News archive for 7th October 2016

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Grant scheme targets partners in bid to boost universities - University World News Brexit: LSE foreign experts 'should not advise ministers' - BBC US schoolchildren prefer teachers of colour regardless of their own race or ethnicity, study finds - Independent LSE says UK bars expats from Brexit work - Financial Times LSE foreign academics told they will not be asked to advise UK on Brexit - Guardian The Guardian view on student sexual harassment: stamp it out | Editorial - Guardian South African student leaders vow to continue tuition fee protests - Guardian 50 Scottish pupils given detention for skipping Mass - Scotsman Academic network launches new research training programme - University World News The perils of non-mother-tongue instruction - University World News More than 250 million children around the world have not mastered basic maths and reading - University World News South African Student Protesters Demand Nationwide University Shut Down Until Government Offers Free Education - Huffington Post Minister praises 'dedicated staff and outstanding apprentices' at Cambridge Regional College - FE News Campus unrest brews despite student rustications - University World News Protests highlight need for teaching and learning re-think - University World News A night on the frontline with Michael Fallon's school cadet corps - Guardian Student protests spread against abolition of grants - University World News New American Campus to offer 'global' higher education - University World News Towards a vision for growing and sharing knowledge - University World News Egypt: outrage as lawmaker calls for university virginity tests - University World News Report calls for more emphasis on inequalities research - University World News Online higher education is now a global market - University World News Government stakeholder forum fails to end student unrest - University World News International students treated as commodities - University World News N Korean leader says university must be 'world class' - University World News University student accommodation problem growing - University World News The shifting landscape of doctoral education - University World News Why outward-looking HE programmes should be for all - University World News Liberal arts 'have a bigger role to play in Asian HE' - University World News LERU and Eastern European universities join forces - University World News Search begins for chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships - FE Week Algeria: ministry unveils new roadmap for university education - University World News If we don't need experts, do we need universities? - University World News Cardiff and Vale College student Amy is off to India to represent Wales at the Young Chef Olympiad 2017 - FE News Headteachers will not become bureaucrats, says John Swinney - Herald Scotland University Of Lincoln Students Vote To Rejoin NUS Just Five Months After Leaving - Huffington Post John Swinney: Headteachers in Scotland will not become bureaucrats - Scotsman Fairness fears over college apprenticeship groups - FE Week Government bars foreign academics from advising on Brexit - Guardian Sexual harassment at university: 'I felt terrified to say anything' - Guardian 'I was so traumatised': accounts of sexual harassment in UK universities - Guardian Scale of sexual abuse in UK universities likened to Savile and Catholic scandals - Guardian Aberdeen student named top young software engineer - Scotsman Poorest pupils in Wales are catching up at GCSE - Wales Online Grand designs: how to inspire students with a creative brief - Guardian Conservatives talk big on skills agenda ahead of Budget - FE Week Ministerial bypass sparks ‘woeful’ area review row - FE Week Sumdog partnership adds up for Glasgow primary schools - Scotsman Fresh concerns over failing UTC model as one in 10 now shut - FE Week Fresh concerns over failing UTC model as a fifth closes in London - FE Week Vice-chancellor salaries 'broadly comparable' in Wales to rest of UK, report finds - Wales Online Schools dementia awareness initiative launched in Wales - BBC HEAPES16: Higher Education in Alternative Providers Early Statistics Survey 2016-17 - HEFCE Higher education sponsored academies, university technical colleges and free schools - HEFCE I've left my PhD behind, but I'm being put under pressure to publish - Guardian Scottish university principal attacks Home Secretary over visa curbs for overseas students - Herald Scotland Building new schools 'must be top priority' for government - BBC Universities face funding pressure right across Europe - University World News