News archive for 30th September 2019

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Mum’s fury after daughter’s teacher repeatedly said N-word while reading Of Mice and Men - Metro Williamson: Scrapping Ofsted is 'recipe for disaster' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher gets lifelong ban for indecent image - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE targets don't help state pupils, says private head - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges in Scotland ahead of England, says minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding for 80% of schools in England 'worse next year than 2015' - Guardian NUS head pulls out of Tory conference over 'disturbing Islamophobia' - Guardian Make failing to report child abuse illegal, say victims - BBC Gavin Williamson’s conference speech: The full text - Schools Week False widow spiders force London school to shut - Schools Week Gavin Williamson pledges £120m expansion of technology institutes in bid to beat Germany - Independent Disadvantaged kids are held back by the politics of class and victimhood | Mercy Muroki - Times Teacher 'tried to normalise racial slur in famous book by talking like a rapper' - Mirror Gavin Williamson's Tory conference speech in full - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson vows to 'super-charge further education' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Augar report: Why politicians should give it a read - Times Educational Supplement | TES NQTs leaving state schools for better-paid private jobs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Would Eton move abroad to escape Labour? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our response to the Education Secretary's speech - CBI The use of technology in education and its potential to heal liberated Iraq - BERA You’re spoiling us Secretary of State – yet another letter from Sanctuary Buildings - Wonkhe Keynotes: How to prepare for public speaking? - Teacher Toolkit School funding: 4 in 5 schools worse off under Government spending plans, finds new analysis - National Education Union Gavin Williamson speech - National Education Union Time to tap the potential of part-time and mature learners, says MillionPlus Chair - MillionPlus Creativity and critical thinking and what it means for schools - Nesta Conservative conference: minister opposes foundation year reforms - Times Higher Education | THE Female scientists ‘forced out by hostile environment’ - Times Higher Education | THE DWP invests £4m in youth employment scheme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now That’s just typical!! - UKEdChat Gavin Williamson's 'new focus' for the forgotten 50% of young people - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges The social lives of teachers: Pubs, best friends, and who knows the most effective teachers? - Teacher Tapp Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Implications for workforce development - Learning & Work Institute Knife crime orders may 'exacerbate' community relations, warns ADCS - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Adolescent mental health research receives £10m boost - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Javid announces £500m for youth fund - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How to avoid teacher burnout - The Educator Introducing PQA could help first year students - Wonkhe NUS stands "shoulder to shoulder" with UCU in fight for fair pay and pensions - UCU Leading headmistress criticises Labour's private school plans - Mail Sector reacts to education secretary’s promise to ‘supercharge’ FE - FE Week NUS president withdraws from Tory conference over claims of ‘disturbing’ Islamophobia - Independent Most state schools 'to be worse off in 2020 than they were in 2015' - Mail £120m for 8 new institutes of technology announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE extra cash still sees 80% of schools worse off - Times Educational Supplement | TES Additional school funding not enough to ‘repair the damage’, warn unions - Nursery World Williamson pledges a maths school in every region - Schools Week Williamson pledges to ‘supercharge’ FE and overtake Germany within a decade - FE Week One million pages on the history of science freely available for researchers, students and teachers - Jisc Government spending plans ‘leave 80% of schools worse off next year than in 2015’ - Schools Week DfE to tender for 8 new Institutes of Technology - FE Week I returned to uni for freshers’ week 20 years after leaving. Here’s what has changed - Guardian Wales school sex education classes 'should be compulsory' - BBC Two in five don’t trust government to run schools well – poll - Schools Week Two-thirds of public support independent education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education secretary announces plans for vocational training - Guardian Movers and Shakers: Edition 291 - FE Week A hundred years of randomness: Dr Ben Styles on education RCTs - Schools Week PVC: subject-level TEF ‘risks freezing disciplines in time’ - Times Higher Education | THE We need a European-level excellence initiative - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Research on research’ project aims to mend ‘broken’ system - Times Higher Education | THE On fake news and faculties - Wonkhe 4:00 p.m. - Oral evidence session regarding support for children with special educational needs and disabilities - Accountability Hearings More nurseries are cutting out plastic - Nursery World Call for Level 5 apprenticeship to include foundation degree - Nursery World 20,000 sent to faith schools despite requesting secular education - Schools Week Private schools say abolition would be vote-loser - BBC Labour's plan for private schools based on 'desire to damage' - Guardian Most students and recent graduates have been scammed at university - Mail More than half of Labour voters disagree with Corbyn's new policy to abolish private schools - Mail Labour's plans for private schools are 'vote loser', head warns - Mail The sex education circus - BBC Adolescent mental health centre for Cardiff University - BBC Children face ban from school if not vaccinated - Times Breathing polluted air on exam day can lower students’ grades - Times St Edmund Hall at University of Oxford goes green with hanging garden - Times ‘Playground bully parents’ banned from school governing board - Times Scotland: Sex abuse activists call for university code of conduct - Times Scotland: Glasgow art school students complain of cramped studios - Times Scotland lagging behind England in provision of funded childcare and early learning - Times