News archive for 2nd August 2017

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When do A-Level 2017 results come out? Results Day date and everything you need to know - Mirror ESFA weekly round-up - Issue 365 - FE News Twins driven to anxiety and depression because parents and teachers treat them as 'one unit', mental health experts claim - Telegraph We need to tackle recruitment and invest in schools to help tackle disadvantage, says NAHT - NAHT Addressing the university pension fund deficit - Universities UK Government listen to concerns and pause all apprenticeship framework removals - FE Week 'We don’t want chaos and confusion': Meet the woman behind the new GCSE grades - Telegraph Joint union advice on school teachers’ pay 2017-18 - ATL SFCA member news - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Understanding schools’ responses to the Progress 8 accountability measure - NAHT SFCA in the news - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Don’t let your parents near the ‘phone on A level results day! - GSA ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Contracting arrangements for further education providers - Education & Skills Funding Agency Condition Improvement Fund: 2017 to 2018 outcome - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: August 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Removal of apprenticeship frameworks - Education & Skills Funding Agency Apprenticeship technical funding guide - Education & Skills Funding Agency School census 2017 to 2018: technical information - DfE Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2017 - DfE Income and expenditure in academies: new data raises more questions than answers - NFER The qualities needed to be a good teacher | Letters - Guardian The changes to GCSE grades are a step in the right direction - but we need to go further - Telegraph A dip in demand? - HEFCE Career aspirations focus for next generation of students - Leeds Beckett University Where will Prince George go to school? Where is Thomas's Battersea? - Express Durand Academy's boarding school will close - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students as educators: Reflections on a MOOC creation experience - HEA Teachers, trainers and education-leaders encouraged to work towards a Masters through research - Education & Training Foundation | ETF The correlation between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 value added - Education Datalab More young Britons out of work and education - Financial Times Edge comment on increase in long-term Neets - Edge Foundation Away from the police sirens, work to protect the young and vulnerable from radicalisation is as essential as ever - Huffington Post DfE consultancy spending rockets by 41 per cent in a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools to get free creative coding software for national computing curriculum - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools avoid budget cuts for A-level drop-outs - Schools Week Fitness gadgets 'discourage pupils from exercising' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government revises 29 apprenticeship framework funding rates - FE Week Institute for Apprenticeships announces its External Quality Assurance delivery partner - FE News Looking to develop career skills? These online OU courses are for you! - Unionlearn Teachers, trainers and education-leaders encouraged to work towards a Masters through research - FE News IfA appoints small exam board as apprenticeship ‘External Quality Assurance’ delivery partner - FE Week Scrap the new and ‘controversial’ £200,000 non-levy tender minimum, says AELP - FE Week US Justice Department to investigate universities that discriminate against white people - Express SFCA welcome significant funding win for two year courses - FE Week Getting culture right Part 1: Normative messages - The Learning Spy Successful university chiefs should not be ashamed of their salaries, says vice-chancellor earning £200,000 a year - Independent Lebanon: George and Amal Clooney to open seven schools for Syrian refugee children - Express Busy Bees ties up acquisition of Canadian group - Nursery World Providers to be blocked by DfE from speaking directly to the media – it’s ‘nonsensical’ says AELP boss - FE Week Black female student's powerful response to critics who questioned her winning a place at Cambridge University - Mirror Apprenticeship reforms and social mobility under the spotlight in new inquiry - FE Week We need to have a big conversation about the nature and purposes of a university or college education - IOE London Blog How can we create a culture of excellence in schools? - Guardian All aboard the USS pension deficit - Wonkhe Don’t keep mum on exercise - Scotsman US government threat to unwind affirmative action at universities - Guardian Tougher words on academy pay are welcome, but we need action - Schools Week 'Southern' English language course for foreign teachers – archive, 1922 - Guardian Toby Young’s flagship academy trust ditches ‘free school’ from its name - Schools Week Canada: Face of the future - BBC Lack of qualifications 'increases risk of being long-term Neet' - Times Educational Supplement | TES London School of Economics spent thousands on farewell gifts for director - Times I’m worth every penny, says George Holmes, £220,000 chief of Bolton University - Times Scotland: Teach First scheme takes aim at Scottish schools - Times Scotland: Nine out of ten children do too little daily exercise - Times Ireland: Parents go into debt to buy children school books - Times