News archive for 15th September 2016

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Festival of Learning award winners announced - FE Week The call is out for employers to support the Dynamo North East IT Apprentice Hub - FE News A feminist manifesto for education: gender equality has a long way to go - IOE London Blog Staff to lobby University of Leicester ahead of decision on future of lifelong learning centre - UCU Smartest students could be priced out by rising university costs, says new report - UCU NAHT welcomes decision not to exclude parents from school governing bodies - NAHT OECD report: Education at a Glance 2016 - NUT NASUWT comments on OECD report-Education at a Glance - NASUWT Sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools - the university link - Universities UK Vast differences in take-up of private tuition revealed - BERA Children “can pass phonics test without extensive phonic knowledge” - BERA Panel members announced for Year Two Teaching Excellence Framework - HEFCE Ending QTS will damage morale and push people away from teaching - ATL Our analysis and response to the DfE’s early years funding consultation - Coram Family & Childcare New Forum for Responsible Research Metrics launched - HEFCE Does selective schooling work anywhere in the world? - The Conversation Lost in the grammars debate - Sutton Trust A brief history of why students go away to university - The Conversation UK ‘must strike special funding deal with EU for universities’ post-Brexit - Evening Standard 8 things we know about education in the UK from the OECD - EPI Valerie Amos: ‘academic freedom and freedom of speech must be protected and respected’ - The Conversation Parliament launches its first social learning course - UK Parliament OECD Pisa chief warns against Theresa May's grammar school policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES Falling teacher pay and five other UK education trends revealed by the OECD - Times Educational Supplement | TES Not enough 'capacity' to implement Sainsbury review, warns AoC leader - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE targets Countdown advert breaks to entice students into teaching - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unlikely allies gather in opposition to grammar schools - Schools Week Government ‘taking forward’ academies white paper, Greening confirms - Schools Week Pupil database changes made ‘without debate’ - Schools Week New resources aim to cut obesity in primary school - Nursery World Children's literacy linked to healthy eating - Nursery World North-South divide in schools has 'serious consequences for the future' warns education watchdog - Mirror Children of immigrants are more likely to get a university degree than those with British parents - unlike in most other wealthy countries - Mail North-South education divide 'has serious consequences for the future' - Mail Brexit boost: Record number of students to study in UK universities thanks to cheaper fees - Express Functional Skills Funding – The Achilles’ Heel Of The Apprenticeship Reforms? - FE News Gender gap in higher education is biggest for decade - Herald Scotland Grammar schools and boundary reform – Politics Weekly podcast - Guardian Tutor proof tests for grammars - we are still waiting? - Montrose42 Is School Uniform More Important Than Education? - Huffington Post 'Listen to us!' Less than half of Welsh pupils think their views are taken seriously by teachers - Wales Online Head teacher suspended from a school in one of Cardiff's most deprived communities - Wales Online I’m a County Durham teaching assistant. We deserve to keep our jobs | Letters - Guardian Academy rejects call for parent governors - BBC LIU lockout: US professors and students seen as disposable commodities - Guardian Oxford University separates 'helicopter' parents from children at open days - Telegraph Pupils keep free school bus places they were due to lose for now - Wales Online Unlikely allies gather in opposition to grammar schools - Schools Week Should grammar schools be scrapped? - readers debate - Guardian A feminist manifesto for education: gender equality has a long way to go - IOE London Blog National phonics check 'too basic' - BBC Are single-sex schools good for girls? - Telegraph Sexual Harassment In Schools Needs To Stop - Huffington Post New Forum for Responsible Research Metrics launched - HEFCE Children of immigrants more likely to go into higher education – study - Guardian Government ‘taking forward’ academies white paper, Greening confirms - Schools Week Grammar schools benefit rich, says OECD - BBC Two sisters live at the same Cardiff address - one gets a free school bus pass the other doesn't - Wales Online UK grammar school plan criticised by OECD - Financial Times Pupil database changes made ‘without debate’ - Schools Week Power list: the 50 people with most influence over UK universities - Guardian Panel members announced for Year Two Teaching Excellence Framework - HEFCE Britain’s spending on aid isn’t too generous. It’s a drop in the ocean | Gordon Brown - Guardian Effective leadership key to raising school standards, inspectors say - Wales Online