News archive for 20th December 2016

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Folly of a crackdown on international students - Guardian DfE's accounts contain 'pervasive' errors, warns spending watchdog - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is it the end of term yet? Six ways to tell Christmas is almost here - Times Educational Supplement | TES Look before you leap: don't panic-apply to graduate schemes - think carefully about what you want - Telegraph DfE told its accounts lack ‘truth and fairness’ for second year running - Schools Week Government launches pro-grammar schools ‘campaign’ just days after official consultation closes - Schools Week College lecturer to star in MasterChef final - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student politics - BBC The gap between rich and poor students going to university has reached record levels - The Conversation Halving number of foreign students is ‘economic self-harm’ say universities - Evening Standard What (not) to buy a teacher: The #primaryrocks Christmas gift thread - Times Educational Supplement | TES Highland community-build school project wins £50k boost - Scotsman Trump childcare is a step in the right direction - Financial Times Huge gender imbalance in tech at schools means just 10% of computer science students are girls - Huffington Post College of Teaching appoints seven teachers to its council - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is this school the best in the world? - BBC What has gone wrong with our schools? We need to get back to basics and start again - Telegraph Children of the Dustbin Estate: growing up on a Lagos swamp - Guardian New guide aims to clarify funding changes - Nursery World Indian student numbers rise by 6% - EducationInvestor ILR specification, validation rules and appendices 2016 to 2017 - SFA ILR guides and templates for 2016 to 2017 - SFA Adult further education: outcome-based success measures - DfE School revenue funding settlement for 2017 to 2018 - DfE DfE consolidated annual report and accounts 2015 to 2016 - DfE What will be caught on the primary assessment enquiry line? - Headteachers' Roundtable MillionPlus comment on the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee’s Brexit report - MillionPlus What maths skills should young people have at 14? - National Numeracy Officials ‘going beyond’ Bailey Gwynne report recommendations - Scotsman Farewell, Sir Michael Wilshaw, the Dirty Harry of Ofsted | Laura McInerney - Guardian Funding to support teaching in higher education - HEFCE How politics changed education in 2016 - Schools Week Have uniform, will travel - BBC