News archive for 31st October 2019

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Rate discrimination? Dawe questions potential sex bias - FE Week Students banned from wearing sombreros for fancy dress as uni brands them 'racist' - Mirror The quest for the real Queen Street Group - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Angry' university workers vote in favour of industrial action - Guardian UK university strikes: Students face disruption as university staff back fresh walkouts - Independent Black students more likely to engage in studies - but still attain lower degrees, study finds - Independent Teacher, 25, who had sex with teenage student she met in nightclub is jailed - Mirror University workers back strike action - Mail Union condemns excessive pay and perks for university bosses after suspension of Dundee principal - Herald Scotland Early years funding - National Education Union Threshold concepts and troublesome transitions - BERA Ofsted research published: exploring moving to home education in secondary schools - NAHT UCU Scotland members back strikes over both pensions and pay and conditions - UCU UCU Scotland comments on suspension of Dundee University principal - UCU UCU members back strikes over both pensions and pay and conditions - UCU Secondary performance tables, ready reckoners and guidance on accountability measures - NAHT Using colours, images and cartoons to support learning - Learning Scientists EPI to scrutinise party education pledges in new general election research project - EPI Surge in international students at Irish HEIs, most ‘positive’ about their experience - PIE News UCAS & Unibuddy launch peer-to-peer service - PIE News Nursery school funding confirmed for 2020-21 - Early Education Education and skills policy is still stuck in the 1980s - FE News UCU welcomes Justice Select Committee's call for more stable prison education contracts - UCU Increase in children at risk and in need slows - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Randomised controlled trials - 3 good things, 3 bad things, and 5 top tips - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF GCSE resits and funding: The Lib Dems' election pledges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Make master's compulsory for teachers, say universities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted and adult education: Labour's election pledges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding boost to support childcare and early education - DfE Why diversifying leadership in higher education matters - Advance HE National Careers Service area-based contracts funding rules - Education & Skills Funding Agency Early years funding: 2020-2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Funding allocations to training providers: 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Technical qualifications within T Levels - DfE Teachers: claim back your student loan repayments - DfE Labour plans to abolish private schools would be devastating for UK taxpayer warns expert - Express £300,000 a-year Dundee University vice-chancellor suspended for allegedly not paying rent - Independent Councils dealing with more children at risk of gang involvement and trafficking - Guardian Most university students now spend less than 11 hours a week in lectures, survey suggests - Telegraph How I found my vocation: 'My stammer made me a better teacher' - Guardian T levels and IoTs: The Conservatives' election pledges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding secured for maintained nursery schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Asbestos found in schools prompts call for air sampling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers spend £132m trying to close attainment gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Case against teacher collapses after over two years - Times Educational Supplement | TES £300,000-a-year Dundee University principal suspended for allegedly not paying rent - Scotsman Foreign funding cannot shape university courses - Financial Times Dundee University principal suspended over rent row - BBC University exam from 1895 has left people very confused - Mirror Two former education secretaries to leave Parliament with Morgan latest to stand down - Schools Week This Halloween, spare a thought for teachers who are often the target of intimidation - HuffPost 'We're cosseting our kids' – the war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds - Guardian Students fail to spot simple calculator errors - Times Higher Education | THE UK students spending less time studying, says survey - Times Higher Education | THE Failing better: How to live with academic rejection - Times Higher Education | THE Glasgow to rate ‘collegiality’ for professorial promotions - Times Higher Education | THE UKES 2019 highlights the untapped potential of black students - Advance HE What is the future of England’s research and research assessment? - Wonkhe Sex work: some students’ voices are more uncomfortable than others - Wonkhe National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP): Two years on - Office for Students UCAS and Unibuddy launch peer-to-peer service, connecting prospective and existing students - UCAS Degrees are worth £500,000 more from leading university - Times Scotland: Glasgow Art School bosses ‘unfit to run Mack’ - Times Ireland: Teacher who had sex with student, 16, thought it was legal - Times UCET calls for a reinvigoration of teacher professionalism - UCET