News archive for 14th February 2020

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Vicky Ford MP appointed junior DfE education minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy Eye - highlights of week ending 14 February - Pearson Four of the best: Agnew's infamous 'foot in mouth' moments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exclude and you’re not 'outstanding', Ofsted told heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reshuffle: New skills minister confirmed - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Basic errors': Six complaints about Ofsted inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes Podcast: Goodbye Agnew, Ofsted and Valentine's Day - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson re-appointed education secretary and Michelle Donelan promoted - Nursery World Ofsted watch: Two providers lose ‘outstanding’ grades - FE Week Cambridge students told by racists to 'go back to own country' amid coronavirus - Mirror Ofsted: ‘Mass entry to BTECs is not always gaming’ - Schools Week Teachers need counselling after ‘brutal’ new Ofsted inspections, school leaders warn - Independent The impact of guided discovery vs. didactic instruction on learning - Learning Scientists Partnership with Rees Centre, Oxford aims to address educational challenges of young people in care - Villiers Park Educational Trust New Chancellor urged to use colleges to level up towns and communities - AoC | Association of Colleges Apprenticeships: Challenging perceptions - Education Development Trust | EDT Donelan appointed universities minister - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Prioritise youth services to tackle knife crime, government told - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Regulating independent educational institutions - DfE Further crackdown on illegal schools - DfE Apprenticeship gateway and resits for end-point assessment (EPA) - Education & Skills Funding Agency ‘Look Beyond’ themed National Apprenticeship Week (NAW2020) round up - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofsted handed extra cash to investigate illegal schools - Mail Lord Agnew’s DfE career in Schools Week front pages - Schools Week National Numeracy appoints new CEO - National Numeracy NFER 2019/20 impact review - NFER In the news: 14 February - UCU Teachers need to be free to do what they want to do - Times Educational Supplement | TES Demand for grammars '50% more than places available' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mobile games in education - UKEdChat School climate strikers join Valentine's Day protests across world - Guardian DfE in ‘serious data breach’ after naming whistleblowers - Schools Week Could Wolf persuade the PM to revive night schools? - FE Week DfE proposes legal definition of ‘full-time’ education - Schools Week Does a 1:1 teaching assistant remove independence? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lord Agnew leaves academies minister role - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don't scare pupils into success, Ofqual tells teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secondary school preferences by school type: 2019 - DfE The OfS is ramping up its student engagement work - Office for Students Dozens of schools bid for our £1m fund to cut exclusions - Evening Standard Ofsted updates report after grades omission fiasco - FE Week New appointment at the DfE: who is Gillian Keegan? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE to change definition of independent schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet Kirsti Lord: AoC's musical deputy chief executive - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government slashes £11m from £20m adult traineeship budget - FE Week Glasgow School of Art: Fire service given access to assist with investigations into damage - Scotsman New Boris adviser would ‘take a flamethrower’ to adult education policy - FE Week Three-quarters of grammars turned down for £14.3m expansion cash - Schools Week Baroness Elizabeth Berridge is new education minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted gets extra funds to investigate illegal schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Six grammar schools given go-ahead to expand - Times Educational Supplement | TES An open letter to the new members of the Education Select Committee - Schools Week Baroness Berridge appointed as education minister - Schools Week London’s mega-college to be hit with a grade three - FE Week The part-time undergraduate puzzle - HEPI Market economics has driven universities into crisis – and we’re all paying the price | Owen Jones - Guardian Warning over race to the top in 'astronomical' MAT pay - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pressure of being a teacher made me cry, admits new MP - Times Educational Supplement | TES Provider advertises £30k reward in return for their ‘achieved learners’ - FE Week Universities warn government of coronavirus economic hit - HuffPost BAME trainee doctors in 'climate of fear' over racism - Guardian UKRI launches consultation on Open Access policy - Cambridge Network Ministers want academy trusts to open their own AP - Schools Week Inspectorate apologises to college principal after reversing grade four - FE Week Value indicators, wellbeing, NDAs, student engagement (podcast) - Wonkhe The rise of the campus robots - Wonkhe How can disabled students hold universities to account on access? - Wonkhe Higher education researchers ‘stuck on their own islands’ - Times Higher Education | THE Students with a history of honour-based violence deserve support and recognition - Times Higher Education | THE Oxford misses target for state school pupils - Times Scotland: Glasgow School of Art fire inquiry faces further delays - Times Scotland: Oil wealth families don’t value school, says Peterhead Academy head Shona Sellers - Times