News archive for 20th January 2020

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Controversial headteacher removed from school after ‘restraining pupil’ - Schools Week Schools sought to test early years reforms before roll-out - Schools Week Britain set for post-Brexit education revolution - DfE Coaching helps head teachers to stay in role - Leeds Beckett University Schools asked to be 'early adopters' of revised Early Learning Goals - Nursery World A new award to unearth and celebrate great teaching practice - Nesta Youth services 'suffer £1bn funding cut in less than a decade' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Search on for classroom changemakers: teachers nurturing the next generation of problem solvers - Nesta How can schools be more inclusive and reduce exclusions? - The Educator The unintended consequences of labelling 'stuck schools' - Teacher Toolkit Open, positive and proud: the importance of diverse role models - Ambition Institute Two new additional members of the BERA Engagement Committee - BERA Eight reasons to get pupils coding with Matatalab - Teacher Toolkit A language crisis: four thoughts - HEPI Ofsted tells inspectors to welcome senior leaders' support for subject leads - NAHT NAHT submits evidence on school leaders’ pay increases to the School Teachers' Review Body - NAHT STRB submission 2020 - National Education Union The state of girls’ rights in the UK - National Education Union NEU wants 7% pay rise for all teachers - Schools Week University of Southampton students receive hoax email telling them exams are cancelled - Telegraph DfE’s international school exchange grants opened up to primary schools - Schools Week Most black and minority ethnic teachers say they face covert racism in schools - Independent Angry students claim Edinburgh University is turfing them out of library while studying due to lack of space - Scotsman Vet graduates 'more prone to suicide' due to euthanising animals and working long hours - Scotsman EYFS reforms can be adopted early, schools told - Times Educational Supplement | TES MATs are 'like big corporations', says leading Tory - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted row: MAT says 3-year GCSEs broaden curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES No-notice Ofsted plan 'drawn up on back of an envelope' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Concerns Labour put off 'baddie' private school parents - Times Educational Supplement | TES 5 goals for edtech in 2020 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Williamson to drive reforms 'further and harder' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exam analysis demanded by Swinney revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tributes paid after death of college lecturer and UCU president-elect - FE Week ESFA launches investigation after betting companies access data on 28 million children - Schools Week Providers left in the dark over funding rates - Nursery World Call for rethink on draft EYFS review - Nursery World Schools asked to be 'early adopters' of revised Early Learning Goals - Nursery World ESFA launches investigation after betting companies access data on 28 million children - FE Week NEU calls for 7% teacher pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Big Picture - Orchestrated fun - Nursery World Ocean Conservation Trust partners with Connect Academy Trust to put the ocean at the centre of primary school curriculums - Primary Times Schools and nurseries set to be hit by Edinburgh budget cuts - Scotsman Are we looking in the wrong place to improve attainment? - FFT Education Datalab London will be first to launch regional AEB learner survey - FE Week Controversial 'dual-stream' Welsh and English primary proposed for Cardiff's Plasdwr development - Wales Online Primary school in Llanrumney plans to move and expand into bigger premises at St Ederyn's development - Wales Online When it comes to wicked problems, do we get the leaders we deserve? - Wonkhe Movers and Shakers: Edition 303 - FE Week £2bn levy underspend: Has the demise of the levy been much exaggerated? - FE News Thousands of UK academics 'treated as second-class citizens' - Guardian Schools urged to listen to pupils' views in period poverty roll-out - SecEd Casualised staff are second-class citizens, warns report - UCU Government's £780m SEND cash injection swallowed up by funding black holes - Schools Week Wicked problems: leading different worlds in one institution - Wonkhe Wicked problems: are we doing too much research? - Wonkhe Wicked problems: is there a crisis of morale in higher education? - Wonkhe The decline in MBA applications sparks innovation in schools - Financial Times Casualised staff ‘dehumanised’ in UK universities - Times Higher Education | THE Has global higher education recovered from the financial crash? - Times Higher Education | THE Jo Johnson warns Tories against university culture war - Times Higher Education | THE Apply teacher pay rises across the board says ASCL - Times Educational Supplement | TES Period poverty: Schools urged to order free menstrual products - BBC Should schools be allowed to ban slang words like 'peng'? - BBC Two thirds of young women and girls suffer harassment - Times Scotland: Free university deal ‘penalises dual nationals’ - Times Scotland: SNP yes-men are no help to failing schools | Magnus Linklater - Times