News archive for 14th December 2016

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Record gap between rich and poor students winning university places - Independent National Funding Formula announcement: Committee Chair comments - UK Parliament The Guardian view on school funding: reforms could reveal the value of money - Guardian Plymouth CAST academy trust issued warning notice after leadership failings - Schools Week Rural schools set for funding boost under new Government proposals - Telegraph Warning that secondary education in Knowsley could become 'unviable' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Warning notice tells Plymouth Cast academy trust to "urgently" address weaknesses - Times Educational Supplement | TES Answered: Six questions about the new schools national funding formula - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of schools stand to lose out under new funding formula - Guardian The number of pupils learning the Chinese language Mandarin in Welsh schools has doubled - Wales Online London schools lose funding to other parts of UK - Financial Times Explainer: How schools will be funded under the new national formula - Schools Week Big city schools hit in funding shake-up - BBC College strike averted after UCU members accept 1% pay rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revealed: Winners and losers under new schools national funding formula - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary assessment: Five reasons teachers are calling for reforms to the system - Times Educational Supplement | TES National funding formula: the winners and losers by school type - Schools Week Primary test reforms are ‘some of the worst ever seen’, MPs told by teachers - Schools Week National funding formula: the winners and losers by local authority area - Schools Week TUC Evidence to the Technical and Further Education Bill Committee - Unionlearn Reclaiming the future: schools where children belong even in a volatile world - IOE London Blog National funding formula: 10,700 schools set for extra cash, but more than 9,000 to lose out - Schools Week College tutor in the running for $1m Global Teacher Prize - Times Educational Supplement | TES David Mundell urged to back student immigration policy changes - Scotsman Minimal impact of schools careers advice on progression to FE exposed - FE Week Mass delays to publication of special needs learner plans spark calls for government intervention - FE Week Glasgow Caledonian New York Campus rented out to raise funds - Scotsman Schools face £3bn funding black hole - PoliticsHome Maria Miller: Schools ‘must take zero-tolerance approach to sex assaults by pupils’ - Evening Standard Young people from less advantaged homes may limit their options for further education unnecessarily when choosing their GCSE subjects - IOE London Blog What do students want after graduation? And do they actually do it? - HEFCE University rents out New York campus with no students as events venue - BBC PISA global education rankings are the road to ruin – here’s why - The Conversation Record numbers of 18 year olds accepted to university this year, UCAS report shows - UCAS Early recruitment of higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies for 2017 - SFA SFA update: December 2016 - SFA Plans to end the postcode lottery of school funding revealed - DfE National Funding Formula announcement: Committee Chair comments - UK Parliament Primary Assessment impact on teaching, learning and pupil wellbeing examined - UK Parliament Statement on national funding formulae for schools and high needs - UK Parliament School funding must be sufficient as well as fair, say NAHT - NAHT National funding for schools - NUT Charity helping ethnic minority interns loses government funding - Guardian UCU and the National Union of Students statement on the National Student Survey boycott - UCU Stockton teachers to strike - NASUWT NASUWT comments on school census figures - NASUWT NASUWT comments on the National Improvement Plan - NASUWT School funding shake-up is vital, but so is more investment - ASCL NAO report shows risk government is taking on education funding - ASCL Serious financial issues in schools - AoC | Association of Colleges Natasha Devon : ‘there is a strong argument for the existence of all-girls’ schools’ - GSA Concern over nursery policy as pre-school pupils see further decline in access to teachers - Herald Scotland Record numbers of 18-year-olds accepted to university in 2016 - Universities UK ATL comment on National Audit Office report on financial sustainability of schools - ATL Government funding formula fails to fund schools adequately - ATL School in poor, immigrant neighbourhood soars - Financial Times Use of mobiles in exams rises: 900 pupils are caught cheating by sneaking phones into tests - Mail Louise Redknapp's teacher in global prize top 50 - BBC How schools need to make £3billion in cuts by 2020: Squeeze on budgets fueled by rising pupil numbers - Mail Automatic answers - BBC Pupils from deprived backgrounds 'lag behind' before they even get to school - Herald Scotland Government announces schools budget cuts of £3bn - Independent Schools face cuts of £3bn, says watchdog - BBC Ministers have failed to explain where schools will find savings, watchdog says - Guardian NAO school finances report: Headteachers face £3 Billion in cuts, and 10 other key findings - Schools Week DfE must ‘get its act together’ on school finances after spending watchdog condemns lack of leadership - Schools Week Scotland: Schools paying the price of SNP’s freebies, claim Tories - Times Scotland: Pupils are failing in the basics, say teachers - Times Only 1% of students influenced most by careers advice - Times Educational Supplement | TES School funding cuts 'risk educational outcomes', spending watchdog warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four UK teachers shortlisted for $1m Global Teacher Prize - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools face bigger funding crisis than NHS, select committee chair warns - Telegraph Four UK teachers shortlisted for $1 million global teacher prize - Telegraph Scotland: Swinney under fire as pupils fail to meet primary goals - Herald Scotland Schools budget could be cut by £3bn, National Audit Office report warns - Independent