News archive for 19th September 2016

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Trinity College Cambridge and Villiers Park Educational Trust join forces in first-of-its-kind partnership to boost students’ educational achievement - Villiers Park Educational Trust The web toolkit for applying to university - Studential Coventry staff win fight for union recognition - UCU UCU responds to merger announcement by two Tyneside colleges - UCU Date for your diary - Children’s Mental Health Week 2017 - NAHT School business managers: consider upskilling to thrive in a changing system - NAHT Lord Scriven: The Government has no plan for our education sector - PoliticsHome Headteacher recruitment crisis sparks fears over school standards - Times Educational Supplement | TES FE’s Paralympic stars shine with 24 medals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxfordshire is first council to reject May's grammar school plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES Malala film offered free to 3,000 secondary schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES School launches pre-apprenticeship programme for 14-year-olds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Rebrokered academies given 3-year Ofsted grace period - Schools Week Trial of new digital childcare service to start later this year - Nursery World Liberal Democrats promise to end SATs tests for primary school children - Telegraph The Telegraph University Course Finder - Telegraph Prep school dubbed an '11 plus factory' which charges parents £8,500 per year is forced to remove adverts from buses claiming it has a 94% pass rate - because it's actually only 53% - Mail Government gives greenlight to employers to develop a Master’s apprenticeship for senior leaders - FE News Funding reforms ‘will result in fewer EY apprentices’ - Nursery World Tax-Free Childcare invites are sent to providers - Nursery World School gives fee discounts to £120,000 couples - Times Children being put at risk after drastic drop in lessons to keep them safe from child abuse - Mirror This is how our education system compares to others around the world - Wales Online FE and employers – uniting to futureproof our industries - FE News Report finds 17 councils must do more to help teachers - Scotsman What are the pressures of being a modern student? - Guardian University Course Finder: Search for your degree here - Telegraph Report finds 17 councils must do more to help cut teacher workload - Herald Scotland University of Cambridge guide - Telegraph Top 10 comprehensive schools for GCSE results - Telegraph Skills first in an age of uncertainty - FE News Waltham Forest College Freshers' Fair Sees Hundreds of Students Attend - FE News Tech in FE - FE Week Universities fear UK's global reputation in jeopardy due to Brexit - Guardian Lib Dems: Erasmus student exchange must be protected from Brexit - Training Journal Leeds City College joins a three-year project to support South Leeds Academy students - FE News 'I want to be South Sudan's first female neurosurgeon' – the struggle for refugee education - Guardian Many apprentices are ahead of graduates when it comes to earnings, so it’s vital to back the apprenticeship scheme - FE News Universities reassure students as crime level figures published - Wales Online The sky is the limit for Epping Forest College - FE Week London Unionlearn Conference to explore Apprenticeships and the Levy - FE News Why are 63 million girls missing out on education? – podcast transcript - Guardian How to write a great Ucas personal statement for university - Telegraph Volunteers help Cardiff students get home in freshers' week - BBC Time to turn the clock backwards? - FE News Brown urges focus on education for poor - Scotsman