News archive for 10th January 2020

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Teacher tells shocked pupils: "Go home, get metal cans and cut yourselves" - Mirror No way to live: how accountability forces teachers out - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Strong link' between exclusions and drugs gangs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes Podcast: Ofsted, mental health and recruitment - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted too middle class, say Harris and Outwood Grange - Times Educational Supplement | TES 1 in 5 apprentices paid less than minimum wage - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy bosses take pay cuts of up to £50,000 a year after crackdown - Independent Bournemouth Uni locked down as runner in fitness vest mistaken for 'suicide bomber' - Mirror Leading CEOs: New Ofsted inspections favour middle-class kids - Schools Week Almost 200 Welsh students caught cheating in exams last summer - Wales Online Illegal apprenticeship wages on the rise - FE Week Ofsted's blunt labels make things worse for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prime Minister boosts schools with £14 billion package - DfE Scottish government to launch childcare ad campaign - Nursery World Financial warning for trust that 'cannot identify' trustees - Schools Week One in four children seeking mental health support rejected for treatment - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Vulnerable children 'consistently failed' by county lines response, charity warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government announces plans for universal Ofsted inspections - AoC | Association of Colleges EPI report on access to child and adolescent mental health services - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Policy Eye - highlights of week ending 10 January - Pearson Number of young people in further education experiencing mental health difficulties continues to rise - FE News Effective mentoring and a well-paced curriculum are key to high quality initial teacher education - Ofsted Danderhall campus on track - Scotsman NASUWT comments on New Deal, New Approach document - NASUWT Education secretary Gavin Williamson's new year message to colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges NASUWT comments on plans to lift the inspection exemption for 'outstanding' schools - NASUWT In the news: 10 January 2020 - UCU Thousands of SMEs denied chance to recruit apprentices as a result of levy shortage, latest AELP survey finds - AELP Why do so many experts want to end academic selection at 11 but strengthen it at 18? - HEPI Playing quiz-games on their phones: A winning combination? - BERA Tackling rudeness in higher education - Wonkhe Harassment regulation, languages, Baltics (podcast) - Wonkhe Ofsted watch: ‘Outstanding’ start to the new year for specialist college - FE Week Ofsted running unofficial ‘sub-grade system’ - Schools Week EPI on CAMHS: Chronic underfunding of public services has contributed to this mental health crisis - National Education Union Teachers call off primary school strike in Barry but the dispute is far from over - Wales Online Single-school academy trust head's pay soars to £280k - Schools Week Government has a dangerous lack of ambition for teacher training - Schools Week Teacher who told pupil she had ‘enormous breasts’, tapped her bottom, kissed her neck and remarked on her short skirt and ‘magic fingers’ was not sexually motivated, tribunal rules - Independent An MIT of the North? We’ve heard this before - Times Higher Education | THE Employment and completion rates aren't a good way to measure quality of ITE, finds Ofsted - Schools Week School improvement not for Ofsted, says ex-DfE tsar - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: Teachers taught to rate grades over knowledge - Times Educational Supplement | TES School inspections rise by over a third in a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Classroom air filters improve test results, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Installing air filters in schools to sieve out toxic pollutants 'can boost pupils' grades and improve learning as much as cutting class sizes by a third' - Mail What's preventing more schools from accessing apprenticeships? - Schools Week Notts ‘college’ funding terminated - FE Week London mayor seeks to reassure private providers over extra £77 for English and math quals - FE Week Seetec to become one of the UK’s largest employee-owned public services companies - ERSA Government announces plans for universal school inspections - DfE Shortlists for 2020 Tes FE Awards announced - Education & Training Foundation Real-world economics and business in the classroom - UKEdChat Ofsted to reinspect all 'outstanding' schools by 2025 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools warned over problem of reduced break times - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Outstanding' colleges to lose Ofsted exemption - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers' mental health confusion 'driving exclusions' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils' 'appalling' Camhs postcode lottery - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tes FE Awards 2020 shortlist announced - Times Educational Supplement | TES Access to child and adolescent mental health services in 2019 - EPI How to overcome teacher recruitment and retention crisis - The Educator Police probe into 3aaa abandoned as ESFA pledges ‘tighter monitoring’ - FE Week Playtime for school pupils is a fundamental human right, children's author says - Independent Stuck schools need support, not a merry-go-round of headteachers - Schools Week Government commissioned college finance review to slam ESFA - FE Week Pay freezes and cuts as academy executive pay comes under scrutiny - Schools Week Demystifying entrepreneurship education - Advance HE The path to integration means keeping the end in mind - Advance HE One in four youngsters referred to specialist mental health services are rejected for treatment - The Sun Outstanding schools to face inspections again - BBC DfE plans to lift inspection exemption for ‘outstanding’ schools from September - Schools Week DfE plans for all ‘outstanding’ providers to be inspected over next five years - FE Week 'Treatment gap' in youth mental health services - BBC Ofsted to bring back routine inspections for outstanding schools - Guardian Schools ‘picking up pieces’ of failing mental health support, study claims - Schools Week Ofsted returns to top-rated schools - Times Air filters help pupils do better in exams - Times Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon denies falling Highers pass rate report was secret - Times Scotland: Half-empty schools at risk as populations fall - Times