News archive for 27th September 2016

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First College in the North West Granted Foundation Degree Awarding Powers - B&FC - FE News Rayner backs ‘important’ appenticeships campaign at Labour conference - FE Week NUS president Malia Bouattia defends safe spaces and no platforming at UK universities - Independent Labour: Early years taskforce will help every child fulfil potential - PoliticsHome How good is your course? - Times What it takes to be a scientist - Times Are arts and humanities still worth pursuing? - Times Employers keep their eyes on ‘Stem’ subjects - Times Colchester high school abolishes 'traditional' homework - BBC Early recruitment of higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies for 2017 - SFA Cambridge Education Group ONCAMPUS and The University of Reading launch new undergraduate foundation programme - FE News Provider Funding Cuts – They Are Dead Parrots. Welcome To The New World - FE News School scraps homework to give teachers time to plan lessons - Telegraph Forget Safe Spaces And No Platforming, Theresa May's Government Is The True Threat To Students On Campus - Huffington Post Current university students will not be affected by cuts to tuition fee grants in Wales - Wales Online Ucas points calculator: work out your overall score - Telegraph Labour 'will defeat grammar school plans', pledges Rayner - BBC University marketers: try making your message more Snapchatty - Guardian School seeks to block critical Ofsted report - BBC Scrap this pupil data collection: it’s a divisive threat to our children’s safety | Dermot Bryers - Guardian 'My long-distance relationship wasn't cheap': students share budgeting tips - Guardian Pricey or poky: what's your student accommodation like? | Sarah Marsh - Guardian School's out forever: New Zealand's plan to allow children to study online raises the question 'what are schools for?' - Telegraph Principal of inadequate college resigns despite ‘full backing’ from governors - FE Week Interview: Theresa Grant (Greater Manchester Combined Authority) - FE News US school's unmanned boat reaches Welsh coast - BBC Diamond review: Loans 'should replace' tuition fees grant - BBC Labour to set out plans for early years taskforce - BBC RIP Erasmus+? - Huffington Post Young People's Mental Health: Telling a Different Story - Huffington Post Research roundup 27 September 2016 - NAHT Through fantasy, children face their fears and become braver - Guardian Looking Beyond The Great University Myth: Weighing Up The Options - Huffington Post Generous university tuition fee grants in Wales set to be scrapped after major review - Wales Online University and College Union responds to Diamond Review - UCU UCU condemns shameful employment practices at Coventry University's subsidiary company - UCU Long serving school leaders penalised by exit payment plans, warns NAHT - NAHT Labour Party conference: Education speech - NUT Action must be taken to protect women and girls from abuse and discrimination - NASUWT Labour’s early years taskforce a welcome addition to the debate, say school leaders - NAHT Preparing students for life in modern Britain - AoC | Association of Colleges Labour to establish early years taskforce - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Apprenticeships in the UK - UCAS Industrial Strategy: what challenges for place? - HEFCE UK: HE, schools comparison site launched - PIE News Peter Lauener appointed Shadow Chief Executive of Institute for Apprenticeships - AoC | Association of Colleges Clarity on new Apprenticeships Levy needed, says Shadow Business and Education Minister - PoliticsHome Too many young people are wasting their time by studying poor degrees at university - City AM Thousands of children 'could miss out on nursery places' over changes to funding - Evening Standard $1m committed to education platform for displaced students - PIE News ILR guides and templates for 2016 to 2017 - SFA FE data library: other statistics and research - SFA Apprenticeship standards approved for delivery - SFA Early recruitment of higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies for 2017 - SFA Green Party urges Minister for Youth to protect a ‘generation in crisis’ - Training Journal Academy trust asks teachers for ideas on how to clear deficit - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour's Angela Rayner vows to fight 'toxic' grammar school plans - Times Educational Supplement | TES First weeks of school year are 'perfect storm' for cyberbullying - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC president launches 'year of mental health' to support college students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar school proposals under fire from government adviser - Times Educational Supplement | TES Labour to launch childcare taskforce to ‘transform’ early years - Schools Week Chair of Education Funding Agency doubts all-academy and grammar plans - Schools Week Teacher severance pay cap will cost schools, warns union - Schools Week Angela Rayner: Full text of Labour Conference 2016 speech - Schools Week Labour MP Angela Rayner's moving story of quitting school while pregnant at 16 - Mirror Labour to set up new early years taskforce - Nursery World Response to announcement of a childcare taskforce by Labour - Coram Family & Childcare School transforms building and teaches all staff sign language so disabled boy can attend with his sisters - Mirror Massive spike in online searches for 'cyberbullying' at start of new school year - Mirror Pupils at Islamic school spoke out against segregation, High Court told - Mail Student union president refuses to apologise for 'anti-Semitic' remarks when she called Birmingham University 'a Zionist outpost' - Mail NUS leader unrepentant over Birmingham university 'zionist outpost' comments - Express Professor: Life of Jesus should be included in history lessons in Scottish schools - Herald Scotland Meet the teenagers taking the business world by storm - Guardian Government policy offers UK universities’ competitors a rosy future | Jonathan Wolff - Guardian University admissions: ‘Good students are being love-bombed with offers’ - Guardian What students have to pay to go to university will be made clearer today - Wales Online Theresa May’s chief of staff wants more free schools where they’re not needed - Guardian FE Fails the Quality Test - FE News