News archive for 19th February 2020

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UK ranks 10th in the world when it comes to children 'flourishing' - Mail Thousands of students call for refunds as lecturers go on strike with 14-day walkout - Mail Funding cuts do risk education quality, Spielman admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Adult education provider numbers plummet - Times Educational Supplement | TES Calling the next generation of college leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES School kids 'make £7,000 a month selling drugs in schools over Snapchat' - Mirror Universities face fresh strike over pay and pensions - Financial Times UK university staff to strike for 14 days in pay and pensions row - Guardian Edinburgh's fight for Gaelic school immortalised in new book - Scotsman UK’s post-Brexit immigration plan includes points for PhDs - Times Higher Education | THE Ethnic minority students ‘less likely to think marking was fair’ - Times Higher Education | THE Ofsted chief says funding cuts forcing schools to narrow curriculum - Guardian College relying on secret last-ditch merger to survive before cash runs out in October - FE Week Teachers 'too scared' to talk about racism (podcast) - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ambition Institute welcomes EPI’s latest literature review - Ambition Institute How should the higher education sector seek to persuade our new Ministers? - HEPI What is PISA 2018 telling Wales about reading - NFER Celebrating differences: What’s in a name? - BERA An open letter from university employers to staff impacted by the latest UCU pensions and pay disputes - Universities UK Blame for strikes lays squarely at door of university heads - UCU Key stage 4 performance 2019 (revised) - DfE Teacher banned from the classroom over nude images of girl - Mail Maths through stories - UKEdChat Examining the impact of professional development - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Institutes of technology wave 2 competition prospectus - DfE How T Levels will be funded in academic year 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeships and Traineeships Release: February 2020 - DfE ESFA Update: 19 February 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency 16 to 19 funding: large programme uplift - Education & Skills Funding Agency Bursary scheme for school mental health counsellors launches - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scottish government launches £7m digital training network - Public Technology If you want to improve your NSS scores…don’t aim to improve your NSS scores - Advance HE The National Student Survey: Consistency, controversy and change - Office for Students New early years resource to help settings promote sustainability - Nursery World Immigration rules would hit colleges, leaders warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Robert Halfon: A response to some open letters - Schools Week UK announces points-based visa system - PIE News Universities UK's response to announcement on new points-based immigration system - Universities UK How immigration proposals affect universities - Russell Group Families lose thousands after university cancels graduation over coronavirus - Metro The colleges that can bid in the next £120m Institutes of Technology tender revealed - FE Week Headteachers cutting costs without considering impact on pupils, Ofsted chief warns - Independent Call for action as children's health 'under threat' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: ‘Stark’ SEND funding cuts risk vicious circle - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Teacher workload increasing as jobs are lost - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government urged to 're-think' its Tax-Free Childcare scheme as take-up remains low - Nursery World Reshuffle - New minister for children and families appointed - Nursery World Six charged over Cambridge Uni climate protests - BBC Pavement parking near schools could be scrapped as campaigners turn up the pressure - Express MP to meet FE Commissioner over ‘disappointing’ college closure plans - FE Week 56% of applicants back post-qualification admissions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colin Hughes new CEO for biggest school exam board - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gaelic education detractors 'like bad 1970s comedians' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools ‘reducing curriculum breadth’ because of funding pressures, says Amanda Spielman - Schools Week How much impact does CPD really have? Here’s the evidence - Schools Week Shevington High School pupils given fetish booklet to stop them having sex - Mail First US–based university press signs Jisc transitional open access agreement for UK higher education - Jisc The effects of high-quality professional development on teachers and students - EPI Call for new independent SEND inspections of schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES CPD most cost-effective way to boost pupil attainment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private student housing is failing students. The government must step in | Graham Galbraith - Guardian EPI finds high-quality professional development for teachers significantly boosts pupil attainment - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges New cabinet shows that access to top jobs still unequal - Sutton Trust A charter for change for governance in Wales - Wonkhe Can Welsh universities be trusted to improve their own governance? - Wonkhe How universities can help to level up towns - Wonkhe We need to talk about access and participation data - Wonkhe UCL picks Sydney v-c Michael Spence as next president - Times Higher Education | THE Midlife crisis? Academic satisfaction lowest at 43, says study - Times Higher Education | THE Funding on the line as Irish universities await new government - Times Higher Education | THE Branch campuses are unlikely to blossom - Times Higher Education | THE Call to scrap 'elitist' Oxford application fee - BBC High-quality CPD helps pupils more than performance-related pay, report claims - Schools Week Peter Hutchinson: Don in sex claim wrote erotic novel about students - Times Scotland: Aberdeen University paid its retiring principal almost £900,000 - Times