News archive for 9th January 2020

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Leaked FE Commissioner report reveals extent of HR scandal at Hull College - FE Week Apprenticeship providers turning away up to 40,000 small employers due to levy shortage - FE Week Providers cut apprenticeships due to lack of funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES More parent power needed, says Tory manifesto author - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofqual could use AI to mark papers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship fund shortfall hits small businesses - Financial Times Latest plans for re-building Cardiff's Fitzalan High and what it means for Ysgol Pwll Coch - Wales Online Parents’ outrage as teacher who called their disabled son ‘roadkill’ keeps job - Metro Universities fail sexual violence survivors. Will new rules change the culture? - Guardian Honours' nominations for New Year 2021 - now open - AoC | Association of Colleges OfS consultation opens into sexual harassment and violence in universities and colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges MPs throw out move to protect Erasmus+ scheme - CYPN | Children & Young People Now T Levels – how to express an interest to deliver from 2022 to 2023 academic year - Education & Skills Funding Agency British students’ secret weapon against sexual misconduct in higher education - Office for Students Consultation on harassment and sexual misconduct in higher education - Office for Students How the ESFA measures the performance of FE providers it funds - Education & Skills Funding Agency Third wave of further education providers invited to teach pioneering new T Levels from 2022 - DfE MPs reject post-Brexit child refugee rights guarantee - CYPN | Children & Young People Now School punishments 'worsen vulnerable children’s mental health' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Nicola Sturgeon refutes claims of 'secret investigation' into falling Higher pass rate - Herald Scotland Applications open to teach third wave of T levels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted insists there is no 'preferred length' for KS3 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Major MAT recruits man behind new Ofsted inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES FMQs row over review into falling Higher pass rates - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK 'committed' to maintaining Erasmus+ exchange scheme - Guardian Third post – another guidance letter for the Office for Students - Wonkhe UK parliament votes down Erasmus+ clause - PIE News Teenagers should be banned from using mobiles in school because their brains are not mature enough, leading headteacher says - Independent Thanks to the Erasmus programme, my small world grew big | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - Guardian Schools deserve better than an inspectorate that’s come unstuck - Schools Week Standardised Tests 101 – how and why tests are standardised - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring How to choose the right way to study for you - Learning Scientists Strategic Fund: Next deadline for applications announced - Nuffield Foundation Erasmus: What could happen to scheme after Brexit? - BBC Environment and climate crisis - Nesta The stark warning about 'flat-lining' schools funding from headteachers - Wales Online Ofsted director joins academy trust to lead its curriculum work - Schools Week Nicola Sturgeon attacked for trying to hide ‘diabolical’ record in desperate survival bid - Express Want to offer T-level courses? DfE seeks providers for wave three - FE Week Could exams be marked by AI? Ofqual launches ‘exciting’ competition - Schools Week Schools invited to bid to deliver third wave of T-levels - Schools Week Small employers finally given access to all registered providers – but for just 3 apprentices - FE Week Government ‘committed’ to Erasmus+ scheme despite commons vote outcome - FE Week Government ‘committed’ to Erasmus+ scheme despite commons vote outcome - Schools Week Teacher who said pupil had 'massive' breasts avoids ban - Times Educational Supplement | TES Maintained nurseries in Camden at risk of closure - Nursery World Why UK colleges can't compete internationally - Times Educational Supplement | TES Harford on shortened key stage 3: ‘It’s not the years – it’s the mileage’ - Schools Week MPs vote down move to safeguard Erasmus+ after Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil isolation 'can harm mental health' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gordonstoun head backs mobile phone ban in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academies ‘haven’t worked everywhere’, admits former government policy adviser - Schools Week Sexual misconduct guidance issued for colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Make languages compulsory to 16 to tackle crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gavin Williamson: 'I don't take teachers for granted' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Traumatised teachers to get more help to ease pressure - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students who have been sexually assaulted are being let down by ‘inadequate’ support from universities, regulator warns - Independent It’s hard to get a clear picture of the Scottish school system’s performance - Scotsman Mobile phones can help pupils in the classroom and should not be banned - Scotsman Scotland: Circular Economy Challenge was a load of rubbish – and the children loved it - Scotsman Universities could lose funding if they fail to tackle harassment - Guardian Cambridge MP to lead Universities Parliamentary Group - Cambridge Network Students get the idea of emotional fitness - Wonkhe Action needed to avert the growing crisis in language learning - HEPI Offer accredited language teaching to all students, says report - Times Higher Education | THE UK academia ‘increasingly unsafe’ working environment - Times Higher Education | THE Are research links with the developing world still a one-way street? - Times Higher Education | THE OfS sets out expectations on handling sexual misconduct cases - Times Higher Education | THE Esports model ‘could be future direction’ for student engagement - Times Higher Education | THE The regulator is toughening up on harassment and sexual misconduct - Wonkhe Boris Johnson must fix failing schools with Grammar standards and Comprehensive intake - The Sun Scotland: Quarter of Dumfries and Galloway schools at below 50% capacity - BBC Learning foreign languages should be compulsory, says report - Guardian Universities should take better action on harassment and misconduct - Mail UK youngsters 'miles behind' European peers in foreign language learning - Mail Putting pupils in isolation 'drives poor behaviour' - BBC Make language learning compulsory at KS4, says think tank - Schools Week Scotland: Girls in S4 have worst emotional problems - Times