News archive for 7th December 2016

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Daventry UTC announces it is to close next year - FE Week School library book returned more than 120 years late – with no fine - Guardian SFA criticised for ‘total farce’ over key provider submission failures - FE Week Britain must face up to its sex abuse problem - Guardian Isle of Wight Council 'still failing' in education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher pay: 1 per cent rise will cost schools £250m, warns government - Schools Week Flu outbreak closes Stockport high school for five days - BBC Five things we've learned from this year's Pisa international schools rankings - Wales Online AoC's David Hughes chats about improving youth social mobility - FE News AELP's Mark Dawe discusses linking employability and skills - FE News New recommendations call for national government-led initiative to provide work experience for engineering students - FE News Ice cream and burger vans could be banned from parking outside schools under these plans - Wales Online University Awards 2017: how to write an entry that stands out - Guardian 'It's given us kudos': what it's like to win a Guardian University Award - Guardian University Awards 2017: FAQs - Guardian Where are the mental health first aiders in our schools? - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Northern parents need to copy pushy Southerners, children's commissioner says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Australia: Government proposes research infrastructure roadmap - University World News A new approach to widening participation in higher education - HEFCE Wales is flunking Pisa because it scrapped SAT tests, says schools inspector - Wales Online Race equality in FE has got stuck - AoC | Association of Colleges PISA 2015 - five reasons to celebrate - ASCL Making the case for the social sciences – education - BERA ATL comment on submission to the STRB - ATL Maintained sector pay negotiations - ATL No cap for numbers of genuine international students, says government - Express The future of schooling - a view from the middle - Independent Head UK role in European higher education ‘irreplaceable’ - Times Higher Education | THE Scottish parents less likely to discuss child’s school progress, says study - Herald Scotland Evidence to the STRB: 2017 pay award for school staff - DfE School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) reports - DfE Skills Funding Agency: update - SFA SFA update: December 2016 - SFA College funding: early intervention and prevention - SFA How the Skills Funding Agency will intervene with providers - SFA Early recruitment of higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies for 2017 - SFA It’s time to rethink teacher training - The Conversation Can technology replace teachers? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Harpreet Purewal - Guardian No margin for error over reforms in education - Scotsman Viewpoint: From American Dream to Asian ambition? - BBC Teachers warn pupils with learning disability miss out - Herald Scotland Scottish Government accused of "decade of failure" after damning international school survey - Herald Scotland Scotland’s schools fail to make the grade - Times Ireland: Girls fall further behind boys in science and maths - Times Must do better: British schools fail to impress in world ranking - Times