News archive for 24th September 2019

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England’s schools segregate by ability more than almost every other country in the world - FFT Education Datalab Teachers would devise Labour's new national curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher 'shut pupil in cupboard for 20 minutes', hearing told - Wales Online Corbyn pledges flexible hours for teachers in menopause - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gordon Marsden says IfATE a 'balls-up' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers told not to switch GCSE boards over grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES The hypocrites on Labour’s front bench will betray ordinary schoolchildren - Telegraph Students forced to attend compulsory lectures on climate change at University of Sheffield - Mail Prince Andrew event at University of South Wales 'alarming' - BBC Busy Bees acquires Scallywags - Nursery World New UCAS Hub encourages students to shoot for the stars - UCAS Adult education budget (AEB) funding rules 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Children are lashing out at pupils and staff because they are hungry, teachers say - Independent ‘New to ESOL’ resources can support learners progress and achieve their ambitions - Learning & Work Institute The Bell Foundation launches new tools to support teachers in multilingual classrooms - Bell Foundation Restore student maintenance grants and guarantee a well-funded tertiary education system under a NES, says MillionPlus - MillionPlus Primary RE 1000 - kick-start ‘Better Religious Education’ in your school - NAHT Petition in support of striking staff at Nottingham College staff tops 1,200 signatures - UCU A 32-hour week: sensible or nonsensical? - HEPI Bigger and faster data does not always make for better decisions - Wonkhe Heavy backpacks placing high levels of force onto students' spines - SecEd Spike in sexual grooming incidents on social media - SecEd Beacon commended colleges announced - AoC | Association of Colleges Prize fund challenges young people to become tech trailblazers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Careers provision: Schools make steady progress towards Gatsby Benchmarks - SecEd Alternative provision: Changing perceptions - SecEd Labour’s publicly-funded HE plan ‘could support’ sector expansion - Times Higher Education | THE These are the 12 best universities in Scotland - Scotsman ‘We are driving out creative teachers,’ says Pisa boss - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keep calm and carry on, say government advisers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Would Labour's private school plans work in Scotland? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Serving local people means opening up to them - Wonkhe The end of private schools? Not by a long shot - Montrose42 White Elephant #5: Practitioner Reflections: making diversity work a success in your institution - HEPI Feedback meetings: The end of marking? - Teacher Toolkit Do we really know what’s in school dinners? - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Student at Blackpool and The Fylde College awarded £5000 Peter Roberts Bursary - Collab Group Extend free school meals to secondary pupils, says shadow minister - Schools Week Student plans weekly commute from Amsterdam to Bristol due to accommodation shortage - Independent Schools start to prepare children for SATs ‘as young as three’, report claims - Nursery World What is mastery? - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Making effective use of technology and data in maths teaching - Education & Training Foundation | ETF What is contextualisation? - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Motivation and engagement - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Innovative resources to support New to ESOL learners - Education & Training Foundation | ETF New childhood obesity figures ‘paint bleak picture’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nottingham College strikes: Petition gains support - Times Educational Supplement | TES MMR: over 95% of pupils starting school have had jab - Times Educational Supplement | TES Principal: annual adult skills funding already spent - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour is right to target private school privilege – but abolition isn’t the only answer | Robert Verkaik - Guardian How Labour’s ‘back to the future’ Ofsted plans can work - Schools Week Boris blasts Corbyn plot to axe private schools – would leave taxpayer with £7billion bill - Express Dear Gavin Williamson, outsourcing excluded pupils to new free schools won’t help | Michael Rosen - Guardian England's pupils among the most segregated by ability - Times Educational Supplement | TES Multi-course classes 'norm in most Scottish schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES School bus cost-cutting splits villages and families – and removes choice - Guardian ‘My hand shook so much I spilled my tea’: a guide for the introverted fresher - Guardian PISA: England’s schools segregate by ability more than almost every other country in the world - IOE London Blog Parents are key to unlocking HE potential - FE Week Pupils 'short-changed' by mixing course levels - BBC Eton headmaster slams Labour's plan to abolish private schools - Mail State schools fall behind in harnessing alumni to boost pupils' job prospects - Schools Week John McDonnell cools on Labour purge of private schools - Times Labour spending pledges called into doubt - Times Private schools row: what can we learn from other countries? - Times Know-nothing students are more powerful than you think | Sara Tor - Times Labour’s proposed abolition of private schools (letters) - Times Scotland: Plug school staff gaps with parents, says John Swinney adviser - Times