News archive for 19th September 2019

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Nearly 100,000 children leave education without basic qualifications amid shameful rise, children’s commissioner says - Independent Rowdy students spark fury after 'weekend of chaos' during Freshers' Week - Mirror Jeremy Corbyn will praise school eco-truants - Mail John McDonnell backs radical plan to abolish private schools - Express Principal’s £150k expenses revealed… finally - FE Week Stella brings shame on the college sector we all love - FE Week Trainee teachers with bursaries less likely to teach - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges with 'inadequate' finances on the rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why abolishing private schools is ethically dubious - Times Educational Supplement | TES Controversial 'Named Person' policy is scrapped - Times Educational Supplement | TES How will heads deal with the student climate strike? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools told to ‘set off alarms’ and ‘drop curriculum’ for climate protests - Schools Week Initial teacher training performance profiles: 2017 to 2018 - DfE The Guardian view on the school climate strike: protests that matter | Editorial - Guardian Accountability for awarding - Ofqual School governance update - DfE National Apprenticeship Awards 2019 regional winners announced - Education & Skills Funding Agency Office for Students publishes data on changes in healthcare student numbers - Office for Students More disadvantaged students than ever have a place at university - UCAS Higher Education Students Early Statistics survey 2019-20 (HESES19) - Office for Students Record number of student climate campaigners to flood streets in global strike - Mirror Scottish Government to scrap Named Person scheme, John Swinney confirms - Scotsman Places rise despite slight drop in nursery numbers - Nursery World IFS on education spending in England - National Education Union ISC response to Private School Policy Reform report - Independent Schools Council | ISC Girls should be taught at school how to ask for pay rise, says female CEO - Guardian UCU responds to Hepi report on reducing racial inequality in higher education - UCU Funding myth buster - IfATE Furious parents slam ‘patronising’ council campaign to send ill kids to school - The Sun University finance report a wake-up call to government, says UCU Scotland - UCU Fresher hell on street ‘taken over’ by vomiting students and all night parties - Metro Sustaining university arts can give us the antidote to our toxic political culture - Wonkhe What do students know? - Wonkhe The memory palace: How to remember just about anything - Learning Scientists Prioritise social and emotional learning to avoid “missed opportunity” to improve children’s outcomes - new EEF guidance - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF School in Cardiff will allow girls to wear shorter skirts after 'strict' knee length rule riled parents - Wales Online Five examples of campus innovation from the 2019 Green Gown awards - Jisc Schools still face ‘unprecedented’ funding freeze despite ministers’ £4bn boost, warns IFS - PoliticsHome IFS and the big trends in education spending - AoC | Association of Colleges Inspectors slam quality of London borough's SEND support - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Extra school cash fails to address 'unprecedented' spending slowdown, says IFS - CYPN | Children & Young People Now First threat assessment for universities produced by the National Cyber Security Centre - Advance HE AoC responds to IFS annual education spending report - AoC | Association of Colleges The value of Higher Technical Education (HTE) - FE Week DfE teacher workload survey 'not fit for purpose' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government national testing stance 'tramples' democracy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anger over textbook showing climate change 'positives' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Climate striking students won't lose bursaries - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: Mental health, BME gap, freshers - Wonkhe School completely bans mobile phones and teachers say kids' behaviour changes - Wales Online John Swinney accused of ‘trampling over democracy like Boris Johnson' - Herald Scotland There’s a side to Eton that you won’t read about in David Cameron’s memoirs | Musa Okwonga - Guardian ‘What’s taking so long?’: children’s books still neglect BAME readers, finds study - Guardian Schools told to prepare for Brexit - Nursery World Make alcohol less visible, say children - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kitbags developed to help social workers talk to children - Nursery World 1 in 5 new teachers not employed in state schools within 16 months of qualifying - Schools Week Four things new students need to know before tackling a university assessment - The Conversation Chesterfield school anxiety pupil 'treated like truant' - BBC Sussex 'send ill kids to school' campaign sparks anger - BBC Record number of disadvantaged pupils get university places - Guardian A marking system for real people who need to cry, eat and walk their dogs - UKEdChat How well do we measure teacher workload? - FFT Education Datalab Big new money for schools and FE, but FE spending still over 7% down on 2010 while no growth in school spending per pupil for 13 years - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS IFS and the big trends in education spending (19 September 2019) - AoC | Association of Colleges There is no longer any justification for private schools in Britain | Frances Ryan - Guardian How well do we measure teacher workload? - IOE London Blog The £2.3bn bill for Augar review's FE demands - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for reform of 'problem' private school system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government funding vow 'is 13-year, real-terms freeze' - Times Educational Supplement | TES IFS: £1.1bn needed to reverse FE funding cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers forced to pay for dyslexia training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stars of education win £3m prize - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'The youth generation is united': the uni students striking for the climate - Guardian Funding boost for sixth forms and colleges is £1.1bn short of cash needed to reverse cuts, IFS says - Independent A new political class? - Sutton Trust Oldest universities ‘stretch ahead’ of new bodies in funding race - Scotsman Extra school cash fails to address "unprecedented" spending slowdown, says IFS - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scotland's universities, staff and students issue joint warning to SNP to stop funding cuts or risk 'significant' decline - Telegraph We need to stop being victims - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth UCU responds to Hepi report on reducing racial inequality in higher education - UCU Private providers aren’t the problem with student finance, they’re part of the solution - City AM Widening participation work is education work - Wonkhe Leadership intelligence: how to talk about race in universities - Times Higher Education | THE UK may face ‘major delays’ in EU funding even if Brexit deal struck - Times Higher Education | THE It’s time to get serious about open educational resources - Times Higher Education | THE Europe’s top universities mull unconscious bias training for staff - Times Higher Education | THE The white elephant in the room: ideas of reducing racial inequalities in higher education - HEPI HEPI publishes ideas for reducing racial inequality in higher education - HEPI To improve research culture, funders must challenge fixed notions of academic excellence - HEPI Extra school cash 'enough to reverse cuts' - BBC Parents hit back after council bosses order them to 'be pushy' - Mail One in five university students is from a poor background - Mail Colleges still £1.1bn short since 2010 despite chancellor’s boost, IFS finds - FE Week Further education £1bn worse off than 2010 despite higher spending, says report - City AM Education spending fall from 2010 to now was worst since 1970s – IFS - Guardian IFS: Johnson’s school funding boost still leaves ‘unprecedented’ 13-year real-terms freeze - Schools Week Funding pledge leaves schools where they were 13 years ago - report - Mail League Against Cruel Sports urges University of Reading to ban pheasant shoot - Times Thief made £40,000 from library books - Times Older Scottish universities getting lion’s share of foreign fees - Times