News archive for 31st October 2016

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Getting a head-start on tomorrow’s challenges, today – join the discussion on the next big challenges in education and research - Jisc Cuts to school improvement grant is 'academisation by backdoor', county councils warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary assessment: Heads welcome new DfE guidance placing more trust in teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs to quiz ministers on evidence behind new grammar schools policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Put grammars in 'poor, white working class areas' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Complaints about teachers in Scotland soar - Times Educational Supplement | TES Analysis: schools white paper plans shelved - EPI Here’s why you should care about the scrapping of A-level anthropology - The Conversation Teaching Excellence Framework Year Two: HEFCE guidance published - HEFCE Nick Gibb summoned to grammar schools ‘evidence check’ hearing - Schools Week DfE starts search for new Ofsted chair - Schools Week MPs to probe DfE on grammar school plans - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Selective education inquiry - UK Parliament Evidence check: Government proposals to extend selective education - UK Parliament Adult further education: outcome-based success measures - DfE Working with the SFA as an apprenticeship training provider - SFA LRS: maintenance schedule - SFA UCAS shares data securely with Administrative Data Research Network to increase understanding of participation in higher education - UCAS Teachers' pay to be devolved to assembly in Wales Bill - BBC Vocational and academic: a false dichotomy (New pathways for technical education) - Voice First delegation of Russell Group leaders to China to explore future collaboration and innovation - Russell Group The impact of the lack of time - AoC | Association of Colleges Survey of SBM pay and professional development - NAHT Primary assessment moderation changes a step in the right direction, says NAHT - NAHT Teachers urged to make their voices heard - NUT ResPublica report into white working class achievement - NUT What next for universities after one hundred days of May? - Wonkhe Give it time - IOE London Blog Apprenticeship standards: changes to the process for approvals - SFA Is competition between schools restricting collaboration? - Guardian Cost of Digital Apprenticeship Service revealed - FE Week Teachers' pay in Wales is to become the responsibility of the Welsh Government - Wales Online Special Westminster debate on apprenticeship cuts tomorrow - FE Week Research round-up 31 October 2016 - NAHT Keeping up the pace of education policy change - FE News Regulator audit finds universities in funding crisis - University World News Oxford and Cambridge still struggle with an elitist image - will this ever change? - Telegraph Proposal to ban unpaid internships divides opinion among young people - Huffington Post Does your university produce racism? - Guardian Bill Watkin: CEO, Sixth Form Colleges' Association - FE Week Former union boss and Reach 4 chair among new advisers for schools commissioner - Schools Week How will the government implement its Skills Plan? - FE Week Movers & Shakers: Edition 187 - FE Week I am not a number - FE News Heathrow expansion will gift the whole UK a skills renaissance - City AM NASUWT comments on amended Wales Bill - NASUWT NAHT supports call for increased funding for early years - NAHT Nursery gains landmark high court ruling against Ofsted - Nursery World Change is needed to allow all children eligible for free school meals to claim, says NAHT - NAHT Girls gain ground in Kandahar culture wars as education prospects improve | Matthew Green - Guardian Financial crisis for Scottish colleges as more than 75% forecast deficit - Herald Scotland