News archive for 3rd April 2017

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Almost two thirds of students want referendum on Brexit deal, NUS survey finds - Express Local authority school places scorecards 2016 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Condition improvement fund - Education & Skills Funding Agency Nick Gibb: empowering teachers to deliver greater equity - DfE £2.4 billion funding boost for England's schools - DfE School capital funding allocations: 2015 to 2018 - DfE Institute for Apprenticeships to ensure quality skills training - DfE Statistics: school capacity - DfE Apprenticeship accountability statement - DfE Higher Education and Research Bill: Lords third reading - UK Parliament Technical and Further Education Bill: Lords third reading - UK Parliament Apprenticeship accountability statement – quality - UVAC The government is failing to understand school funding challenges - NAHT Why we must protect university autonomy - HEPI AELP CEO comments on MPs’ report on the apprenticeship levy - AELP All our kids should have sex education - but we need to overcome the hurdle of teachers - Mirror USA: Student debt may drag on home ownership: Fed's Dudley - Mail China sets target for 80% of citizens to speak Mandarin by 2020 - BBC Apprenticeship Accountability Statement - FE News Brian Cox: Don't use children as 'measurement probes' to test schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hull university threatens to mark down students who don't use gender neutral pronouns - Independent Universities: share your stories of exam cheating - Guardian Daily roundup 3 April: Child poverty, football abuse, and school funding - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Hong Kong: Police prosecute pro-democracy students and scholars - University World News Fresh perspectives on delivering a digital student experience in FE - Jisc School funding cuts to hit poorer areas harder, says Labour - Guardian Research Excellence Framework 2021: applications invited for main panel chairs - HEFCE Free nursery hours plan risks higher fees, say campaigners - BBC Institute for Apprenticeships to ensure quality skills training - FE News Clare Marchant named as the new Chief Executive of UCAS - UCAS Pressure on school places: Four facts we learned today - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research round-up 2 April 2017 - NAHT Institute for Apprenticeships launched - Times Educational Supplement | TES ATL ‘extremely concerned’ about apprentices being 'exploited' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hungary CEU: Protesters rally to save university - BBC Teachers 'opting to work part-time to finish marking on days off' - Evening Standard Wales term-time holidays at 'record high' - BBC Free school meals is 'unreliable poverty measure' - BBC Less than half of providers to offer 30-hour free childcare - CYPN | Children & Young People Now HEFCE to regulate degree apprenticeships - FE Week Quality settlement between Ofsted and HEFCE for apprenticeships - HEFCE Union demands say in teacher apprenticeships to avoid ‘exploitation’ - Schools Week Degree apprenticeships to be regulated by Hefce, not Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hungary: The EU has tolerated Viktor Orbán for too long. It’s time to take a stand | Cas Mudde - Guardian Brian Monteith: If SNP won’t change education, parents should - Scotsman Staff development: The easiest budget to cut (but should it be?) - FE News The very brightest graduates can get up to £20,000 to train to teach in Wales - Wales Online Deliverology in, out and around the university - Wonkhe Higher education must learn from other sectors on living with a regulator - Wonkhe An experimental approach to evaluate the impact of outreach - HEFCE Nurseries unwilling to commit to Government's 30-hour childcare scheme - Nursery World More parents taking up pilot 30-hours than expected - Nursery World Global: Successful international strategies link education, industry and government - PIE News You too could be multilingual – it’s just about unlocking the skills inside - The Conversation Nine grammars will expand in £2.4bn boost for our schools: New classrooms will help create 600,000 extra places by 2021 - Mail Think tanks says Catholic state schools 'no better' than non-denominational sector - Herald Scotland High-flying graduates see teaching as fallback option, research finds - Times Extra school places and building repairs in £2.4bn boost - BBC Religious schooling won’t help tackle Scotland’s attainment gap - Scotsman Segregated schools will not close attainment gap, study shows - Herald Scotland Religious ethos ‘does not affect pupil attainment’ - Times Greening heralds £2.4bn school capital funding, but money isn’t new - Schools Week BERA one day conference: Exploring Recruitment, Retention and Region: the new three ‘R’s’ challenging schools in England (3 April 2017) - UCET Ofstedwatch: the latest Ofsted reports for FE and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES