News archive for 18th February 2020

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Parents of rejected straight-A pupils write to Nicola Sturgeon attacking 'degrading' cap on Scottish university places - Telegraph Home Secretary announces new UK points-based immigration system - GOV.UK University strikes: Students could face larger class sizes if staff get their demands, employers claim - Independent How will you be affected by UK university strikes? - Guardian University employers say union demands on pay are unaffordable - Guardian Cash-strapped MAT asks schools not to overfill kettles - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE 'must have symbiotic relationship with businesses' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Starmer writes: teachers are being badly let down - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three education policies that could change lives - Times Educational Supplement | TES Was Ofsted v DfE turf war a setback for schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are your naughty pupils predestined to be anti-social? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Enhanced rules for performance table Technical Awards confirmed - Ofqual Aberdeen University repays cash over principal pay-off - Herald Scotland Ofqual to proceed with extra regulation of tech awards - Schools Week Drop in young people on London gang violence database - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Why teach? - UKEdChat 14 days of walkouts at 13 Scottish universities as part of biggest ever UK strikes - UCU Girls just want to learn languages? - HEPI Importance of pupil-teacher relationships for pupil engagement and behaviour - Best Evidence in Brief How do teachers choose to give feedback? - Best Evidence in Brief Have GCSE reforms in England led to a widening of the achievement gap? - Best Evidence in Brief Youth workers could be deployed in police stations 'to tackle disproportionality' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Collaboration and peer review: a path for trusts - Ambition Institute World-class energy research to drive a net zero future - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UCU Scotland says Aberdeen payment 'unwarranted and unjustifiable' - UCU Understanding the impact of the financial support evaluation toolkit: Analysis and findings - Office for Students The evaluation challenge: understanding what works in access and participation - Office for Students Data use for access and participation in higher education - Office for Students UCAS Media announces new partnership with Civitas Learning - UCAS Teach children about coronavirus to stop bullying, schools told - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Employers refuse to back down on eve of UK university strikes - Times Higher Education | THE Aberdeen told to repay £119K over ex-head’s ‘gardening leave’ - Times Higher Education | THE Happy Days expands as other groups grow - Nursery World New Scottish shadow education secretary is announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers asked to sacrifice pay to save their pensions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dear Ms Keegan: Here's what you need to tackle first - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge don published 'erotic' fiction about students while facing sexual harassment accusations - Independent London plans to pull funding for 32 out-of-area colleges - FE Week Arrests as Extinction Rebellion ruins Trinity College lawn - BBC West Kent & Ashford College has debts of over £100m to almost 70 organisations - FE Week More than 2,000 oppose proposed cuts to Edinburgh school music lessons - Scotsman Left out in geography lessons: let’s tackle the subject’s diversity problem - IOE London Blog Pensions: the great pay robbery? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Selective sixth-forms? Better than lending out the pool - Times Educational Supplement | TES West Kent and Ashford College creditors owed £108m - Times Educational Supplement | TES What’s an international teacher salary really worth? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish universities to strike for a month over pay, conditions and pensions - Herald Scotland Coronavirus: 10 things schools need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES Freedom of speech, the police and the hecklers veto - Montrose42 Beat the graduate blues: how to prepare for life after university - Guardian Payout given to retiring principal must be paid back - FE Week Coronavirus: What do schools need to know? - Schools Week Banned: Teacher had sex with ex-pupil on school trip - Times Educational Supplement | TES I learned firsthand how British universities are silencing abuse survivors | Danielle Bradford - Guardian Could grammar schools still make a comeback? - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘It’s scandalous’: when free schools shut for want of a permanent home - Guardian Profile: Emma Hardy, shadow minister for further education - FE Week Cambridge University don wrote erotic fiction about students - BBC Downing tools in protest is not the way to solve headteachers’ Ofsted problems | Laura McInerney - Guardian Renewables barely feature in building programme for 500 schools - Guardian It’s time to take on the subcontracting profiteers - FE Week The Irish political earthquake could have aftershocks in the north - Times Higher Education | THE Nature shift signals ‘new era’ of peer review transparency - Times Higher Education | THE Time to tackle the cheating profiteers - Wonkhe Gender inequality is still baked in to the REF - Wonkhe Chinese agents predict recruitment bounceback after coronavirus - Times Higher Education | THE Fury as Extinction Rebellion activists dig up Trinity College’s lawn - Times Christ Church dean Martyn Percy’s fight to cost Oxford millions - Times Bullies and stress push third of Scottish trainee teachers towards exit - Times