News archive for 26th September 2019

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Half of pupils now go to university 20 years after Tony Blair made his controversial pledge - Mail Why the death of the staffroom is bad news for pedagogy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Surge in LAs with falling phonics pass rates - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disabled apprentices need more support, says report - Times Educational Supplement | TES U-turn as ministers reconsider financial aid for student nurses - Guardian Brexit ‘propaganda’ appeared on school digital noticeboards, MP claims - Independent More than half of young people are going to university for the first time, figures reveal - Telegraph DfE ‘carefully monitoring’ college investigation into allegations of nepotism and ‘financial wrongdoing’ - FE Week Parents complain over pro-Boris Johnson clips played in schools - Guardian Study reveals trends in global ECEC workforce - Nursery World Stand up and advocate - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Let’s make student engagement work more inclusive - Wonkhe Is there space for institutions in the global education revolution? - Wonkhe Challenging university earnings predictions – TV or TEF, you decide - Wonkhe Pearson: textbook error - Financial Times Pearson apologises after BTEC gaffe hits schools’ progress 8 scores - Schools Week Our letter to Ofsted and the inspectorate’s response - Headteachers' Roundtable Statistics: Key stage 1 national curriculum assessments and phonics screening check results - DfE Participation Rates in Higher Education: 2006 to 2018 - DfE Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2019 - DfE Planned LA and school expenditure: 2019 to 2020 financial year - DfE Free schools leading the way with top primary school results - DfE The gruesome past of Irish medical education - Times Higher Education | THE Key stage 2 national curriculum tests 2019: How did boys and girls differ across reading and maths? - NFER The experiences of teachers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+) - BERA Transform Our World - a new resource hub for teachers to bring environmental action into the classroom - NAHT MP condemns 'Brexit propaganda’ in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do students feel about retaking GCSE Maths? - Education & Training Foundation | ETF What do this year’s GCSE maths result tell us? - Education & Training Foundation Swinney under fire over special needs funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 2019 Income Deprivation Children Index - FFT Education Datalab Dyslexia Awareness Week 2019 - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Cognitive load theory - UKEdChat Sutton Trust on private tuition - National Education Union Phonics - National Education Union Primary pupils’ reading skills boosted by programme which gets them to question texts - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Councils urged to review SEND support to help schools be more inclusive - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Knife orders will lead to 'unnecessary criminalisation of young people' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Class divide revealed in young people’s participation in political activity at school - IOE London Blog Sparking creativity - Advance HE Tackling the ‘shadow education system’ - Sutton Trust Associations between characteristics of students - Office for Students Funding competition for projects on student engagement in knowledge exchange - Office for Students London schools denying special needs children to help league tables - Evening Standard #CPD: Meeting half-way. Changing minds, shifting the inertia, overcoming the resistance - Teacherhead A-levels should be scrapped - they don't suit 21st century innovation - Telegraph Retired head gets VIP message after special award win - Schools Week Cambridge University library book returned 60 years late - BBC High expectations are key to student retention - FE Week The symbolic target of 50% at university reached - BBC Noticeboard firm boss: Primary school slides ‘taken out of context’ and aren’t ‘pro-Boris propaganda’ - Schools Week Why are private school fees so high? - Financial Times Abolishing private schools is admirable, but won’t make choosing a state one any easier for parents - The Conversation More than half of young people now going into higher education - Mail Free school pupils score higher in phonics check - Nursery World UK’s first degree course in social change begins - Guardian Phonics results: Slight drop in pass rate - Times Educational Supplement | TES KS1 Sats results: Reading pass rate remains stable - Times Educational Supplement | TES Youngsters who haven't had jabs could face a school ban - Mail Phonics check pass rate falls for the first time - Schools Week 'It is educational apartheid': are we finally ready to end private schools? - Guardian Quarter of secondary school pupils have private tuition - Guardian Most MATs concerned about financial survival - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than a quarter of pupils have private tutors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Brand all non-academic qualifications as T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC: Universities and colleges must collaborate on HE - Times Educational Supplement | TES England has one of worst class divides for citizenship - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Secretary: Do more for disadvantaged students - DfE More private tuition agencies should provide free lessons for poorer pupils, charity says - Independent One in four teachers take on private tuition outside of school - Sutton Trust In HE data, everything is an edge case - Wonkhe Even one week’s study abroad can boost skills, experts argue - Times Higher Education | THE Remote conference attendees are not shirkers - Times Higher Education | THE International education must find ‘balance’ on public good and cash - Times Higher Education | THE Quarter of secondary pupils 'get private tuition' - BBC More than one in four state secondary school pupils have a private tutor - Mail Private schools chief attacks 'truly toxic' portrayal of sector - Guardian Schools should ‘consider implications’ of teachers offering paid tuition, says Sutton Trust - Schools Week Academy trust leaders struggling to juggle finances and growth - Schools Week Universities warned to up their game' in supporting disadvantaged students - Mail Prioritise investment in level 2 qualifications, new report urges - FE Week 80,000 state teachers give private tuition - Times Prep schools renew appeal with promise of kindness - Times Scotland: Councils ‘hostile’ to Catholic schools, says bishop - Times Scotland: Ignore ‘rubbish’ rules from heads to cut workload, teachers urged - Times Scotland: Councils could be forced to fund additional support needs staff - Times