News archive for 14th January 2020

back to standard EdNews format

Curriculum murmurations #2: Secondary models analysis. Compromises!! - Headguruteacher UK drop in global education rankings blamed on Brexit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Average teacher pay 'falls by nearly £3K over 7 years' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dear Gavin Williamson... Scrap school league tables - Times Educational Supplement | TES Comparatively poor Asian performance in latest rankings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are Ofsted punishing disadvantaged children by penalising three-year GCSE courses? - The Learning Spy Food for thought: the school lunch scheme linking London and Liberia - Guardian Boy, 17, locked up for buying knife that killed Yousef Makki asks High Court to protect his identity until he leaves school - Mail Initial teacher education curriculum research - Ofsted PISA 2018: national report for England - DfE Autistic children waiting more than 18 months for diagnosis - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Thousands of students sent fake HMRC letters promising loan refunds - Mirror University offers: This is when application decisions will be released in 2020 - Scotsman College to close campus over funding woes - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK 'could develop alternative to Erasmus+ if needed' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Global best and worst at 21st-century skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Have Ofsted's problems only just begun? - Times Educational Supplement | TES What has been learned from 20 years of published articles on widening participation and lifelong learning? - HEPI Paperwork stopping SENCOs from doing their jobs - Nursery World Teachers at Bridgend school to strike - NASUWT Teachers at Newport school to strike - NASUWT The challenges and solutions for qualitative researchers in gaining ethical approval and consent - BERA Williamson: National free schools 'revolution' needed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Trainee teachers need more mental health support - Times Educational Supplement | TES How we make our state-independent partnership work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four steps to efficient effective marking - UKEdChat Sir Ernest Ryder elected as next Master of Pembroke College - Nuffield Foundation Social justice must be the beating heart of our education policy - PoliticsHome Camden proposes changing nurseries to children’s centres - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Williamson wants free school 'revolution' rolled-out across England - Schools Week DfE to develop ‘alternative arrangements’ in case UK leaves Erasmus+ - FE Week It is never too late to return to university - Financial Times King's College London moves students from hall of residence over fire fears - Guardian Mother urges schools to stop forcing boys to cut long hair as it is 'discriminatory’ - Independent DfE to develop ‘alternative arrangements’ in case UK leaves Erasmus+ - Schools Week Saltash to lose campus as Cornwall College desperate to save millions - FE Week The secret behind why it's easier to get an offer from Cambridge... but accept an offer from Oxford - Telegraph Mum might declare son non-binary so he can keep famous hair at secondary school - Mirror Why collaboration is the key to college success - Times Educational Supplement | TES School finances could face even more Ofsted scrutiny - Times Educational Supplement | TES Looked-after pupils' support 'frequently' broke down - Times Educational Supplement | TES Guardian University Award winners: 'We were jumping for joy' - Guardian How to be a commuter student – and keep your social life - Guardian Young carers’ bursaries plummet, as union blames complexity in claiming - Schools Week Can air purifiers improve students' academic performance? - Guardian Young carers’ bursaries plummet, as union blames complexity in claiming - FE Week Plans for second satellite grammar move a step closer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school places 2020: When is the application deadline and how many schools do I choose? - Independent Understanding school revenue expenditure | Part 4: Long term trends in expenditure on teaching staff - EPI Understanding school revenue expenditure | Part 3: Trends in teacher numbers - EPI Search is on for young space entrepreneurs across the UK - GOV.UK ‘Heartbreaking’: Parents of autistic children face waits of up to three years for diagnosis and support, charity warns - Independent When school is an isolation cubicle with three toilet breaks a day - Guardian Large MATs see biggest cuts to teaching budgets - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sacked or silenced: academics say they are blocked from exploring trans issues - Guardian Schools should brace for five years of upheaval from a triumphant party with Gove at its heart | Melissa Benn - Guardian 12:30 p.m. - Debate on the Queen's Speech re education and local government - UK Parliament How to remedy Britain’s language-deficit curse - Financial Times Stack ‘em high, sell ‘em cheap – get your micro-credentials here - Wonkhe The evidence against conditional unconditional doesn’t stack up - Wonkhe Do edtech apps keep student data safe? - Times Higher Education | THE Earth sciences face a crisis of sustainability - Times Higher Education | THE PISA 2018 suggests gender gaps in reading are closing. But I am not celebrating - IOE London Blog Sheffield students paid to tackle racist language on campus - BBC Teachers earn £3k less than in 2010, and 5 other EPI analysis findings - Schools Week Staff tolerated culture of sex abuse at St Paul’s School - Times Nottingham Trent University fights corner for unconditional offers - Times Take the next generation on a virtual tour of the forest from the classroom or home - Forestry England