News archive for 10th October 2019

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Computer game and ’80 piece’ orchestra spend investigated at Hull College - FE Week 'Nest Egg' policy proposal wins £50,000 IEA Breakthrough Prize - City AM FAB award winners 2019 unveiled - FE Week Agnew accused of funding Tory areas at expense of poor - Times Educational Supplement | TES International schools to work with renowned music uni - Times Educational Supplement | TES The danger of excluding dyslexic students from T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted's main weakness? A lack of subject specialists - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT accused of acting on 'off-rolling' plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual chief has three questions for awarding organisations as part of crackdown - FE Week Elite universities are too obsessed with tradition to tackle racism effectively | Clive Nwonka - Guardian The Pupil Premium – focusing on what matters - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Michelle Donelan MP responds to college leaders' open letter - AoC | Association of Colleges Research in practice - Learning Scientists Professor Becky Francis takes up new role as CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation - IOE London Blog Advance HE welcomes new initiatives to protect degree standards - Advance HE Youth offending schemes share multi-million pound fund - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Action to better support young people's mental health - CYPN | Children & Young People Now EEF announces new Chief Executive - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Did MAT reduce pupils to a numbers game? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: What the new DfE statistics tell us - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney: ‘Don’t blame heads for maximising choice’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND school transport failings cost council thousands - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pearson launches #healthyhappyschools campaign - Pearson Student housing, research funding, sexual misconduct, Augar - Wonkhe The first school weeks are over... now what? - UKEdChat Empowering workers with the skills they need for tomorrow - Nesta Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn 2018 and spring 2019 - DfE Engaging parents with relationships education policy - DfE Taking the detective work out of supporting mental health and wellbeing - HEPI Managing issues with LGBT teaching: advice for local authorities - DfE How can we ensure public confidence in qualifications? - Ofqual Lord Agnew Schools North East speech - DfE British Council's connecting classrooms project - NAHT Employment of teachers in Scotland - Voice Apprenticeship and levy statistics: October 2019 - DfE Artificial intelligence and data science postgraduate conversion course funding - Office for Students Why historians need to take scientific fieldwork more seriously - Times Higher Education | THE 100th School Mental Health Award presented on World Mental Health Day - Leeds Beckett University Purposeful practice and practical implications - Research Schools Network Case study in disciplinary literacy - Research Schools Network Our response to July's apprenticeship starts data - CBI Male bullies get better at taking risks throughout their teenage years - IOE London Blog Goldsmiths racism report finds BME students feel unsafe on campus - Guardian Prince Harry questions future of exams during school visit - BBC ‘Stormzy effect’ helps boost number of black students entering University of Cambridge to record high - Independent Report on MAT's P8 ideas for low achievers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Professor Becky Francis leaving IoE to head EEF - Times Educational Supplement | TES Figures reveal variations in 'multi-level teaching' - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT looked at cutting MFL and boosting BTECs for P8 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student who lost both his parents within months was told by university he had to quit - Wales Online Becky Francis appointed as new EEF chief executive - Schools Week Agnew’s appointment shows colleges are now being taken seriously - FE Week Unauthorised absence for holidays at highest-ever rate - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social media has 'little effect on girls' wellbeing' - BBC Monthly apprenticeships update: July starts up just 2% on last year - FE Week Student mental health: 'You'd seek help for a broken leg' - BBC Nobody knows how big the unregistered alternative provision sector is - FFT Education Datalab First 'State of the Nation' report marks World Mental Health Day - DfE Government loans to build new schools alongside new homes - DfE How a dog is helping students deal with the stress of university life - Independent Housing developers to get loans to build schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mental health: homework 'linked to unhappiness' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most girls have a friend who has self-harmed - survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES What price academic impact on the Brexit debate? - Times Higher Education | THE Augar’s English fee cut plan fails to win over students in poll - Times Higher Education | THE Is media studies about to go viral? - Times Higher Education | THE Big increase in UK research funding may bring major system revamp - Times Higher Education | THE Invisible barriers keep many academics from the media - Wonkhe A different class of information to address grade inflation - Wonkhe Students aren’t sold on Augar’s fee reduction - Wonkhe Students are unconvinced by Augar’s proposals to reduce tuition fees to £7,500 but support bringing back maintenance grants - HEPI At what cost? Students’ views on Augar, funding and the cost of living - HEPI Government 'nowhere near' target of halving child obesity - Nursery World FAB chair to make 5 wishes to education secretary - FE Week DfE to offer builders £22m loans for new schools in housing estates - Schools Week Grade inflation fears prompt new voluntary code for UK degrees - Guardian School happiness fades with age, and 2 other wellbeing findings - Schools Week Universities agree more openness on degree marking guidelines - Financial Times Scotland: We like our English names, insist Chinese students - Times Scotland: Debris to be cleared from Glasgow School of Art - Times