News archive for 15th December 2016

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Teaching union issues call for above-inflation wage rise in 2017 - Herald Scotland Bristol University to offer lower grades to disadvantaged teenagers  - Telegraph Pupil data shared with Home Office to identify illegal migrants - Guardian Gap between rich and poor primary school pupils wider than it was 50 years ago - Independent California: Caltech US$115 million gift tops year of generous Chinese giving to HE in the USA - University World News Four reasons for the sharp drop in challenges to GCSE and A-level marks - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE had agreement to share pupil nationality data with Home Office - Schools Week A-level and GCSE grade changes down a quarter after re-mark overhaul - Guardian Ruth Gilbert discusses Ofsted's 'getting ready for work' report - FE News Primary school league tables 2016: compare your school's performance  - Telegraph Almost half of children leave primary school unable to read and write properly, performance tables reveal - Independent Sats results own goal averted as DfE moves the goalposts - Guardian Justine Greening's funding changes for English schools - BBC Bristol University to lower entry grades for disadvantaged students - Guardian School league tables out after test 'chaos' - BBC Find out which organisations can assess the most apprenticeship standards - FE Week Sorry NUS, but acts of 'sabotage' have no place in debate - Telegraph New plans for police constable apprenticeships unveiled - FE Week Ofsted to scrutinise governors’ commitment after report found many lack expertise to challenge heads - Schools Week University lowers entry grades for disadvantaged - BBC Still no assessment organisations approved for over half apprenticeships - FE Week Primary league tables 2016: Top 1,000 primary schools - Telegraph Children who speak English as a second language more likely to overachieve in primary school, figures show - Telegraph Exam re-mark requests plummet after Ofqual reforms - Schools Week Spelling, punctuation and grammar quiz: Are you smarter than an 11-year-old? - Telegraph Shifting the goalposts: What we can (and can't) learn from this year's primary school results - Telegraph Primary school key stage 2 performance tables: 8 key progress findings - Schools Week 2016 key stage 2 SATs: Fewer primary schools below floor standards - Schools Week Reading gap between most and least advantaged five year olds biggest in the US, but UK still lags behind Canada and Australia - Sutton Trust Governors back first sixth form college merger with multi-academy trust - FE Week Thousands of primary schools' rankings upended by new Sats - Guardian Sir Peter Lampl comments on UCAS’ End of Cycle report - Sutton Trust Primary schools are rising to the challenge posed by our reforms - Telegraph First sixth form college and academy trust merger planned - Schools Week How competition can remove barriers for disabled students - Education & Training Foundation | ETF UK aid effort 'falling short' on girls’ education – report - PoliticsHome OFFA comment on UCAS End of Cycle report - OFFA LARS: learning aim reference application hierarchy file - SFA National Apprenticeship Week 2017: ladder of opportunity - SFA Toolkits to help support National Apprenticeship Week 2017 - SFA Ofqual publishes reports relating to 2016 GCSE, AS and A levels - Ofqual Higher education student finance, 2017 to 2018: equality analysis - DfE Primary school accountability - DfE School performance tables: how we report the data - DfE Primary school performance tables: 2016 - DfE Lords debate Social Mobility report - UK Parliament League tables - NUT Students with unreliable grades even less likely to get justice, say head teachers - NAHT 2016 assessment data should not have been published, says NAHT - NAHT Insights from the Anglosphere - Sutton Trust The school leadership podcast episode 3 - NAHT The Scottish Government must restore teaching as the profession of choice - NASUWT NASUWT comments on primary school performance tables - NASUWT Exam marking system must be improved - ASCL Schools deserve great credit on primary tests - ASCL MillionPlus comment on the UCAS End of Cycle Report 2016 - MillionPlus ATL comment on key stage 2 SATs results - ATL New HEPI analysis reveals major flaws in university league tables and urges Governments and institutions to ignore them - HEPI Multiple measures of inequality show there is work still to do in widening access - Wonkhe Intentions After Graduation Survey 2016: Breakdown of responses by questions and characteristics of students - HEFCE Report: student intentions and graduate outcomes. Investigating the actual destinations of respondents to the Intentions After Graduation Survey 2015 - HEFCE Fury as wannabe police officers told they must have a degree to join the force - Express University to lower entry grades for poor - BBC All new police officers in England and Wales to have degrees - BBC Surge in EU students to beat Brexit fees hike - Mail New police officers face degree requirement - Guardian 'Global university rankings data are flawed' - HEPI - University World News Disadvantaged pupils already eight months behind when school starts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish universities targeting fee-paying English students - Herald Scotland Number of foreign undergrads at UK universities decreases - Guardian Surge in Eastern European students awarded UK university places ahead of Brexit vote, figures show - Telegraph University rents out US campus with no students - Times Head teachers ‘do not want new management powers’ - Times School-leavers paying the price of SNP’s free university tuition pledge - Times English applicants 'more likely than Scots' to be offered place at Scottish university - Herald Scotland