News archive for 15th November 2016

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Six reasons why adult education benefits learners - Times Educational Supplement | TES Google to bring virtual reality to UK schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Black and minority ethnic teachers and students face 'systemic disadvantage', warns principal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sainsbury review has 'higher chance of success' than predecessors, author says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lord Sainsbury demands more cash for technical education - FE Week Cardiff's new secondary school has been named - Wales Online David Hughes discusses the AoC review, a more confident sector and English & Maths - FE News MP calls for law forcing schools to have defibrillators - BBC Social media firms are causing a decline in children's mental health, says Jeremy Hunt - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Association of Colleges warns of a crisis in mental health support for young people and adults - FE News How students are striking for affordable university rent - and winning - Guardian Every primary one pupil to be given picture book in literary push - Scotsman FE Charter welcomes Furness College into Membership - FE News Academic credited as the creator of the modern Cardiff University has died aged 90 - Wales Online Government cancels rule forcing academics to show research two days before publication - Schools Week Colleges can thrive despite ‘blizzard of changes’, AoC boss tells delegates - FE Week Gender Pay Gap: is your college one of the good guys? - FE News The Inside-Out prison education programme was a true trailblazer | Letters - Guardian Mental health education: the next step - Huffington Post Brexit blamed for rise in foreign student 'no-shows' at top business schools - Independent Food critic Jay Rayner promises to 'help' GCSE students analyse his writing in exam paper - Times Educational Supplement | TES Increase education funding, head of AoC urges government - Times Educational Supplement | TES Increase education funding, head of AoC urges government - Times Educational Supplement | TES Inspect pupil well-being and appoint mental health lead in schools, commission demands - Schools Week Fourth FE institute awarded chartered status - FE Week Education support services at risk over planned cuts, LGA warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New measurement tracking early literacy progress to launch - Nursery World Four choices universities face about their role in the local economy - HEFCE Language skills ‘more vital than ever’ - British Council Outrage over TV show claiming nurseries are unsafe - Nursery World Children and young people’s mental health: time to deliver - EPI Early years providers graded highest ever by Ofsted - Nursery World Sally Collier's presentation to the GSHA - Ofqual Confident, optimistic and ambitious - AoC | Association of Colleges MillionPlus submission to the Autumn Spending Review - MillionPlus We should celebrate our nurseries and those who work in them - Voice ATL comment ahead of Technical and Further Education Bill's second reading - ATL Together, we will work to have a stronger voice for education - ATL Why I amended the Higher Education and Research Bill - Wonkhe Higher Education and Research Bill: OfS and UKRI joint working - DfE Alternatives to closing rural schools 'must be considered' - BBC Let’s go back to the future with co-operative schools – and leave grammars in the past - Guardian In the age of Trump, why bother teaching students to argue logically? - Guardian Simple transparency can stop school legal battles - Guardian Has critical funding report taken shine off Bright Tribe academy chain? - Guardian There will now be a presumption against closing threatened rural schools - Wales Online Open access in the Research Excellence Framework: Extension of flexibility - HEFCE Policy for open access in the next Research Excellence Framework: Updated November 2016 - HEFCE Indian students in the US at record high - BBC RSC guide: Vicky Beer, Lancashire and West Yorkshire - Schools Week RSC guide: Jenny Bexon-Smith, East Midlands and the Humber - Schools Week Oxford to run first online 'Mooc' course - BBC Ofsted 'should inspect mental health and wellbeing' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Scrap plans to cut £600m school improvement grant' say councils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reading tests 'should measure pupils' enjoyment', say children's charities - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wealthy town 'that's failing its pupils': Ofsted chief says he has 'deepening concerns' over the performance of schools in Swindon - Mail