News archive for 11th October 2016

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The number of teachers accused of having relationships with pupils has been revealed - Wales Online Oxford University releases sample interview questions - Guardian Five Oxford interview questions and five answers - Guardian South London state school to be stripped of management - Guardian Scottish ministers under pressure to protect free tuition for EU students - Guardian Grammar schools are unfair. Principled parents must refuse to encourage them | Louise Tickle - Guardian Government pressed on future of free tuition for EU students - Scotsman Ending gender violence in schools: what works and what does research tell us? - IOE London Blog South African campus hit by second day of student unrest - Mail South Africa's Zuma forms team to resolve university fee crisis - Mail Scotland's university staff, students and principals call for certainty for EU university applicants following announcement by UK government - UCU UCU responds to government announcement on EU students - UCU NCB launches ‘Emotional Wellbeing Framework’ - NAHT School capability procedures - NAHT MillionPlus welcomes government funding guarantee for EU students in 2017-18; outlines further recommendations ahead of Brexit - MillionPlus EU student finance guarantee - Russell Group Home News Government unveils £5.2m grant scheme to support 30-hours childcare drive - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Employment scheme generates '£4 for every £1 spent' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Funding support for EU students - AoC | Association of Colleges EU student funding extended through 2018 - PIE News To keep burnout at bay, teachers must learn to say no | Kester Brewin - Guardian SFA business operations : help and support - SFA Funding support for EU students - DfE Regional Schools Commissioners questioned on MATs - UK Parliament FE choices: learner satisfaction survey guidance - SFA FE Choices: information for providers - SFA FE choices: learner satisfaction survey – sample size calculator - SFA SFA business operations : help and support - SFA Employers should do more to prepare young people for work, says report - Training Journal England guarantees funding for EU students starting courses next year - Times Higher Education | THE Parents of summer-born children face 'postcode lottery' over delayed school starts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Durand: controversial academy trust to have funding agreement terminated - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bailey Gwynne stabbing death inquiry calls for more powers for teachers to search pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Could your pupils pass an Oxford admissions interview? Five questions to help you find out - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government guarantees funding for EU students in 2017-18 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Institutes of Technology are still being developed, Robert Halfon insists - Times Educational Supplement | TES The UK is 'below average' at teaching financial literacy, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government needs ‘more information’ before summer-born decision - Schools Week Durand Academy Trust funding to be terminated - Schools Week Government set for u-turn on apprenticeships funding cuts - FE Week Programme helps to close achievement gap for disadvantaged pupils - Nursery World Wilshaw reveals recipe for success after inspecting 7 top academy trusts - Schools Week Wilshaw: Best performing academy chains don't 'empire build' - Times Educational Supplement | TES HMCI's monthly commentary: October 2016 - Ofsted Controversial Academy Trust to close after funding withdrawn - Independent British school 'threatened with massacre of non-Muslim pupils' sparking terror probe - Mirror Academy school stripped of funding over 'serious concerns' about financial management - Mirror EU students will get student loans worth up to £28,000 after Brexit even though many do not pay them back, ministers admit - Mail Long hours and low pay: why England’s teachers face burnout - Guardian Death of Bailey Gwynne, 16, could have been avoided 'if teachers were told about knife' - Express So many grammar school opponents are just hypocrites - Express ‘Postcode lottery’ for parents on children’s first day at school - Express EU students will still be eligible for UK university loans despite Brexit - Independent University of Nottingham guide - Telegraph How Much Money Should Parents Give Their Children At University? - Huffington Post Funding for academy trust axed - BBC Heseltine: Industrial strategy should start in schools - BBC Health alert as more than 1.6m pupils in a decade start secondary school overweight - Times Educational Supplement | TES Improve vocational routes into work to avoid 'graduatisation', report urges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Decade of ‘appalling failure’ on obesity as 80,000 children enter P1 overweight - Times Shock figures show one in 10 five-year-olds with weight problem - Express Funding for EU students guaranteed for those applying in 2017 - Telegraph One in 10 Primary one pupils 'overweight or obese' - BBC EU student funding in UK to remain same in 2017 despite Brexit vote - Guardian EU-student funding guarantee extended - BBC Commons debate request over funding cuts exposed by FE Week - FE Week Teachers could get more powers to search pupils for weapons following Bailey Gwynne killing - Herald Scotland Music scholarships: advice for the non-pushy parent  - Telegraph EU students will be eligible for English FE loans in 2016/17 - FE Week Rank schools by pupil wellbeing to tackle mental health crisis, says former leading head - Telegraph Ending gender violence in schools: what works and what does research tell us? - IOE London Blog Our obsession with hierarchy means primary schools often struggle to be heard - Telegraph Health alert as new report reveals 83,000 children started primary school overweight in last decade - Herald Scotland Rise of the home ‘unschoolers’ – where children learn only what they want to - Guardian Parents’ fury as primary school prepares for surprise influx of secondary pupils - Guardian Huge increase in number of graduates 'bad for UK economy' - Guardian Scotland’s obesity crisis: 8,000 children starting school overweight - Scotsman National Literacy Trust newsletter (October 2016) - UCET