News archive for 10th April 2017

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Ofqual welcomes new members to the board - FE News Teachers' union urges limits on pay of academy bosses - BBC ‘We’ve cut to the bone’ – teachers speak out over school funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents are right to be sceptical about happiness lessons for eight-year-olds - Telegraph Hungary’s assault on academic freedom is a threat to European principles - The Conversation More flexibility needed under ‘off the job’ apprenticeship training rules to meet needs of employers and apprentices - FE News The NUS is a mess. As president, Tom Harwood could clean it up - Guardian More university students are using tech to cheat in exams - Guardian AELP demands widespread changes to 20 per cent off-the-job apprenticeship training rule - FE Week Andrew Lloyd Webber calls for more pressure on schools to teach the arts - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers must be freed from the shackles of admin work in order to do their job properly - Telegraph Calls for guidance on apprenticeships' 20% off-the-job training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sector Response to GCSE English and Maths re-sits - FE News Getting ready for T-levels - FE News Free school headteacher joins Ofqual's board - Times Educational Supplement | TES Costing study of pre-registration nursing, midwifery and allied health profession courses - HEFCE Troubled Baverstock Academy at centre of police fraud investigation - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy school bosses' 'immoral' pay packets must be stopped, education sector told - Independent English and maths GCSE resits not scrapped for 2017-18 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union votes overwhelmingly to curb pay of 'fat cat' academy CEOs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prepare British children for life after Brexit – teach them another language - The Conversation #ATLconf17: Union will lobby Greening over ‘excessive’ and ‘immoral’ academy CEO pay - Schools Week Decision to retain forced maths and English GCSE resits ‘extremely’ disappointing - FE Week Police launch fraud inquiry at Baverstock Academy - Schools Week Kenny Logan takes bold STEP to help children with dyslexia - Scotsman MPs’ sobering review of the apprenticeship reforms - FE News Student approval ratings are abysmal – universities need effective regulation | Jim Dickinson - Guardian Newport teaching assistant reprimand over girl tied to chair - BBC Interdisciplinary Research Advisory Panel announced - HEFCE More flexibility needed under ‘off the job’ apprenticeship training rules to meet needs of employers and apprentices - AELP Schools having to prioritise cost-cutting over quality of children’s education - finds ATL/NUT survey - ATL MillionPlus welcomes NUS report on international students and calls for a new approach from government - MillionPlus ECU’s comment on new NUS report - ECU Redressing the balance - a summary - NAHT Stiff Upper Lip: secrets, crimes and the schooling of a ruling class - Guardian Parents asked to pay as 'crisis' hits Newry school - BBC Kirsty Gunn: University open season such an exciting time for teens… and their parents - Scotsman White British students from low socio-economic status groups - OFFA The future of childcare in London: Devolving funding for greater affordability, access and equality - IPPR EFA Information Exchange - Education & Skills Funding Agency Financial accountability arrangements for colleges planning a merger - Education & Skills Funding Agency Financial benchmarking tool for colleges - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofqual welcomes new members to the board - Ofqual It’s time to open up academic conferences to the wider world - Wonkhe Are universities keeping in touch with the new political zeitgeist? - Wonkhe Anywhere to Somewhere: the achievement society and its discontents - Wonkhe Assessing interdisciplinary research: Would you accept the challenge? - HEFCE Funding confirmed for the second phase of the Degree Apprenticeship Development Fund - HEFCE Schools urged to consult with parents on primary age sex education - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 10 April: Restraint, carrots, and e-cigarettes - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Hear hear: what are MPs’ perceptions of universities? - Wonkhe Dutch higher education attracts record 112,000 international students - PIE News DfE finds £50m more for 30 hours expansion - Nursery World Response from National Numeracy to the consultation on the government’s proposed industrial strategy - National Numeracy Schools having to prioritise cost-cutting over quality of children’s education - finds ATL/NUT survey - NUT Primary schools forced to re-advertise headteacher roles - Schools Week Unions won’t go easy on grammar plans to win funding deal - Schools Week Schools invited to express interest in new £140m improvement fund - Schools Week Wales needs 50,000 more teaching staff over the next seven years - Wales Online School budget squeeze 'is reducing pupils' subject choice' - BBC Parents now have to pay to watch school plays and sporting events amid deepening funding crisis - Mail Aggregated L&D budgets and a new apprenticeship role - FE News Cash-strapped schools beg parents for money to pay for basic equipment as brutal Tory cuts leave them skint - Mirror Free school breakfasts boost progress, study finds - Financial Times More than half of schools forced to ask parents for financial help in past year - Independent Schools cut books and SEND spending as funding pressures bite - Schools Week Parents must buy books at cash-strapped schools, claims teacher union survey - Express Schools' begging letters to parents show Theresa May is bottom of the class - Mirror Submission #40: off-the-job training survey and recommendations as submitted to the Department for Education - AELP