News archive for 18th October 2019

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Weatherwatch: Victorian children too cold or wet to get to school - Guardian Detention for kissing teeth 'risks racial harassment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School charged £1k to move LCD screen as PFI costs soar by £430m - Schools Week Labour private schools plot: Is your child at risk from Corbyn’s ‘most damaging’ plan? - Express Council asks judge to ban LGBT lessons protesters from near school - Guardian The Guardian view on creativity in schools: a missing ingredient - Guardian Judge adjourns decision on LGBT equality teaching row exclusion zone - Mail The Guardian view on creativity in schools: a missing ingredient | Editorial - Guardian Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 18 October - Pearson Head received death threats over claims he pushed ‘anti-Brexit’ agenda - Schools Week Urgent meeting demanded over plans to shut Cardiff's St Albans RC primary school - Wales Online Celebrating #LoveOurColleges week - Edge Foundation Leeds Beckett University joins the University Alliance - Leeds Beckett University AoC staff share memories of their time at college - AoC | Association of Colleges Rise in child slavery victims attributed to county lines gangs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK will miss out on study abroad post-Brexit - PIE News Improving social and emotional learning in primary schools - Research Schools Network Curriculum and the 2019 Ofsted Framework - Research Schools Network Rugby World Cup winning legend Jonny Wilkinson backs apprenticeship to train future England stars - IfATE David Lammy: 'We have to pump money into education' - Times Educational Supplement | TES In the news: 18 October - UCU Europe and The Final Countdown: university life in the border zone - HEPI Gavin Williamson to address AoC Annual Conference - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free schools fail to reach the 'left-behind' areas - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to bring baseline assessment in-house - Times Educational Supplement | TES 8 things college students must learn about it security - The Educator Research and industry leaders to develop technologies of tomorrow - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Making words stick is primary practice - BERA Local politicians slam Nottingham College's handling of lecturers' strikes - UCU Pupil premium - DfE National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2020 to 2021 - DfE Brexit: preparations for schools in England - DfE Academics and policy experts questioned on the role and benefits of adult education - UK Parliament Office for Students’ value for money strategy 2019 to 2021 - Office for Students Office for Students publishes value for money strategy - Office for Students What value for whose money? - Office for Students Ofsted watch: A ‘reasonable week’ for new apprenticeship providers - FE Week Schools Like Yours: Now with 2019 data for secondary schools - FFT Education Datalab Beyond the bare minimum: Are universities and colleges doing enough for disabled students? - Office for Students Brexit: Prepare for potential sleepovers, schools told - Schools Week Primary schools forced to cancel flu vaccine sessions in England - Guardian Teacher allowed back in classroom after failing to tell bosses her housemaster husband, 42, was having affair with pupil - The Sun 'It's party central': the Bristol residents fed up with noisy student neighbours - Guardian National Union of Students calls for universities to be 'decolonised' and end 'white privilege' in new manifesto - Mail Bristol University pays for late-night police patrols targeting noisy students - Guardian Government departments disown report into military ethos in schools - Schools Week Ormiston academy rapped for off-rolling faces rebrokerage - Schools Week England's best and worst performing schools for GCSE results - Mail Ormiston MAT gets DfE warning over off-rolling academy - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: the science behind multiple-choice questions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands celebrate second ever Colleges Week - FE Week Detention for kissing teeth 'risks racial harassment' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Let’s work together to agree where the inappropriate spending line is drawn - FE Week Gaelic 'disappearing' from Scottish island communities - Guardian Disadvantage gap 'could close if schools work together' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Providers risk handing back £38m in next 20 years if they quit T-levels - FE Week Assaults in schools soar by 72% in four years - Schools Week Arts education should not be a luxury, says Julie Hesmondhalgh - Guardian ‘Worryingly low’ number of BAME college leaders to be tackled with new scheme - FE Week Disabled students dropping out amid ‘inadequate’ support, charities and unions warn - Independent A disabled student’s insight: Contextualising statistics - Office for Students Supply of future headteachers is drying up - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted workload prompts teacher wellbeing fears - Times Educational Supplement | TES Half of teachers go to work unwell - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE probes 'off-rolling' row MAT on pupil moves - Times Educational Supplement | TES Almost all 10-year-olds in world's poorest countries struggle to read - Guardian Rebooted Troops to Teachers fails to take off - Schools Week 'County-lines gangs fuelling' child slavery rise - BBC Bring back creativity, but don’t make teachers meet quotas for it - Times Illegal Ambassadors High School in Streatham won’t close, insists head - Times Manchester pollution study tackles ‘invisible school bully’ - Times Scotland: Fettes College is remade in China - Times Scotland: Named persons told to keep monitoring despite law’s failure - Times