News archive for 21st February 2020

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School leavers train as carers as EU migration falls - BBC Schools have not, do not, and will not, 'squander' cash - Times Educational Supplement | TES College-university mergers: 'Why wouldn't you?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Questions over long-term prospects for career colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES 14% of parents say school must teach children to talk - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cardiff University students may be forced to retake year after university strikes - Wales Online Scottish Government's education reputation 'in tatters' after exam analysis saga - Herald Scotland How teachers could unwittingly trigger counter-terror inquiries revealed - Guardian University strikes: Students face punishment after supporting staff walkouts - Independent John Swinney pleads for patience after 'sneaking out' analysis of Scottish exam result decline - Telegraph Cambridge don apologises to black student who was 'physically prevented' from entering a college - Telegraph Making the cut: how schools respond when they are under financial pressure - Ofsted In the news: 21 February 2020 - UCU School funding cuts have not affected attainment, Ofsted report finds - Telegraph Experts to support your NQTs with our Early Career Framework - Teach First UCAS: record applicants & acceptances from outside UK, boosted by non-EU growth - PIE News Calls for 'achievement day' to take focus off exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE podcast: A new minister and an unusual merger - Times Educational Supplement | TES Podcast: How Ofsted has managed to 'offend everybody' - Times Educational Supplement | TES New exams see pass rate fall in practical subjects - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils 'willing to eat insects' in school dinners - Times Educational Supplement | TES New transparency over exam fees welcomed by schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Beneath the headlines of the Ofsted school funding report - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth The right kind of AI in education - Nesta Salesman lied so much on his CV he ruined thousands of children’s education - Metro SEED: mixed findings from latest research following 6,000 two-year-olds into school - Nursery World DfE recommends parents use apps to help pre-school children learn at home - Nursery World Up to 680,000 working parents on Universal Credit missing out on £13,000 free childcare - The Sun UCL becomes first Russell Group to ban relationships between professors and their students - Telegraph Policy Eye - highlights of week ending 21 February - Pearson Financial returns to early education spending - DfE Early education and outcomes to age 5 - DfE 19+ funding allocations guidance 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency DfE: Ofsted school funding report is 'unrepresentative' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding crisis 'forcing teachers into 70 hour weeks' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish exam results concerns prompt action plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Study of early education and development (SEED) - DfE One in seven parents believe that schools should teach children how to speak - Telegraph #BackABid: Momentum building for campaign to bring WorldSkills to UK - FE Week DfE dismisses ‘unrepresentative’ Ofsted school funding study - Schools Week UCL ban on staff-student relationships is 'a wake up call' - campaigners - BBC Sturgeon embarrassed: SNP shamed over ‘cynical move’ to hide failed education record - Express Children open to seeing insect-based meals on school dinner menu - Mail Going to university could help you to live longer - Mail John Swinney: More time needed for exam improvements after pass rate drop - Herald Scotland Ofsted watch: Fourth sixth form college makes it to ‘outstanding’ this year - FE Week NAHT: Chancellor can't ignore Ofsted on school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES It's good to see Ofsted break cover over funding cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top maths students struggling with numeracy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Jewish schools group on collision course with Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ten things we learned from Ofsted's school funding study - Schools Week What next for schools after hair discrimination case? - Schools Week Ofsted: Schools 'not balancing their books' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Whitehall has created a narrative of 'wasteful schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government accused of trying to avoid exams scrutiny - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Schools 'running out of time' for exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish Government accused of 'sneaking out' reports revealing falling exam passes - Scotsman Early years apps approved to help families kick start learning at home - DfE How is university governance changing? - HEPI Why this year's university strikes could cost students £6,795 each - Telegraph UK ‘could only join Horizon Europe with transition extension’ - Times Higher Education | THE Decolonisation isn’t as simple as plenty of people suggest - Wonkhe Trinity Hall Cambridge, civic, fair admissions, NSS (podcast) - Wonkhe What are universities doing about climate change? - Wonkhe Why are we so obsessed with being “local”? - Wonkhe Parents urged by ministers to ditch teaching their children to write using a pencil and paper and use digital exercise books instead - Mail From beef bans to beekeeping: Universities share plans to combat climate change - Mail John Lewis salesman lied his way to £1m job running schools - Times Tutorials on knitting at campus picket line - Times Ireland: Gender-neutral toilets ‘critical’ for trans students - Times