News archive for 5th February 2020

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Fashion firm David Nieper offers new apprenticeship option after condemning levy - Express Brit students feel 'pressured' to go to university and most regret it, poll shows - Mirror Government backs bill to cut cost of school uniforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish primary school closed for the week after 'major fire' - Scotsman Russell Group university awards firsts to more than half of degrees for first time amid grade inflation concerns - Telegraph Wales: Teacher shot with air rifle outside primary school in targeted attack - Mirror Autism and ADHD 'not being spotted' as exclusions rise - BBC Universities giving out high numbers of firsts - Mail Government backs draft law to cut school uniform costs - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth John Swinney announces ‘full review’ of classroom teaching in Scotland - Scotsman Pupil premium rates increased for the first time in five years - NAHT Disenfranchising the student vote and other absurd ideas - HEPI Teachers: claim back your student loan repayments - DfE Consultation response regarding Early Years reforms - Ofqual ESFA Update: 5 February 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Richard Atkins unpacks the FE Commissioners Annual report - FE News There’s more to intelligence than meets the I - UKEdChat School counselling key in mental health battle - SecEd The challenges of low prior attainment - SecEd Minimum per-pupil funding law welcome, but financial challenges remain - SecEd Further government funding announced for Taking Teaching Further - Education & Training Foundation | ETF EdTech Demonstrator schools and colleges programme - DfE Higher Education Student Data: 2018 to 2019 - DfE Teachers at second Newport school to strike - NASUWT The apprenticeship levy is on its knees - Times Educational Supplement | TES School absence fines 'rise by a fifth' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we’re doing too much, too young in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reading aloud with your class – what does the research say? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Protect teachers from parents’ shocking prejudice - Times Educational Supplement | TES New appointment to EPSRC Council - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Adolescent girls 'more likely to develop mental health issues' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Research 4.0 - how technology and imagination will push human knowledge further, faster - Jisc Pearson & UCL launch AI research project - PIE News £24 million for recruiting, developing and retaining FE workforce - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Is Britain failing its white working class boys? - Ambition Institute Rip-off branded uniforms costing three times as much will be banned - The Sun Teachers strike at Caerleon Comprehensive over changes prompted by Wales' new curriculum - Wales Online Better together: Why teacher education needs universities as well as schools - IOE London Blog Remove incentives to ‘depress or inflate’ early years outcomes, Ofqual urges DfE - Schools Week Union to sue construction firms for deducting apprenticeship levy from wages - FE Week FE commissioner annual report: Colleges entering formal intervention rises by two-thirds - FE Week LGBT+ inclusive apprenticeships - Unionlearn The arts play second fiddle to Stem – and it’s bad for the economy - New Statesman Stop excluding children in care, says review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Professional roles: Get a well-paying job, but forget uni debt - Guardian Barry Smith named regional schools director at London academy trust - Schools Week Scotland's commitment to counselling in every secondary must not open the door to people without expertise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Drop in students taking HE courses in colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government told to review how it presents EYFS data - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney: Scottish curriculum review to be led by OECD - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academics: Ofsted's internal peer review is 'a cop-out' - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are apprenticeships? Essential questions answered - Guardian At Ofsted we find little evidence apprentices are actually moving up the levels - FE Week Many Brits feel like a ‘failure’ if they don’t go to uni to study - The Sun Government backs proposal to cut the cost of school uniforms - Schools Week Leading the way on LGBT+ apprenticeships - Unionlearn Half of KS2 pupils don't read an hour a week at home - Times Educational Supplement | TES £26k FE teaching bursaries announced in £24m package - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish private schools to pay full business rates - Scotsman Celebrating what works: How schools can successfully promote apprenticeships - Sutton Trust UK universities will only lead the world if they keep Erasmus and EU research funds | Amanda Crowfoot - Guardian Multi-million pound support package to boost the FE workforce - DfE Rule change will force colleges to provide key staff data - UCU Suicide prevention film aired - SecEd Inquiries to focus on poor performance - SecEd RSE and RE to be made compulsory in Wales - SecEd Evidence for 'antagonistic unions’ claim is flimsy at best? - SecEd Stuck schools? An unhelpful narrative - SecEd FE workforce data collection - DfE £24 million support package to boost the FE workforce - Sector reponse - FE News Delivering an award-winning apprenticeship programme - FE News Does anyone really care about getting students registered to vote? - Wonkhe HESA spring 2020: subject of study, accommodation, transnational education - Wonkhe Adam Rutherford: taking on racism with the help of genetics - Times Higher Education | THE Cummings ‘winning battle’ for new Arpa to be outside UKRI - Times Higher Education | THE Plagiarism hunters, please lay down your weapons - Times Higher Education | THE Why the latest visa reforms are a step in the right direction - Wonkhe ESFA to demand staff and pay data from all providers - FE Week Over 500 FE lecturers to come from industry as part of £24m support package ‘boost’ - FE Week Is that you, Miss? Duchess of Cambridge bumps into her former teachers - Times Flexi-schools would ensure our pupils thrive | Alice Thomson - Times Scotland: Free period products bill rejected by committee - Times 258 young people in Wales flagged up as extremist risks in just a year - Wales Online