News archive for 10th February 2020

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Higher education budgets in Scotland 'drop by £135 million' in last decade - Herald Scotland Save by not paying staff for 6 weeks a year, says DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why it's wrong to attack our national curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Councils continue to flout government guidance on tests - Times Educational Supplement | TES John McDonnell urges students to act on climate change - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why superficial compliance with research is dangerous - Times Educational Supplement | TES Latin teacher at posh £20,000-a-year London prep school was found by colleagues too drunk to teach - Mail Join us in calling for the Welsh government to revise the draft budget proposals for 2020/21 - NAHT Approach to judging the ‘value’ of a degree needs overhaul - Universities UK Coronavirus fears put UK school on lockdown and a number of pupils in isolation - Mirror Increasing the attainment gap, losing your autonomy and working long hours - Teacher Tapp Creativity: Making something out of nothing! - UKEdChat Transform Our World - a resource hub for teachers to bring environmental action into the classroom - NAHT The ETF given important role in the Government’s multi-million-pound FE funding announcements - Education & Training Foundation The future of higher education funding is up for grabs - PoliticsHome Universities are failing the access challenge and students from poorer areas are missing out - PoliticsHome Further education reforms have not delivered for those who most need them most - PoliticsHome Funding shortfalls and ineffective implementation are derailing reforms to SEND support - PoliticsHome Erasmus+ “10m participants and counting” - PIE News School pupils with mental health issues 'reluctant to receive peer mentoring' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Changes to early years funding have hit disadvantaged children hardest - PoliticsHome Identifying and creating the entrepreneurial university - Advance HE Shifting workers at risk from precarious to prepared - Nesta Innovative software allows families to book childcare by the hour - Nursery World Stop asking colleges to put plasters over gaping wounds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Who will save our SEND system from a cataclysm? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Girls' schools urge against travel to Asia - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union tries to keep members on board as more strikes near - Times Higher Education | THE We are unionist but we won’t be striking this time - Times Higher Education | THE More children of working parents living in poverty - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Law proposed to tackle climate change fears in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching trends and predictions for 2020 - Teacher Toolkit Workers blindsided by ‘robot redundancies’ - two in three workers at-risk of job loss are oblivious to the threat - Nesta Ofsted launches point-in-time surveys - Ofsted Teacher subject specialism training (TSST): programme details - DfE Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2019 to August 2020 - Ofsted Primary schools: Everything you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catholic Church overrules academy chain's 11-plus ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship levy: Labour, too, has work to do - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reinstalled school locker crushed pupil, hearing told - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should the history of the British Empire be taught in schools? - BBC Pen and paper exams should be scrapped by 2025 - Mail Special school with ‘serious, widespread’ safeguarding failures to get a new sponsor - Schools Week Edinburgh University students vote to reject ban of beef products from campus bars and cafes - Scotsman Catholic trust’s ‘inoperable’ ban on 11-plus tests lifted - Schools Week Lunchtime learning lands award for regional reps - Unionlearn Teacher ‘too drunk to stand’ at school avoids ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES Emma Hardy: 'What are T levels the answer to?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES First Amazon came for our credit cards, now it wants to educate our kids – should you be worried? - Telegraph College complaint forces Ofsted to reopen grade 4 inspection - FE Week Call to scrap pen and paper exams by 2025 - Jisc Replace GCSE resits with modular exams, says Emma Hardy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Calls to scrap pen and paper exams by 2025 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lollipop men and women down by more than 2,000 - Times Educational Supplement | TES YouTuber Humza Arshad uses humour to tackle violent crime - Guardian How we fought to save our local college – and won - FE Week King’s v-c: English sector regulation ‘may dampen creativity’ - Times Higher Education | THE Continuous assessment ‘may be more stressful’ for students - Times Higher Education | THE Will we ever escape the campus culture wars? - Wonkhe Are we losing focus on the sustainability of the English university sector? - Wonkhe Universities don’t need shared metrics to measure their social value - Wonkhe Universities give back relics after pressure over ‘colonial wrongs’ - Times Young mentor secures 60 Oxbridge offers for deprived pupils - Times Heads warn of ‘forcing’ students to take degrees - Times Wales: School leaving age should rise to 'improve prospects', report says - BBC