News archive for 23rd September 2019

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Many independent schools would be awful state schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Now is the time to set a vision for colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Johnson slams Labour's 'pointless' private-school plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Corbyn has launched ‘pointless’ and ‘hypocritical’ attack on education system warns Boris - Express Head of Eton hits back at Labour plans to abolish private schools - Guardian Private schools consider legal action against abolition move - Financial Times Summer-born children ‘more likely to be diagnosed with depression’ than older pupils - Independent David Beckham and Adwoa Aboah pay surprise visit to south London school to announce apprenticeship - Mail Schools' attainment gap could take 15 years to be reduced warn experts - Scotsman 17 new free schools opened with no sports facilities - Schools Week Sector blasts Labour’s pledge to abolish independent schools - PIE News Next Labour government will give teachers 'hope', says shadow schools minister - PoliticsHome Campaign urges council duty to help children access play - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Rayner unveils plans for new children's services inspectorate - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Labour pledges 'unprecedented spending' on early years - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Private schools warn Labour's bid to abolish them is illegal - Mail Why Labour's scrapping of private schools will hurt state schools - Telegraph Ministers ‘should have waited’ for review before subject-level TEF move - Times Higher Education | THE 16 to 18 English and maths progress measure qualifications - DfE Traineeships (guidance) - Education & Skills Funding Agency Medical and Dental Students survey 2019 - Office for Students Retrieval practice: The rule of 3 - Teacher Toolkit Practitioner research and commentary in a networked society - BERA Children’s Commissioner report into children and young people’s educational attainment - National Education Union New advice for universities and students on dangers of initiations - Universities UK GSA statement on the Labour Party vote to abolish independent schools - GSA Artificial intelligence and the digital revolution: how apprenticeships can help the financial sector prepare for the future - IfATE Schools should not be shaped by the whims of government - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-tier teacher pensions warning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Measuring the impact of interventions - UKEdChat Do teachers want Labour to abolish Ofsted? Are you anxious about anxiety? And other findings this week… - Teacher Tapp Analysis: How to solve the workload puzzle - Times Educational Supplement | TES What do heads want from any Ofsted replacement? - Times Educational Supplement | TES College governance: Lack of women chairs 'an issue' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call for parents' views on support for learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES ETF launches new management dashboard to support EdTech staff development - Education & Training Foundation Some thoughts on ‘The children leaving school with nothing’ - FFT Education Datalab Labour to abolish Ofsted - National Education Union Teacher exodus 'helped schools survive funding crisis' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teen depression risk to youngest primary school starters - Evening Standard John McDonnell pledges shorter working week and no loss of pay - Guardian Diane Abbott and Shami Chakrabarti called ‘hypocrites’ for bid to abolish private schools - Express Labour pledges 32-hour working week, but will it work for teachers? - Schools Week Boss of cash-strapped school academy chain ‘spent £1,500 on dog pen’, ex-staff claim - Independent Angela Rayner at Labour party conference 2019 - Schools Week High price of Labour’s vow to abolish private schools - Financial Times 'I wish I'd delayed coming to the UK' : overseas students call for further visa extensions - Guardian Cash-strapped college appoints accountant as interim principal - FE Week Labour pledges to scrap Ofsted - Nursery World Explained: The dip in 18-year-olds achieving level 2 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unicef to tackle child obesity and poverty in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES KS1 Sats results: all you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour plans to abolish and replace Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Longitude Explorer Prize 2019 opens for entries - Nesta Elite private schools vent outrage at Labour’s ‘incredulous’ plan to abolish them - Independent Jisc appoints new leader for FE and skills - Jisc Don't dismiss students studying at level 1 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour conference votes to end academies - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour votes to abolish private schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rayner: Schools will not be subjected to one-word grade - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher shortages mean 'global learning crisis' - Times Educational Supplement | TES I thought I’d made it when I got to Cambridge University. How wrong I was | Daniella Adeluwoye - Guardian Boss of failed WCAT ‘spent £1,500 on dog pen for his offices’ - Schools Week Should we abolish private schools? (video) - Guardian Does setting by ability disadvantage students? - The Educator White Elephant #4: Decolonising History? Reflections on the Royal Historical Society’s 2018 Report - HEPI Labour commits to scrap all private schools when they get into government - Mirror MAT boss's firm 'made £840k while schools struggled' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Movers and Shakers: Edition 290 - FE Week Two-tier pension schemes will open ‘can of worms' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities urged to help prevent deaths from binge-drinking as Freshers' Week begins - Independent Community and culture come first in Norwich - FE Week Research review: Cat Scutt investigates how to set a positive work culture - Schools Week Labour motion on private school quotas aims at HE ‘structural change’ - Times Higher Education | THE WCAT to be wound up after schools lost £2m in collapse - BBC Student Loans overpaid me: I'm struggling to pay it back - BBC UK universities publish guidance on risks of initiation ceremonies - Guardian New advice to students on university initiations - Mail Warning on alcohol risk at university initiations - BBC Independent schools will be abolished by Labour - Times Jeremy Corbyn will scrap Ofsted to help stressed‑out teachers - Times Tackle knife crime by investing in children, not locking them up | Sarah Jones - Times Police on alert for hazing of freshers - Times Universities must offer equal access to disadvantaged students - Times Scotland: John Swinney hailed exam scores despite officials questioning pass rate slide - Times Scotland: Rise in top degrees barely credible, universities told - Times Ireland: Reduced school timetables to be monitored - Times