News archive for 14th October 2019

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Fire-hit art school spent £1.2m on college building - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why colleges need to keep making their voices heard - Times Educational Supplement | TES Court bid to stop LGBT lesson protests at Birmingham school starts - Guardian The community groups, activists and politicians who give me hope - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Recognising British colonialism and advancing the Academy - Advance HE Should elementary students have homework? - The Educator Future of university global engagement strategies - HEPI False funding claims - National Education Union School Cuts updated funding figures - National Education Union Queen’s Speech - National Education Union Black academic staff face double whammy in promotion and pay stakes - UCU The ETF gets behind Colleges Week 2019 - Education & Training Foundation | ETF The implementation game - Research Schools Network Is the weather causing bad behaviour? (and more findings) - Teacher Tapp Schools in deprived areas to be 'worse off' despite government funding claims - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Subject knowledge – ‘10 things every teacher educator should know’ - Teach First 23 ways to create a non-reading school - UKEdChat Support for all: Making adjustments for behavioural outliers - Research Schools Network Back modern universities to boost life chances, says MillionPlus Principal - MillionPlus Brexit will impact the UK’s world-leading research – but only if we let it - Universities UK How to remove the padlock on children’s minds - PoliticsHome Academy trusts: late financial returns 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency The cost of school uniform and ‘dress-up’ days is harming the education of poorer children - PoliticsHome Young people in deprived coastal and rural communities are being held back - PoliticsHome The Augar proposals on UK student finance fail lower and middle-earning graduates - PoliticsHome We must break the stranglehold private schools have on social mobility - PoliticsHome Children with special educational needs or disabilities are on the frontline of the funding crisis - PoliticsHome 'The forgotten 16-year-olds', new report calls for more support for young people not in school for their GCSEs - AoC | Association of Colleges Colleges Week 2019: what's happening? - AoC | Association of Colleges Ring for resilience - Jisc Teacher choices - can we make complex findings actionable? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Diversity in Computer Science: No gender parity in sight? - Nesta Colleges Week: How FE runs edu-research on a shoestring - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why are we still in the dark on off-rolling? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers must not offload Brexit onto schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES T levels: everything you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES 43 trusts named and shamed for late financial returns - Schools Week HMRC criticised by Ofsted for uniform apprenticeship programme - FE Week School behaviour tsar endorses detention regime that punishes pupils for rolling their eyes - Independent New research leads AoC to demand extra funding for students with ‘complex’ needs - FE Week Stormzy’s scholarships cannot come soon enough for black Cambridge students - Metro What did the Queen’s Speech say about FE? - Times Educational Supplement | TES What does the Queen’s Speech mean for schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of GCSE attainment gap 'evident by Year 3' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Queen's speech 2019: Ministers commit to new knife crime duty for schools - Schools Week My UAE spy arrest shows universities must do more to protect academics working in the field - The Conversation Supporting Digital Skills for union members - Unionlearn How can we secure Pupil Premium strategy success? - Research Schools Network How attainment gaps emerge from Foundation Stage to Key Stage 4 (part two) - FFT Education Datalab How attainment gaps emerge from Foundation Stage to Key Stage 4 (part one) - FFT Education Datalab Hard-up teachers 'living in sheds and cars' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding: 16,500 schools 'worse off', say unions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mentally ill students risk academic penalties for missing classes - Guardian Award Nobels to teams, not individual ‘heroes’, say scientists - Times Higher Education | THE New UK Student Loans Company head steers for calmer waters - Times Higher Education | THE Working tirelessly to ensure the #LoveOurColleges campaign brings about much-needed changes to deliver skills - FE News Hire dyslexic people to cover skill shortages, says report - City AM Student safety charter to be launched in Colleges Week - FE Week Pupils lose out as £400m schools funding diverted to special needs - Times Propping up special needs with ‘golden ticket’ school cash - Times Robbing Peter to pay Paul leaves everyone unhappy - Times Ireland: Study persuades pupils to shun phones before bed - Times On line CPD courses for support staff: Primary and Secondary - UCET