News archive for 4th April 2017

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Didau’s taxonomy - The Learning Spy The Gender Assembly Conference - NAHT Inspiring Leadership Conference 2017 - NAHT ASCL Code of Ethics Project: what is the value of the child in contemporary British society? - ASCL Three into two does go - MillionPlus Comment on Brexit Committee Report - Russell Group How do you solve a problem like REF 2021? - Wonkhe A branch campus is for life, not just for Brexit - Wonkhe School workforce census: guide to submitting data - DfE Performance tables: approved qualifications and discount codes - DfE School workforce census: closed collections - DfE School workforce census 2017: business and technical specification - DfE ESFA: supplementary data collection - Education & Skills Funding Agency Why teacher encouragement matters – and how we can help - Russell Group Facebook posts fail to reflect school quality - Guardian Austerity reaches England’s school gates - Financial Times How much will I be fined if I take my children on holiday during term-time - Telegraph Teach pupils about mental health, parents say - Times Educational Supplement | TES City & Guilds criticised as details of CEO's £690,000 salary are leaked - Telegraph Thousands of British children exposed to illegal levels of air pollution - Guardian Not every student who volunteers abroad is out to boost their CV - Guardian Have your say in the 2017 Union Learning Survey - Unionlearn City and Guilds Group CEO received £690,000 in pay and benefits - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hungary passes bill targeting Central European University - BBC Corbyn pins Labour's local election hopes on NHS and schools - Guardian When learning Welsh takes a step into the future... - Wales Online Long Sutton school head defends 'duvet day' incentive - BBC A quarter of Jewish students live in fear of anti-Semitic hate crime, NUS study reveals - Huffington Post MPs to debate whether texts should be taken into GCSE English literature exam - Times Educational Supplement | TES SNP: Labour PFI schools legacy ‘costs councils millions’ - Scotsman The assessment system is unsustainable: how can we make it better? - IOE London Blog Sixth-form college sets up its own MAT after academy conversion - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK teachers: share your experiences of racism in the classroom - Guardian Six things you need to know about the Higher Education Bill - The Conversation The NUS is broken - we need a moderate candidate to fix it - Telegraph Here is what makes some writing ‘world leading’ - IOE London Blog Can pre-school children learn to do science? | Jenny Rohn - Guardian Refreshing the SEND Exhibition Site - Education & Training Foundation | ETF The Apprenticeship Levy: A UK business opportunity - Training Journal The TEF and student success – why participation is key to learning and teaching - HEA Family and Childcare Trust appoints joint Chief Executives - Coram Family & Childcare Reshaping our understanding of employability - HEFCE Welsh childcare sector 'most fragile in Britain' - Nursery World Bhutan solves the ultimate school maths problem – and the answer is 108 - Guardian Treating overseas students as migrants is not just wrong, it defies common sense | Chris Patten - Guardian Disabled students fear for their future as independence payments cut - Guardian The automated university: bots and drones amid the dreaming spires - Guardian Anti-abortion charity funded by tampon tax gives pro-life talks in 200 UK schools despite government guidelines - Independent You're hired? New levy and tougher rules signal apprenticeship shakeup - Guardian Don’t knock the PPE degree – it’s an antidote to fake news | Jonathan Wolff - Guardian State schools hire fundraisers to fill budget gaps - Financial Times Christopher Hart: Who will stand up against this creeping insanity infecting our great universities? - Mail Most parents unlikely to get extra free childcare - Times Workless parents stunt a child’s prospects for life - Times FE ITT Bursaries for 2017/18 - note to providers (4 April 2017) - UCET UCET Easter 2017 Newsletter - UCET