News archive for 4th February 2020

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Supply teacher who was 'unable to resist' young girls abused six pupils at primary school - Mail UK teachers fleeing coronavirus must work all night - Times Educational Supplement | TES Project-based secondary among new free school bids - Times Educational Supplement | TES How 'strictest' school's new branch will work - Times Educational Supplement | TES New education select committee MPs revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five free schools cost more than £30m, new figures show - Schools Week Oxford alumni threaten to withhold donations to college amid row over fossil fuels - Independent Lucy Powell, Ian Mearns to serve again on education committee - Schools Week An informal apprenticeship led me to a career in gardening – and TV - Guardian As CEO, starting out as an apprentice in my industry taught me what drives people - Guardian Tanners, tailors and candlestick makers: a history of apprenticeships - Guardian ERSA and Leeds University Business School announce new project for improved employer engagement - ERSA Carmakers call for apprentices who show drive - Guardian Outdoor learning 'makes lessons more memorable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to join your dream apprenticeship scheme - Guardian Video art as digital play for young children - BERA Does enhancing teacher expectation benefit pupils? - Best Evidence in Brief Improving behaviour in schools - Best Evidence in Brief Restorative Practices Intervention did not produce significant changes - Best Evidence in Brief Examining the effects of the CW-FIT intervention - Best Evidence in Brief Evaluation of Maths Counts - Best Evidence in Brief Apprenticeships: Where next? - Collab Group What is an apprenticeship, and should higher education have a role in delivering them? - HEPI Northern Ireland: How apprentices underpin Belfast’s fintech boom - Guardian Swansea rejects two appeals against sackings but v-c case ongoing - Times Higher Education | THE Asking the right questions - UKEdChat Thinking skills: Working towards in IB ATLs - UKEdChat University of Peterborough full plans revealed by mayor - BBC Four principles that guide the best employer engagement in education - Education and Employers UKVI confirms no overstay penalty for Chinese students - PIE News London Mayor Sadiq Khan announces launch of London Progression Collaboration to boost apprenticeships - IPPR More women now visible in jobs ‘for the boys’ - Guardian Five ways to create a healthy school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education and Skills Funding Agency calls for views on subcontracting - Education & Skills Funding Agency Sixth form college academy converters: contracting and data - Education & Skills Funding Agency Becoming a healthcare student in my forties - Office for Students Nursery World Awards 2020 are open for entries - Nursery World Parents not convinced of value of apprenticeships, research suggests - Nursery World Stressed Scottish teachers being forced out of profession due to mental health worries - Herald Scotland Andrew Adonis: Apprenticeships should pay more to make them “credible” - New Statesman Elite universities are offering to pay students up to £2,000 to take a gap year - Mail ESFA launches subcontracting consultation - FE Week Drop in uptake of controversial P1 tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rayner: ‘Tories must address damage done by cuts’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ending student quotas has been disastrous for higher education | Catherine Fletcher - Guardian University staff in Wales are going on strike again - this is when they will be doing it - Wales Online Preparing the next generation for their future, not our past - New Statesman Experience: ‘When I first started it was terrifying, but training as a carpenter has changed my life’ - Guardian Horticulture apprenticeships: the UK growers tackling a skills shortage from the ground up - Guardian Cambridge sociologist’s visa fight ‘sends shockwaves’ through universities - Guardian Outstanding primary schools fail Ofsted inspections under sudden rule switch - Guardian Ofsted's inconsistency is failing teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Some MPs enjoyed a New Labour education. Do they know how lucky they were? | Fiona Millar - Guardian Modern apprenticeships: how parents can support their children - Guardian Unseen evil: Sex abuse in families going under the radar, say inspectorates - Ofsted Philosophers clash over race science paper - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Major disruption’ to student mobility from coronavirus feared - Times Higher Education | THE The multi-agency response to child sexual abuse in the family environment - Ofsted Headteacher has plans for island school with four pupils - Herald Scotland Schools risk missing child abuse because of a lack of school nurses, Ofsted claims - Schools Week 'Britain's strictest headmaster' sacked after sending flirtatious messages to female pupils - Telegraph Half of UK 10-year-olds own a smartphone - BBC Skills shortages continue to hit growth as UK employers struggle to find the right talent - City AM Universities pay students thousands to delay degrees - Times Oxford bans secretive dining club for failing diversity targets - Times Ruthin School head Toby Belfield is sacked over inappropriate texts to girls - Times Scotland: Orkney school with only four pupils finds a new head teacher - Times Firms still struggling to recruit skilled workers, study suggests - Mail