News archive for 24th February 2020

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Schools running 3-year GCSEs twice as likely to be ‘inadequate’, new report finds - Schools Week Scottish parents warn Nicola Sturgeon private pupils getting advantage after cut in subject choice - Telegraph Ofsted risks fuelling extremism by alienating religious communities over LGBT lessons, report says - Telegraph Grammar schools hit with complaints over plans to prioritise poorer children, watchdog says - Independent Independent schools must be crucibles of innovation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted has 'made it harder to tackle radicalisation' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted 'straying from its brief' in new inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy to train HS2 engineers faces funding risk - Financial Times Government to shut schools in event of UK coronavirus outbreak - Guardian Children schooled at home up 13% despite fears over lack of regulation - Guardian Why some Scottish teachers want to quit revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Old laptops banned after huge fire at primary school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding rates could be slashed by over 40% in apprenticeship shake-up - FE Week Why we need to pause the campaign to pause Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fury after SNP MP joins drag queen called ‘Flowjob’ give talk at primary school and then labels parents homophobic - The Sun Scotland: Furious parents slam primary school after drag queen 'Flowjob' read to pupils as young as four - Mail Scottish school evacuated after major fire breaks out - Scotsman Primary school pupils banned from heading footballs over injury fears - Times Council apologises as primary school invites X-rated entertainer called 'Flowjob' to speak - Mirror Grammar school diversity drive prompts five year high in admissions complaints - Telegraph Visits to English schools by Gavin Williamson - Teacher Toolkit Teacher pay survey results 2020 - National Education Union Sixth form college strike rally - National Education Union Universities at the crossroads - HEPI Public consultation seeks views on setting apprenticeship funding - IfATE Skills, stationery and the simple facts of life for teachers in Ghana! - Teacher Tapp Data walls, policy change and Teacher Tapp bamboozle! - Teacher Tapp Chris Quigley’s top three transformative tips for curriculum design - NAHT The Watchmen Revisited: Curriculum and faith in Ofsted’s new Inspection Framework - Policy Exchange Universities and colleges embedding sustainability to encourage positive change - Advance HE Children with SEND 'worst affected' by school funding pressures - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Disadvantaged children benefit most from formal childcare, study finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now LGBTI teachers continuing to face prejudice and abuse in the workplace - NASUWT Professor Phoenix writes for NCUB on research funding, universities and the place agenda - MillionPlus Universities face the challenge of balancing local and global needs says Professor Liz Barnes - MillionPlus Early adopters of relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education - DfE USS whistleblower ‘breached confidence’ by talking to press - Times Higher Education | THE Row over FlowJob drag act invited to speak at Scottish primary school - Scotsman FE Commissioner intervention: National College for Advanced Transport and Infrastructure - DfE School preference data collections 2020: guide - DfE Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - DfE Long-Bailey writes: 'My socialist vision for schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Three ways to tackle the dreaded structure question - Times Educational Supplement | TES Full inspection for top-rated schools unfair, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-fifths of LGBT+ teachers 'face prejudice at work' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Annual report of the Chief Schools Adjudicator for England - DfE GCSE exams could be sat online in future, watchdog says - Independent Visit planning: my top 10 tips for hosting ministers and MPs - HEPI Transforming how funding levels are set for training apprentices - FE Week Two-fifths of admission complaints about grammars - Times Educational Supplement | TES Home education up 13% in year, says watchdog - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Radical change’ needed at ‘inadequate’ HS2 college - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four in 10 LGBT+ teachers experience homophobia, biphobia or transphobia, warns NASUWT - Schools Week I quit my boring job for university at 30. The expense was daunting, but my self-worth soared - Guardian Variation requests soar as primaries downsize, and 6 other OSA annual report findings - Schools Week Minister takes the wheel at HS2 college ‘in light of the severity of financial situation’ - FE Week Two thirds of teachers have considered quitting over pay, says NEU survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES Make the Shared Prosperity Fund an engine for re-balancing the economy, says MillionPlus - MillionPlus Can teaching GCSEs over three years help boost grades? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Ofsted verdict: HS2 college left employers to deliver training and failed to protect students from harassment - FE Week Special school pupils ‘treated differently’, following the removal of standardised assessments - UKEdChat Ofsted vs MATs row: New research to assess 3-year GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swinney talks up impact of Attainment Challenge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Swinney praises attainment scheme despite gap widening - Herald Scotland Scotland: Thousands back campaign to stop North Lanarkshire music tuition cuts - Herald Scotland A plan to expand and diversify English higher education through the 2020s - Wonkhe Changing the culture on sexual misconduct means listening to the vulnerable - Wonkhe Moving the needle for FE: How do government spending commitments stack up? - FE News ‘Stand-off’ as both sides dig in for UK sector strikes - Times Higher Education | THE Are student number controls coming back to English higher education? - Wonkhe Nation is losing faith in universities - Mail EEF research to investigate impact of three-year GCSEs - Schools Week Climate change: Schools failing us, say pupils - BBC GCSEs: Exams in Wales could be sat online in future - BBC ‘Out of touch universities are losing nation’s trust’, Policy Exchange report finds - Times Greta Thunberg plans to lead pupil climate protest in Bristol - Times Staff step down in Cambridge rape crisis - Times Row over three-year GCSEs will be put to the test - Times Scotland: Third in Edinburgh think social class was a factor in school - Times Scotland: John Swinney’s failures put him bottom of class | Magnus Linklater - Times Ireland: UCD students to get mandatory sexual assault lessons - Times