News archive for 7th April 2017

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Church of England rejects new grammar schools; it will build schools for the 'many, not just the few' - Telegraph Global: rise of populism is a wake-up call for universities - University World News Denmark: cut in study places aimed at culling EU student intake - University World News Germany has been named the most attractive country for international students - what's it like to study there? - Guardian South Africa: UAE ranks three universities in top-10 subject lists - University World News China: the new lodestar for Africa's students? - University World News Policy Eye: highlights of week ending Friday 17 March 2017 - Pearson Global: revolutions ahead in international student mobility - University World News Australia: all universities commit to releasing sexual assault data - University World News USA: universities support legal challenge to Trump travel ban - University World News Ofsted watch: college snubbed from register rated 'outstanding' for apprenticeships - FE Week Unionlearn welcomes skills commission report - Unionlearn Schools funding row exposes underlying unfairness - Financial Times Guidance for schools and other public bodies on meeting the public sector apprenticeship target - FE News Fight continues at Llangennech School as legal crowd-funding begins - Wales Online Wolverhampton students honour local war heroes by sprucing up cemeteries across the city - FE News Women 'strongly under-represented' in secondary school headteacher roles, study finds - Independent Council raises £22,000 fining parents for taking children on holiday in term time - Express Comment: why education must come before holidays - Mail Disability services transform students' lives – we must protect them - Guardian Jim Duffy: I could teach educators a thing or two - Scotsman Church of England not interested in opening new grammar schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Early years should be 'prerequisite' of all teachers' training, says Sir David Carter - Times Educational Supplement | TES Where will the next wave of free schools be? We still don’t know… - Schools Week A UTC that outsourced teaching says government knew about deal - Schools Week Home Office doesn’t know how many foreign teachers face deportation under new £35k salary rules - Schools Week Grammar school teachers are being singled out to feature in a “government-led” TV campaign, although the Department for Education (DfE) says it has not commissioned a production company - Schools Week Major exam board predicts 'hundreds' will get straight grade 9s in new GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Diane Abbott mocked for privately educating her son as Labour plans private school tax - Express Trust your own judgement to improve pupils’ progress - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can society square the circle on single-sex schools? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Do the movies give teaching a bad reputation? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Female heads 'under-represented in secondary schools', says study - BBC What’s it like having a disabled sibling? - BBC Six new research schools unveiled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Counter terror scheme Prevent receives just 16 referrals from Scottish schools in two years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Virtual school a real problem for Pearson - Times Chinese outbid Oxford college to create rival business school - Times Father loses court battle over term-time holiday - Times Michael Gove: term-time holidays are a betrayal of children - Times Six more schools unveiled as research hubs – taking total to 11 - Schools Week Labour’s private school tax ‘a false economy’ - Times