students of all - Advance HE ESFA Update: 2 October 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Three convicted of running an illegal school - Ofsted Patel reveals £20m package to tackle county lines - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Deconstructed role play - UKEdChat Health secretary seeks advice on school immunisation plan - SecEd Joint SEND inspections reveal inadequate support in many areas - SecEd Council sent letters to 41 grieving families to enrol dead children at school - Metro Matt Hood to leave Ambition Institute role - Schools Week Researchers given £2.6m grant to investigate impact of school exclusions - Schools Week A third of Scottish nursery children already using extra funded hours - Nursery World Social Mobility Commission strategy 2019 - Social Mobility Commission Johnson steps up attack on Labour's education plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES NCFE and City & Guilds win contracts for 7 T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Matt Hood leaves Ambition Institute - Times Educational Supplement | TES What is the IB primary years programme? - Times Educational Supplement | TES BBC and Tes partner for live mental health lesson - Times Educational Supplement | TES Progress on nursery hours – but staffing ‘crisis’ looms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools warn uni cap would lead to brain drain - Times Educational Supplement | TES National professional qualifications: frameworks - DfE Boss of AoC critical of vice-chancellors spending university cash on ‘wine and beer’ - FE Week Contracts awarded to deliver the second wave of T levels - IfATE The awarding bodies delivering the second wave of T-levels - FE Week Minister admits no power to stop Stourbridge College becoming residential flats - FE Week Unions promote apprenticeships on the Flyde Coast - Unionlearn Simon Baron-Cohen: ‘Neurodiversity is the next frontier. But we’re failing autistic people’ | Saba Salman - Guardian Private school pupils fear freshers' week initiations - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools face 'striking' rise in parental calls for help - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland’s children should be training to cycle safely - Scotsman Tory manifesto tipped to focus on ‘low value degrees’ in England - Times Higher Education | THE Clear data from devices before travelling, academics told - Times Higher Education | THE Universities should pay more attention to their environments - Times Higher Education | THE Parenting classes 'could help reduce social costs' - BBC Ex-Eton head Tony Little says Johnson, Cameron and Rees-Mogg are giving the school 'a bad name' - Mail Ofsted: 1,010 'outstanding' schools not inspected for a decade - BBC Tory Old Boys give Eton a bad name, former head fears - Times Hardship, not lack of ambition, is what holds back working-class children | Jade Azim & Tara O'Reilly - Times Classes for parents added to private school curriculum - Times Pupils switching gender just to cause a stir, says former head of St Paul’s School for Girls - Times Scotland: Politicians plan to axe Catholic schools, says writer Mark Millar - Times Dundalk Irish language education row goes to Dáil - Times