News archive for 20th September 2019

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Ceara Thacker death: Mental health services 'failed student' - BBC Mum claims daughter sent home from school six times for skirt being too short - Wales Online School strike against 'drastic' climate change - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lucy Powell: 'The academic pendulum has swung too far' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Second college refused place on HE register - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student, 19, found hanged after 'unacceptable' wait for mental health appointment - Mirror Student who killed herself was ‘failed’ by mental health services - Guardian Our children deserve better than Extinction Rebellion's dangerous fantasies - Telegraph Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 20 September - Pearson Charity regulator warns Ucas about marketing loans to students - Guardian Global Climate Strike takes over New York, Boston and Washington DC as hundreds of thousands protest - Mail Where Wales' universities rank in the Times Good University Guide - Wales Online Apply to join DfE's longitudinal education outcomes (LEO) pilot - DfE Global climate strike: Get back to school! Government hits out at students skipping class - Express Why we are right to challenge independent schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES If abolishing Ofsted is the answer, what is the question? - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Amanda Spielman HMCI writes for our Decade in the Making report: The TES - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Decline of 'good' children's services prompted by cost-cutting, Ofsted finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Head of cash-strapped college spent £150k on luxury hotels, first-class flights and chauffeurs amid job cuts and sixth form closure - Independent Pay scales for teachers and leaders in England and Wales from September 2019 - Schools Week Why schools (and societies) need authentic leadership - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jeremy Corbyn thanks children for skipping lessons to join Global Climate Strike - Mail Hundreds of thousands turn out across UK for global climate strike - Mail Nick Gibb: Pupils must not miss school to protest - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands join climate strikes around Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our pupils didn’t strike today – here’s why - Times Educational Supplement | TES St Andrews named UK university of the year - Scotsman One in five children 'leaving education without basic qualifications' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now AoC responds to Children's Commissioner research into children leaving education without basic qualifications - AoC | Association of Colleges Work of the IOE selected to represent the best of UCL in new Made at UCL campaign - IOE London Blog Industry Insights placements update - Education & Training Foundation School teachers' pay and conditions - DfE In the news: 20 September 2019 - UCU Nottingham College staff to walk out again on Monday out as mammoth 15-day action enters third week - UCU TLPD: Professional Development Adviser visits - Education & Training Foundation Manifestos, policies and practices: An equalities agenda - BERA Making a positive difference: Mature students and health education - Office for Students Ambition Institute joins Accountability Commission to support improvement in the school-led system - Ambition Institute Highbury College principal charged £150,000 to expenses account - BBC Climate protest: A very different kind of school trip - BBC Investigation: The free schools left homeless for years - Schools Week Ofsted Watch: Rapidly-expanding provider lauded - FE Week 53% of teachers say they're not listened to at work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brexit negotiators' failures prompt training for pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES School visits from parents - a teacher's guide - Times Educational Supplement | TES Second college denied access to higher education register - FE Week Behaviour: praise benefits pupils and teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES St Andrews named UK university of the year - Herald Scotland College headteacher under fire after she spent £150,000 on expenses including nights in luxury hotel - Mail Dismantling private schools could create problems, union leader warns - Mail Governance news: Finances of Scottish universities - Advance HE Can Knowledge Exchange help us demonstrate the wider value of excellent teaching? - Advance HE Future HE challenges revealed in new horizon-scanning report - Advance HE Heads want peer reviews to drive school improvement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rise in 18-year-olds without basic qualifications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Staying in primary longer 'boosts reading results' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: 100,000 pupils a year leaving 'without basic qualifications' - BBC LGBT teaching row: Schools minister rejects 'silence' claim - BBC First provider spills the beans on ‘very different’ Ofsted regime - FE Week Global climate strike: Tory ministers refuse to endorse children protesting planet's destruction - Independent Climate Strike: Protests expected across UK - BBC Climate strike – live: Millions across world demand urgent action to save planet in largest environmental protest in history - Independent Ministers accused of 'radio silence' over LGBT school protests - Guardian Flagship national college plans to ‘dissolve’ despite DfE bailouts - FE Week 'Thousands' of peripatetic music teacher jobs 'at risk' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rise in 18-year-olds without basic qualifications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Careers education variable but 'improving' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Do not punish climate strike pupils’, says union - Times Educational Supplement | TES Global climate strike begins with huge crowds in Australia and millions more set to take to streets worldwide - Independent Rayner refuses to rule out scrapping Ofsted under proposed National Education Service - FE Week Labour refuses to rule out replacing Ofsted - Schools Week White Elephant #1: Race matters: Addressing competing inequalities in higher education - HEPI Working in independent schools - The Educator Moray school to teach negotiation skills to counter 'poor example' of Brexit debate - Herald Scotland LGBT teaching row: Ministers accused of 'radio silence' over protests - BBC Children’s Commissioner calls for probe into ‘shameful’ rise in school leavers with few qualifications - PoliticsHome ESFA ignored whistleblower nearly two years before FE Week exposé - FE Week DfE hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete on computing SCITT plan - Schools Week Joined-up thinking benefits students and employers - Financial Times Is freshers’ week too middle class? - Wonkhe One in five 19-year-olds in England have failed to achieve five GCSEs at grade C or higher - The Sun 'Shameful rise': 18% of children now leave school as low achievers - Guardian One in five youngsters leaves school at 18 without basic exam grades - Mail Going for Gatsby: Schools report careers progress, but some areas lag behind - Schools Week Longfield demands review as 1 in 5 leave school without good GCSEs - Schools Week Time running out to rebalance away from London - Financial Times County lines gangs arrange for pupils to be excluded - Times The Times view on the assault against independent schools: Educating Labour - Times Thinking positive ‘not enough for good grades’ - Times John Swinney axes named person scheme over ‘state snooper’ fears - Times Plea to halt dramatic drop in pupils learning Gaelic - Times Scottish teachers plead with councils to let pupils join climate strike - Times Removal of anti-abortion leaflets restarts university free speech row - Times