News archive for 3rd March 2020

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AAC Awards 2020 winners revealed - FE Week Gavin Williamson: 'I want to make the FE sector sing' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted vs MATs – DfE to publicly intervene - Times Educational Supplement | TES School pupils could be sent elsewhere under UK coronavirus plans - Guardian Coronavirus: Boris Johnson’s plan would make classrooms unsafe for children, teachers say - Independent Selina Todd: feminism professor in trans row defended by free-speech activists - Times Sadiq Khan calls for 'water-only' policy in schools to tackle obesity - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Advance HE first in sector to complete QAA academic apprenticeship assessment - Advance HE How can we effectively challenge bullying and harassment? - Advance HE Government should secure sufficient R&D funding - PIE News Students deeply concerned about climate crisis - PIE News Changes to Ofsted’s post-inspection processes and complaints handling: proposed improvements - Ofsted Additional payments for teaching: eligibility and payment details - DfE Statements of SEN and EHC Plans: England 2019 - DfE Teachers’ pension grant: 2019 to 2020 allocations - DfE College collaboration fund (CCF) - DfE Ofsted seeks views on proposals to revise post-inspection arrangements - Ofsted Consultation on the Office for Students’ approach to monetary penalties - Office for Students Learning foreign languages in primary schools - Teacher Toolkit Russell Group publishes joint statement on working practices - Russell Group The PGCE journey: Wellbeing and workload - BERA Russell Group submission to the 2020 Budget - Russell Group What do you want to do with your life? - NFER Teachers at Colfe’s independent school to strike tomorrow - National Education Union Five reasons why academic selection refuses to disappear from secondary schooling in England - HEPI Commission launched on future of the early years workforce - Voice The Department for Education announces new information on their behaviour hubs programme commencing September 2020 - NAHT New literacy hub launched with 50 free resources to help students with literacy difficulties or SEND - NAHT New resources to help teachers educate primary and secondary school pupils about the risks of gambling - NAHT New consultation on proposed changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance for September 2020 - NAHT Graduates earn higher salaries - Russell Group 83 clusters of secondaries with low progress revealed - Times Educational Supplement | TES Underfunding SEND is an act of aggression and neglect - Times Educational Supplement | TES Behold: the dying art of the peripatetic music teacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES More private school teachers to strike over pensions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Does quality of teaching improve outcomes in early childhood education? - Best Evidence in Brief Randomised controlled trial of a whole-school reading programme - Best Evidence in Brief Review of professional learning and development in early childhood education - Best Evidence in Brief The evidence behind strategies to reduce absenteeism - Best Evidence in Brief Writing supported by virtual reality - Best Evidence in Brief Nurseries not covered by insurance for coronavirus closures - Nursery World Coronavirus: DfE quizzed over potential exam disruption - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice - Leeds Beckett University Coronavirus: Concern over recent suggestions that larger class sizes will be recommended for indefinite periods - National Education Union Coronavirus information - Voice IfATE boss: Business admin level 2 ‘undermines’ efforts to create ‘well-regarded’ programme - FE Week Roll-out of Scotland's 1,140 hours could face delays, warns spending watchdog - Nursery World The lost decade: the hidden story of how austerity broke Britain - Guardian Some schools closing down despite official advice on coronavirus - Mail Schools don’t feel like safe spaces for LGBT teachers - The Conversation Schools to get five times longer to challenge Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Theft and fraud revealed in academy trusts' accounts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hundreds wait more than a year for mental health care - Times Educational Supplement | TES Employers struggle in overly centralised skills system - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: key safeguarding concerns for schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted plans to withhold inspection reports until complaints are resolved - FE Week Working together to create a sustainable apprenticeship system that unlocks talent, and supports businesses and the economy - FE Week Fear of 'reputational damage' prompts secret Russell Group meeting to call for leadership on casualisation - UCU Further calls to target apprenticeship funding at the industrial strategy - FE Week School closures could be considered to ‘delay’ spread of Coronavirus - Schools Week Ofsted plans to withhold inspection reports until complaints are resolved - Schools Week Academy that removed pupils ‘without good reason’ branded ‘inadequate’ - Schools Week Covid-19: government advises UK public to carry on as normal - Guardian Identifying areas of poor secondary school progress - FFT Education Datalab 'Turbulent, lonely and isolated' - why heads need help - Times Educational Supplement | TES 300 special-school heads demand more SEND funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Employers: Review 20% off-the-job rule for apprentices - Times Educational Supplement | TES Back-door cuts to university places could provoke ‘clash of the classes’ - Guardian Sex education: ‘We can’t let teachers perpetuate a homophobic or transphobic narrative’ - Guardian Audit Scotland: ‘Significant risks’ to nursery expansion remain - Times Educational Supplement | TES Poor recognition of the value of learning on the job in an apprenticeship leads to a call to review government rules for apprenticeship delivery - AELP Scotland: Fears of major delay in flagship childcare expansion scheme - Scotsman Scotland: Island’s primary school could be left with just one pupil - Scotsman How does reserving unskilled jobs for UK workers benefit them, or the FE sector? - FE Week Early years workforce commission set up to tackle recruitment crisis - Nursery World Profile: Ruth Spellman, outgoing Workers’ Educational Association chief executive - FE Week Why Toby Young and other robust white men are using free speech to whip universities | Jonathan Wolff - Guardian Entry tariff data show market is transforming English HE - Times Higher Education | THE Don’t break England’s apprenticeship system with misguided fixes - Times Higher Education | THE Domestic abuse: Ministers urged to strengthen revived law to protect children - BBC Teenagers may have to sit exams in school holidays if coronavirus forces two-month shutdown - Mail Scotland: Thousands of staff needed to hit childcare expansion deadline - BBC Christ Church Oxford tries to silence defence of dean - Times Coronavirus: More schools shut after UK cases grow - Times Backlash as students give International Women’s Day a trans rebrand - Times