News archive for 28th February 2020

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Over 1,200 to attend Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2020 - FE Week Policy Eye - highlights of week ending 28 February - Pearson Our statement on coronavirus - Ofqual Heads’ ‘impossible situation’: Spielman criticises cuts recommended by Agnew’s advisers - Schools Week Podcast: The private schools hoarding millions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Removal from register of apprenticeship training providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Register of apprenticeship training providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency DfE’s lead behaviour schools must have 45%-plus EBacc rate, and 3 MATs are also wanted - Schools Week Children who read books daily score higher in school tests, vast new study states - IOE London Blog Science aspirations heavily influenced by existing social inequalities - IOE London Blog Ofsted watch: 10 providers achieve ‘good’ results - FE Week Is the independent sector the disease or the cure? - Times Educational Supplement | TES College cyberattacks on the rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE behaviour expert ran 'unlawful' exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Special schools should be open all year round - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can we reduce the risk of LGBT young people becoming NEET? - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Behaviour support - National Education Union Petition hand-in to defend maintained nursery schools - National Education Union NEU joins civil society groups in demanding social and environmental protection - National Education Union Review of Senior Leader Master’s Degree Apprenticeship standard - Collab Group Will the Augar Report’s recommendations stem the decline in part-time study? - HEPI New research on EAL learners shows the importance of looking behind headline attainment data - Bell Foundation Local authorities urged to stop nursery school closure plans - Nursery World In the news 28 February 2020 - UCU Call for more support to prevent disadvantaged Londoners becoming NEET - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Primary schools teach pupils about gambling risks - CYPN | Children & Young People Now The ETF’s Enhance Digital Teaching Platform wins EdTech 50 award - Education & Training Foundation Children who read books daily score higher in school tests - UKEdChat School 'evacuated' as man 'threatens to blow up his home' - Mirror Coronavirus: To close or not to close schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Ofqual braces for exam disruption risk - Times Educational Supplement | TES World Economic Forum publishes report on careers and Davos school visits - Education and Employers University College London to look at renaming buildings honouring eugenicists to address ‘problematic’ history - Independent Students like me feel we have no choice but to sue our striking universities - Telegraph Coronavirus: Ofqual tells schools to ensure ‘contingency plans’ for exams up-to-date - Schools Week Pay attention, class! Boris launches £10m crackdown on badly-behaved schoolchildren - Express Apprenticeship subcontracts halved since 2017 levy launch - FE Week Williamson calls for silent corridors and banned mobiles ‘to be the norm’ - Schools Week We need to take behaviour seriously at a national level - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE funds undergrad MFL GCSE volunteer force - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes International podcast: Calling Africa - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ban mobiles and make corridors silent, says Williamson - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Secretary: We're going on a discipline drive in schools - DfE UCL eugenics inquiry did not go far enough, committee say - Guardian 1 in 4 parents with SEND children unhappy with school support, Ofsted reveals - Schools Week DfE U-turns on loans write-off for learners - FE Week Greta Thunberg in Bristol: schools shut as students join climate strike - Guardian Ofsted struck fee deal to end legal challenge - FE Week SFC to be first to remove Catholic status - FE Week Organisers insist they are fully prepared for Greta rally - 'we will not be patronised!' - Express Apprenticeship providers struggling to adapt to new Ofsted framework? - FE Week Private schools with the highest surpluses revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Call to use Ofsted rating to enforce Baker clause - Times Educational Supplement | TES Older teachers bullied to breaking point - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE seeks 20 schools to lead on behaviour - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 'experts' who will lead £10m behaviour programme - Times Educational Supplement | TES Behaviour hubs - DfE Experts to help tackle poor behaviour in schools - DfE Investigation: Independent schools' hoarding millions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ban phones and queue in silence for better GCSEs, says Gavin Williamson - Telegraph Halt 'unnecessary' nursery school closures - campaign - Times Educational Supplement | TES Time to overhaul totally dysfunctional careers advice system as AELP publishes new plan for action - AELP DfE eyes universal infant free school meals in cuts drive - Schools Week Apprenticeships quango adviser quits after breaking advertising rules - FE Week Investigation: Gagging orders demanded in controversial rebrokers  - Schools Week UCA campus aims to enhance China’s creativity drive - Times Higher Education | THE Researchers across disciplines ‘fail to understand’ p-values - Times Higher Education | THE How can we help students transition into graduate life? - Wonkhe HESA spring 2020: What does the HESA data about Black senior academics really mean? - Wonkhe HESA Spring 2020: non-continuation performance indicators - Wonkhe Admissions, coronavirus, number controls, levelling up (podcast) - Wonkhe New supernanny-style teachers will be sent into schools to crack down on unruly kids - The Sun DfE reveals new behaviour taskforce - Schools Week Secondary school pupils are picking books that are too ‘easy’ for them - The Sun Art students help Hulk the hermit crab - Times AC Grayling: My students are afraid to voice Leave views - Times Ireland: Change rules to keep student hall costs down, says Sinn Féin - Times