News archive for 4th August 2017

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More teachers can provide better support and save money - Scotsman Global: Fake news is bad. But fake history is even worse | Natalie Nougayrède - Guardian Ofsted to simplify information it provides to schools before inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three month inspection report delay nearly over, Ofsted claims - FE Week Largest MATs most likely to be in deficit, despite economies of scale - Times Educational Supplement | TES Joint union advice on teacher and school leadership pay scales for 2017/18 - NAHT In the news: 4 August 2017 - UCU Simplifying workforce data collection in further education - UCU UK is (just) number 1 for educating the world’s leaders - HEPI School census autumn 2017 to summer 2018: school summary reports - DfE SEND provision capital funding for pupils with EHC plans - DfE Pre-16 schools funding: guidance for 2018 to 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies financial notices to improve - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies finance and assurance steering group terms of reference - Education & Skills Funding Agency First on-site college at a major UK airport gets the green light - Cambridge Network A new collaborative approach to simplify workforce data collection in further education - AoC | Association of Colleges UK: government values ed exports but concedes data is limited - PIE News Morgan demands answers on 30 hours' free childcare website glitches - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Triangulating data to better understand the student experience: The use of UKES at LJMU - HEA 20%? Off-the-job training for apprentices - The Staffroom Career Footsteps and apprenticeships in Queenship - Edge Foundation Candidates announced for RSC headteacher board elections - Schools Week More teachers can provide better support for young, says Children's Commissioner - Herald Scotland Vice-Chancellors urged to stop deterioration of free speech on campus - Telegraph USA: The impact of affirmative action at the University of California in one graphic - Guardian Just six people stand for election to headteacher board in North of England - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should I take a gap year before university? - Telegraph Tes FE Podcast: A levels, college diversity and UTCs - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 2017 challenge for GCSE students? Explaining what their results mean - Huffington Post How to research for Ucas clearing - Telegraph Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge to abolish tuition fees slammed as ‘regressive’ over potential tax hike - Huffington Post FE bodies unite to create single college workforce database - Times Educational Supplement | TES Back to teacher development’s big questions: what is education for? - IOE London Blog USA: Pearson to axe 3,000 jobs after slump at main US business - Guardian There's some way to go before universities are truly parent-friendly - Guardian Professor McGonagall or Dewey Finn: which movie teacher are you? - Guardian What I wish I could tell my boss: 'Targets are damaging students' mental health' - Guardian Labour tuition shambles: Non-graduates 'will end up subsidising students who earn more' - Express Brits in America: Heading to Harvard - Times Higher Education | THE Platform: All aboard the Hyperloop express - Scotsman Fears grow that school admissions review will be dropped - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools are struggling to offer swimming lessons, say most teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Getting to grips with off-the-job training – and why it makes sense - FE News Future of Gaelic lies with non-speakers, study finds - Herald Scotland Glitches with key free childcare website probed - BBC HMRC under fire over childcare website failings - Financial Times Oxford bursar hits out at 'grossly excessive' pay of his own vice-chancellor as he says its 'hard to see value for money' in her £410,000 salary - Mail How to tackle bullying (video) - BBC University chiefs are riding the gravy train, says Oxford bursar - Times More money for education ‘doesn’t mean higher marks’ - Times Labour ban on tuition fees ‘will hit poorest the hardest’ - Times More disadvantaged pupils going to university - Times Scotland: Ending grant for dentistry students ‘will put off poor’ - Times Colleges ditch A levels amid funding pressures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish education research unit budget cut by 40% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Child poverty 'beginning to look like a state of emergency' - Times Educational Supplement | TES