News archive for 17th October 2019

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More than a quarter of kids are already falling behind by the age of five, official figures show - The Sun Exam boards are facing huge fines over sloppy marking as Education Secretary hands regulator greater powers - Mail College quality hits record high - FE Week England's best and worst schools for GCSE results - Mirror Teacher did not tell education chiefs her headmaster husband was having affair with pupil - Mail Pupils with behavioural issues failing to meet exam benchmark - Guardian EBacc entry at new 40% high but DfE target out of sight - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are we trying to achieve with our exam system? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free schools and other schools must work together - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher failed to report husband's affair with teenager - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy in one of England's poorest areas soars in school league tables - Schools Week Sixth form staff march across Westminster to protest for fairer college funding - FE Week Manchester council urged to reject statue of 'anti-black racist' Gandhi - Guardian Mistakes or opportunities? Learning from errors - Learning Scientists Early years inequality gap grows - CYPN | Children & Young People Now ESFA letters to academy trusts about high pay - October 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency New EEF research points way to closing disadvantage gap by 38% in primary schools - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Next steps for the National Student Survey - Office for Students Students could lose the chance to learn, work and train abroad if Erasmus+ or a replacement programme is not funded after Brexit - AoC | Association of Colleges Teaching in Belarus - Teacher Toolkit Almost a third of teachers say £120m fund not working - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learning Gains – new breakthrough higher ed bands - Wonkhe Access to apprenticeships – are apprenticeships working for disabled students? - HEPI Ofsted slams training for 500 apprentices at ‘world leading’ security firm - FE Week Why Ofsted's apprenticeship concerns can't be ignored - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted concerns at 1 in 5 new apprenticeship providers - Times Educational Supplement | TES 10 target areas for new parent free schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Further Education saved my life, that’s why I’m supporting #LoveOurColleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Education secretary Gavin Williamson blogs during #LoveOurColleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Why we must fund our colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Who wins and loses from post-study work visas? - Wonkhe Podcast: Science, TNE, disabled students, demand - Wonkhe Persistent problems: Finding the purpose for expert school leadership - Ambition Institute The sobering reality and growing significance of low-paid and insecure work - Learning & Work Institute It is time for statutory guidance to tackle the prohibitive cost of school uniforms - PoliticsHome Secondary school league tables 2019: Four things we’ve learnt - FFT Education Datalab Young children have intuitions of great teachers - UKEdChat What can I give to my students that they cannot find on their own? - UKEdChat UTC faces apprentice recruitment freeze after Ofsted criticism - Schools Week UTC facing apprenticeship recruitment freeze after Ofsted criticism - FE Week DfE's testing agency pays £3m to settle mystery legal dispute - Schools Week New book calls for collective action to achieve Open Scholarship - Jisc More than one in four children falling behind by age five, figures show - Mail Lowest attaining early years pupils fall further behind as progress stalls - Schools Week When teachers use good verbal feedback strategies, it saves them time and boosts pupils’ engagement - IOE London Blog A levels: Free schools are top state performers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher trainee demand drops first time since 2016-17 - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: 1 in 3 students miss out in English and maths - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years results: Rise in 5-year-olds at good level - Times Educational Supplement | TES What do Ofsted reports reveal about the way schools are being inspected under the new framework? - The Learning Spy ESFA chief warns 12 academy trusts over CEO pay - Schools Week Falkirk high schools costing council £34m more than originally estimated - Scotsman Proportion of pupils reaching top A-level grades falls further - Schools Week More than half of pupils fail to gain strong pass in English and maths GCSEs - Mail Drop in the number of trainee teachers needed next year - Schools Week School league tables 2019: Languages continue to hold back EBacc entries - Schools Week The Learning Rainforest Fieldbook - Headguruteacher Four kids a week commit suicide – that’s why we must teach schools to be happy places - The Sun EBacc results 2019: Slight rise in entries and average point score - Schools Week I've witnessed first-hand how hard teachers work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sixth-form college staff strike over pay and conditions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free schools: Five key findings from today's EPI report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish school lands European entrepreneurial award - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free schools 'aren't helping poor-performing areas' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of school libraries 'a social mobility time bomb' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Policy Institute on free schools - National Education Union Flagship Tory free schools policy failing to help students in areas that need it most, report says - Independent Free schools in England: 2019 report - EPI Jump in EU academics leaving UK after Brexit referendum - Times Higher Education | THE Brexit uncertainty ‘costing UK research £370 million a year’ - Times Higher Education | THE How to avoid being sucked into the black hole of administration - Times Higher Education | THE European Union seeks to crack open big tech’s data for academics - Times Higher Education | THE The Oxbridge access question has not been settled - Times Higher Education | THE Defiant head vows to keep unregistered school open - BBC One in eight schools has no library - report - Mail How funding cuts and rising poverty are pushing schools to breaking point - HuffPost 4 interesting findings from the EPI’s free schools analysis - Schools Week AoC: Replace Erasmus+ if the UK is kicked out after Brexit - FE Week Free schools ‘failing to reach most disadvantaged areas’ - Schools Week New free schools cannot neglect left-behind areas - Times