News archive for 2nd September 2019

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Millions of kids face bullying nightmare on return to school - Mirror Pass marks could drop in reformed functional skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted defends removing homework from school inspection - Times Educational Supplement | TES What does early GCSE entry do for pupil achievement? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Does the government’s school funding pledge actually stack up? - Schools Week Majority of head teachers oppose school tests for four-year-olds, study says - Independent Woodmill High pupils return to lessons at host schools - Scotsman Parents 'under pressure and families damaged' by children's grades in school - Mirror The effect of entering GCSEs early on overall attainment - FFT Education Datalab IOE grants Honorary Degree to world-renowned political scientist - IOE London Blog Starting salaries for teachers could rise to £30,000 under new government plans - PoliticsHome Government to take big spending decisions with little idea how sustainable they will prove - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS Cautious welcome for £700m SEND boost - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Families 'still fighting for support' despite SEND reform - CYPN | Children & Young People Now 'It didn't do much for my social life' - Telegraph readers on the humble school uniform - Telegraph THE podcast: Decolonising the curriculum - Times Higher Education | THE Early years inspection handbook - Ofsted Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills - Ofsted School inspection handbook - Ofsted EPSRC appoints Deputy Executive Chair - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Gown wars: Disruption, dragons and academic dress - Wonkhe School improvement support for the 2019 to 2020 academic year - DfE Primary school accountability - DfE What’s changing at Ofsted in autumn 2019? - Ofsted Academies Financial Handbook - Education & Skills Funding Agency Opportunity for education and skills training providers to bid for European Social Funding in four Local Enterprise Partnership areas - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies financial management and governance self-assessment - Education & Skills Funding Agency New research from The Careers & Enterprise Company highlights the impact of careers leaders - NAHT ASCL comment on teacher pay announcement - ASCL Universities asked to take action against online harassment - Universities UK Young people’s mental health - National Education Union Starting salaries - National Education Union Funding boost for schools and FE welcome, but investment needed in early years too - Voice It’s Checktember! Find out how your number skills measure up - National Numeracy NASUWT welcomes proposal to delay school reorganisation decision - NASUWT NASUWT comments on teacher starting salaries announcement - NASUWT Do bad exam results mean you are a bad teacher? - The Educator New school year = new policy announcements - UKEdChat Have a Go Month kicks off with opportunities across the country for adults to rediscover the joy of learning - Learning & Work Institute Do teachers prefer more money or more time? - Teacher Tapp Will cutting MAT power end academy debate? - Times Educational Supplement | TES How MATs can transform failing schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cutting private school tax relief 'puts exams at risk' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What schools could expect from a general election - Times Educational Supplement | TES £400m cash boost for colleges is a good first step - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK universities urged to do more to tackle online harassment - Guardian Department for Education campaign to fire up apprenticeships - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Engaging parents as partners - Teacher Development Trust | TDT The ETF supports Have a go Month this September - Education & Training Foundation | ETF BBC Panorama features the school that's been stripped to the bone - Mail Ofsted to publish financial ratings for colleges and training providers - FE Week Huge pay rise in line for teachers - putting them among best paid graduates - Mirror Ofsted to inspect all grade one providers as 30 go without visit for decade or more - FE Week Schools could teach children how to be happy – but they foster competition instead - The Conversation Callous vandals torch Scottish primary school adventure playground - Scotsman Colleges to receive £100m for rising pensions bill - Times Educational Supplement | TES Westminster has no idea and no ideas about schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Outstanding' FE providers to lose Ofsted exemption - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted inspection of school finances 'hugely misguided' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers’ starting salaries set to rise to £30,000 - Nursery World Additional European Social Fund tender launched by ESFA - FE Week UCAS adopts the Code of Practice for Statistics - UCAS Conservative councillors say cuts to children's services are causing harm - Nursery World Apprenticeship Essentials – download unionlearn’s new resource today! - Unionlearn Trust issues: How to bring academies and maintained schools into a unified state school system - EDSK 77% of teens with mental health problems blame school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools should publicly name staff on more than £60k - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrap academies programme, says ex-DfE adviser - Times Educational Supplement | TES Starting salaries for teachers to increase by £6,000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES New teachers set for £30,000 starting salary under government plan - Independent Young people’s mental health - National Education Union Keeping children safe in education - DfE £30,000 starting salaries proposed for teachers - DfE Teacher starting salaries could rise to £30,000 - BBC Brexit and the academics of tomorrow - Wonkhe Call for HPV jab to be offered to older boys - BBC Teachers will receive minimum salary of £30,000 following biggest pay rise for new starters in two decades - Mail Confirmed: Teachers’ starting salaries will rise to £30k by 2022 - Schools Week The back-to-school question some believe we should ditch - BBC New teachers' salary in England could reach £30,000, says DfE - Guardian New teachers set for £30,000 salary under pay reform - Mail Ditch academies to create ‘unified’ education system, says think thank - Schools Week At least two children in every class have contemplated suicide because of bullying, Diana Award study reveals - Telegraph Cost of using nannies ‘pushed up by Brexit’ - Nursery World Spotlight on…Falmai Reay - Nursery World Back to school: Why does the academic year start in September? - BBC New teachers will get £6,000 pay boost ‘to attract the best’ - Times Scotland: Emails reveal rift at heart of Glasgow School of Art - Times Traffic warning for parents on school run as accidents rise in Ireland - Times