News archive for 30th January 2020

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Headteacher used 'damaging' name and shame notice board pitting students against peers - Mirror Two strong appointments with Halfon and Wolf – but still no FE minister - FE Week Gibb wants MATs and Ofsted GCSEs peace deal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sturgeon accused of education ‘spin and denial’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet the serial fixers parachuted into failing colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Our apprenticeships system offers fewer opportunities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why academy trusts are key to a better school system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why I keep coming back to lead struggling colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will Ofsted allow schools a curriculum extension? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Awarding organisations can bid for 8 new T-levels - IfATE Teacher-turned-Tory MP stands for education committee - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why Wolf's new skills job in Downing Street matters - Times Educational Supplement | TES Will Alison Wolf persuade the Treasury and PM to levy smaller employers? - FE Week Anti-abortion protests anger Cardiff students - Guardian Edinburgh Napier University tops up graduate apprenticeship scheme - Scotsman Sajid Javid to focus on skills in budget to hold on to ex-Labour seats - Guardian International student numbers at London universities at decade high, new analysis reveals - Evening Standard Sustainability must start in the nursery - Guardian EPSRC appoints Director of Research Computing - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Rona Tutt's SEND summary (January 2020) - NAHT Teaching effectiveness vs. Teaching evaluations - Learning Scientists ISBL releases results from their SBL workforce survey - NAHT National Numeracy appoints new vice chair - National Numeracy Executive headship: the importance of role-specific expertise - Ambition Institute Last opportunity to apply for Further Forces programme - Education & Training Foundation Pilot for further recognition on the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform launching on 1 February - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Child abuse case prompts calls for home schooling review - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Pupil premium - DfE Robert Halfon MP elected Chair of the Education Select Committee - UK Parliament Decent children's mental health service a decade away - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Pupil premium rates to rise for first time in 5 years - Schools Week How should the UK position itself in the new geopolitics of higher education? - Times Higher Education | THE Does it matter if more and more students are getting firsts? - Times Higher Education | THE Providing childcare services in England - Ofsted Mental health services failing children, children's commissioner warns - Nursery World Around half of five- to 10-year-olds own a mobile phone - Nursery World Consultation on changing the dedicated schools grant - DfE School funding: between financial years 2010 to 2011 and 2020 to 2021 - DfE Apprenticeships and traineeships: January 2020 - DfE Further education and skills: January 2020 - DfE Aspiring teachers to benefit from simpler application process - DfE Education Secretary unveils plans to unleash North East potential - DfE Universities Minister at Student Accommodation Conference - DfE PM guarantees minimum funding levels for all schools - DfE Nicola Sturgeon fury: First Minister accused of 'masking SNP failures' in explosive row - Express Baroness Wolf tipped for role as skills adviser to Prime Minister - FE Week The top 50 apprenticeship providers revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers 'must be more positive', says Lord Patten - Times Educational Supplement | TES Knife crime: 14 ways to tackle the crisis - Times Educational Supplement | TES Behaviour: How to work with alternative provision - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Too many tests for no good reason': what do parents really think about primary assessment? - IOE London Blog Inspectors Estyn criticise management at Archbishop McGrath school where teachers are on strike - Wales Online Police called to break up Scottish school car park brawl...between parents - Scotsman ‘The crisis is not over’: Teachers hit back at Boris Johnson’s school funding plans - Independent England suffers further drop in apprenticeship starts - Financial Times First Minister's Questions: Nicola Sturgeon accused of 'failing' Scottish pupils - Scotsman Immigration, skills and the economy after Brexit – both government and employers are missing the point - FE Week Motherwell councillors row over increase in class sizes - Scotsman Pupil sleep problems 'worsen as screen time increases' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE MFL entry 'lower for free school meals pupils' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 28 Northern schools the DfE wants to improve - Times Educational Supplement | TES Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children: key findings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we need to resist the urge to pile in on Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES School funding is down since 2010, DfE finally admits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2020 to 2021 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2019 to 2020 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Scotland is tackling barriers for estranged students – so should the rest of the UK | Becca Bland - Guardian Awarding organisations invited to bid for 8 new T-levels - FE Week New teacher training application portal will replace UCAS service by 2021 - Schools Week Per-pupil funding almost 2% lower than 2010 in today’s money, admits DfE - Schools Week Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children - The Conversation Britain's 'strictest headmaster' who sent creepy messages to girl pupils is removed from duties - Mail Apprenticeship starts nosedive 18 percent in November - FE Week Children 'end up in care and custody' over mental health - BBC Stepdad banned boy from speaking, forced him to poo on floor and made his siblings attack him as he was ‘home schooled’ - The Sun Was my son rejected by Oxford because he went to a private school? - Telegraph Narrowing the curriculum: What subjects do disadvantaged pupils take? - FFT Education Datalab Narrowing the curriculum: How widespread are mass entry policies? - FFT Education Datalab Children’s mental health - National Education Union Opportunity North East delivery plan - DfE UCAS still sending out Future Finance adverts five months after backlash - Mail Mental health ‘chasm’ sees schools without counsellors - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most pupils 'own a phone by age 7' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reform league tables to end off-rolling, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers need help on ‘emotional’ RSE change - Times Educational Supplement | TES More universities handing out high number of ‘strings attached’ unconditional offers despite crackdown - Independent Most academy trusts expect to be in the red by 2022 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pay restraint over for leaders of large academy trusts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fall in 'conditional unconditional' offers predicted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Time to act over underperforming schools and councils? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Piers Morgan stunned in row on stifling free speech – 'snowflakes triggered by everything' - Express Boy suffered four years of abuse after he was removed from school to be 'home taught' - Mail 'Decent' mental health service for children is a decade away, warns children’s commissioner - Independent UCAS forecasts conditional unconditional offers will ‘significantly decline’ in 2020 - UCAS Why would private schools get to dictate who is ‘suitable’ to go to university? | Nathalie Olah - Guardian 'My life has taken a completely new course': From Glasgow to Dartmouth - Sutton Trust What can be done to resolve academic authorship disputes? - Times Higher Education | THE Reforms put science at heart of UK’s post-Brexit policy agenda - Times Higher Education | THE ‘Tide turning’ on use of ‘conditional unconditional’ offers - Times Higher Education | THE Brexit: Where now for the UK academy? - Times Higher Education | THE Private school faces closure after married head teacher ‘sexted’ female students - The Sun The nursery putting fitness at the heart of learning - BBC Most children sleep with mobile phone beside bed - BBC Kate Middleton shares adorable post on Instagram after day at nursery - Express ‘Internal political challenges’ around trusts pooling schools’ cash hindering take-up - Schools Week Secondary schools will be forced to spend a minimum of £5,000 per pupil by law - Mail Three quarters of UK universities that gave students unconditional offers will not do it in 2020 - Mail Reform league tables to include pupil wellbeing, says ASCL - Schools Week England ‘decade away’ from decent children mental health services - Guardian Number of academy trusts reporting deficits still rising - Financial Times NFER Research: Teacher autonomy: how does it relate to job satisfaction and retention? - UCET Three-quarters of unis appear to have ditched ‘conditional unconditional’ offers - Schools Week Universities lock in students with guaranteed places - Times Tories will write minimum school funding into law - Times Boy’s years of abuse prompt call for new home-teaching rules - Times Scotland: Higher pass rates fall again as new curriculum fails to improve results - Times