News archive for 9th October 2019

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38 free schools lack permanent home after three years - Times Educational Supplement | TES British science is in jeopardy despite Nobel wins - Financial Times UK universities roll out consent courses to tackle harassment - Mail 5 common problems schools have with developing teaching and learning policies - Teacher Toolkit Effective teaching techniques - The Educator ESFA Update: 9 October 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Future proofing UK business for a digital future: how flexible learning can help close the digital skills gap - Office for Students Children’s language skills may be harmed by social hardship - UKEdChat Major review launches for Agriculture, Environment and Animal Care apprenticeships - IfATE The principles of effective school-to-school peer review - NAHT Staff deliver unanimous vote of no confidence in Nottingham College CEO and chair of governors - UCU Stop spinning and start talking on pay and pensions, UCU urges employers - UCU It’s not (yet?) true that half of young people go to university - HEPI Data is still dominating working life for teachers - SecEd Organisations and leading academics unite to tackle maths anxiety - Pearson The forgotten third - SecEd DfE issues guidance over LGBT teaching protests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inclusive provision: More than a question of funding? - SecEd Review into subject squeeze in Scotland - SecEd Disadvantaged pupils miss out on political activities and in-class debates - SecEd Attainment gap: Concern at private tuition spike - SecEd Charity reports further children's centre cuts - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Three new EEF trials announced, including focus on improving outcomes for children with SEND - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Organisations and leading academics unite to tackle maths anxiety - Pearson NASUWT leader should be removed, tribunal told - Times Educational Supplement | TES What should Ofsted expect from primary subject leaders? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fourth content review of apprenticeship standards launched - FE Week ‘It’s a sham’ – union accused of keeping leader in post despite law breach - Schools Week NASUWT admits breaking law over Chris Keates term of office - Schools Week 'Sixth-formers'? The name is 30 years out of date - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'London effect' strongest for Pakistani pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'humbled' by Nobel Peace Prize nomination - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Oxbridge problem: is it time to shake up University Challenge? - Guardian School bans parents from using phones in playground to stop them ignoring their children - Independent Nottingham College staff call for their CEO and chair to resign - FE Week Rayner accused of 'cosying up' to private schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES So many NQTs are leaving. What are we doing wrong? - Times Educational Supplement | TES All change for Functional Skills - Unionlearn Is the London effect stronger for Pakistani students? - FFT Education Datalab Reforming the Prevent strategy won’t work. It must be abolished | Ilyas Nagdee - Guardian Children’s university - National Education Union Universities must do more to tackle racial harassment on campus, report says - Independent Why we shouldn't extend the apprenticeship levy to SMEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research will assess if museum trips help poorer pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprentices voice concerns about off-the-job training - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGBT teaching row: Government issues advice on handling school protests - BBC Survey demonstrates positive university progress in tackling harassment and hate crime - Universities UK Prince of Wales settles in at Cambridge university (archive, 9 Oct 1967) - Guardian Student disadvantage does not end with graduation - Times Higher Education | THE Sexual consent training on two-thirds of UK campuses, survey says - Times Higher Education | THE Academics ‘lose a week a year’ to formatting journal papers - Times Higher Education | THE Seven in 10 students disclosing mental health condition is female - Times Higher Education | THE Diary of a Headteacher: Out of school in September! - SecEd Warning over spiralling school debts - SecEd Research round-up: October 2019 - SecEd How women students put a rocket up Cambridge - BBC Universities 'must do more to tackle harassment' - BBC Trial to investigate if ‘activity passport’ boosts attainment - Schools Week UCL workers to decide on strike action over 'unjust' outsourcing - Guardian University bosses are failing to prevent hate crimes on campus amid growing number of complaints - Mail Universities teach consent classes to cut sexual assault - Times Foreign students are the only way to make universities pay - Times Scotland: Parents take on John Swinney over porn lessons in new curriculum - Times Two-thirds of UK universities bring in sexual consent training – report - Guardian