News archive for 12th October 2016

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All teacher preparation courses to be graded in bid to boost quality of training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Durand: threatened academy trust advertises for new executive headteacher - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unions closer to Sats boycott despite expectation of 'serious' DfE changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs' inquiry into multi-academy trusts: what we learned from the regional schools commissioners - Times Educational Supplement | TES Durand claims it is victim of a campaign of 'half truths and inaccuracies' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Baroness Andrews: Grammar schools are a fatal distraction - PoliticsHome Grammar schools do nothing for social mobility – here’s why - The Conversation French HE is in urgent need of a TNE strategy – France Stratégie - PIE News Long hours and low pay are forcing young teachers to quit - SecEd Opportunity Areas target high employer engagement - SecEd Making Shakespeare relevant for today’s young people - SecEd Guidance and training video launched in bid to tackle the bullying of young carers - SecEd Professional Learning Passport launched for teachers in Wales - SecEd Students' attitudes to school revealed - SecEd Mergers set to mark education overhaul in west Belfast - SecEd First five research schools are unveiled - SecEd Industrial action looms over teacher workload in Scotland - SecEd 'No target' to address gender disparity through apprenticeships, DfE reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Over 82,000 students inform the HEA's 2016 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey - HEA Graduates in non-graduate jobs – what’s the story? - HEFCE Regional Schools Commissioners grilled by MPs: 5 things we learned - Schools Week Durand: We will fight any slur on Sir Greg Martin’s good name - Schools Week MPs given clearest public indication yet of u-turn on apprenticeship funding cuts - FE Week No approved assessment organisation for over half of new apprenticeships - FE Week Nursery schools 'at risk of extinction', MP warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Lords debates grammar schools - UK Parliament UK Aid and Partners Launch 'Girls Access to Education' in Sierra Leone - GOV.UK Common basic data set (CBDS): database - DfE Higher Education and Research Bill - DfE Higher Education and Research Bill: UK research and innovation - DfE SFA update: October 2016 - SFA LRS: web services for management information system developers - SFA LRS: registration documents - SFA Register of apprentice assessment organisations - overview - SFA East of England top apprentices and apprentice employers announced - SFA Why there aren’t 'too many graduates in the jobs market' - Universities UK NASUWT comments on funding announcement from Deputy First Minister - NASUWT Industrial action to be escalated after further attacks on teachers' pay - NASUWT Tomorrow's strike action at Hull College deferred following positive talks - UCU The rise of TNE: if you can’t import students, export degrees instead - Wonkhe The Guardian view on the higher education bill: good in parts | Editorial - Guardian Individual children's details passed to Home Office for immigration purposes - Guardian Last art history A-level axed after Michael Gove cull of 'soft' subjects - Guardian Is China’s gaokao the world’s toughest school exam? - Guardian A considered view of the Diamond review of university funding in Wales - HEPI Funding axed for academy school chain after headmaster made £161,000 from private leisure club on the premises and dating website featuring lingerie-clad 'Saffron' - Mail Children born in summer could play the system as parents get two chances to put them into their favourite school - Mail British taxpayers will be forced to continue funding EU student loans even after Brexit - Express Parents slam primary schools' plan to add 25 minutes more lessons every day and extend half term holidays to a fortnight - Mail Shami Chakrabarti is an utter hypocrite, blasts Ann Widdecombe - Express Students are going into schools in Wales to address the alarming drop in people learning languages - Wales Online Oxford University reveals how to answer some of its most difficult interview questions - Independent Could you get into Oxford? Test yourself with real interview questions - Wales Online Failing academies 'not being taken over fast enough' - BBC Do you feel your maths is holding you back (or do you know someone like this)? - Unionlearn Seven Things Students Must Do To Stop Their Landlord Keeping Their Deposit - Huffington Post University of Edinburgh Hit With Measles As Outbreak Sweeps City - Huffington Post The problem of perfectionism: five tips to help your students - Guardian No approved assessment organisation for over half of new apprenticeships - FE Week How do you get into Oxford University? Answer questions like this: What exactly do you think is involved in blaming someone? - Telegraph UCU welcomes former minister's call for greater scrutiny of higher education providers - UCU Student scholarship programme opens for applications - Scotsman Scottish universities join forces to boost science teacher numbers - Herald Scotland Scottish schools should set up pupil whistleblowing service to tackle knife crime, inquiry says - Herald Scotland Leader comment: Law not robust enough to prevent another tragedy - Scotsman Student visa curbs will damage UK exports - Financial Times Is China’s gaokao the world’s toughest school exam? | Alec Ash - Guardian Schools not preparing children to succeed in an AI future, MPs warn - Guardian Is this the world's most oversubscribed school? - BBC