News archive for 15th January 2020

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Thousands of students using 'Sugar Daddy' websites to fund university lifestyle - Mirror Toddler walked out of nursery on his first day and was found crying in street - Mirror 'Total rubbish' that education data worst since 1950s - Times Educational Supplement | TES Swathes of early years staff don't meet pupils' needs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Award-winning headteacher resigns after Ofsted inspection leaves her ‘devastated’ - Independent Sussex University offers students up to £100 for strike distress - Guardian Universities must overhaul the toxic working culture for academic researchers | Anton Muscatelli - Guardian School to fine parents who are late picking up child - then call Social Services - Mirror Primary school begins fining parents who are late to pick up children from the school gates - Telegraph It’s time to get serious about rebalancing post-18 education - Policy Exchange Millions of pounds of unspent early years funding used to plug council deficits - Nursery World Tulip Siddiq appointed shadow early years minister - Nursery World Councils divert £63.5m of childcare funding to plug gaps elsewhere - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Tulip Siddiq named as shadow early years minister - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New funding launched to support good practice - Advance HE Boris Johnson vows to rip up apprenticeship rules to help poor white kids ‘climb the ladder of opportunity’ - The Sun Excluding children does not stop them behaving badly - HuffPost From digital natives to digital creatives - Nesta Millions in funding depends on tomorrow's infant meals - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND system 'is more adversarial than ever' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five colleges issued with notices to improve - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils fighting for a national anti-exclusion campaign - Times Educational Supplement | TES Review of Higher pass rate to be published - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: 'No need to teach phonics before Reception' - Times Educational Supplement | TES ESFA Update: 15 January 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Response to Wellcome research culture survey - Russell Group Local skills deficits and spare capacity - Learning & Work Institute Ofsted deep inspection plan for ‘stuck schools’ - SecEd More than 450 schools in financial deficit - SecEd TLPD pointing way ahead for middle managers’ work introducing T Levels - Education & Training Foundation Getting sticky with it: enhancing student learning at the University of Portsmouth - Jisc A different route - UKEdChat PM says UK ‘will continue to participate’ in Erasmus+ - Times Higher Education | THE The school leader: using mental models effectively - Ambition Institute Williamson pledges to work ‘hand in glove’ with sector to argue for more funding - FE Week Penllergaer village primary in Swansea gets rare five excellents report from Estyn inspectors - Wales Online London college pulls out of T-levels plans 19 months before launch - FE Week Five colleges handed DfE warnings over finances - FE Week Nurseries face closure over free childcare funding gap - BBC Does the new inspection framework trade off reliability against validity? - The Learning Spy Stepping up to the plate - Jisc UCAS 2020 application deadline and when are university offers made in the UK? - Metro Protect free access to period products in law - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEMH: how to support pupils with challenging behaviour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why it's time to abandon key stages - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reset curriculum to focus on traditional subjects - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘I’m powerless to change things’ – another head to retire early because of Ofsted - Schools Week Round 2 applications for Taking Teaching Further close on 31 January - Education & Training Foundation Llanwern High will shut to most pupils as teachers strike in in row over potential job losses - Wales Online New culture of ‘openness and trust’ paves way for KCC merger - FE Week Grenfell: Troubled college to merge to 'secure' future - Times Educational Supplement | TES Drive to close the gap could hit child poverty targets - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Haphazard' school admissions hinder choice, warn heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'How can we compete with Google?': the battle to train quantum coders - Guardian Primary school places 2020: Families denied real choice because of ‘haphazard’ approach to admissions, headteachers warn - Independent Philosophy: The art of rhetoric - SecEd The poverty gaps persist - SecEd A national plan for education - SecEd Do apprenticeships give you skills for life? - FE News Cross-border Irish university would ‘regenerate’ region - Times Higher Education | THE Universities are more like sports clubs than businesses - Times Higher Education | THE Competition drives researchers to counselling – and exit door - Times Higher Education | THE University teaching has tipped into the red – even in “low-cost” subjects - Wonkhe Imagining a creative, inclusive, and honest research culture - Wonkhe School leaders raise concerns about 'haphazard' admissions system - Mail Student rape reports: The battle to be believed - BBC Pre-teen girls 'tricked into sex acts on webcams' - BBC Fewer births eases contest for primary school places - Times Scotland: Merge more schools to boost grades, councils told - Times