News archive for 23rd December 2016

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Pushy parents live vicariously through their children and become obsessed with trophy-hunting deputy head warns - Telegraph The London borough where 40 per cent fail to get first-choice school place - Evening Standard Jewish student groups deny university 'no-go zones' - BBC Jewish students' union denies claims of rife antisemitism at UK universities - Guardian Teachers who have affairs should be protected by law, equalities watchdog says - Telegraph Universities have shown grave cowardice on dealing with anti-Semitism, Government’s Holocaust envoy says - Telegraph Ofsted give mixed verdict on independent school inspectorates - Schools Week Scotland to spend less than half their levy funding on apprenticeships - FE Week Anti-Semitism is not rife at universities - to suggest so is alarmist and wrong - Telegraph Budget scraps tuition fees for all state universities - University World News Wilshaw criticises international school inspectorates on his last day at Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Latest Policy Update explores evaluation of the Union Learning Fund - Unionlearn Learning and Skills Policy Update - December 2016 - Unionlearn School cleaners who went on strike over pay sacked before Christmas - Guardian Universities chasing Arab funding ‘fuel anti-Semitism and make Jewish students avoid them’ - Huffington Post Baroness Deech: Universities 'chasing' Saudi donations are failing to tackle anti-Semitism - PoliticsHome Teachers ‘hid’ old printer because new council contract left them short - Herald Scotland Migrant pupils do well at school because their parents are more ambitious for them, says outgoing head of Ofsted - Mail Ministers 'sneak out' university fees hike - Mail Parents issue warning over plans to empower schools - Herald Scotland Anti-Semitism 'is turning some of Britain's top universities into no-go zones for Jewish students' - Mail ‘Terrible blow’ averted for distance learners - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catholic schools head to court to fight for right to demand proof of religion from prospective pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES