News archive for 27th February 2020

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Seldon: AI can replace Ofsted inspectors within a decade - Schools Week Game over for level 2 business admin apprenticeship - FE Week The stars of the UK’s edtech sector revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES We need to talk about sexual misconduct in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer than 1% of UK university professors are black, figures show - Guardian Tens of thousands expected to join Greta Thunberg for youth climate protest in Bristol - Independent Coronavirus guidance issued to Scottish schools - Mail Dulwich Prep School shuts after 'several' pupils return from coronavirus hotspots feeling ill - Mail Consultation launches on external quality assurance reforms - IfATE Golden opportunity for government to reverse decline in adult learning - Universities UK Universities UK response to UK-EU trade negotiations proposals - Universities UK Latest information and updates from the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) - NAHT Response to Government mandate for negotiating EU future relationship - Russell Group Baseline assessment to become statutory in September - National Education Union End-point assessment is a key feature of the reformed apprenticeship system - FE News Teaching golf to young kids and its benefits to mental health - Learning Scientists Sixth form college strike rally - National Education Union Is it time to rebrand apprenticeships? - Training Journal DfE decision to press on with Reception baseline is fundamentally flawed: here's why - Early Education Trailblazers vs luddites? Ditch the digital stereotypes and prepare for Industry 4.0 - Jisc ‘Low’ socioeconomic status is the biggest barrier to STEM participation - UKEdChat Student Loans Company hunts ‘strategic partners’ for £200m-plus transformation of ageing IT estate - Public Technology What can 63 EEF trials tell us about closing the attainment gap for young people with social care experience? - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Further government funding announced for FE leader and governance support - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Levelling up apprenticeships or maintaining an employer-led system - can we have both? - FE News Supporting teachers: Reducing observational bias - Teacher Toolkit Major exam board to withdraw functional skills exams - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education record targeted by opposition MSPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Intervene over off-rolling, children's tsar tells DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT apologises for ban on promoting homosexuality - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Five ways interventions can actually help pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK to push for ‘full association’ to Horizon Europe - Times Higher Education | THE Teacher who paid pupils to complete work is reprimanded - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK performance indicators: non-continuation rates, 2018 to 2019 - DfE Call for nurseries to take part in early years maths research - Nursery World Pay and conditions in universities: BERA’s solidarity with academics - BERA English proficiency: pupils with English as additional language - DfE Apprenticeships and traineeships: February 2020 - DfE Further Education funding - National Education Union Coronavirus fears sees school send home pupils returning from ski trip in Italy - Mirror Brain wiring could be behind learning difficulties, say experts - Guardian Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice - Leeds Beckett University Statement and UCU comment on University of Edinburgh PhD students who undertake teaching as part of their scholarship - UCU Key stage 1 SATs replacement to be rolled out from September - DfE External quality assurance of apprenticeships – an expanded role for Ofqual - Ofqual Multi-million-pound fund to boost standards across the FE sector - DfE SEND campaigers to hand the Prime Minister an invoice for £12m - Nursery World Williamson appoints adviser whose recent report slammed Ofsted - Schools Week Gibb and Ford to split early years responsibilities at DfE - Nursery World Zero-tolerance schools should be ‘unreservedly celebrated’, says MP - Schools Week Ofqual win: Employers to lose ownership of quality assuring apprentice assessments - FE Week Coronavirus: Academy chain closes schools because it has some ‘students of Italian origin’ - Independent Independent schools fear parents will 'demand their money back' if pupils are locked out due to coronavirus - Mail Coronavirus: Official advice for schools, nurseries, children’s homes and social workers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Couple convicted of operating illegal setting banned from running schools - Schools Week Teen climate activists set to join Greta Thunberg for Bristol school strike - Mail Scottish pupils improve at reading difficult books - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities could admit students after A-level results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson calls for review of MBA apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES School admissions: Don't just rearrange the deckchairs - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills UK unveils £1.5m Centre of Excellence - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student Loans Company to refund over-repaying customers - Student Loans Company How to make universities more inclusive? Hire more working-class academics - The Conversation Apprenticeship starts fall 12 percent in December - FE Week A third of EAL pupils ‘fluent’ in English, new analysis shows - Schools Week Why interview feedback is a waste of time - The Learning Spy Consultation on the higher education admissions system in England - Office for Students MBA apprenticeship faces cull as Williamson ‘unconvinced’ - FE Week Understanding school revenue expenditure | Part 5: Expenditure on teaching assistants - EPI Parents and teachers think school admissions needs to be fairer - Sutton Trust School admissions - National Education Union UCU says review of university admissions must consider radical changes - UCU UCU calls for tuition fees axe to repair broken system - UCU Careers advice for the 21st century - UKEdChat Too few counsellors on campus: why students are turning to mental health apps - Guardian Most secondary heads open to making admissions fairer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most parents value pupil wellbeing above exam results - Times Educational Supplement | TES £14m to improve FE leadership and governance announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wide variation in school teaching assistant spend - Times Educational Supplement | TES Support for FE and sixth-form colleges - DfE Making Universities Matter: How higher education can help to heal a divided Britain - HEPI Union calls on Government to value teaching assistants as TA expenditure report published - Voice Universities are key to levelling up: scrap year one fees for first in family students and redirect research funding to left behind regions - HEPI College collaboration fund (CCF) - DfE Students could apply to university after A-levels under major overhaul of admissions system - Independent Half of headteachers admit social segregation is a problem in state schools, study finds - Independent UCAS welcomes the launch of the Office for Students’ admissions review - UCAS Scottish pupils 'no longer best in UK for reading comprehension' - Herald Scotland Teaching intelligence: improving students’ assessment literacy - Times Higher Education | THE Make year one free for first-in-family students, says report - Times Higher Education | THE New guidelines to tackle ‘complacency’ about overseas research - Times Higher Education | THE Female academics need to embrace competition - Times Higher Education | THE Admit two: OfS reviews university admissions - Wonkhe Do universities matter in post-Brexit Britain? - Wonkhe Government vows to shut loophole that lets fat cat bosses avoid offering thousands of needy kids apprenticeships - The Sun Bosses told to stop spending apprentice cash on themselves - BBC School system 'highly socially segregated' - Mail All potential students could be made to apply to university after they get their A-levels - Mail Schools invited to comment on major review of university admissions - Schools Week Government to tender for college board recruitment and audit service - FE Week WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence project aims to support 1,000 lecturers - FE Week Uni admissions could scrap use of predicted grades - BBC EPI study reveals postcode lottery of support staff spending - Schools Week DfE launches £9m College Collaboration Fund to replace £15m Strategic College Improvement Fund - FE Week Call for 'first-in-family allowance' to cover year's tuition fees - Guardian Funding for management apprentices to be reviewed - Financial Times Students whose parents did not go to uni should have first year of tuition fees waived - The Sun Social segregation is a problem in schools, say half of heads - Schools Week Universities to withhold offers until after A levels - Times State school segregation ‘rife’ as middle classes play system - Times Matt Hancock tries to stop coronavirus panic as ten schools close - Times Carshalton Beeches bowlers can see Seaton House School girls undressing, court told - Times Scotland: John Swinney may strip heads of freedom to drop subjects - Times Top secondary school students are choosing 'easy' books like David Walliams and failing to stretch themselves - Mail Northern Irish pupils top reading comprehension survey - Mail University personal statements could be scrapped in overhaul of the admissions process - Telegraph