News archive for 3rd October 2019

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Rape and sex assault complaints at universities have trebled in just three years - Mail School becomes first in Britain to scrap holidays - The Sun Labour brain drain: Plot against private schools will ‘force students abroad’ - Express Could body cameras help boost teaching and learning? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Teacher who 'showed up drunk' after night out - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT criticised for gifts, hampers and alcohol purchase - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Popular and well-liked’ student hanged himself on day of graduation ceremony - The Sun Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools exam errors: 'Solution agreed' by test provider - BBC Investigation into trust that suspended CEO uncovers spend on gift hampers and booze - Schools Week Scotland becomes first UK country to ban smacking - BBC Ofsted warns councils over illegal schools 'con' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK post-study work ruling creates confusion, questions on deferring - PIE News World Teachers’ Day – share why you are proud to teach - Education & Training Foundation Chair quits at college stung by £20m scandal and replaced by DfE consultant - FE Week Show me the (value for) money! - HEPI Spotlight on mental health and education: New special interest group hosts inaugural conference - BERA Rewarding teamwork is key to improving primary children’s spelling - UKEdChat What comes after school? Career tips and advice - Learning Scientists Never say never - Teach First Applications to become an FE teacher through Taking Teaching Further close on 31 October - Education & Training Foundation Brexit: preparations for schools in England - DfE Campaign launched to celebrate World Teachers’ Day - DfE Enforcement letters to independent schools - DfE ESFA reminds providers it will take action to crack down on poor sub-contracting practice - Education & Skills Funding Agency High needs funding arrangements: 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Investigation report: Thrive Partnership Academy Trust - Education & Skills Funding Agency Funding education for 16 to 19 year olds - Education & Skills Funding Agency Seven failing private schools banned from accepting new pupils - Schools Week Teachers asked to celebrate their 'life-changing' work - Times Educational Supplement | TES As well as objects, students should be users of data too - Wonkhe I’m so disappointed in you: handling SU officers speaking their truth to power - Wonkhe Abolishing Ofsted: Labour's major electoral mistake? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Admissions improbable: new frontiers in student recruitment - Wonkhe Letter to all ESFA post-16 funded providers on subcontracting delivery - Education & Skills Funding Agency ‘Partial QTS’ for European SEND teachers will be scrapped under no-deal Brexit - Schools Week Parents in Wales to lose right to remove children from sex education classes - Independent Why Oxford and Cambridge are still the best universities in Britain - Telegraph Teach us how to look after our mental health, say university students - Guardian Children to be forced to stay in sex education classes in school - Wales Online Scotland poised to ban smacking of children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Was the National Record of Achievement a colossal lie? - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA currently investigating 11 FE sub-contractors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ability grouping: To stream or not to stream? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Over 1.3 million UK children expected to be obese in 2030 - Nursery World Edinburgh University has most £100k staff pay packets in UK poll - Scotsman Scottish deaf children face crisis due to teacher shortage - Scotsman Oracy: children’s skills are skewed by deprivation and privilege. How can schools bridge the gap? - IOE London Blog Gavin Williamson’s vision is a catalyst for international perspective - FE Week Goodbye hockey, hello raving yoga: how schools are exploring new ways of keeping children active - Telegraph Sex education classes could be compulsory in Wales - BBC TBAP trust to give up two schools - Schools Week Gavin Williamson at Conservative party conference 2019 - Schools Week Subcontracting warning from government after £20m Brooklands College scandal - FE Week We Are Stoke-on-Trent: Helping students who are truanting - BBC Rewarding teamwork over solo success ‘boosts spelling’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for all schools to be in academy trusts by 2030 - Times Educational Supplement | TES What is the IB middle years programme? - Times Educational Supplement | TES In the twisted story of eugenics, the bad guy is all of us | Angela Saini - Guardian Summer-born children should have test scores adjusted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anger over 'shameful' cuts in deaf children's education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers spend '44 days a year' assessing pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education and the redistribution of power - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Schools should adjust test scores by age to tackle disadvantage facing summer-born children, experts say - Independent Why aren’t women leading research impact cases? - Wonkhe Will courses and providers close if we cap private school entry rates? - Wonkhe UUK president aims to show degree value ‘not all about money’ - Times Higher Education | THE Academics are people, too - Times Higher Education | THE What is the point of a university press? - Times Higher Education | THE Matthew Hedges: universities fail to protect staff working abroad - Times Higher Education | THE Most European campuses ‘use journal impact factor to judge staff’ - Times Higher Education | THE Nearly 5,000 university chiefs raked in over £100,000 last year as students face sky-high debt - The Sun Independent regulator needed to oversee maintained schools and academies, CST says - Schools Week Sex education: Right to remove pupils from class set to end - BBC Ditch the term MAT, and 5 more CST school reform proposals - Schools Week Skills shortage to cost small UK businesses £145,000 next year - City AM Adjust test scores for summer-born pupils, teachers told - Schools Week University cap on private schools ‘will drive brightest pupils abroad’ - Times Call for summer-born children to have marks adjusted - Times Illegal school Freiston Hall was funded by taxpayers - Times Thousands of university staff are earning £100,000 or more - Times Scotland: Deaf children are left behind by specialist teacher shortage - Times Scotland: Foreign students drive demand for alcohol-free halls and club nights - Times Ireland: Quarter of children in Oberstown detention centre have learning difficulty - Times