News archive for 3rd February 2020

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Britain’s ‘strictest headmaster’ sacked for sending ‘flirty’ texts to girl pupils at £35k a year school - The Sun Apprentice levy: a funding model in need of change - Guardian Reunion with primary teachers 'eases Year 7 transition' - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need stability - not yet another curriculum review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we now share our preferred pronouns - Times Educational Supplement | TES University staff to strike over pay and pensions - Financial Times Autism to ADHD: Thinking differently about recruitment - Guardian Professor of Black Studies brands whiteness a 'psychosis' - Mail Chinese private school pupils in the UK face two weeks of quarantine if they go home for half term because of coronavirus fears - Mail Career paths: how these apprentices from the 1990s reached the top - Guardian Apprentices: Loyal, skilled, but still ignored by too many small firms - Guardian Police probe finances of failed Schools Company academy trust - Schools Week Minister admits first funding rate increase in 7 years is below inflation - FE Week Sixth form funding hike still leaves schools with less than they had in 2013, minister admits - Schools Week Government to consult on subcontracting limits - FE Week National Apprenticeship Week 2020 - Sutton Trust Parents urged to look beyond apprenticeship misconceptions - DfE Youth charity The Challenge faces £8m claims following collapse - CYPN | Children & Young People Now EYFS reforms 'risk tick-box assessment approach' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Major increase in schools employing mental health counsellors - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Diary of an NQT: The exam countdown begins - SecEd The sensitive art of feedback - UKEdChat UCAS boosts advice for students and teachers with information from Which? University - UCAS Is this a ‘moment’ for addressing challenges faced by disabled students? - HEPI Eco-concious GSA students encouraging their schools to be ‘greener’ - GSA GSA President on gender stereotypes and school rules - GSA Increasing access and driving growth: how Cumbria are using degree apprenticeships to shape the region - MillionPlus Teaching and learning in Belgium - Teacher Toolkit 'Early years needs funding, not reform', survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why government is getting apprenticeship policy wrong - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCU announces 14 strike days at 74 UK universities in February and March - UCU Union calls 14-day strike in UK pay and pensions dispute - Times Higher Education | THE University workers to stage fresh walkouts - Mail How should we train our teachers? - Teacher Tapp Workers at 13 Scottish universities to strike again - Mail Leadership pay: A fait accompli? - SecEd Why teachers need to get comfortable with talking about sex… and how to start - UKEdChat Tools and skills for a modern institution - Jisc Tackling underrepresentation of ‘protected’ student groups: sector learning - Advance HE UCL Institute of Education launches new research centre - IOE London Blog Teacher wellbeing: do we need in-school support groups? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis and examination of foods - postgraduate course 2020 - GOV.UK Centralised teaching at MAT 'disappointed' by results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Harris Federation paying 12 staff more than £150k each - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland could seek to stay in Erasmus without England - Times Educational Supplement | TES How Ofsted is putting subject leaders under pressure - Times Educational Supplement | TES Britain's 'strictest headmaster', 47, is finally sacked from £37,500-a-year school - Mail University strikes: More than a million students face second wave of cancelled lectures in row over pay and pensions - Independent Over-parenting teaches children to be entitled – let them fail and learn to be resilient instead - The Conversation Pupils now back at fire-hit Peebles High School - Scotsman Supporting apprentices through union learning - Unionlearn Scotland could sign up to EU student scheme 'unilaterally' - Scotsman Three ways to bridge the GCSE to A-level divide - Times Educational Supplement | TES School kids take over Borough Market and cook up waste food to highlight food poverty - Metro How can we help more deprived students to choose courses that will lead to higher earnings? - IOE London Blog ‘Look Beyond’ with an apprenticeship this National Apprenticeship Week - Education & Skills Funding Agency Most parents think apprentices are 'left making tea' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only 26% teachers say Ofsted changes will cut workload - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only 5% of heads say Camhs provides help when needed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Number of schools buying in counsellors for children almost doubles in three years - Independent UK firms demand shake-up of 'inflexible' apprenticeship system - Guardian Level 5 standard in dispute - Nursery World Calls for investment in to child mental health - Scotsman Movers and Shakers: Edition 305 - FE Week UK invests £65 million in international science projects hosted by Fermilab - Cambridge Network An introduction to Ofqual for micro end-point assessment organisations - FE News To be critical of colleges for running the courses learners want is bizarre - FE Week AI courses ‘vulnerable’ to post-Brexit downturn in EU recruitment - Times Higher Education | THE Who will succeed Mark Walport at UKRI? What challenges lie ahead? - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Bridging’ funding between grants could help cut gender pay gap - Times Higher Education | THE Segregation is not being stamped out in schools because parents are 'afraid' to cause offence - Mail Schools increasingly tackling mental health in-house, survey finds - Schools Week School leavers train as carers as EU migration falls - BBC Parents fear young apprentices will end up making tea - Mail English schools buying in mental health support has 'almost doubled' in three years - Guardian Education secretary urges parents to rethink apprenticeships - City AM Coronavirus: Don’t go home at half-term, pupils told - Times Prince Charles flies in to lecture Cambridge students on emissions - Times Eton to Oxbridge? If it’s tougher, that’s fair - Times