News archive for 6th December 2016

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The four policies that unite the world's best school systems, according to PISA - Wales Online Male scientists ‘outnumber women 3:1’ in school textbooks - Times Higher Education | THE Britain worse than Estonia and Finland in international education rankings - Evening Standard University leaders journey into 'unimagined' terrain - University World News Scots teenage girls outperform boys when it comes to reading - Scotsman Pisa: Nearly half of heads in England worried about teacher shortages - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted wants key degree apprenticeship inspection role - FE Week £1 billion a year spent on school sixth form drop outs, colleges estimate - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nine things you may not have known about schools in Merthyr Tydfil - Wales Online The Guardian view on the Pisa tests: slicing them up - Guardian Pisa tests: UK lags behind in global school rankings - BBC Students prioritise culture, values in 21st century HE - University World News Reports of discrimination at SFA double in a year - FE Week What does the future hold for integration and multiculturalism? - Guardian Time to invest in good reading for everyone - Guardian University of Edinburgh students vote for library ‘nap pods’ - Scotsman SFA extends data return deadline as Hub crashes - FE Week PISA results: four reasons why East Asia continues to top the leaderboard - The Conversation Watch: Schleicher on England's Pisa 2015 results - Times Educational Supplement | TES Humiliation for Sturgeon as SNP's education record blasted as a decade of failure - Express Postgrad students lose financial support after loan company mistake - Guardian Why universities need to rethink their reason for being - University World News Inquiry after firearm found on Aberdeen university campus - Scotsman OECD PISA report: Where does the UK rank in the international school league tables? - results in full - Telegraph Are you smarter than the average 15-year-old? Take the quiz - Independent Singapore tops latest PISA education survey - Mail Skills Minister Robert Halfon discusses the importance of high quality apprenticeships - FE News Singapore tops PISA list - EducationInvestor Robert Halfon's apprenticeship legacy - FE News Wes Streeting MP: Labour Lords will fight student loan repayment 'scandal' - PoliticsHome England’s teachers sustain performance in the face of distracting structural changes, says NAHT - NAHT Pearson introduces new initiatives to support Science and Maths GCSEs - NAHT New statutory requirements for the content of school websites - NAHT UK teenagers lag behind peers in maths, science and reading, global report reveals - Telegraph UK schools falling behind leading countries, new global rankings reveal - Independent Applications for 2017 Social Mobility Foundation programmes now open - NAHT Our campaign has secured additional funding for early years from April 2017 - NAHT NUT Cymru comment on Pisa results - NUT PISA 2015 - NUT NASUWT comments on Scotland PISA report - NASUWT NASUWT comments on PISA results for Wales - NASUWT NASUWT comments on PISA report - NASUWT Full Pisa results 2016 show Wales' schools are still adrift of the rest of the UK - Wales Online Teacher shortages must be tackled to improve PISA ranking - ASCL NASUWT comments on Northern Ireland PISA report - NASUWT OECD PISA England education results 2015 - CBI CBI responds to OECD Wales PISA education results 2015 - CBI CBI responds to Scotland OECD PISA Education Results 2015 - CBI ATL comment on PISA results - ATL The ten key findings from PISA 2015 - IOE London Blog The UCL Institute of Education authors national reports on PISA 2015 - IOE London Blog Ofsted to speak at 7th National Pupil Premium Conference - SecEd Asbestos in schools: Government faces yet more pressure to act - SecEd Recruitment crisis: Ofsted's warning to ministers - SecEd Early years funding will not be reviewed annually - Nursery World Sir Peter Lampl comments on the OECD’s PISA report - Sutton Trust UK schools fail to climb international league table - Guardian Register of apprentice assessment organisations: how to apply - SFA Study reveals a quarter of schoolchildren hope to work in science - DfE 2017 early years foundation stage: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA) - DfE Minister to ‘accelerate’ proposals for changes to sex education - Schools Week PISA 2015: national report for England - DfE International comparisons of education - DfE Pisa: UK and England see performance drop in maths and reading, but climb rankings in science - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa: China finishes below UK in reading - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa: High-performing UK pupils and seven other things we learned about science education from today's study - Times Educational Supplement | TES The forgotten people in the grammar school debate? Disabled children | Mike Lambert - Guardian Pisa: Ministers advised to cut back on academic selection - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education reforms fail to lift UK school rankings - Financial Times Scotland slips down world education rankings in key subjects - Scotsman Pisa: At-a-glance global education rankings in science, maths and reading - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pisa: Scotland's education secretary 'not that surprised' by his country's slump - Times Educational Supplement | TES PISA 2015: No improvement for a decade … and 10 other oddities - Schools Week PISA 2015: Achievement gap between top and bottom pupils equivalent to 8 years’ schooling - Schools Week World rankings in science, maths and reading published - National Numeracy Scottish school standards slump in damning international survey - Herald Scotland Can grammar schools really sprinkle fairy dust on struggling secondaries? - Guardian Lies, damned lies, statistics and university performance targets | Peter Scott - Guardian In this post-truth world, PISA scores matter more than ever   - Telegraph Dear Justine Greening, Michael Gove attacked school arts openly not on the QT – Michael Rosen - Guardian RSC Guide: Christine Quinn, West Midlands - Schools Week RSC Guide: Janet Renou, the North of England - Schools Week Pupils with learning disabilities excluded from classes, sports and school trips, report claims - Herald Scotland Taking a stand against bullying and indifference - Herald Scotland Almost 1,500 school pupils in Aberdeen given anti-weapons lessons - BBC Long read: Does Pisa really tell us anything useful about schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children’s commissioner launches ‘growing up north’ — a project to collect data on the northern education gap - Schools Week