News archive for 20th April 2017

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Bill Gates pays a surprise visit to London school kids debating on international development - City AM Government secretly grading all colleges and training providers - FE Week Corbyn promises to halt rise of ‘super-size’ classes in latest Labour schools pledge - Schools Week Labour focuses on pupils 'crammed into classrooms like sardines' - Guardian Australia: Government listens to universities' fears over visas - University World News Schools funding formula will hurt poorest pupils | Letters - Guardian Agency boss writes warning letter to all college principals - FE Week Agency writes to apprenticeship providers with further details on non-levy pause - FE Week Questions on PFI school deals must be answered, MSPs told - Herald Scotland Norway: Row over politician meddling in university positions - University World News Secondary schools twice as likely to be rated under-performing by Ofsted, study finds  - Telegraph Increase in teacher trainees is 'too little, too late', providers complain - Times Educational Supplement | TES Specialist negotiators drafted in as college pay row intensifies - Herald Scotland Judge Rinder: 'I was a proper nerd as a law student. I was consumed by it' - Guardian Lib Dems accuse Theresa May of manipulating immigration figures over foreign students u-turn - Huffington Post Phonics boosts reading accuracy, study finds - Schools Week USA: UC Berkeley cancels Ann Coulter immigration speech after violent protests over Milo Yiannopoulos event - Huffington Post Germany: Refugee university student numbers rising steeply - University World News English voters should be concerned about education in the upcoming election - Huffington Post Edinburgh researchers join £250m dementia project - Scotsman Phonics leads to easier, more accurate, reading, new research finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex ed isn’t scary if schools put relationships first - Huffington Post Group set up to tackle homophobic bullying in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Global: March for science needs to be diverse - Huffington Post Ones to watch at AoC Sport National Championships 2017 - FE Week Freshman or freshers? - advice to a Brit studying in America - Huffington Post School funding – Government must come clean before the election - NUT Grammar schools white paper won’t be published until after election - Schools Week Regional disparities could hamper efforts to turn around struggling schools, report finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy chain shortage in the north, while south prospers - Schools Week What PISA tells us about pupils from ordinary working families - Education Datalab HEFCE workshops on ‘What works’ in the Prevent duty and IT - HEFCE Accountability for diversity: Too important to be left to executive search firms? - HEFCE IOE to research Brexit’s impact on UK universities - IOE London Blog Daily roundup 20 April: Youth vote, Ofsted inspections, and school meals - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Money matters - Sutton Trust British Sign Language wins GCSE equivalent status for early years apprenticeships - Nursery World Join in Outdoor Classroom Day 2017 - Nursery World Jeremy Corbyn: Children 'crammed into classrooms like sardines' due to Tory schools policy - PoliticsHome Worshipful Company of Butchers renews three-year partnership - Teach First FE data library: apprenticeship vacancies - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 20 April 2017 (issue 171) - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin - Education & Skills Funding Agency Employing an apprentice: technical guide for employers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Ofqual 2017-18 main estimate memorandum - Ofqual Primary school accountability - DfE Latest on non-levy apprenticeship allocations for providers - AELP New analysis reveals dramatic differences in the challenges facing Regional Schools Commissioners - NFER Northern Power Women Awards recognise Harrogate Ladies’ College head - GSA School funding in Wales 2017 - NAHT Teachers on Twitter: why you should join and how to get started - Guardian Making an impact with alternative routes - MillionPlus For HE in Northern Ireland, the only certainty is uncertainty - Wonkhe English and maths - opportunity or threat? - FE News Obesity campaigners call for more salads and fewer puddings in school - BBC ESFA weekly round-up - Issue 355 - FE News Irish teenagers are stressing out over exams - Times Venezuela: Students shot dead in march against Maduro - Times Girls unhappy, stressed and addicted to web - Times May forced to weaken key target on migrants - Times Submission: #41 response to “Building our industrial strategy” green paper - AELP