News archive for 4th November 2016

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Violent attacks shrink the space for higher education - University World News Strong growth in philanthropic giving to universities - University World News Older teenagers 'quicker to improve maths and reasoning skills' - Guardian Older scientists offer untapped value, study says - University World News 65% of students more likely to choose US if Clinton wins - PIE News Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 4 November 2016 - Pearson More support planned for part-time and doctoral degree students - DfE Register of apprentice assessment organisations - SFA How to reverse the decline in part-time study? Learn from our overseas competitors - Universities UK A new government and a new regime - NAHT New School Cuts interactive website shows devastating effects of Government's school funding plans - NUT In the news: 4 November - UCU UCU response to new immigration rules on English language - UCU From burgers to bouncers: new providers, another new analogy - Wonkhe State killings, arrests and travel bans on scholars - University World News Academics resist 'industrial takeover' of university - University World News The Giles Academy trust issued with financial notice over ‘serious breach’ of land-buying agreement - Schools Week Prisoners to work towards apprenticeships - FE Week In this week's TES Further: One in five general FE colleges graded 'inadequate' by Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES New agency to monitor quality of university education - University World News Graduates geared for low-skill public service jobs - Study - University World News 'Extreme' DfE concern over academy trust that paid CEO £82K for 15 weeks' work - Times Educational Supplement | TES Challenges and solutions for Francophone universities - University World News Scottish country dancing causes “bullying” claim PE teachers - Scotsman Mental health a worry for student affairs worldwide - University World News Initiatives strengthen engineering education in Africa - University World News Grammar school entrance exams undermined by study showing how children learn - Independent Transforming higher education through regionalisation - University World News Beware the double-edged sword of globalisation in HE - University World News Prison reform white paper opens door to successful reduction in reoffending - FE News Row over foreign student share of student housing - University World News Academic brain drain threatens university education - University World News Partnership to transform agricultural education - University World News Second African centres of excellence project launched - University World News Universities already feeling the impact of budget cuts - University World News Local issues, global actions by student activists - University World News Creating a culture of inclusion in higher education - University World News International-isation: A driver of change - University World News Challenges of internationalising higher education - University World News The transformative benefits of internationalisation - University World News President orders indefinite shutdown of top university - University World News Kensington and Chelsea College principal resigns with immediate effect - FE Week Universities oppose scrapping of diploma courses - University World News Do international branch campuses have autonomy? - University World News Cambridge university students rebel against plans to abolish public exam result lists  - Telegraph GIX: the next step in China's HE internationalisation - University World News Internationalisation - A driver of change - University World News Big win over small schools - FE Week Government under fire as it scraps pupil performance survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outrage over Lambeth headteacher Sir Craig Tunstall's £370,000 per year salary - Evening Standard Lead DfE civil servant debunks Skills Plan ‘myth’ - FE Week Parents in Spain go on homework strike - BBC Boss of country’s largest academy trust steps down - Schools Week Scottish country dancing 'leads to school bullying' - Herald Scotland CEO of country's biggest academy chain AET to step down - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unpaid internships should not be banned by government - Huffington Post School evacuated after banging noises are heard from electrical substation in Shawlands - Herald Scotland James Dyson starts his own fee-free university - Mail Race on to approve assessors in time for apprentices finishing in March - FE Week New School Cuts interactive website shows devastating effects of Government's school funding plans - NUT Proportion of colleges rated inadequate by Ofsted doubles - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'uniquely placed' to heal post-Brexit divided nation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children who talk about their learning perform better, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Funding cuts 'will hit schools with poorest pupils hardest' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Silent army of 40,000 'lost girls' struggling with reading - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupils perform better after breakfast clubs – whether or not they eat anything - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are not being given adequate Prevent strategy training, poll finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Project-based learning holds back poor pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Editor Asks part two: Apprenticeships minister Robert Halfon on employer ownership, assessment organisations and subcontracting - FE Week Is China’s gaokao the world’s toughest school exam? – podcast - Guardian Reception year: 'could do better', report finds - Nursery World Children's career choices fixed by gender as early as age 4 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Alec Shelbrooke MP: We need to ban unpaid internships, otherwise we fail a generation - PoliticsHome Pupils who record own learning make four months’ progress in maths – and two other EEF trials - Schools Week Dyson invents his own tech college - BBC Students hit as luxury pre-paid flat development fails to open for start of term - Herald Scotland James Dyson launches new university to bridge engineering skills gap - Guardian Inventor Sir James Dyson helps plug skills gap with launch of new university - Mail Let's bridge the divide between lecturers and technical instructors - Guardian Inventor Sir James Dyson sets up college to tackle skills shortage - BBC Dyson seeks guaranteed visas for foreign graduates - Financial Times Sir James Dyson dismisses EU tariff fears of hard Brexit - Guardian We are blind to the silent army of lost girls who struggle with reading - Telegraph Dyson blows a breath of fresh air into education by starting its own university - Telegraph Harvard ends men's soccer team season over lewd rankings of female players - Guardian Multi-academy trusts 6 times more likely to be named after men than women - Schools Week New free schools chief resets Cameron’s target - Schools Week Harris plans vocational courses-only school (with GCSE resits) - Schools Week Ofsted offers up extra cash to entice inspectors to lead school visits - Schools Week Ofsted quietly ditches good practice case studies - Schools Week School breakfast clubs boost pupils' results, research shows - Mail £374,000 a year for best paid primary head in the UK - Mail Asia-Pacific students have test results cancelled in latest cheating episode - Guardian Small school scandal deepens as academy trust found running sixth form with less than 20 pupils - FE Week Small school scandal deepens as academy trust found running sixth form with fewer than 20 pupils - FE Week Thousands of smaller schools 'financially not viable' - BBC Scottish headteachers 'in charge of five schools' as councils cut costs - Herald Scotland Headteachers 'in charge of five schools' as councils cut costs - Herald Scotland Dyson university is a wake-up call for higher education - Times Free school breakfast clubs boost results, study finds - Guardian Women make up just 18 per cent of Scottish tech workforce - Scotsman School breakfast clubs boost pupils results, research shows - Express Primary school breakfast clubs 'boost pupils' results in reading, writing and maths' - Mirror Teachers and support staff jobs could go as 1,000 state schools sink into debt - Mirror Union website predicts budget cuts for every school in England - Schools Week Silent army of ‘lost girls’ struggle with reading, experts warn - Schools Week EEF trial finds breakfast clubs more effective than infant free school meals - Schools Week