News archive for 17th January 2020

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Tes Podcast: Sats malpractice and rocky road for Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES New Catholic school won't use full admissions freedoms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Behaviour battleground: isolation booths divide opinion among teachers - Guardian The Cardiff schools with the most pupils getting five A*s to A grades at GCSE - Wales Online Policy Eye - highlights of week ending 17 January - Pearson Schools 'converting toilet blocks into isolation booths' - Guardian If teachers get a pay hike so, too, must leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Classroom changemakers - Nesta Why Parliament was right to want a curriculum review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted or the MATs – who really calls the shots? - Times Educational Supplement | TES AET warned it could lose 'inadequate' primary school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Burnham calls for a schools tsar for Greater Manchester - Times Educational Supplement | TES 16 to 19 study programme: inspection data summary report (IDSR) guide - Ofsted Consultation on implementing savings in academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21 - Office for Students No easy answers – Oxbridge interviews: The teacher’s perspective - HEPI In the news: 17 January 2020 - UCU Five reasons why you should volunteer overseas - Teach First As a mum, Time to Teach allows me to see my daughter every day - Teach First What do teachers want? - CEM | Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring Government lacks strategy to improve early years workforce quality - Nuffield Foundation Getting pupils to challenge themselves - UKEdChat DESC must engage seriously to resolve teachers' pay dispute - NASUWT UK: Growth in international student numbers, jump in new enrolments from India - PIE News LSBF re-imagines distance learning through VR - PIE News Inspectors raise 'serious concerns' over Bradford YOT - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Council to reimburse foster carer's school transport costs - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ofsted watch: Troubled college and Williamson’s alma mater among swathe of positive results - FE Week Government policies have failed to improve early years workforce qualification levels - Nursery World Decade of early years policies ‘failed to improve workforce quality’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now CEO’s £200k salary ‘epitomised’ trust’s financial failures - Schools Week Secondary school league tables delayed over missing re-mark results - Schools Week Glasllwch Community Primary in Newport rated the best possible excellent in all five areas by Estyn inspectors - Wales Online Only four investigators for almost 800 cases of cheating in Sats exams - Independent Shock £1m deficit at trust where ousted CEO got £25k bonus - Schools Week Colleges need to be listened to when it comes to HE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Office for Students 'getting it wrong' about HE in FE - Times Educational Supplement | TES AET warned over standards at another of its schools - Schools Week Reformed BTECs still produce higher grades than A-levels - FE Week Grade 4 provider to close after losing Ofsted appeal - FE Week Reformed BTECs still produce higher grades than A-levels - Schools Week Gender pay gap doubles for apprentices - FE Week Why Ofsted’s judgements are too blunt for curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Skills advisory panels set to influence which FE courses receive funding - FE Week The equivalence of A-Levels and reformed BTECs - FFT Education Datalab Early years workforce development in England: Key ingredients and missed opportunities - EPI ‘I’ve never experienced anything like this’: Shrewsbury College in grade 4 battle - FE Week SEND pupils omitted from new Ofsted reports - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: How common is Sats maladministration? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE refused to act on Sats cheating findings - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Disconnected' policies hinder early years workforce - Times Educational Supplement | TES Only four staff to probe 800 Sats cheat cases - Times Educational Supplement | TES Investigation: Highest principals’ pay plummets - FE Week Voice welcomes EPI’s early years workforce report - Voice EPI on the early years workforce - National Education Union Four red flags to check for in an international school - Independent Head FE is a ‘ticking time bomb’, says college chief - FE Week Cornwall campus closure – MP demands government probe - FE Week Free school fire escape door at centre of tax evasion allegations - Schools Week Study suggests new Ofsted regime won't punish poor kids - Schools Week Lancet editor-in-chief calls for ‘activist’ journals - Times Higher Education | THE Are video games a neglected resource for popularising research? - Times Higher Education | THE Globalism and higher education ride the storm - Wonkhe Living in another world – more help for university transitions - Wonkhe We need to give “special consideration” some special consideration - Wonkhe HESA spring 2020: student numbers and characteristics - Wonkhe Gavin Williamson vows to end grade inflation to stop first class degrees being 'devalued' - Mail London council's special needs inquiry caused by 'systemic failures' - BBC Professor Paul Ewart: Oxford stands ground on ‘unfair’ policy of forced retirement at 68 - Times More primary schools are investigated over dubious SAT results - Times Scotland: Curriculum review will not be a whitewash, says Nicola Sturgeon - Times