News archive for 28th January 2020

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Top universities step up efforts to close inequality gap - Financial Times DfE fails to investigate Sats test that made pupils cry - Times Educational Supplement | TES MAT that broke rules runs up £38k related-party bill - Times Educational Supplement | TES My daughter takes her GCSEs soon and her teachers are on strike - Wales Online University of East Anglia pays data breach students £140k compensation - BBC Visions of ARPA: Embracing risk, transforming technology - Policy Exchange More teachers reporting mental health problems than ever - IOE London Blog Early years survey seeks views on SEND funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Scheme to 'poverty proof' school rolls out across UK - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MAC report a “step in the right direction” - PIE News Higher education staff salaries: 2017 to 18 - DfE UK ‘likely’ to miss start of EU’s Horizon Europe, says Wellcome - Times Higher Education | THE Minister warns against UK over-reliance on Chinese students - Times Higher Education | THE Primary schools urged to jog a Daily Mile to fight obesity - Nursery World Practitioners' views sought on SEND funding - Nursery World MAC report released - Russell Group A different kind of education… - BERA Labour leadership education hustings - National Education Union New curriculum in Wales - National Education Union Russell Group signs Sorbonne Declaration on research data rights - Russell Group MAC report: stop treating migrants as commodities, UCU urges - UCU Landmark deal at University of Bristol to tackle gender pay gap - UCU MillionPlus comment on the Migration Advisory Committee report - MillionPlus New maths GCSE proposed for those in cycle of resits - BBC Claim a payment for teaching maths or physics - DfE Additional payments for teaching: eligibility and payment details - DfE Universities UK’s response to the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report on a points-based system and salary thresholds for immigration - Universities UK Our response to Migration Advisory Committee report - CBI More teachers reporting mental health problems than ever - Nuffield Foundation On work-life balance and a few lessons learned - UKEdChat Doubts over Ofsted's ability to judge school finances - Times Educational Supplement | TES How do we encourage boys to learn languages? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats anti-cheating monitoring cut by DfE - Times Educational Supplement | TES Synthesis considers how being smart helps you at school and school helps you become smarter - UKEdChat MAC report on points based system and salary thresholds for immigration - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Academia looks like a pint of Guinness to me – diverse below, but not at the top - Guardian The £50m lovenest: Kingston's new library is a place to find books – and romance - Guardian Sixth form college in spat with UTC over ‘inaccurate’ data claims - FE Week Unions support apprentices during NAW2020 - Unionlearn College performance has dropped - but why? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Record number of children in temporary accommodation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Boris Johnson lambasts Scottish education once again - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are learning and memory the same thing? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer students complete their college courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child poverty: If you can’t afford it you just sit there on your own - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE scales back monitoring of SATs cheating over ‘resourcing constraints’ - Schools Week How crafts are fusing tradition with innovation - Guardian Why an MBA is the degree to take you all the way - Guardian I’ve studied in four different countries. Here's where British universities simply can't compete - Telegraph Great Yarmouth Charter Academy Head Barry Smith to step down - BBC School curriculum overhaul for Wales published - BBC Are mental health problems among teachers on the rise? - FFT Education Datalab Are mental health problems among teachers on the rise? - IOE London Blog Teacher mental health - National Education Union Five-fold increase in teachers taking antidepressants - Times Educational Supplement | TES Controversial plan to build £9.1m primary school on field in Llanelli called off - Wales Online 2020: The year of value? - HEPI More teachers reporting long-lasting mental health problems than 30 years ago, study finds - Independent ‘Schools are killing curiosity’: Why we need to stop telling children to shut up and learn - Guardian ‘Too much risk’: Why Erasmus students are shunning Brexit Britain - Guardian UK academics must stand up to stop universities becoming sweatshops | Steven Jones - Guardian Life-changing mentoring programme keeps children in school for longer - Herald Scotland Now that’s what I call an honorary graduate §10: Doctors of many letters - Wonkhe New IT systems and the rising complexity of education - Wonkhe How can we make good on the promise to support international graduate employability? - Wonkhe Academic publishing must better serve science and society - Times Higher Education | THE Alan Smithers: A common-sense voice, or educational rent-a-quote? - Times Higher Education | THE City must fix training and culture to beat skills crisis, says report - City AM 1 in 20 teachers has long-lasting mental health problem, study finds - Schools Week Children at risk from indoor air pollution, report warns - Financial Times One in 20 teachers have 'mental health problem lasting more than a year' - Guardian Lessons about Holocaust start at 10 - Times Scotland: MCR Pathways mentor scheme helps children in care to keep pace with peers - Times Ireland: Fine Gael ‘open to dropping primary homework’ - Times