News archive for 12th February 2020

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Progressive education is leading Scotland into crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales: Fury after school threatens to call the council if parents drop children off late - Express 'Humiliated' student in wheelchair 'made to sit in stairwell during uni lectures' - Mirror Wales: Fury after school threatens to report parents who are late dropping children off - The Sun Being a school governor is a poisoned chalice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Budget fears over 'substantial' fall in teacher numbers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Alternative provision census 2020: guide - DfE Rules confirmed to improve awarding organisation centre controls - Ofqual ESFA Update: 12 February 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 education: funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Four in 10 children in custody victimised by staff - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Inquiry to probe use of restraint in schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Piloting new approaches for early career teachers and their mentors - Ambition Institute When ‘good enough’ isn’t good enough: Ethical dilemmas of a netnographic researcher - BERA Five seismic forces driving reskilling in 2020 - Training Journal Launch of new recognition system for practitioners using EdTech - Education & Training Foundation New EEF grants announced, including three focusing on maths from the early years through to GCSE - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF It's time to give white, working class boys a fair shot in life - PoliticsHome 2U extends LSE online degree partnership - PIE News Baseline assessment: Make it work for you - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Partnerships between independent and state schools celebrated in parliament - Independent Schools Council | ISC £120k ‘cost-cutter’ savings at case study school were already being implemented - Schools Week Sexual assault claims 'gagged' by UK universities - BBC Children who sit too much 'more likely to get depressed' - BBC ‘They strip me of my power and strength’: Hull University student ‘humiliated’ by lack of wheelchair access on campus - Independent Student in wheelchair forced to listen to lecture from top of stairs - Guardian How to ensure your apprenticeships are LGBT+-friendly - Times Educational Supplement | TES Active lessons reduce pupil depression, says study - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Give us more time to study for exams,' say pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to give MATs 'rapid feedback' on their spending - Times Educational Supplement | TES At least seven schools affected by coronavirus - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government’s ‘obsession’ with phonics is driven by need to help working-class white boys - Schools Week Girl, 18, paid out £8,500 after school repeatedly sent her home over Afro hair - Mirror Girls consistently outperform boys in reading skills – but could this be changing? - The Conversation Agnew launches ‘rapid feedback’ school spending comparison service - Schools Week Muslim school closed down after ‘fears children were at risk of radicalisation’ - Metro Training to be a teacher changed my life - here’s how to change yours too - Wales Online What the latest pay rise announcement for college staff in Wales means - Wales Online Harvard professor heads up international conference on frontiers in research - Jisc Scottish schools close after storm brings snow and ice - Scotsman A more ethical system for supply teachers - SecEd Academies general annual grant allocation guides: 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies revenue funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency High needs funding arrangements: 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Pre-16 schools funding: local authority guidance for 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Striking teachers are taking their fight to Newport council offices - Wales Online Keir Starmer pledges to keep Labour's policy of scrapping tuition fees if he becomes leader - PoliticsHome Welsh FE staff pay to be increased in line with schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learning languages in isolation: A hindrance? - HEPI 'Naked intimidation': how universities silence academics on social media - Guardian Schools in Pembrokeshire are a 'significant concern', says inspections body Estyn - Wales Online Regulator Ofcom to have more powers over UK social media - BBC UK universities 'gagging' student sexual assault claims - BBC Reshuffle blues- what might a new minister mean for the sector? - Wonkhe School bombarded with homophobic abuse after rainbow crossing painted outside - Mirror Questions over overseas bids as UK grant success rates revealed - Times Higher Education | THE Precarity has a long hangover - Times Higher Education | THE Tech giants risk fines or ban for failing to protect children - Times Graduate salaries are a crass way to rank universities - Times Scotland: St Andrews rent rise ‘will force students into the suburbs’ - Times