News archive for 28th September 2016

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Students forced to share single rooms as university cashes in on pre-Brexit EU influx - Independent Student protests spread in South Africa - Mail New 'Children Missing Education' Guidance - NAHT Improving facilities and funding for school meals - NAHT ATL's Durham teaching assistants overwhelmingly reject pay cut - ATL Progress 8 scores now released to schools - NAHT Understanding the interdisciplinary research environment - HEFCE Access Agreement Reference Group - OFFA AMiE: Now is the time to speak up - ATL 'Online abuse doesn't stop at the playground. It's on your phone, in your bedroom' - Yvette Cooper MP - PoliticsHome New National Student Survey to strengthen student engagement and increase student voice - HEFCE University acceptances increase, but growth in numbers holding vocational qualifications slows, UCAS report finds - UCAS SFA register: additional financial information - SFA Advanced learner loans facility: change request - SFA Register of apprenticeship training providers - SFA SFA update: issue 328 (28 September 2016) - SFA SFA register: read me first instruction document - SFA SFA: register of training organisations - SFA SFA financial health assessment - SFA Skills Funding Agency: update - SFA Sickle cell disease: Do nurses and teachers need better training and education? - Training Journal New report recommends a new, broader Baccalaureate for 14 – 19 year-olds - Training Journal Labour pledges £160m 'arts pupil premium' for primary schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES School leaders 'will be penalised’ by new cap on exit payments - Times Educational Supplement | TES High school nurse workload hampers efforts to meet medical conditions duty - SecEd Children of immigrants more likely to get university degree - SecEd At a glance headlines: 29/9/2016 - SecEd Disappointment at plan to ‘water down’ entitlement framework - SecEd Proposal to raise taxes to fill teaching vacancies - SecEd Incidents of racism in schools up post-Brexit - SecEd PM’s argument for selection is ‘weak’ and ‘ignores evidence’ - SecEd Corbyn: Labour will give schools £160m ‘arts pupil premium’ - Schools Week Non-specialist teachers, axed subjects and larger classes as recruitment crisis worsens - SecEd Labour vow to sabotage Theresa May's plans for new generation of grammar schools - Express NUS Leadership Condemned For Making Jewish Students Feel Unsafe In Campus Politics - Huffington Post Expert attacks the ‘lunacy’ of classroom red tape mountain - Herald Scotland SFA pauses loans process after FE Week exposes delays - FE Week King's College London diverts fossil fuel endowments to clean energy - Guardian South African teen wins Google prize for orange peel innovation - BBC Students on top of their game at Techmix - FE News When should you question your data? - FE News Teaching assistants to be balloted on strike action in County Durham - Guardian Quality apprenticeships – time to trust the experts - FE News Jeremy Corbyn vows to tax business to fund 'national education service' - Guardian Education providers set to benefit from new online training programme - FE News The diary of a health technology researcher - Guardian NUS president accused of 'anti-Semitic rhetoric' - BBC Further delays to controversial provider register - FE Week Muslim school takes legal action against Ofsted for 'unfair' report that criticised gender segregation - Independent Muslim school takes legal action against Ofsted for 'unfair' report that criticised gender segregation - Independent Homework hell - BBC College Welcomes Minister of State for Education - FE News Reflections on a career in philanthropy - Guardian Direct funding: Guidance for applying for entry in 2017-18 - HEFCE A Writers' Responsibility: How I Get Young People Interested In Reading - Huffington Post The Hidden Monster: Authoritarianism Is Not Just For The Right - Huffington Post New National Student Survey to strengthen student engagement and increase student voice - HEFCE LRS: batch load documents for schools and providers - SFA Former Tory education secretary Lord Baker attacks government's EBacc target - Times Educational Supplement | TES UTC architect Lord Baker slams government over ‘narrow’ EBacc - Schools Week First secondary school in Britain to ban homework allows teachers 'more time to plan lessons' - Mirror Now Labour want to abolish all grammars: Delegates vote in favour of establishing a wholly comprehensive system in England - Mail Our narrow academic curriculum is regressive and will severely limit the skills our country needs - Telegraph Headteacher under fire for scrapping homework at secondary school - Express Islamic faith school blasted by its own pupils for 'dumb' gender segregation policy - Express Secondary school bans homework to give teachers time to improve lessons - Independent A new National Student Survey for 2017 - HEFCE Inspectors tell school for deaf to improve leadership - Herald Scotland Understanding the interdisciplinary research environment - HEFCE John Howard's honorary doctorate from Sydney University 'scandalous' - Guardian Lord Baker rejects post-16 academic and vocational divide - FE Week