News archive for 23rd October 2019

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18-year-old teaching assistant allegedly engaged in sex act with teen boy and exchanged sexual messages with him on social media - Wales Online School toilet policies 'could cause pupil incontinence' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Banned: Head who let primary pupils take taxi alone - Times Educational Supplement | TES University student died after rugby initiation drinking game went wrong, coroner hears - Telegraph Racism in universities is a systemic problem, not a series of incidents | Kehinde Andrews - Guardian Government’s special educational needs reforms failing young people and parents, say MPs - UK Parliament What does artificial intelligence (AI) mean for education? (And why do presentations on new edtech usually rely on old tech?) - HEPI Voice welcomes SEND inquiry report - Voice EHRC report on tackling racial harassment - Russell Group Brexit - where are we now and what does this mean for people? - AoC | Association of Colleges Universities must do more to stamp out racial harassment, says UCU - UCU Universities challenged: EHRC on racial harassment in British universities - Wonkhe Rethinking the role of technology in the classroom - UKEdChat Why is the sector scared of positive action? - Wonkhe Education Committee on SEND - National Education Union Why isn’t training the first response to the skills gap? - Training Journal Educational meritocracy - UKEdChat New guidance on social and emotional learning - Research Schools Network Breaking down complex writing tasks (part 2): Sentence construction - Research Schools Network Education Committee's SEND report - AoC response - AoC | Association of Colleges London Impact Awards: Powering Youth! - ERSA How industrial strategy can drive a Green New Deal - IPPR Early years providers urged to check for council underspends - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'Tougher inspections needed' to improve SEND support - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Independent schools “key” as Brexit nears - PIE News British Council celebrates work of UK alumnis - PIE News Children with special educational needs are being failed by ministers, MPs warn - PoliticsHome Vital new support for young people leaving care - DfE ESFA Update: 23 October 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Tackling incidents of hate, harassment and sexual misconduct in higher education - Office for Students Ofsted denied access to ‘closed’ private school site - Schools Week How to get the most out of lesson observations - The Educator Preparing to talk about teaching, overseas - Teacher Toolkit Thousands of hard-up students turning to sex work as loans fail to cover tuition fees and living costs - The Sun SEND has become inefficient and confrontational - Times Educational Supplement | TES University racism study criticised for including anti-white harassment - Guardian Who are we kidding, racism is an open secret at universities - HuffPost Teen mental health detentions hit new high - Times Educational Supplement | TES Social media overuse: the struggle to get up for school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Post-16 alternative to maths GCSE needed - Times Educational Supplement | TES College funding increase swallowed up by pensions bill - Times Educational Supplement | TES The computer science revolution needs processing power - Schools Week Families seeking SEND support left exhausted by 'adversarial and bureaucratic' system - SecEd Gap in library provision for FSM students - SecEd Why Ofsted’s EIF could give arts education a much-needed boost - SecEd Students can now live in flats only for LGBT+ people in Cardiff - Wales Online Teacher who said ‘I just need to get laid’ sacked for sexual comments to pupils - Metro University racism inquiry criticised for including anti-white abuse - Independent Two years of The Learning Rainforest - Teacherhead Scottish universities unaware of extent of racial abuse, finds report - Scotsman Universities failing to address thousands of racist incidents - Guardian Universities must stop covering up racism in order to protect their own reputations | Ilyas Nagdee - Guardian Call for schools to face tough new SEND inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND crisis is not just about a lack of money - Times Educational Supplement | TES AELP calls for creation of 'adult traineeships' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted inspects MAT accused of off-rolling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of SEND support 'failing a generation of pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unlocking employment opportunities for the future - Nesta National Retraining Scheme should be recast as ‘Traineeships for Adults’ - AELP Universities UK pledges new support for universities to take urgent action on tackling racial harassment - Universities UK Parents of children with special educational needs attempting suicide as schools lock them out, report suggests - Independent Researchers concerned as tech giants choke off access to data - Times Higher Education | THE Administrators still feel like academics’ poor cousins - Times Higher Education | THE Universities use apprenticeship levy to fund academics’ training - Times Higher Education | THE 10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re adult skills and lifelong learning - Accountability Hearings 'Unlawful practices and buck passing' over special needs - BBC Universities 'oblivious' to campus racial abuse - BBC DfE ‘set councils up to fail’ on SEND reforms, says education committee - Schools Week Special educational needs reforms 'failing generation of children' - Guardian AELP call for retraining scheme rethink to avoid another “expensive skills white elephant” - FE Week One in seven pupils now have a special educational needs diagnosis and require extra support - Mail Education committee SEND report: The 6 key recommendations - Schools Week Salary boost for graduates falls by half in twenty years as critics blame 'Mickey Mouse' courses for 'devaluing' university - Mail Parents despair at special needs ‘chaos’ - Times Teach state pupils how to talk their way into a career - Times Scots history teaching ‘reinforces racism’ - Times Scotland: SNP backs Notre Dame change from all-girls school - Times One million special needs children betrayed by system in 'major social injustice' - Mirror