News archive for 21st September 2016

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Swinney accused of "climbdown" over schools reform U-turn - Express Go dark blues: Oxford is first British institution named the best university in the world - Express Want to make a difference at university? Join the clubs - Guardian Cut-throat academia leads to 'natural selection of bad science', claims study - Guardian 50 Under 50 ranking: the best young universities in the world - Guardian Revealed: The best university in the world is in Britain - but where does yours rank? - Mirror Lack of classroom places for trainee teachers ‘unacceptable’ - Times Positive news on HE gender pay gap, but no gap is acceptable - ECU Ballot opens over 141 redundancies at Hull College - UCU New programme to link WP practitioners and academics - OFFA UVAC Journal newly included in ‘Emerging Sources Citation Index’ - UVAC An English tragedy: how Boris, Dave and Brexit were formed by Eton college - New Statesman These universities have been ranked as the world's best (and the UK wins) - City AM Grammar Schools: how they’ll make education policy even more complicated - The Conversation Learners encouraged to Use-It with new assessment tool - Unionlearn New government funding proposals will force nursery schools to close, warns NAHT - NAHT Two-fifths of businesses in the dark about apprenticeship levy - Personnel Today The five Scottish universities in world's top 200 - Herald Scotland Oxford first UK university to top global league - Financial Times Swinney axes unit assessments to ease teacher workloads - Scotsman Germany and Sweden named the cheapest places to attend university - Independent Oxford University becomes first UK institution to top world university rankings - Independent Oxford tops world university rankings - BBC Top 100 world universities 2016/17 – THE rankings - Telegraph Cardiff University remains 182nd in respected world rankings - Wales Online Oxford ranked top university in the world - Telegraph News Education Cardiff University Cardiff University remains 182nd in respected world rankings - Wales Online Police and students clash during university protest in Johannesburg - Guardian Devolution and localism: what will happen to colleges? - FE News Milanese pupil made to eat homemade lunch alone sparks ideological battle - Guardian Pennsylvania school cafeteria worker quits over 'lunch-shaming' policy - Guardian LRS: batch load documents for schools and providers - SFA SFA: exceptional learning support - cost form - SFA Qualifications: eligibility for public funding - SFA SFA update: issue 327 (21 September 2016) - SFA Skills Funding Agency: update - SFA 'Education reformers' call for more tests and stronger discipline - Times Educational Supplement | TES Controversial exam assessments to be scrapped over workload concerns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford is first UK university to top Times Higher Education world rankings - Times Educational Supplement | TES Variability in apprenticeship standards could 'undermine' credibility, warns Pearson president - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pro-academy campaign group launched by ‘superhead’ Rachel De Souza – but funders remain anonymous - Schools Week Want to make a difference at university? Join the clubs - Guardian Controversial Scottish school assessments scrapped to ease teacher workload - Herald Scotland Oxford becomes first UK university to top global league - Financial Times 60 apply for job teaching 7 pupils on remote Scots island - Scotsman Teachers, your local university could the best resource you'll ever have - Guardian Beginner's guide to student accounts - Independent What works: researching the use of research evidence - IOE London Blog New College Stamford Celebrate Graduate Success - FE News Students protest over 8% tuition fees hike decision - University World News Tresham’s Head of School Helps ParalympicsGB Win Gold in Rio - FE News Learners encouraged to Use-It with new assessment tool - Unionlearn School open days: 'don't come away with unanswered questions' - Telegraph It's not to late to enrol for adult and part-time courses at Weston College - FE News Ofsted urges caution over controversial Sats writing results - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'We will scrap Sats', pledge Lib Dems - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Legal action seems likely over the Sainsbury review' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Two-fifths of businesses do not understand apprenticeship levy, survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges could be forced to open schools to charge top HE fees - Times Educational Supplement | TES Technology to be placed at centre of Scottish classroooms - Scotsman Doing it for the kids: how to start a DIY collective - Guardian What does your university bedroom poster say about you? - Guardian Testing is creating an 'apartheid' in reading, says Michael Morpurgo - Times Educational Supplement | TES Michael Morpurgo says exams have created ‘apartheid’ in schools - Guardian Northern Ireland’s 50 state-controlled schools to get their own support body for the first time - SecEd Are universities secretly sexist? - BBC Deputy head turns novelist and inspires students to get writing - SecEd Call for more power to tackle illegal schools - SecEd Opposition to selection proposal mounts as both TUC and OECD warn against new policy - SecEd Wales considers move to a 4.5 day school week - SecEd #ListenToYourSelfie campaign aims to tackle online sexual abuse - SecEd Funding pressure continues as schools plan for deficit budgets - SecEd Rise in number of pre-school children with their own tablets - Nursery World Testing 'killing the joy of reading', top author claims - Nursery World University can be 'psychologically destructive' for black students because they study so many white Europeans, NUS chief claims - Mail Too many school tests are killing pupils' love of books, War Horse author warns - Mail The Role Of International Education Amid Growing Anti-Globalisation Sentiment Post-Brexit - Huffington Post Island school innundated with applications after social media appeal for new teacher - Herald Scotland Our Universities And Schools Will Thrive After Brexit - Huffington Post Michael Morpurgo says constant school testing is ruining the fun of reading for youngsters - Express Lack of classroom places for trainee teachers ‘unacceptable’ - Times Call for Secretary of State to act on flexible working - NASUWT ILR specification, validation rules and appendices 2016 to 2017 - SFA FE data library: other statistics and research - SFA Further education and skills: statistical first release June 2016 - SFA Survey underlines industry skills gap - Financial Times School tests 'kill joy of reading', says War Horse author - BBC Student teacher crisis "getting worse" - Herald Scotland Controversial Scottish school assessments "to be scrapped" to ease teacher workload - Herald Scotland This is the Welsh Government's new plan to improve children's IT skills - Wales Online Glasgow primary in deprived postcode praised by school inspectors - Herald Scotland