News archive for 7th November 2016

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EUA calls for better balance in EU research funding - University World News Funding hike for humanities, social sciences research - University World News Did you solve it? Would you get into Oxbridge? - Guardian Teaching assistants' strike shuts schools in Durham - Guardian Outstanding Ofsted for Fashion Retail Academy - FE Week Students get involved with international eco-hairdressing project - FE Week The four Muslim colleges, criticised for extremist teaching, that UK officials can't close - Express Ethnic-minority pupils 'more likely to attend grammars than white children with same Sats scores' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Making an impact: the role of teaching in prisoner rehabilitation - FE News ‘Let more Indian students into Britain’ Indian PM hits out at May's immigration crackdown - Express Two-thirds of teachers lack trust in SQA, reveals survey - Herald Scotland Ofqual opens malpractice investigation following apprentice complaint - FE Week A new series of webinars challenge FE leaders to think big and stop obsessing about the detail - FE News Scottish primary school stops setting homework - BBC First wave of rolling strikes announced in Northern Ireland - NASUWT Primary school bans homework after pupils and parents voted to read books instead - Telegraph External examining should no longer exempt universities from proper scrutiny - Wonkhe Nursery provision in 'crisis', warns Labour - Nursery World US, UK slip in latest ICEF i-graduate Agent Barometer - PIE News May: UK won’t relax Indian visas until abuse curbed - PIE News Response to DfE's response to the early years funding consultation - Coram Family & Childcare Students leaving themselves vulnerable to flooding - GOV.UK Apprenticeship standards approved for delivery - SFA PE and sport premium funding allocations for 2016 to 2017 - NAHT Survey of Mental Health Provision - NAHT Primary assessment webinars on Tuesday 15 November - NAHT ‘Let more Indian students in’ Modi plea to Theresa May - Express After an expensive and lengthy medical degree, I won't become a doctor - Guardian Can you solve it? Would you get into Oxbridge? - Guardian 'We've fought for decades' – US graduate teachers win workers' rights - Guardian Theresa May warned trade deals with India could hinge on UK offering more students visas - Mirror New south London free school ruffles local feathers - FE Week India urges Theresa May to open UK doors to university students - Guardian Unpaid DfE coaching scheme for women teachers criticised as ‘tick-box exercise’ - Schools Week School ICT costs rise as pound plummets post-Brexit - Schools Week The 'extremist' schools we can't close - Mail ‘Vital’ heritage role of Scottish school dances - Herald Scotland Society rejects Scottish country dancing bullying claim - Herald Scotland Campaigners call for nursery funding reform - Herald Scotland Ministers face call for nursery funding reform - Herald Scotland Reprieve for parents likely over term-time holiday ban - Times Parents support pupils in vote to stop homework - Times Strikes force closure of 400 secondary schools - Times Scottish country dancing teaches pupils about heritage, says leading body - Herald Scotland