News archive for 20th September 2016

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Reception children with poor language skills still struggling by Year 2 - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Power struggle' between academy CEOs and heads thwarts chain growth - Times Educational Supplement | TES Make schools commissioners independent, demands think-tank - Schools Week Tory manifesto backs grammar schools plan, says Theresa May - Mail Call for schools to be given green light to pay governors - Express Teacher appreciation is a welcome gift | Letters - Guardian CONEL launches new partnership with Siemens to train engineering apprentices - FE News What UK teachers can learn from Finland, where children have one of the world's best educations - Independent Swinney frustrated by 'unacceptable' shortage of trainee teachers - Herald Scotland Universities to partner with schools as part of new teacher training regime - Wales Online A levels are not the only route - FE News SECC show is just the job for graduates - Herald Scotland Pedal power boosts N Carolina pupils' performance - BBC College staff to go on strike again over pay dispute - Herald Scotland SATS chaos must end and grammar school expansion plans should be shelved, say school leaders - NAHT Grammar schools - NAHT European Educational Research Journal Open Call for papers - BERA The lost boys: how the white working class got left behind - New Statesman Breaking down the ‘divide’ between research and teaching - HEA Tim Farron’s speech to Liberal Democrat Conference - NUT What does research informed teaching look like? - HEA Violent clashes in South Africa over student fees - Mail Young people prepared to sacrifice 'vital life skills' to cope with exam pressures, study finds - Independent Degree apprenticeships are the solution to deliver work-ready skills for businesses, says Open University - FE News 82 per cent of young people want to start their own business, according to research by ABE - FE News Rail Minister welcomes new Employment and Skills Academy - FE News Board decisions regarding the NCOP and teaching funding for widening access, successful student outcomes and progression to postgraduate study - HEFCE Free OU courses offer chance to build career skills - Unionlearn No desks but lots of enthusiasm: what it's like to teach in a refugee camp - Guardian One in eight European teenage boys gamble online, says survey - Guardian Updated framework for the monitoring of the Prevent duty in higher education in England - HEFCE There is growing racism among children in Wales, say teachers - Wales Online New FE commissioner revealed, and there are two - FE Week 'Don't drink from a rubber chicken' - and other uni advice - Guardian Bexley School Fight Sees Huge Group Of Teenagers In Mass Brawl In Northumberland Heath - Huffington Post First countries set to benefit from funding to ensure children get an education in times of crisis - GOV.UK National Apprenticeship Week 2017 date announced - DfE FE data library: education and training - SFA Apprenticeship standards approved for delivery - SFA No grammar schools, lots of play: the secrets of Europe’s top education system - Guardian Allow failing schools, not grammars, first choice of the brightest pupils - Guardian Shappi Khorsandi on sex education: ‘We need to be less prudish’ - Guardian Second council asks parents to prove their children are Catholic - Herald Scotland Would you send one child to private and the other to state school? - Telegraph Students warned of new 'phishing' scam - BBC Teacher workload report attacked as "flimsy" by councils - Herald Scotland Crisis in vital school placements for Scottish trainee teachers - Herald Scotland