News archive for 13th October 2016

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Grammar pupils progressing faster than their peers in non-selective schools, data shows - Telegraph Charity calls for apprenticeship reform rethink - Times Educational Supplement | TES Calls for action over classroom sexual harassment after pupils 'violate' teacher with 'upskirt' photos - Times Educational Supplement | TES Harris and Oasis academy chains owe government millions in pledged funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching bans for two 'Trojan Horse' school staff quashed on appeal - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar school plans 'morally wrong' - Lord Blunkett - Times Educational Supplement | TES Chris Kirk nominated as next general secretary of ASCL - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results for almost a third of free schools are below the DfE floor standard, analysis claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales' new student funding system to stop 'Welsh money' being lost to England - Wales Online Greening: excellence in 'particular subjects' may be enough to get pupils into grammars - Times Educational Supplement | TES Five things you need to know from today's new GCSE and A-level stats - Times Educational Supplement | TES High court overturns lifetime bans for Trojan horse teachers - Guardian UK: only 1% of international students overstay, suggests buried government report - PIE News UK universities fight back with #weareinternational - PIE News Planning and reporting the impact of research - HEFCE Greening to reveal primary test changes ‘in coming weeks’ - Schools Week Nearly 300 schools fall below new Progress 8 floor standard - Schools Week Expanding selection could increase racial tensions, warn peers - Schools Week Progress 8 results 2016: Key findings from the first national data release - Schools Week EBacc results 2016: Languages and art entries fall, while science soars - Schools Week Nigeria's Chibok schoolgirls freed in Boko Haram deal - BBC Cutting creative A-Levels allows arts industry to be 'dominated by the wealthy elite' - Independent Trojan Horse inquiry: Teachers' bans quashed - BBC GCSE and equivalent results: 2015 to 2016 (provisional) - DfE Statistics: 16 to 19 attainment - DfE Statistics: GCSEs (key stage 4) - DfE Destinations of KS4 and KS5 pupils: 2015 (provisional) - DfE Statistics: destinations of key stage 4 and key stage 5 pupils - DfE Progress 8 school performance measure in 2016, 2017 and 2018 - DfE Key stage 4 destination measures (2016 provisional data) - DfE Performance tables: approved qualifications and discount codes - DfE School performance: key stage 4 provisional results (2016) - DfE Participation in education and training: local authority figures - DfE A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2015 to 2016 (provisional) - DfE Free school pre-opening guide - DfE Latest employer survey results show high satisfaction with providers - SFA North West top apprentices and apprentice employers announced - SFA FE Choices: performance indicators - SFA FE Choices: information for providers - SFA FE Choices employer satisfaction survey 2015 to 2016 - SFA 'Vulnerable' A level subjects remain strong in independent schools - Independent Schools Council | ISC Why widening access to the medical profession should matter to us all - Universities UK Leading educationalist nominated for post of ASCL General Secretary - ASCL Be a Communication Trust 'Language Leader' - NAHT Under advisement - Conor's Commentary Ministers hide report on migrant numbers - Times First apprenticeships blaze a trail to the top jobs - Times Brightest state school pupils 'missing out on Oxbridge recomendations' - Mail State teachers refuse to push poor, bright pupils to apply for Oxbridge because they believe they 'won't be happy there' - Mail Only one per cent of foreign students overstay their visa, shock report shows - Express Decision to scrap A-level art history labelled a 'disgrace' by critics - Telegraph Long-standing migrants call on universities to help them with access - Guardian Goodbye art history A-level, you served the elite well | Jonathan Jones - Guardian 7 Things You Should Know About International Students In The UK - Huffington Post A-levels dropped: Read the full list of culled subjects - Independent Chibok schoolgirls 'swapped' for Nigerian Boko Haram militants - BBC Why it's OK to switch degrees after starting university - Telegraph History of art teachers devastated as A-level axed - BBC Two Blackburn faith schools top charts for GCSE progress - Guardian Art history A-level dropped as government trims creative subjects from curriculum - Independent Proof grammar schools boost poorer pupils: Youngsters are twice as likely to go to top universities as rich children at comprehensives - Mail Chibok schoolgirls: Nigeria's Boko Haram frees 21 - BBC Ofsted, Ofqual and Institute for Apprenticeships discuss apprenticeship changes - UK Parliament Provisional performance tables and implications for intervention - EPI HEFCE to develop the next REF - HEFCE Rights fears over spread of cameras in lecture halls - University World News The Department for Education has removed a school data webpage – but why? - Schools Week Retake exam blunder after 11-Plus leak - BBC Making maths relevant now and in the future - Unionlearn OFFA comment on Department for Education’s destination measures statistics - OFFA New poll – cutting international student numbers will not address public immigration concerns - Universities UK Progress 8 and Attainment 8 - key 2016 figures released - NAHT ITT: requesting places and allocations methodology 2017 to 2018 - NAHT UCU comments on opinion poll showing public support for international students - UCU 'A miserable and short-sighted decision': readers defend axed art history A-level - Guardian Refugees Given Life-Changing Scholarships At The University Of Brighton - Huffington Post Paralympians head back to uni: 'It's not a normal student life' - Guardian What makes a good teacher? It's much more than the Government's proposed measurements - Telegraph IB or A-levels: which should I take if I want to study medicine at university? - Telegraph State school teachers don't advise their bright pupils to apply to Oxbridge, poll shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Over four in ten state school teachers rarely or never advise bright pupils to apply to Oxbridge - Sutton Trust Former HE Minister calls for changes to the Higher Education and Research Bill for the public interest - HEPI MillionPlus comments on the HEPI policy paper - Protecting the public interest in HE - MillionPlus Don't let market forces rob universities of their social role - Guardian Plugging the gap: schools forced to find new sources of funding - Guardian £300,000 bill as SQA axes 'vital' teacher meetings - Herald Scotland Visa breaches by foreign students are 'exaggerated' new figures suggest  - Telegraph Oxbridge fails to persuade state teachers to send pupils for interview - Guardian Consultation Report: 'Teacher Supply: Recruitment, Retention, Shaping the Future' - UCET 'Becoming a Teacher Educator' -8th Tean Conference Workshop, 11-12th May 2017 - UCET