News archive for 10th September 2019

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International students will be able to stay in UK for two years after graduation, Boris Johnson says - Independent UK work visas for foreign graduates to be extended to two years - Guardian Government unveils scheme to keep foreign students in Britain - City AM SNP hail 'screeching Tory U-turn' on international students residency rights - Herald Scotland Higher education in England among world’s most expensive, report says - Metro England's teachers face more pupils for less pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we can't save our top teachers for GCSE high-fliers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years staff 'doing too much paperwork' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam malpractice does 'disproportionate' harm - Times Educational Supplement | TES English Language GCSE should be scrapped to ‘end misery’ of third of teens being labelled as failures, report says - Independent University 'still good value for future earnings' - BBC Education at a Glance 2019 - OECD Will anything ever be done about grading in modern foreign languages GCSEs? - FFT Education Datalab 'Don't get drunk' Boris Johnson tells school children - BBC Public satisfaction with Scottish schools, NHS and transport falls to record low - Telegraph Boris Johnson visits school to launch Government education drive (video) - Mail Johnson goes back to school as he pledges thousands of new free school places - Mail ESFA suspends another 23 providers from recruiting apprentices - FE Week Campaigners shut down crowdfunder that raised £10,000 for anti-LGBT teaching protests - Independent Graduates in UK pay some of highest tuition fees and rack up most debt - Times OECD gives UK higher education a good rating but says there is still work to be done - Times Two-year work rights for international students in UK reinstated for 2020/21 - PIE News European Union appoints combined education and research supremo - Times Higher Education | THE UK’s plan for ‘mandatory’ research ethics training dropped - Times Higher Education | THE Reintroducing post-study work visas will help UK HE remain competitive - Times Higher Education | THE UK to reintroduce two-year post-study work visas - Times Higher Education | THE Is teacher-autonomy for you? - Teacher Toolkit Godot has arrived! - HEPI Education at a glance - National Education Union HEPI hosts the launch of ‘Education at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators’, the world’s best source of education data - HEPI CBI response to Labour leader's speech at TUC Congress - CBI Malpractice Commission - National Education Union ASCL comment on report into exam malpractice - ASCL Ofsted’s new inspection framework – three steps for school leaders - NAHT International study shows students studying in England have highest debt while UK universities spend least on staff - UCU TUC backs 20 September walkouts and fight against climate crisis - UCU Higher suspension rates are linked to feeling less ‘connected’ at school - UKEdChat Key stage 4 and multi-academy trust performance 2018 (revised) - DfE Implementing mandatory minimum per pupil funding levels - DfE FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2018 to 2019 - DfE GCE AS and A level physical education - DfE GCSE physical education - DfE Using the Hungry Little Minds brand - DfE 16 to 19 discretionary bursary fund allocations methodology: equality assessment - DfE A reflection on the Race Equality Charter self-assessment process - Advance HE Government pledges action to curb early years paperwork - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Special schools focus for next round of 'free' school bids - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sticky campus: the students’ verdict - Jisc Boris Johnson vows to create thousands more school places in bid to 'drive up standards' - PoliticsHome Heading out! - Villiers Park Educational Trust Students show more policy leadership than vice chancellors - Wonkhe Chris Skidmore returns as universities minister in UK government - Times Higher Education | THE OECD warns on ‘mismatch’ between subject choice and market demand - Times Higher Education | THE Does edtech have a role in Ofsted's new framework? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Public satisfaction with Scottish schools falling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Putting student experiences at the forefront of higher education regulation - Office for Students National funding formula: Councils must use minimum per-pupil funding levels from 2020-21 - Schools Week Satisfaction with schools in Scotland in marked decline, finds major survey - Scotsman UK teachers are younger and paid less than in any other developed country, report finds - Independent Why we need to jumpstart the free-schools programme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years practitioners doing more paperwork than necessary - Nursery World Windsurfing and water polo included in new PE list - Times Educational Supplement | TES Christine Blower, ex-NUT head, to become Labour peer - Times Educational Supplement | TES GoFundMe removes anti-LGBT lessons campaign page - Guardian Ban all watches from school exams, cheating inquiry recommends - Guardian Independent Commission on Examination Malpractice - Ofqual The new activities included in GCSE and A-level PE - Schools Week UK has one of youngest teaching workforces among leading economies - Mail Malpractice report calls for all watches to be banned - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK women more likely to be vocational graduates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching time way above average in Scotland – report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top primary heads’ pay in England is highest in the world - Times Educational Supplement | TES ASCL comment on report into exam malpractice - ASCL Universities brace for Brexit protests as students flex muscles - Guardian The private school system is ‘morally rotten’. This could be the moment for its downfall | Melissa Benn - Guardian Depression and anxiety threatened to kill my career. So I came clean about it - Guardian I arranged my office furniture so colleagues could not stop to talk | Jonathan Wolff - Guardian Pupils should be banned from wearing all watches in exams to combat cheating, inquiry says - Independent The Oxbridge problem is broader than just admissions - Financial Times Research intelligence: women rewrite the publication ‘rules’ - Times Higher Education | THE 'Ban all watches from exams to stop cheating' - BBC University of Cambridge: Removing meat 'cut carbon emissions' - BBC Ban all watches from exam rooms and monitor dark web, malpractice commission says - Schools Week Watches could be banned in school exams from next year to clamp down on cheating - Mail Ex-NUT leader Christine Blower to become a Labour peer - Schools Week Making MMR jabs compulsory is now a no-brainer - Times Children ‘spend four hours a day online’ - Times