News archive for 24th January 2020

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HMC executive director Mike Buchanan resigns - Times Educational Supplement | TES The alternative maths GCSE curriculum: dead on arrival? - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE won't create more selection, grammar heads predict - Times Educational Supplement | TES Policy Eye - highlights of week ending 24 January - Pearson New maths GCSE proposed to break demoralising resit cycle - Nuffield Foundation Hitting the language target - UKEdChat New maths GCSE curriculum for post-16 resit students proposed by MEI - AoC | Association of Colleges 2020 Pearson National Teaching Awards - open for entries - AoC | Association of Colleges Steps towards more effective teacher education for inclusion needed - IOE London Blog In the news - 24 January 2020 - UCU Serious Fraud Office inquiry - National Education Union Tes Podcast: Teacher pay and ending period poverty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Augar delay, access, casualisation, grammar schools (podcast) - Wonkhe Students need reform to maintenance funding now - Wonkhe Free school paid £900 for chair's stay in swanky Chicago hotel - Schools Week Call for fraud office to probe failed free schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: College campus grades on cards, but not in 2020 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Improving mathematics - why starting early is crucial - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF New EEF guidance published with 5 recommendations to improve early maths - Education Endowment Foundation | EEF Minister opens UK's largest testbed for sustainable draining systems in Newcastle - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Ofsted watch: ‘Outstanding’ week for sixth form college - FE Week Everyday objects and picture books help children to develop early maths - Nursery World Early years practitioners express support for current learning framework ahead of government changes - Early Education Are things so good that normal seems bad? - The Learning Spy Why do we forget the power of singing in school? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Higher education grants and loans 2020 to 2021: equality analysis - DfE AP trust blames late payments for financial woes - Schools Week Chair follows principal and quits at college with shock £6m deficit - FE Week REAch2 cautioned over standards at ‘inadequate’ primary school - Schools Week Half of elite university bosses handed larger pay packets despite crackdown - Independent NEU joins calls for probe into collapsed free schools at centre of financial scandals - Schools Week How schools can boost students' mental wellbeing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted thinks new inspections can rebuild teacher trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES Biggest primary MAT among latest DfE academy warnings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents demand ‘inadequate’ Sheffield film school be reopened - FE Week Durand land finally being handed back, but private firm demands compensation - Schools Week KS1 assessments data collection 2020: technical specification - DfE T-level cold-spots could prove to be a major DfE headache - FE Week The excluded: I lie awake crying, powerless to deal with hell of son’s exclusions - Evening Standard A fifth of colleges go more than 12 months without publishing minutes - FE Week Ofsted should shout louder against 3-year GCSEs, says boss of largest academy trust - Schools Week Provider challenging ‘flawed’ AEB tender in the high court - FE Week Coronavirus: UK universities issue quarantine warning to Chinese students - Guardian New maths GCSE curriculum for post-16 students unveiled - Times Educational Supplement | TES PE lessons and 5 other ways to boost early maths skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'There's a reason for doing something so difficult': what to expect from a PhD - Guardian Back our bid to host WorldSkills 2027 - FE Week Data breach firm given access despite DfE probe - Schools Week DfE granted screening firm access to 28m learner records - FE Week In equalities work, gender is privileged over race - Times Higher Education | THE Teaching-only contracts up again as REF approaches - Times Higher Education | THE Students ‘stranded’ in UK after university paused recruitment - Times Higher Education | THE Sunderland and SOAS cuts expose market dangers, say scholars - Times Higher Education | THE 'Britain's strictest headteacher' sent flirtatious messages to pupils calling them 'naughty' - Mail Education secretary calls on sector to support a UK WorldSkills bid - FE Week Play games to boost early maths skills, says EEF - Schools Week Fury as Outer Hebrides pupils will be taught Gaelic and not English until they are seven - Express Thousands of Chinese students in the UK thought to be from the coronavirus province - Mail UK universities have no black academics in leadership roles, statistics reveal - Mail Back A Bid: Campaign to host WorldSkills 2027 in the UK - FE Week Strict head sent flirtatious messages to ‘naughty’ girls - Times Imperial College London head Alice Gast tops universities pay league with £554,000 - Times Scotland: Western Isles plan to teach Gaelic as first language ‘will hurt pupils’ - Times Ireland: Election 2020 - Leo is mindful to be humble in meditation room at school - Times Ireland: Actor plays part in promoting empathy education for children - Times