News archive for 12th April 2017

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Confusion and anger as hundreds of apprenticeship providers left disappointed - FE Week Peking university to open new campus in Oxford next year - Independent DfE consults over its focus on pupils from 'ordinary working families' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government consults on definition of ‘ordinary working families’ - Schools Week USA: The girl with eight Ivy League college offers - BBC What the attack on CEU says about the rise of ‘illiberalism’ in Europe - The Conversation The great education debate - The Learning Spy Chess: Important teaching tool or unwelcome workload burden? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary school warns against 'dating app for children' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bousted: ‘Teachers must have the power to say no to fads and punishing workloads’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES EU in threat over Hungary university and asylum moves - BBC “Fundamental culture change” needed to address skills shortage in UK - FE News Five proven hacks to help students tackle revision - Guardian Teachers back possible primary test boycott - BBC 6 things to get right in every school - Teacherhead 2017's shortlist for the Picture Book Awards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students face sharp rise in interest on tuition loans - BBC Procurement for apprenticeship training in smaller employers - sector response - FE News Millions of students and graduates to pay more in student loan fees thanks to Brexit - Independent Tens of thousands of AQA examiners have personal details stolen in cyber attack - Times Educational Supplement | TES Procurement paused for apprenticeships with smaller employers - FE Week Apprenticeship procurement 'paused', ESFA announces - Times Educational Supplement | TES The consequences of freedom Part 2 - The Learning Spy Careers guidance provision for young people in schools - FE News Maths classes should be taught in the morning to improve attainment, study finds  - Telegraph 'Pinkification' putting girls off IT, says Dr Hannah Dee - BBC Teachers union threatens to boycott primary school tests weeks after Government 'caved in' over Sats - Telegraph Don’t risk children’s potential with grammar school expansion, Bousted warns - Schools Week ‘Schools can celebrate transitioning of a trans pupil with cake’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES New wave of free schools approved by the Government - Independent Thousands of examiners’ personal details stolen in AQA cyber-attack - Schools Week Student loan interest rates soar to 6.1% thanks to post-Brexit inflation - Huffington Post ATL votes to explore boycott of primary tests - Schools Week ATL votes overwhelmingly to 'explore' Sats boycott - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Ordinary working families’ are not educationally disadvantaged – those claiming benefits are - Education Datalab ‘Ordinary working families’ won’t get access to grammar schools – and government data confirms as much - Education Datalab Equality and diversity initiatives are wide-ranging and creative - HEFCE Invitations now open for the phase 2 of the Degree Apprenticeship Development Fund - HEFCE Apprenticeship procurement pause announced by ESFA - AoC | Association of Colleges "Fundamental culture change” needed to address skills shortage in UK - AoC | Association of Colleges PACEY awarded £400k to support childminders to deliver 30 hours - Nursery World Halt for small business apprenticeship tender - Nursery World Charity wins funding to boost SEND expertise of early years staff - Nursery World Nursery market sees rush of early years setting sales - Nursery World Third of heads use pupil premium to plug funding gaps - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 12 April: Free schools, honour-based abuse, and diets - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Providers to get their non-levy apprenticeship contracts extended - AELP Universities at the heart of a successful industrial strategy - Russell Group Supporting students who experience anti-Muslim hatred - Universities UK National Special Educational Needs Awards 2017 - NAHT Government continues to require students to resit GCSE maths and English - NAHT NAHT comment on Sutton Trust Pupil Premium Report - NAHT Free schools - NUT Stiff Upper Lip by Alex Renton review – the damage boarding schools have done - Guardian Teach First appoints Lord Hill and Dame Mary Marsh as Trustees - Teach First Free school applications - DfE Free school applications: assessing the need for more schools - DfE More than 130 new free schools to create more good places - DfE A third of heads “using funding for poorer pupils to plug gaps” in their school’s budget new Sutton Trust polling of teachers - Sutton Trust 25 years on: The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 - Wonkhe ESFA update: April 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Procurement for apprenticeship training in smaller employers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Careers guidance provision for young people in schools - DfE Analysing family circumstances and education - DfE Next wave of English free schools approved - BBC Schools 'cut staff due to funding shortages' - BBC Hour a day on social media 'makes children less happy': Girls are most affected with impact on how they feel about their appearance and school - Mail The 20%: Off-the-job learning is vexing apprentice employers - FE News Give schoolgirl cancer virus jab to boys too, say teachers - Mail Get involved in making sure that apprenticeships are really geared up to the skills you will be relying on - David Gauke - FE News A third of schools using money meant for poorest pupils to cover budget shortages - Independent New wave of free schools planned despite secondary staff cuts - Guardian Lyric battle: Why is Harvard putting puritans in the stocks? - BBC A third of headteachers using pupil premium to plug budget shortfalls - Times Educational Supplement | TES Approval granted for 131 more free schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar school among sponsors for 111 new free schools - Schools Week 111 new free schools: The complete list - Schools Week Scotland: College lecturers vote for strike action after ‘duplicity’ over pay deal - Times Formula for success: maths lessons in the morning and history after lunch - Times Tories approve 130 'enormously expensive' free schools despite existing schools facing funding crisis - Mirror