News archive for 13th February 2020

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Lord Agnew to leave the DfE - FE Week Lord Agnew ‘to leave’ the DfE - Schools Week Crisis hit HS2 college hires lawyers to gag Ofsted - FE Week The single academy trusts paying heads £165k+ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Single academy trust probed by DfE still paying £210k+ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools minister Nick Gibb survives another reshuffle - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted gives schools extra year's grace on curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reshuffle: Could Gillian Keegan take on FE brief? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching internship scheme: summer 2020 - DfE 10 ways to make our accountability regime less bizarre - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Brutal' Ofsted leaves teachers 'shattered' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Proportion of poorer students at university stalls - Times Educational Supplement | TES Donelan promoted to universities minister and says FE to be decided tomorrow - FE Week Ofsted accused of judging primaries with secondary lens - Times Educational Supplement | TES How colleges can prepare for trade missions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted extends curriculum grace period for a year - Schools Week Primary schools holding Easter holiday revision classes for kids as young as six - Metro Is digital creativity becoming the domain of the privileged? - Nesta HESA spring 2020: UKPIs for widening participation - Wonkhe Isle of Man teachers to begin industrial action - NASUWT From teacher to school governor - Teach First How I brought pride to school for LGBT+ students - Teach First The 10 crucial things any new Minister for Universities needs to know - HEPI NEU Cymru welcomes extra funding for FE - National Education Union Students campaign over Glasgow University's £3m arms trade stake and 're-engagement' with fossil fuels - Herald Scotland Cabinet reshuffle: AoC response - AoC | Association of Colleges 62% of Boris Johnson’s new cabinet attended independent schools - Sutton Trust The Sutton Trust responds to HESA statistics - Sutton Trust Suffolk plans to close almost a third of its children's centres - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Children's charities welcome plans to appoint social media regulator - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Governments need to do more to deliver quality, inclusive education to all children - IOE London Blog Michelle Donelan named universities minister as science split off - Times Higher Education | THE Gavin Williamson to continue as education secretary following post-Brexit reshuffle - Schools Week Williamson and Gibb re-appointed in post-Brexit reshuffle - Schools Week Peterborough Roman Catholic primary gets green light - BBC Proportion of disadvantaged university students stalls - Mail Oxford Brookes doing worse than University of Oxford on state school admissions - Guardian Alternative provision census 2020: technical specification - DfE Complete the school census - DfE Performance indicators: widening participation 2018 to 2019 - DfE Students - experts in their own experience - Office for Students Gavin Williamson keeps education secretary role - FE Week Gavin Williamson to stay on as education secretary - Times Educational Supplement | TES The new primary relationships curriculum: a quick guide - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reshuffle: Could there be a new FE and skills minister? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Northern Powerhouse Partnership director tells education ministers they’ve ‘run out of time’ - FE Week Universities still fail to give three-quarters of places to state school pupils despite demands of ministers and regulator - Independent Angry parents on school run 'threaten locals with violence' in row over parking - Mirror UKRI launches consultation on Open Access policy - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) College potential 'constrained by policy' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children to be guided away from life of crime - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools offering vegetarian-only lunches forced to make changes after backlash from parents - Independent Huawei offer to fund LSE research triggers alarm bells - Financial Times What does English as an additional language really mean when it comes to Progress 8? - FFT Education Datalab The failing apprenticeship levy denies SMEs the apprentices they need to close the productivity gap - PoliticsHome Withdrawal of funding approval from qualifications with low and no publicly funded enrolments - Education & Skills Funding Agency Plans to remove funding for courses with low student numbers - DfE The 5,000 qualifications facing the axe revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bridging the gap between business, academia and the public sector - Scotsman Urgent action required to support children with additional needs - Scotsman Joining the dots to fill the UK’s digital skills gap - Nesta Most parents oppose Reception baseline test - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary schools in England hold half-term Sats revision classes - Guardian UKRI launches calls for transformative research projects - Cambridge Network What affects student wellbeing? - HEPI Students with few or no helpful teachers are 146% more likely to report a high level of dissatisfaction with life - HEPI Too few entry level apprenticeships: 16-18 year olds are losing out - FE News An open letter to the new members of the Education Select Committee - Schools Week UKRI wants monographs to be open access by 2024 - Times Higher Education | THE Is interdisciplinary research really the best way to tackle global challenges? - Times Higher Education | THE Lack of teaching help for students linked to well-being problems - Times Higher Education | THE How the market is producing higher education spaces - Wonkhe OfS’ new strategy won’t help students speak truth to power - Wonkhe OfS is ramping up its student engagement work - Wonkhe Education ministers pull plug on 5,000 post-GCSE qualifications - BBC Ysgol y Deri school making everyone feel 'really happy' - BBC Government to pull funding on 5,000 ‘Mickey Mouse’ qualifications - The Sun The plight of white working class boys is a 'taboo subject' in Westminster - Mail Scores of universities have issued gagging orders to silence students - Mail Williamson announces plan to scrap 5,000 qualifications – but will anybody notice? - FE Week Williamson to scrap 5,000 qualifications, but BTECs review delayed - Schools Week Ministers wage war on obscure college courses: Funding stripped for subjects including 'sugarcraft' - Mail University students silenced on sex assault and bullying claims by gagging orders - Times DfE: Apply for Postgraduate Teacher Training Pilot - UCET