News archive for 19th December 2016

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This much I know about…’The Ladybird Book of Edu-Twitter’ (with apologies to @primarypercival) - JohnTomsett Government’s computing revolution is excluding girls and poorer pupils, report finds - Schools Week Ofsted criticises ‘financial mismanagement’ at college preparing to join with university - FE Week Universities must act now and provide refugee scholarships - Huffington Post Headteachers bid for new power to select school staff - Scotsman DfE research: 'Limited evidence’ holding degree in subject improves pupil outcomes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heriot-Watt prepares to launch its Year of Robotics - Scotsman Tom Harwood elected as National Union of Students delegate - BBC Why higher levels of education don’t necessarily mean higher levels of tolerance - IOE London Blog Just a third of employers expect to create more apprenticeships, CBI survey reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES National Union of Students to hire transgender officer in historic fight for equal rights - Huffington Post Why higher levels of education don’t necessarily mean higher levels of tolerance - The Conversation Computing GCSE 'leaves girls and poorer students behind' - BBC German state to reintroduce fees for int’l students - PIE News Free childcare pledge for homeless children in Ireland - Nursery World How higher education can make the industrial strategy a success - HEFCE Daily roundup 19 December: Compulsory SRE, child burial fees and refugee children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now FE data library: vocational qualifications - SFA Is Santa sexist if he gives your daughter a doll for Christmas? - The Conversation Lesley Riddoch: University quotas can’t fix economic inequality - Scotsman FT letter: UK must remain open to highly skilled international talent - Universities UK FE data library: vocational qualifications - SFA Using the register of apprentice assessment organisations - SFA Using the register of apprentice assessment organisations - SFA Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - SFA Early recruitment of higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies for 2017 - SFA Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate - SFA Update on review of the higher education sector agencies - Universities UK Higher education agencies for whom the Bell tolls - Wonkhe Sorry, Giles, that's not the Oxford I know - Telegraph Setting creates ‘double disadvantage’ for poor pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Headteachers call for new powers to appoint their own staff - Herald Scotland Councils run crisis communications classes for schools as trusts up their PR focus - Schools Week Child abuse 'affects health decades later' - BBC Scotland: Clumsy Brexit is threat to university, says O’Shea - Times Tutors go to sea for big money and adventure (but it’s not all plain sailing) - Times Dr Lynn Machin (UCET Travel Scholarship winner) paper presented at a Higher Education conference in Asia (12th December 2016) - UCET Education Leadership Symposium 2017: 'The Future of Learning: the future of schools' - registration open/ call for proposals (deadline 15th January 2017) - UCET Ofsted's Education and Skills Annual Report 2016 (20th Dec 2016) - UCET