News archive for 20th October 2016

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Foreign students 'not exempted from migration figures' - BBC British teenager achieves 'incredibly rare' perfect International Baccalaureate score - Telegraph Angela Rayner: "People see us as a rabble. We need to give them permission to vote Labour" - PoliticsHome EYFS Profile remains statutory and 'good level of development' on the rise - Nursery World Schools in Wales have £64m sitting in their reserves - Wales Online College asset stripping fears eased by area review guidance - FE Week New report investigates the differing views of teaching excellence at discipline level - HEA School absence for unauthorised holidays at five-year high - Guardian Greening announces EYFS is to stay - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Federation of Awarding Bodies appoints new chair and vice chair - FE Week Open academies and academy projects in development - DfE Free schools: admission and referral policies - DfE DfE and executive agency ePCS spend over £500: 2016 to 2017 - DfE What next after GCSEs? A guide to apprenticeships, BTECs and NVQs - Telegraph Foreign Students Could Be Removed From UK Immigration Figures - Huffington Post Ofqual boss urged to ‘fight’ for apprenticeship assessment watchdog role - FE Week Teachers' pension scheme payments: 2016 to 2017 - DfE DfE and executive agency spend over £25,000: 2016 to 2017 - DfE Area review process 'flawed', claims SFCA - Times Educational Supplement | TES Statistics: pupil absence - DfE FE Commissioner intervention report: City of Liverpool College - DfE Children 'more susceptible' to radicalisation under Prevent anti-terror plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Progress 8: nearly 400 secondaries expected to be defined as ‘coasting’ under new measure - Times Educational Supplement | TES Statistics: early years foundation stage profile - DfE Rochford Review: changes to SEND assessment could lower expectations, warns charity - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn 2015 and spring 2016 - DfE More pupils missing school for family holidays, figures show - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years foundation stage profile results: 2015 to 2016 - DfE New early years stats: more 5-year-olds achieve 'good' benchmark, and four other key facts - Times Educational Supplement | TES South West top apprentices and apprentice employers announced - SFA PE and RE teachers are least effective superheads, new study reveals - Schools Week More pupils achieve ‘good development’, and 6 other findings from reception assessment data - Schools Week AoC India to close after 25 colleges quit - FE Week Coasting schools: progress thresholds - NAHT Country with the cleverest graduates in the world revealed - Independent Whatever happened to Extended Schools? A question at the heart of education - IOE London Blog Derby City Council's police threat over union school strike balloons - BBC Partially filling out Ucas forms 'will nudge poorer students to apply to university' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Seven common misconceptions about apprenticeships - Telegraph EYFS Profile remains statutory and 'good level of development' on the rise - Nursery World May rules out foreign students exemption from net migration figures - Mail How much parents have been fined for taking kids out of school revealed - Mirror Outrage over ’child' migrants who will now sit with children in school classrooms - Express No 10 slaps down Philip Hammond over foreign student comments - PoliticsHome Academy of Sciences in revolt over political silence - University World News New report investigates the differing views of teaching excellence at discipline level - HEA Taskforce publishes recommendations to universities on dealing with violence against women and harassment - Universities UK “Promise of light at the end of the tunnel”: Voice welcomes statement on primary assessment - Voice “Promise of light at the end of the tunnel”: Voice welcomes statement on primary assessment - Voice “Promise of light at the end of the tunnel”: Voice welcomes statement on primary assessment - Voice “Promise of light at the end of the tunnel”: Voice welcomes statement on primary assessment - Voice Share reserves and stop redundancy, says the NASUWT - NASUWT Safer Internet Day 2017 - NAHT The Rochford Review – final report - NAHT Rochford report publication welcome, says NAHT - NAHT Devolve FE funding to tackle post-Brexit skills gap, London mayor demands - FE Week New app helps to address gap between school and real-life maths - National Numeracy How satisfied are graduates with their degree choices? - HEFCE UN highlights £17bn potential of girls' education - City AM Plan to force 11-year-olds to resit failed tests scrapped in fresh U-turn - PoliticsHome More pupils in Britain 'skipping school for family holidays' - Express Four new FE Commissioner reports published by DfE - FE Week Parliamentary debate approved on ‘totally unacceptable’ apprenticeship cuts - FE Week Children need to know stress is normal, not necessarily a mental health problem - Guardian The Future of Offender Learning - FE News My grandson has Asperger's and struggles with essays. How can we help him? - Telegraph Charity launches gaming app to boost maths skills - BBC Graduate satisfaction with undergraduate choices - HEFCE