News archive for 16th October 2019

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Talkin proper? The standard English snobbery in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘F**k Ofsted’ Instagram post lands MAT boss in trouble - Times Educational Supplement | TES LGBT lessons protester 'inflamed tensions' by inviting imam, court hears - Guardian One in eight schools do not have library and poorer children more likely to miss out, study finds - Independent Birmingham LGBT teaching protester criticises 'imam's' claims - BBC Schools and colleges 'should assess joint performance' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is your school uniform sending out sexist messages? - Times Educational Supplement | TES School funding pledges are just smoke and mirrors - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE adviser warns of 'short-term pain' from ITT changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted to focus on teacher training curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free schools programme 'underserves' educationally disadvantaged pupils - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Decoding computer models to advance mechanistic reasoning - BERA Sixth form colleges strike and rally - National Education Union £5.75m programme to invest in digital innovations that will equip adults for the jobs of the future - Nesta Union to present £700m sixth form college invoice to DfE - FE Week Guitar lessons: The ultimate beginner's guide - The Educator Why is no the hardest word in higher education policy? - Wonkhe Carers need more visibility in higher education - Wonkhe A month into term and the real challenge begins - Research Schools Network Award winner outlines 10 steps for NTFS success - Advance HE Government sets aside £400k for sex education training website - Public Technology Children with complex needs home-schooled as 'last resort' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now National retraining scheme - DfE What is the best way to tackle maths at the primary/secondary transition? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF HMCI commentary: the initial teacher education curriculum - Ofsted Record number of apprenticeships to be probed in engineering route review - FE Week Virtuous circles: developing AI and data science courses to meet the needs of employers, students, and universities - Office for Students ESFA Update: 16 October 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Physical activity in lessons improves students’ attainment - UKEdChat Key principles for teachers in times of change - UKEdChat New guidance issued by the Office for Students - Advance HE Weapons in schools - National Education Union Ending neglect of colleges can transform the UK economy - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE: Why we should let all children study literature - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adult retraining scheme rolled out to new regions - DfE An update on the Digital Route Review - IfATE Record number of apprenticeships to be reviewed in Engineering and Manufacturing sector - IfATE Sturgeon speech brings up indyref 20 times - failing schools just twice - Express ‘Unexplained exits’ stats have potential to be problematic, misleading and damaging - Schools Week DfE: New ITT framework viewed as ‘short-term pain for long-term gain’ - Schools Week Teachers to tackle poverty with help of new scheme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Spielman: Data focus in ITT inspections may be covering up ‘weaknesses’ - Schools Week Revise, reuse, recycle: how to be a sustainable student - Guardian Jisc secures two-year pilot transitional open access agreement with Microbiology Society - Jisc TUC welcomes further rollout of Get Help to Retrain - Unionlearn Solutions to problems with Progress 8 (part two): taking account of context - FFT Education Datalab Solutions to problems with Progress 8 (part one): qualification scoring - FFT Education Datalab Scottish schools built under PFI costing millions more than originally estimated - Scotsman Troubled college transfers HE provision to university - Times Educational Supplement | TES Samurai swords and knuckle-dusters brought into schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Retraining Scheme project to expand - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jumping and running in class 'boosts attainment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Physical exercise during academic lessons can help boost test scores, study suggests - Independent Mobile phone ban in school relaxed to 'ease friction' - BBC Oxford professor accused of selling ancient Bible fragments - Guardian Four-year-old among thousands of children caught with weapons in school, figures show - Independent More children caught bringing knives into school - BBC Recruitment freezes at third of UK universities - Times Higher Education | THE Megajournal editors ‘swapped acceptances for citations’ - Times Higher Education | THE Dominic Cummings’ science obsession: based on fact or fiction? - Times Higher Education | THE How should we judge the quality of transnational provision? - Wonkhe Four-year-old among thousands of children caught with weapons at school - Mail More than 1,000 schoolchildren including one aged just four are caught with weapons at school - Mail Knife crime epidemic sweeps our schools - including boy, 4, caught with blade - Mirror Oxford don Dirk Obbink investigated for ‘selling fragments of ancient Bible texts’ - Times Instagram post lands school chief in hot water - Times We must do more to help Muslim faith schools, dean tells Queen at Westminster Abbey - Times Boy, 4, found with knife as more pupils carry weapons - Times No golden ticket awaits parents of special needs pupils - Times Scotland: Pupils pay the price as staff crisis hits classes - Times Scotland: Free childcare in holidays for poorest pupils if I win election, says Nicola Sturgeon - Times Ireland: University sex crime figures ‘do not reflect reality’ - Times Brexit puts British students off Ireland - Times