News archive for 22nd October 2019

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MP hits out at college expansion on A levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Some schools ‘won’t get enough funds for teacher pay' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland's last girls-only state school could soon start admitting boys - Scotsman School planning to cut 15 teaching assistant jobs advertises headteacher role with £92k salary - Wales Online It's not just students to blame for noisy neighbourhoods in Bristol | Madeline Clegg - Guardian 16 to 19 allocation data: 2019 to 2020 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency Banned: Teacher who used 'sexualised and graphic' words - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges cut carbon footprint by 10% in a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools charge as much as £125 for practical courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Edtech: How to spot fake AI for education - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits: 'Our young people deserve better' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free pizza! UUK on where the fees go - Wonkhe Is teaching data the key to gender equality in STEM? - Wonkhe Birmingham: A land of Trojan horses? - BERA NEU Cymru - Teachers' pay - National Education Union Graduate returns to forever: research shows fall in graduate premium - Wonkhe Universities take action to better explain to students how their fee income is spent - Universities UK HEPI comment on Universities UK’s new guide on telling students where fees go - HEPI Beware HE digital transformation (and… Brexit a gift horse?) - HEPI UCU calls on Home Office to review decision to deport Leicester-based academic - UCU Changing the mindset: Supporting early entry students - Villiers Park Educational Trust Sign our letter to the PM and support our campaign for better SEND funding - NAHT Transform Our World - a new resource hub for teachers to bring environmental action into the classroom - NAHT Minister must act to ensure all teachers receive their pay entitlement - NASUWT MillionPlus comment on HESA graduate premium report - MillionPlus Towards feedback processes of partnerships and shared responsibilities - Advance HE New research on school and academy governance - Education and Employers An accident waiting to happen? - SecEd Would a specific EdTech Teacher Status benefit those teaching in FE? - Education & Training Foundation | ETF West Suffolk College becomes Society for Education and Training Corporate Partner - Education & Training Foundation Are all types of reading equal, or are some more equal than others? - FFT Education Datalab What is happening with teachers’ workloads? - EPI Mismatch in higher education report launch at the Nuffield Foundation - Nuffield Foundation Rebrokered free schools won't keep Steiner ethos, says new trust - Schools Week Loose Women star speaks out on homeschooling amid backlash from co-star - Express Plans for £26m tech institute at Bletchley Park - BBC Michael Gove’s grammar: former education minister is gonna rue the day he used Nonstandard English - The Conversation Value of degrees halves in 20 years, research shows as critics rally against degrees as ‘disqualifications’ - Telegraph Reading fiction 'boosts learning by 10 months' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NASUWT boss allowed to stay in post - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of students turning to sex work doubles in two years, survey indicates - Independent Cambridge isn't the only university to fail at handling sexual misconduct complaints | Georgina Calvert-Lee - Guardian Schools lose £2.8m under English and maths retakes rule - Schools Week More than one in ten colleges lose cash under controversial English and maths condition-of-funding rules - FE Week Pay boost from university degrees declined over 20 years, research shows - Independent Having a degree won’t get you the salary it once did - Metro Youth parliament: Schools must teach more life skills - BBC Home Office reverses visa decision for second Oxford academic - Guardian Equality in schools: ‘What makes people think a black woman can’t be headteacher?’ - Guardian Dear Gavin Williamson, how that strange prisons have to have a library but schools do not | Michael Rosen - Guardian Call for teachers to cover online gaming dangers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are all types of reading equal, or are some more equal than others? - IOE London Blog OfS faces ‘several’ legal challenges to register refusals - Times Higher Education | THE Tying funding to tackling bullying could feed secrecy, UKRI told - Times Higher Education | THE All-years National Student Survey ‘huge burden’ on universities - Times Higher Education | THE Too big for their boots? Coding boot camps go large - Wonkhe Is LEO any use to prospective students? - Wonkhe Fury as council sex website gives children extremely graphic advice on S&M torture, orgies and ‘degrading practices’ - The Sun Funding cuts take toll on support for visually impaired pupils - Guardian Pupils concerned studying Shakespeare will not help with jobs - Mail Back-street walk to school cuts pollution exposure - Times Children spending hundreds ‘gambling’ in online games - Times Young fear being called snowflakes if they ring in sick - Times Scotland: Sex advice group sorry over ‘non-verbal consent’ - Times Scotland: St Andrews students enjoy fight of passage on Raisin Monday - Times