News archive for 13th April 2017

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Teach First response to the Education Secretary's speech on 'ordinary working families' - Teach First Leader comment: school checks should all have been done by now - Scotsman Government add Birmingham college to register of apprenticeship providers - FE Week Schools told they should give transgender pupils a cake to celebrate their transition - Telegraph Grammar schools dominated by the wealthy, DfE's own data shows - Guardian Dozens more schools across Scotland with structural faults - Scotsman Ark's head of assessment leaving to work on comparative judgement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Angela Rayner: to justify expanding grammar schools, the government is inventing evidence - Guardian 'One rule for them' Labour MP squirms over top schools chosen by party's senior figures - Express Grammar schools must be open to 'ordinary families' - BBC Excitement builds ahead of AoC Sport National Championships 2017 - FE Week Grammar schools prioritising children from poorer backgrounds is a stupid idea – here’s why - Metro 'Touchscreen-toddlers' sleep less, researchers say - BBC EPI responds to consultation on supporting 'ordinary working families' - EPI Exam boards ask students and NQTs to mark GCSE and A-level exam papers - Times Educational Supplement | TES The Education Secretary wants to get children from 'ordinary working families' into grammar schools. - BBC Why is Harvard ditching the puritans? - BBC Government to 'formally intervene' at 35 providers with achievement rate failures - FE Week Cybersecurity: why the education sector can't afford not to invest - Jisc Justine Greening: schools will not need to track 'ordinary working families' - Schools Week Greening: Schools will not need to track ‘ordinary working families’ - Schools Week David Didau: a summary of my arguments about education - The Learning Spy Cardiff Met: the student football team with sights set on the Europa League - Guardian Government should not cut international student figures, says majority of British public - Huffington Post Poll: Most Scots want international students to work in UK - Scotsman ‘Ordinary families’ quota for grammars - Times May is gambling that voters share her nostalgia for grammars - Times Strikes called over school funding, as Greening denies she is ignoring the problem - Times Educational Supplement | TES Video clip: Justine Greening gets a grilling from Charlie Stayt over Grammar Schools - Huffington Post 20 extra jobs that all teachers do but get no thanks for - Metro Kristin Aune: how can universities tackle religious discrimination? - Guardian The Apprenticeship Levy is an opportunity for businesses to improve - we shouldn't waste it  - Telegraph Investigation finds defects in over 70 schools across Scotland - Scotsman Justine Greening denies grammar school policy ignores poorest pupils - Guardian New grammar schools must help 'ordinary working families', Justine Greening claims - Express New ComRes poll: majority of British public would like to see the same number or more international students - Universities UK Justine Greening: New grammar schools must take more pupils from poor families - Mail 'Fake news' epidemic spreading to schools: Third of teachers say students are stating false information as fact because they believe everything they read online - Mail Daily roundup 13 April: Playground closures, grammar schools, and child sexual exploitation - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Public opposed to reducing international student numbers - poll - PoliticsHome Justine Greening: Grammar schools must do more to take pupils from 'ordinary working families' - PoliticsHome Grammar schools admission policy is a 'distraction' - PoliticsHome Sir Peter Lampl responds to Justine Greening’s speech - Sutton Trust Nearly five hundred playgrounds will have closed by 2019 - Nursery World ESFA e-bulletin: 13 April 2017 (issue 170) - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: funding rates and formula - Education & Skills Funding Agency NASUWT comments on the Secretary of State's speech on grammar schools - NASUWT The government is committed to delivering a policy for the few at the expense of the many, says NAHT - NAHT Grammar schools - NUT Justine Greening: education at the heart of our plan for Britain - DfE MSP warns of obesity risk as pupils lose out on nutrition lessons - Scotsman Statement to AELP members from AELP CEO on the ESFA announcement of 12 April 2017 - AELP It cannot be right to label children failures at age 11 - ATL - ATL Schools that work for everyone? - Voice FE area reviews - Voice Time to celebrate our professionals - don't let politicians take the credit - Voice DFE: Expressions of Interest for ITT models & Online Information Session (May 2017) - UCET UCET issues template for the ITT sector to map ITE content (13 April 2017) - UCET What the British public really think about international students - Universities UK Justine Greening's speech smacks of desperation - ASCL Money saving deal for schools' printers - DfE Making staff selection work in REF 2021 - Wonkhe Students set to see interest on their debts jump by up to a third because a hike in rates will hit repayments - Mail Teachers threaten boycott to kill off primary school tests: Major union votes to shun SATs exams because of fears they cause 'stress' to children - Mail Grammar schools must serve 'ordinary families' - BBC Primary school-age pupils sharing sexual content in the classroom, teachers warn - Independent Greening targets 'ordinary families' in grammar schools drive - Guardian Fake news is finding its way into students’ school work, teachers warn - Huffington Post Glasgow college chief could see 50 per cent pay hike - Herald Scotland Greening: Grammar schools already take 'many ordinary working-class' pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fake news is being cited by pupils as fact in their studies, warn teachers - Independent What is an ordinary working person? PM's grammar schools report has the answer | Larry Elliot - Guardian 'All grammar schools should give priority to poor students', Education Secretary set to announce - Telegraph Time for all schools to join the breakfast club - Times One third of teachers 'suffer online abuse' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greening defends grammars in speech about ‘ordinary working class’ children - Schools Week Tories vow to help struggling families and suburbs with wave of grammars: Education Secretary to say schools should be 'truly open to all' - Mail Fake news plague is spreading to schoolchildren’s homework says teachers’ union - Express