News archive for 15th October 2019

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Principal records Queen cover to mark Colleges Week - Times Educational Supplement | TES AQA’s GCSE and A level blunders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sturgeon: Free holiday childcare for poorer families - Times Educational Supplement | TES Matthew Hedges: my UAE spy arrest shows universities must do more to protect academics working in the field - Scotsman DfE’s £14bn schools budget claim ‘could mislead’, while NEU deletes incorrect funding claim - Schools Week Love our colleges campaign makes its mark in the East Midlands - FE Week Exam board AQA to pay out £1.1m over rule breaches and errors - Guardian Child gambling a 'growing problem' - study - BBC 'Super' headteacher on £100,000 a year posts 'F*** Osted' on Instagram - Mail Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - DfE Regulatory advice 15: Monitoring and intervention - Office for Students New guidance published for registered higher education providers - Office for Students Regulatory advice 16: Reportable events - Office for Students The effect of screen time on academic performance - Best Evidence in Brief Random kinds of kindness - UKEdChat Changing the mindset: Supporting early entry students - Villiers Park Educational Trust The impact of shared book reading on children’s language skills - Best Evidence in Brief Examining the evidence on Learning Accounts - Best Evidence in Brief Improving the maths and reading skills of children in foster care - Best Evidence in Brief AQA penalised £1m for letting markers check own work - Times Educational Supplement | TES OECD say employers need to tackle 'ingrained assumptions' about jobs - Education and Employers Charity launches legal action over NCS dispute - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Internationalisation - risks, opportunities and considerations for governors - Advance HE How do headteachers in England use test data, and does this differ to other countries? - FFT Education Datalab Computer games to improve children’s maths and science achievement - Best Evidence in Brief Is the lecture dead? - Wonkhe How is OfS going to monitor higher education providers? - Wonkhe Settled status - National Education Union Minding the gap for commuter students - HEPI Escape from the Skinner box - BERA Precarious to prepared - Nesta AQA to pay out £1.1m for ‘serious breaches’ on exam re-marks - Schools Week New unionlearn partnership to offer funded qualifications - Unionlearn AQA to pay out £1.1m for ‘serious breaches’ on exam re-marks - FE Week ‘Significant concerns’ over Hartlepool College’s financial sustainability - FE Week Chair and principal not ‘fully aware’ of college’s ‘imminent’ risk of insolvency - FE Week Unions write to DfE over Brexit school places ‘misinformation’ - Schools Week Actor with genetic disorder calls for online bullying education to be added to National Curriculum - Mail College could face administration by end of the year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Quarter of teachers 'may quit, mainly due to workload' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union fears over Brexit threat to EU pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE Commissioner passes judgement on £20m college subcontracting scandal - FE Week Parents 'coerced' into home education, finds Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brooklands College facing 'high-risk challenges' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Creating a vision of future research - Jisc Exploring moving to home education in secondary schools - Ofsted Home education: a choice or last resort? - Ofsted Autumn of student activism begins over rising cost of university halls - Guardian Education sector yet to learn lessons of #MeToo, critics say - Guardian UK to deport academic to Democratic Republic of Congo – which she has never visited - Guardian Precarious to prepared - Nesta Populism has no place in education – so stop bashing Germans and private schools | Laura McInerney - Guardian Why we need to inspire our next generation - Education and Employers Inspiring the Future campaign launched to build 100,000+ volunteer network - Education and Employers £350k to support young carers in FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES England's heads 'the most data-driven' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do headteachers in England use test data, and does this differ from other countries? - IOE London Blog Black and minority ethnic academics less likely to be professors and earn less than white colleagues, analysis finds - Independent Parents could be making 'knee-jerk' decisions to home school children, Ofsted report warns - Independent Vision express: how FE policy has wasted billions - FE Week Do we have the right education system to drive innovation in the UK? - Wonkhe Do we really need another research funding body? - Wonkhe Career ambitions 'already limited by age of seven' - BBC Home education a 'huge undertaking for parents' - Ofsted - BBC Ofsted warns against home educating 'simply to resolve difficulties in schools' - Mail Role model scheme to help children 'think big' on career options - Mail Ofsted finds £60 penalty encourages people to pull their children out of education altogether - Mail More than four-fifths of English schools worse off than in 2015 - Financial Times UK universities' BME staff less likely to hold top jobs - Guardian Children with complex needs forced into home education as ‘last resort’, warns Ofsted - Schools Week Pupils being propelled out of school system 'in space of a day' - Guardian Schools’ failures lead to a surge in home education - Times Parents’ evening cancelled ‘over concern for teachers’ - Times