News archive for 5th March 2020

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Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2020 souvenir supplement (download) - FE Week Profile: Gillian Keegan, Apprenticeships and skills minister - FE Week Coronavirus: Schools could be forced to take extra pupils under government contingency plans - Schools Week Banned: Teacher who called pupil with SEND a 'fat c**t' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: Scrap primary school exams if virus spreads, headteachers say - Independent Our kids are being left behind by poverty and miss out on warm clothes and trips - Mirror Further education in 2020: An agenda for change - Collab Group Upskilling and retraining a national challenge that requires a collaborative response - CBI Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice - Leeds Beckett University UCU offers ‘significant concessions’ in pay and pensions disputes - Times Higher Education | THE How to prepare if kids are sent home from school because of coronavirus - The Sun Suspicious spelling – who’s to blame? - UKEdChat AELP draft response to ESFA consultation on post-16 subcontracting - AELP EPI report finds that England's technical education lags behind other nations - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges Major increase in mental health problems among NEET young people - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Don't shield kids from Coronavirus discussions, warns UK expert - Primary Times NEET statistics annual brief: 2019 - DfE Statistics: NEET and participation - DfE Institutes of technology - DfE Institutes of technology wave 2 competition prospectus - DfE School inspection data summary report (IDSR) guide - Ofsted 16 to 19: inspection data summary report (IDSR) guide - Ofsted MPs debate provision of free childcare - UK Parliament London HEIs top world university rankings by subject - QS - PIE News School bans World Book Day costumes for kids to stop parents forking out - Mirror Nursery group launches men-only apprenticeships - Nursery World Diversity: How inclusive is your school library? - Times Educational Supplement | TES SEND funding: heads' angry letter to the chancellor - Times Educational Supplement | TES OGAT and David Ross MATs to 'collaborate' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outwood Grange boss joins board of neighbouring academy trust - Schools Week Global: 290 million children face weeks at home as coronavirus forces 'unparalleled' school closures - Mail Experts: National Skills Fund has to level adult skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES The (cultural) problem with schemas and education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrap Sats and tables if virus spreads, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student mental health: joining the (intersectional) dots - Office for Students Funding competition: Using innovation and intersectional approaches to target mental health support for students - Office for Students There is a magic bullet in education, after all - Times Educational Supplement | TES University Mental Health Day helps show how attitudes in Scotland have change - Scotsman The value of a university education - beware, the McNamara fallacy! - Montrose42 Primary school managers ran illegal secondary on floor above - Schools Week An international comparison of technical education funding systems: What can England learn from successful countries? - EPI Hey, preacher, leave those kids alone - Mirror EPI on technical education - National Education Union £1 million for innovative student mental health projects - DfE FE funding promises don't go far enough, says EPI - Times Educational Supplement | TES College students and staff to get free access to FT - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sutton trust partners with XTX Markets to support aspiring maths students - Sutton Trust Preparing for Covid-19 closures - Pt1: Advice for school business managers - Independent Head Millions out of school as WHO calls for stronger virus response - Mail Teacher vacancy trends across England - Teacher Toolkit Getting on: graduate employment and its influence on UK higher education - HEPI Graduate outcomes: A new report shows how the focus on graduate employment has fundamentally changed the way universities operate - HEPI Apprenticeships, study and skills development aren’t just for the young - Scotsman A focus on graduate employability has transformed university careers services - Wonkhe What are creative arts courses? - Wonkhe Women make progress on authorship but miss grants and patents - Times Higher Education | THE Chris Skidmore: UK universities must embrace the future - Times Higher Education | THE T-levels ‘uniquely narrow’ compared to technical courses in high performing countries, claims think tank - FE Week Education leaders demand inclusion of business professionals in senior leadership meetings - Schools Week Cyberbullying by students in course evaluations should not be tolerated - Times Higher Education | THE Skidmore rejects ‘university-bashing’ and urges funding stability - Times Higher Education | THE Mission modifications - Times Higher Education | THE Biggest daily rise in coronavirus cases fuels fear of an epidemic in Britain - Times Italy closes all schools in face of more coronavirus deaths - Times