News archive for 28th November 2016

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School inspections plummeting despite Sturgeon's pledge to boost assessments - Express USA: Schools to escape individual grades under new government rules to judge performance - Times Educational Supplement | TES Row at Worcester primary school over £1 nativity play charge - Guardian Parents 'verbally abuse' staff for charging £1 entry to school nativity play to pay for textbooks - Independent SFA apprenticeship tender for small employers rejected by quarter of providers - FE Week Learndirect top-slices almost £20 million through subcontractors deals - FE Week Forget grammar schools: my plan for 100 'May Schools' will rescue smart children from disadvantaged backgrounds - Telegraph Skills minister bids farewell to Team UK with heartfelt speech - FE Week Nativity play charges lead to parents' 'verbal abuse' - BBC Bad behaviour - BBC Match-making service aims to pair up governors with schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are you smarter than a 10-year-old? - BBC Cambridge University denies 'cover up' allegations over anti-Semitic abuse claims - Huffington Post Burnley primary school pupils in e-cigarettes exclusion warning - BBC Free school meals plan will help more pupils, heads say - BBC UTC Cambridge hit by Ofsted grade four rating - FE Week Nativity play charges leads to 'verbal abuse' from parents in Worcester - BBC Ron Dearing UTC expands a year before opening - FE Week Former UKIP education spokesperson Paul Nuttall becomes party leader - Schools Week The top five reasons the rich like to donate to universities - The Conversation Inflation, TEF and tuition fees continue a complex dance - Wonkhe Exchange rate starting to bite for university costs - Wonkhe TV exposé sparks calls for overhaul of Ofsted regime - Nursery World Level 3 consultation generates huge response - Nursery World Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 25 November 2016 - Pearson How male teachers can help to challenge gender roles in nursery school education - The Conversation Ofsted handbook changes and focus areas for school inspection 2016 - NAHT ASCL announces General Secretary election - ASCL Sixth Form Colleges Association announces new Chair - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Using the register of apprentice assessment organisations - SFA New school proposals - DfE FE data library: other statistics and research - SFA Lewisham Southwark College still wants Newcastle merger despite local offers - FE Week Newcastle University offers deadline extensions to students learning about ‘sensitive topics’ like rape - Huffington Post College apprentice scoops national award - FE News Apprenticeship standards - SFA Apprenticeship standards approved for delivery - SFA Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 25 November 2016 - Pearson Calls for councils to reverse cuts in specialist school staff - Scotsman Singaporeans fight 'exam-shaming' by sharing scores and careers - BBC Welsh teenagers learn from South Korea school swap - BBC Infant schools three times as likely as juniors to get top Ofsted rating - Times Educational Supplement | TES Student crowned ‘all-round inspiration’ at awards for extensive volunteering work - FE Week Inside the hidden world of all-party parliamentary groups on education – Part 2 - Schools Week Clever girls explode myth that boys are best at maths - Mail Free school meals plan will help more pupils, heads say - BBC Grammars 'out of bounds for too many families - Mail Bad behaviour - BBC Career education under microscope as part of £1m evidence drive - Schools Week Heads call for law change to boost funding for disadvantaged pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES