News archive for 18th September 2019

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Williamson proposes 'flatter' teacher pay progression - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private school Harrow launches virtual sixth-form - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE civil servants 'don't want to be stuck with FE' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brexit is ‘not beneficial to students in any way’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Man jailed for stealing 7,000 books from Scottish universities - Guardian DfE exceeds 2.3% public sector apprenticeships target – again - FE Week The Guardian view on teacher workloads: big lessons to learn | Editorial - Guardian Racial inequality in ‘danger of being accepted as fact’, think tank warns - Independent Apprentices put on ‘unpaid leave’ during training, Ofsted finds at provider - FE Week Schools told to check they can provide meals after a no-deal Brexit - Guardian Reception baseline assessment: national voluntary pilot - NAHT University of Leicester staff to join climate change protests on Friday - UCU University and college staff in Cambridge to join Friday's climate change action - UCU School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) reports - DfE Department for Education (DfE) apprenticeship data - DfE Are you working 59 hours a week? 'Radical action' needed to tackle teachers' long working hours - SecEd Students are being offered free taxi rides home if they don't have any money during Freshers' Week in Cardiff - Wales Online Quarter of teachers in England report 60-hour working week - Nuffield Foundation University and college staff to join climate change protests on Friday - UCU Goldsmiths staff to join climate change protests on Friday - UCU School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) remit letter for 2020 - DfE DfE surpasses apprenticeship target two years in a row - DfE School governance update - DfE ESFA Update: 18 September 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Lambeth College becomes Society for Education and Training corporate partner - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Understanding school revenue expenditure | Part 1: Why do we need another study on school funding? - EPI 7 key findings about teachers’ working hours - FFT Education Datalab The cost of school uniform continues to be a burden for parents - SecEd Joint union letter asks DfE for 5% pay rise for 2019/20 - SecEd New report: What is a ”meaningful encounter” with the world of work? - Education and Employers EEF publishes new review of evidence on parental engagement - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Could new-look protractor help confused pupils? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Workload: 'Bureaucracy is ruining teachers' lives' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our children need legal guarantees of a stable natural world to save them from a ‘toxic inheritance’, says IPPR - IPPR New report blasts Home Office handling of the TOEIC case - PIE News UK & US top list, but Asia on the up – THE rankings - PIE News DfE plans a crackdown on poor behaviour - The Educator Norman Lamb’s well-meaning intervention on student mental health doesn’t reflect reality - Wonkhe Nesta responds to BEIS Select Committee report on Automation - Nesta Towards ‘slow pedagogy’: Revaluing the reading seminar for professional development - BERA Changes to student entry quality in a marketised English higher education system - HEPI Workload - National Education Union University of Sheffield staff to join climate change protests on Friday - UCU Williamson asks STRB to advise on ‘flatter’ teacher pay progression - Schools Week Television workers twice as likely to have attended private school - Guardian Labour’s John McDonnell backs motion to scrap private schools - Financial Times ESFA seeking views on Brexit readiness among FE providers - FE Week Brexit: Schools told to explain plans for food stockpiling in event of no-deal next month - Independent Almost 200 schools drop out of Baseline pilot - Nursery World Parents find reading together helps children talk about their worries - Nursery World Labour shadow ministers back 'abolish Eton' bid to scrap private schools - HuffPost Global climate strike: What happens if your child skips school to protest? - Express Workload: 1 in 4 teachers work a 60-hour week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister warns schools over readiness for Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES McDonnell backs campaign to abolish private schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES McDonnell backs plan to abolish private schools - Schools Week If universities value overseas students, they must stop marginalising them | Zainab Naqvi - Guardian Seven key findings about teachers’ working hours - IOE London Blog English language tests: a systemic failure affecting thousands - UK Parliament How a parent’s bid to save their school exposes the rotten core of our democracy | Aditya Chakrabortty - Guardian John McDonnell backs 'Abolish Eton' debate at Labour conference - Guardian A decade in the making: What next for young people in England? - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Conflicts, climate change and mental illness among ‘biggest emerging threats to children', United Nations warns - Independent How I spiced up teaching about the senses - Times Educational Supplement | TES One in four teachers in England work 60-hour week despite government clampdown, study finds - Independent Looking for the smoking gun: the academics taking on Big Tobacco - Times Higher Education | THE Teachers 'have worked long hours for many years' - BBC Job applications 'filtered by university ranking' - BBC Harrow school sets up online sixth form for global pupils - BBC One in four teachers work more than 60 hours a week - Nursery World 1 in 4 teachers work over 60 hours a week – but that’s not why they’re leaving - Schools Week Two-thirds of English schools found to have 'poor' fire protections - Guardian 25% of teachers in England work more than 60 hours a week - study - Guardian Home Office 'rushed to penalise' students accused of cheating - Guardian Longer working hours for teachers 'are a myth' - Mail Parents pay for bodyguards at Knightsbridge School after moped attack - Times University told sex assault victim to sleep in library - Times Scotland: Ex-police chief ‘is wrong about Catholic schools fuelling bigotry - Times Scotland: Sectarian bigotry is bred at home not taught in Catholic schools - Times Ireland: Social media fatigue affecting students’ success - Times Ireland: Universities need big funding increase to stop slide, says chief - Times