News archive for 7th February 2020

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Whatever happens in reshuffle, DfE's problems remain - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes International Podcast: Fobisia's John Gwyn Jones - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes podcast: Rising MAT executive pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ucas to stop advertising private loans to students - Guardian Just 1 in 6 breakfast clubs in £26m scheme are actually new - Schools Week University strikes: Students demand compensation for second wave of cancelled lectures - Independent Student marketing and recruitment special (podcast) - Wonkhe NEU backs #PauseOfsted campaign - National Education Union In the news: 7 February 2020 - UCU Standstill funding is not enough, says UCU Scotland - UCU Career-based learning: How young is ‘too young’? - UKEdChat Learning 'useless' things in school is (usually) not useless - Learning Scientists Brain training does not improve early number skills - Nuffield Foundation Helping children lead healthy lives - Leeds Beckett University The Education and Training Foundation secures significant contract to deliver T Level Professional Development across England - Education & Training Foundation MP hears the value of on-the-job learning from Jisc apprentices - Jisc Council promises EHC plan overhaul after ombudsman criticism - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted watch: Two sixth form colleges score top grades - FE Week The school leader: Harnessing colleagues’ expertise - Ambition Institute Pupil repeatedly sent home from school over afro hair wins £8,500 payout - Independent Head claims DfE’s new funding website doesn’t add up - Schools Week Non-compliance with the Early Years and Childcare Registers - Ofsted Costs and cost drivers in the further education sector - DfE Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies financial notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency Proposed changes to terms and conditions of funding for 2020-21 - Office for Students Update on our commercial activity - UCAS National Apprenticeship Week 2020: Meet our apprentices - UCAS Looking beyond: celebrating the value and diversity of apprenticeships - Office for Students Just £14k per school from DfE's '£14bn' fund, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is it time to abandon the anachronistic school blazer? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' union tells members 'don't work for Ofsted' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of teacher time hampers DfE mental health scheme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Agnew: Schools have responsibility to allow FE access - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warrington and Vale College 'very weak financially' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister warns college bosses it could go bust next year - FE Week 'Free' early years education under scrutiny in BBC Radio 4 programme - Nursery World Number of children in poverty risen by 400,000 in last five years - Nursery World Schools trial body cameras to aid safety and monitor behaviour - Guardian Running a mile a day can make children healthier – here’s how schools can make it more fun - The Conversation NEU advises members not to work as Ofsted inspectors - Schools Week Ministers pledge increase in children's cycle training - BBC London school districts claim all top 10 slots in league tables - Evening Standard School league tables in London: Find out how your school did for GCSE and A-Level results - Evening Standard UCAS says it'll stop advertising private loans after Future Finance criticism - Mail Ofsted downgrades academy for 'gaming' exam results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why is the national curriculum Ofsted's gold standard? - Times Educational Supplement | TES What is the cost of good education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES What is the best way to revise for GCSEs and A levels? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government hands 36 Skills Advisory Panels another £2.7m - FE Week Widening the search for tomorrows engineers - Unionlearn DfE lobby Treasury with findings that FE can’t survive ‘as is’ without ‘relaxing the financial pressure’ - FE Week Rising costs eat up £7bn funding boost – leaving ‘just £14k extra per school’ - Schools Week Khan criticised as being ‘wasteful’ for £40k splurge on AEB consultant - FE Week Schools in Wales have been barring pupils because of coronavirus fears - Wales Online Troubled college to tumble two Ofsted grades from ‘outstanding’ - FE Week Williamson offers his reassurance that apprenticeship system will be fixed - FE Week Who will gain this time from apprenticeship reform? - FE Week Unconditional offers leave colleges open to criticism - Times Educational Supplement | TES T-level providers to get £110m funding boost - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK universities told to protect freedom of speech - Mail Porth Community School given damning report by Estyn with watchdog saying pupils' progress is slow - Wales Online LAS UNISON wins award for supporting service apprenticeships - Unionlearn Unconditional offers made by colleges up by 60% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Too many schools closing doors to colleges offering vocational courses like T-levels, minister warns - Independent Can't afford the zoo? Then weed the allotment for activities week - Schools Week T Level providers to benefit from £110 million boost - DfE Peer support for mental health pilots: an evaluation - DfE T Levels capital fund - DfE Alarm bells sound over college’s last-minute £500K subcontracting tender - FE Week Whistleblower scared off after legal threat in Post-it note cheating probe - Schools Week Schools to make teacher body cams permanent to blitz bad behaviour - Schools Week Time to pause Ofsted – here’s how - Schools Week Degree apprenticeship critics are ill-founded, unhelpful and incoherent - Wonkhe Big tech: What is in it for me? - HEPI With apprenticeships, firms can teach old dogs new tricks - City AM It’s time for a national lifelong learning strategy in the UK - Times Higher Education | THE National Apprenticeship Week provides a good opportunity to reflect on how we can make things even better - FE News T Level providers to benefit from £110 million boost - sector response - FE News Pupils with English as a second language outperform native speakers in GCSEs, data shows - Mail DfE launches £95m capital fund for wave two T-level providers - FE Week Gavin Williamson gives universities final warning on free speech - Times If universities can’t defend free speech, the government will | Gavin Williamson - Times Scotland: Swinney lets schools decide spending to help deprived pupils - Times DfE: Funding for T-levels announcement (7th February) - UCET