News archive for 1st November 2016

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Ministers 'burying heads in sand' on poor careers guidance, say MPs - PoliticsHome Settlement reached in judicial review over rules for new school sixth forms - AoC | Association of Colleges New overseas higher education partnerships announced - British Council Landmark judicial review over school commissioner sixth form decision settled out of court - Schools Week Apprenticeship standards approved for delivery - SFA SFA: current notices of concern - SFA International efforts on global education examined - UK Parliament Danger of vital skills programmes stalling while government is preoccupied with reform - AELP A level reforms: a student's perspective - Voice Excellent nursery provision despite staffing crisis - Voice Changing the culture: a welcome response to antisemitism, harassment and hate crime on campus - Universities UK NAHT supports Save the Children campaign for nursery teachers - NAHT NAHT achieve changes to 2017 external moderation guidance - NAHT Quality collaboration should focus on improvement, not PR - NAHT Insult added to injury over teachers' pay - NASUWT Saving the Children - Freeing the Angel | Sue Cowley Fruity reception expected for Halfon's apples and pears - FE Week Seven simple steps to finally begin your career following university - Huffington Post Shadow Apprenticeship Minister bemoans funding cuts following debate - FE News Shropshire School criticised for blowing up chemicals on its playing field - BBC Thomas Adams School criticised for blowing up chemicals - BBC An unemployed guitar teacher who was facing homelessness is moving to Mexico after finding a job - Wales Online Peter Lauener at odds with sector over lack of end-point assessors - FE Week Ten things you might not know about US colleges - Huffington Post Why Michael Gove is right to challenge experts to raise their game - Guardian This is why teachers are worried about their pay being set in Wales - Wales Online UCL students hold Halloween 'die in' to protest university's investment in fossil fuels - Huffington Post Universities need clearer guidelines on how deal with rape cases - Guardian Decrees threaten university autonomy, sack 1,267 staff - University World News University College London is determined to tackle racism | Letters - Guardian New careers guidance tool for every secondary school in England - FE News Making apprenticeships work for young people will take more than fixing the funding formula - FE Week Settlement reached in judicial review over rules for new school sixth forms - FE News Government 'must act to improve careers provision' - BBC Minister accused of ‘hoodwinking the house’ over apprenticeship cuts - FE Week Higher education struggles in an emerging democracy - University World News Brexit students anonymous: attacks on leave voters must stop   - Telegraph Government's controversial school census to record pupil nationality 'has all the hallmarks of racism', Lords warn - Independent Another education U-turn? This is dangerous driving from Theresa May - Guardian AoC reaches out-of-court settlement with DfE over sixth form judicial review - FE Week Create new grammars to help poor, white pupils, report commissioned by Labour council suggests - Telegraph Without sex education at the earliest possible age, our children will turn to porn | Sarah Champion - Telegraph Government inaction on careers provision failings is ‘unacceptable’, say Education and BEIS Committee Chairs - FE News Get aboard Underground Mathematics! - FE News Sex lessons for 5-year-olds: Labour MP calls for education to spot signs of sexual abuse - Express Schools urged to hold compulsory anti-grooming lessons - Evening Standard Peter Lauener outlines vision for Institute for Apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC and DfE reach settlement after school withdraws controversial sixth form plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government 'burying heads in the sand' over careers guidance, say MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bring standards and EPA development under control - FE Week Loophole allows schools to 'discriminate against autistic children' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ministers are 'burying their heads in the sand' on careers guidance, MPs warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third arrest in New Zealand in overseas loan debt crackdown - Times Higher Education | THE US news presenter criticises university ‘vanity projects’ - Times Higher Education | THE A shortage of 10,000 trained nursery teachers will blight children's futures - Mirror Nursery staff shortage 'hits 280,000 pupils': Children's development is being put at risk because of a lack of qualified teachers - Mail Half of three and four-year-olds attend nursery without qualified teachers - Mail Call to train college staff in mental health - Times Cost draws US students to Canada, but funding access a challenge - PIE News Nursery teacher shortage 'risks children's early education' - Nursery World Save the Children warns of acute shortages of nursery teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Online tool launched to improve school careers guidance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Use spending review to up skills funding, AELP to urge - Times Educational Supplement | TES Equip teachers to support children with language disorders in the classroom - Guardian An early years teacher for every setting in deprived areas, Save the Children recommends - Nursery World Government inaction on careers provision failings is unacceptable - UK Parliament Teachers priced out of house market as property prices soar to 11 times earnings - Guardian Dear Justine Greening: how can you let schools shed pupils, like apples off a tree? - Guardian Teach children about pornography before puberty, says Labour - Guardian Nursery teacher shortage 'risks children's learning' - BBC The UK is becoming the nasty country, and our universities will suffer - Guardian Brazilian schoolgirl's speech on education funding goes viral - BBC College cash crisis to be raised at Holyrood - Herald Scotland Scottish Colleges cash crisis to be raised at Holyrood - Herald Scotland Scottish colleges cash crisis to be raised at Holyrood - Herald Scotland School-leavers 'lack essential workplace skills' - BBC Children at risk of falling behind due to nursery teacher shortage – report - Guardian