News archive for 12th September 2019

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Eton could be forced to pay millions more in business rates under Labour government - Mirror Kids as young as four will be taught how to make 999 calls to ‘save lives’ - The Sun Statistics: widening participation in higher education - DfE Initial teacher training allocations - DfE Universities Minister gives speech at Universities UK conference - DfE Education Secretary visits the West Midlands - DfE Education Secretary addresses Universities UK conference - DfE HMCI commentary: managing behaviour research - Ofsted Pre-16 schools funding: local authority guidance for 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA to simplify the way colleges submit their data - Education & Skills Funding Agency Empty words from MPs won't get cricket back in our schools... only money will - Mail Labour would ‘scrap discount business rates for private schools and charge VAT on fees’, according to leaked document - Independent Lib Dems want to give adults £9k to learn - ten years after backing £9k uni fees - Mirror Married teacher, 35, left pupils unattended to kiss 18-year-old classroom assistant - Wales Online Early years is facing a crisis of funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two convicted of running illegal school in London - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why teachers need to speak up for 'the forgotten third' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the FE Commissioner’s new cost-cutting boss - FE Week Father and daughter guilty of running illegal school - BBC Our girls are leered at, fetishised and even assaulted – banning school skirts won’t solve the problem - The Sun The Guardian view on a children’s manifesto: families need more from ministers | Editorial - Guardian Spielman says second illegal school conviction is ‘tip of iceberg’ - Schools Week ‘Unanswerable’ Buckinghamshire 11-plus test questions discounted - Schools Week Invisible barriers prove a handicap in the education race - Financial Times Students at Boris Johnson's old Oxford college want him banned from campus - Mirror Sturgeon 'heartened' by pupils striking over climate - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can schools improve attitudes to hair? (podcast) - Teacher Toolkit CBI response to Science & Technology Committee report on R&D spending - CBI Voice welcomes expanded role for Nick Gibb - Voice Nursery school closures - National Education Union UCU calls for improvements to working conditions of university research staff - UCU NAHT's formal response to the 2019-20 pay award - NAHT Schools minister takes charge of early years policy - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government announces details of bursary for disadvantaged youth work students - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Liberal Democrats unveil plan to give £9,000 to over-25s for adult education - New Statesman £200 equipment charge disadvantages disabled students in higher education - PoliticsHome New report published ‘Improving Language, Improving Lives: Supporting ESOL in the Secure Estate’ - Bell Foundation Advance HE signs up to the Researcher Development Concordat - Advance HE LSE ranked among world’s leading universities - London School of Economics | LSE Reading from screens compared to paper: What are the differences? - Learning Scientists Supporting ESOL in prisons - Learning & Work Institute Five things we're thinking about leadership - Teach First How can parents discover what uni means? - Wonkhe New Concordat launched - Russell Group Sir Mark Walport to retire as UKRI chief executive in 2020 - Times Higher Education | THE Education secretary: conditional unconditional offers ‘must end’ - Times Higher Education | THE Gavin Williamson: universities must end grade inflation - Guardian How student debt shapes family life - Times Higher Education | THE The importance of information – a cautionary tale - Office for Students Bristol University students offered accommodation in Wales due to room shortage - HuffPost A Welsh college has been banned from recruiting apprentices in England - Wales Online UCU at the TUC Congress - UCU ASCL comment on Education Secretary’s call over unconditional offers - ASCL A-level results day and Clearing 2019: reasons to be cheerful - Universities UK Does the new researcher concordat have teeth? - Wonkhe UCU calls on colleges to let staff join climate strike - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council criticised over 14-month SEND education delay - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Reference Test 2020: What you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Colleges still running out of money’, claims top ESFA official - FE Week Parents claim children 'very hungry' after school goes vegetarian - Scotsman School ‘bans’ surnames because of ‘data protection’ - Metro Parents uncomfortable with male practitioners changing their child's nappy - Nursery World No place for 'conditional unconditional offers', says Education Secretary - Mail Edinburgh University student dies after falling out of window at house party - Scotsman New ESFA system to spot college financial crises sooner - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson wants end of university unconditional offers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: 'Teachers feel vulnerable' at Birmingham school - Times Educational Supplement | TES These are the top 15 UK universities according to the Times Higher Education 2020 rankings - Scotsman ‘Entrenched’ grade inflation in danger of making degrees worthless, education secretary warns - Independent University of Edinburgh falls one place to 30th in annual world rankings guide - Scotsman Teachers to get more training in how to deal with naughty children - Metro School refuses to serve meat to pupils and bans packed lunches - Metro Schools are failing pupils with special needs, despite best efforts of dedicated staff - The Conversation Providers urge ESFA to U-turn on plans to collect delivered off-the-job training hours - FE Week OGAT and Inspiration trustee David Earnshaw to chair DfE’s new trust for orphan schools - Schools Week Nick Gibb to take on responsibility for early years - Nursery World Poor areas hit hardest by rising nursery closures - Nursery World The Future of Higher Technical education – do the government’s proposals deliver? - HEPI Government is wrong to focus on future salaries – new survey of students and graduates suggests - Universities UK Research commentary: managing behaviour - Ofsted Humour in education - UKEdChat 'Look at how white the academy is': why BAME students aren't doing PhDs - Guardian Spielman: Schools must get parents backing on behaviour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Committee calls for research excellence to be spread across the UK - UK Parliament Ofsted to check on new teachers' behaviour training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Share research funding more evenly across UK, urge MPs - Times Higher Education | THE UK universities’ global pre-eminence is in peril - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Clean break’ Brexit plan triggers fears for EU research deal - Times Higher Education | THE UK rival to ERC would be poor substitute, says Oxford v-c - Times Higher Education | THE How green is my university? - Times Higher Education | THE Is it really all about the money? - Wonkhe Teachers are to get extra training to make them tougher with disruptive pupils - Mail Union calls for long-term funding for nursery schools - Nursery World Oxford University still tops list of best educational establishments in the world - Mail Students at Boris Johnson's old Oxford University college campaign to have him banned - Mail Charlotte Church faces investigation over ‘illegal’ home school as neighbours claim she’s started teaching without permission - The Sun Off to 'big school'? Some pupils need extra support, says Ofsted - BBC Ofsted to rewrite ITT inspection framework with focus on behaviour - Schools Week 40% of primary leavers to be overweight within five years - Times Oxford stays top as Britain slides down university world rankings - Times Judging degrees by earnings is ‘wrong’ - Times