News archive for 8th January 2020

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Behaviour: the art of using rewards right - Times Educational Supplement | TES Managed moves mask true scale of exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why it's time for a revolution in school improvement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Black British history 'missing from school curricula in England' - Guardian Leading college starts redundancy process after finding a shock £6m deficit - FE Week How to teach a great ‘chalk and talk’ lesson - The Educator Ofsted 'stuck' schools report - National Education Union Students’ accommodation experiences are far from uniform - HEPI Voice gives cautious welcome to non-judgemental approach for 'stuck’ schools - Voice Halting the rise of character education in Britain - BERA Dates confirmed for joint talks on future of USS pension scheme - Universities UK Ofsted made 3Rs success a stick to beat us - Times Educational Supplement | TES School and college performance measures - DfE Research briefing: Assessment and testing in primary education in England - UK Parliament ESFA Update: 8 January 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency We must prepare young people for a more globally-connected, globally-aware future - GSA Assertions in Ofsted report on the impact of unions wide of the mark, says the NASUWT - NASUWT Dates set for talks on future of pension scheme at heart of university strikes - UCU Four ways to reverse the decline in adult learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hardy sets out her priorities as shadow FE minister - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' slang bans 'likely to cause long-term damage' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Stretching your students - UKEdChat Qualification achievement rates (QAR) 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Research briefing: The Pupil Premium - UK Parliament OfS: increase in mental health issues “worrying” - PIE News Weaving people and history into STEM education - Advance HE Thousands of children denied good education by consistently underperforming schools, says Ofsted - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Retrieval practice in the classroom - UKEdChat In praise of the mundane school trip – and why every parent should embrace them - Telegraph Why I believe in the power of an EdTech Testbed - Nesta ‘Bullied’ student, 26, hanged herself after she was ‘mocked for not being posh enough because she’d never been sailing’ - The Sun Emotional problems among schoolgirls ‘could be linked to social media’ - Herald Scotland Free breakfasts for poorer pupils in Wales - BBC It’ll take more than money for Boris Johnson to make good on his promise of better schools - New Statesman Police force stung by Ofsted - FE Week State-educated PhD student mocked for 'not being posh enough' took her own life - Mirror UNISON members take a dramatic look at workplace disability issues - Unionlearn Two-thirds of girls benefit from free period products - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills: Let's get the UK ahead of global competition - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills UK squad for Shanghai 2021 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Islamic £1,500-a-year private school is 'unlawfully' segregating pupils boys and girls in separate buildings, reveals Ofsted - Mail Holton Primary in Barry will shut to some pupils as 16 out of 21 staff plan seven days of strikes - Wales Online Hiding the problem won't solve school exclusion rates - Evening Standard Boy, 13, charged with GBH after fellow pupil is stabbed at school - The Sun University of Kent student hanged herself after being taunted by 'bullies' - Mail Fight or flight? How 'stuck' schools are overcoming isolation - Ofsted Raising expectations of children and parents, high standards for teachers and tackling bad behaviour: how schools in ‘left behind’ areas can improve - Ofsted Our young people deserve to have citizenship education teachers who are properly trained if we are to close the class gap in political awareness - IOE London Blog Squad UK for WorldSkills Shanghai 2021 named - FE Week 'Guys ask for more money': why female-led startups underperform - Guardian Schools in deprived areas become ‘dumping grounds’ for struggling children, Ofsted report suggests - Independent Runaway Training: Pretending that various forms of training are all apprenticeships is grossly misleading - FE News Ofsted: 5 problems facing 'stuck' schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted seeks cash for longer visits to 'stuck' schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Don't 'demonise' mobile phones, schools' leader urges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Eco-conscious pupils 'may avoid school trips abroad' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Mandarin eclipses French, say private school heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leading head backs less 'exam driven' GCSE alternative - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools move class trips closer to home as eco-conscious pupils try to lower their carbon footprint, leading headteacher says - Independent Lib Dems press to keep UK in EU research programmes and Erasmus - Times Higher Education | THE Dealing with spam emails ‘costs academia more than peer review’ - Times Higher Education | THE The nine worst policy debacles of the last decade - Wonkhe Thousands of pupils left in ‘stuck’ schools, says Ofsted - Financial Times Ofsted wants to run ‘non-judgmental’ inspections to improve ‘stuck’ schools - Schools Week Ofsted seeks judgement-free approach to 'stuck schools' - BBC ‘Antagonistic unions’ thwarting ‘stuck’ schools’ improvement – Ofsted study - Schools Week Ofsted report says 200,000 pupils stuck in low achieving schools - Guardian Thousands of pupils spend entire education in 'dumping ground' schools - Mirror Over 200,000 children are trapped in ‘dumping ground’ schools, report warns - The Sun Ofsted says 200,000 pupils are trapped in 415 'dumping ground' schools that have been failing for more than a decade - Mail Mobile phones in class help learning, top teacher claims - Times Ofsted seeks cash to help heads stuck at the bottom - Times Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry will now focus on top boarding schools - Times Scotland: University life beckons for asylum seeker - Times Scotland: Student to flee bills by living in camper van - Times