News archive for 8th August 2017

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28,700 Scottish applicants accepted to higher education - UCAS University beckons for successful Scottish students - UCAS ILR guides and templates for 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency National pupil database: third-party requests - DfE Independent state school partnerships (ISSP): evaluation - DfE NASUWT welcomes call for more teachers - NASUWT NASUWT comments on Scottish exam results - NASUWT ‘Teaching intensity’ will not be a helpful addition to TEF - Wonkhe CBI Scotland statement on SQA exam results - CBI Making a co-operative university - Wonkhe Entire class fails higher exam for the second year running - Scotsman Scotland: Teaching union blasts SNP as exam results revealed - Express Scotland’s most sought-after job industries revealed as exam results day comes and goes - Herald Scotland Students sue Oxford University amid claims of mental health discrimination - Express Area reviews in further education: a summary - FE Week Scottish MSPs warn of narrow curriculum as uptake of creative subjects declines - Guardian National Student Survey 2017 results show high levels of student satisfaction and engagement - HEFCE Troubled government Childcare Service website could face select committee probe - Public Technology Practitioners lack confidence in tackling radicalisation, study reveals - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK stakeholders lambast press coverage of international admissions - PIE News Leeds Beckett welcomes two new Professors of Teacher Education - Leeds Beckett University Students win record number of university places - BBC Teacher mindsets - The Staffroom Three sets of twins from same school achieve straight As - Scotsman Students win record number of university places - Sutton Trust GCSE results day 2017: what is the new 9 - 1 grading system and why are so many students confused? - Telegraph Students: how to work out what you're good at - Guardian Clearing 2017: how to find last minute accommodation - Telegraph I want to become an end-point assessor – where do I start? - FE News Parents: How you can help your child in the run up to Results Day 2017 - Telegraph Teachers outraged by Ofsted's call to stop wrapping pupils in cotton wool - Times Educational Supplement | TES Busy Bees adds to string of acquisitions - Nursery World USA: University of North Carolina offers first lectureship in Gaelic studies - Scotsman Exam results day: Record number of pupils achieve university place - Scotsman 50 years before we have an equitable school system - Schools Week The library of the future? It's digital - Guardian Young people should spend more time online to ‘save the country’, says former head of GCHQ - Huffington Post Pass rates hold steady as thousands receive exam results - BBC Love your food? This could be the career for you - Scotsman SQA results 2017: thousands of Scottish pupils set to receive exam results today - Huffington Post Scottish education shake-up will mean less time on exams - Scotsman Thousands of Scottish students receive exam results - BBC Seven tips for supporting high performers at school - Guardian No more music, Spanish or engineering: parents angry at cuts to GCSEs - Guardian Everything must be measured: how mimicking business taints universities | Jonathan Wolff - Guardian Andrew Adonis: a one-man tuition fee Twitter storm - Guardian Children's exercise inquiry launched to boost activity - BBC Euan McColm: Poor exam results don’t have to be the end of the world - Scotsman Counsellors on stand-by as Scots pupils receive exam results - Scotsman Thousands of Scottish students await exam results - BBC Set children free online ‘to save UK’ - Times Oxford sued for ‘mishandling’ special needs - Times We must protect the Welsh language before it is too late - Times