News archive for 10th August 2017

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Apprenticeship service registrations and commitments to June 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA e-bulletin: 10 August 2017 (issue 182) - Education & Skills Funding Agency SLASC 2018: technical specification - DfE Area review transition grants awarded at 31 May 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency School teachers' pay and conditions - DfE Schools: statutory guidance - DfE OFFA calls for transformational change - OFFA Access to higher education reports - Russell Group NASUWT comments on publication of the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document - NASUWT ATL comment on Sutton Trust report showing fewer young people aspire to attend university - ATL Sutton Trust - NUT Nurseries plan to restrict 30 hour places and charge parents - Nursery World Second school sees entire class fail media studies - Herald Scotland No More Boys and Girls takes gender out the classroom - Times Educational Supplement | TES Research round-up 4 August 2017 - NAHT Top universities scramble to fill places amid dip in student applications - Telegraph Over £1m of public money paid in grants for failed mergers - FE Week Our survey says: students will not let our feedback be used against us - Huffington Post Row over English teachers’ pay in Ireland - PIE News USA: 20% growth in international students seeking high school diplomas - PIE News Brexit uncertainty affecting HE, FE staff morale - PIE News Clearing gave me the second chance I needed - Times Higher Education | THE Further education in England needs more policy attention, says study - IOE London Blog What does the National Student Survey tell us this year? - The Staffroom University graduates 'earning average of £27,500' - Herald Scotland Government sets December deadline in 16-to-18 data reporting crackdown - FE Week USA: University of Georgia drops plan to allow students to mark their own exams - Independent Middle-class parents damaging their children by not being able to say 'no' - Independent Academy trust fights on to pick its own feeder schools - Schools Week The human cost of the pressures of postdoctoral research - Guardian IGCSE entries slump by two-thirds in UK - Times Educational Supplement | TES What causes behaviour? - The Learning Spy Pay scales for teachers and leaders in England and Wales from September 2017 - Schools Week I turned down all my university offers – and I don't regret it - Guardian DfE confirms overall 1 per cent pay rise for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Area reviews: Colleges receive £5.5m in transition grants - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 'new' gap year: Is it worth it, and what should I do during my year before university? - Telegraph Area review transition grant details published - FE Week A-level exam 'leak': Belfast grammar pupils sanctioned - BBC iGCSE results will not be published this year - Schools Week Ex-governor banned from running schools - BBC Growing fee fears among young people - sector response - FE News Time for change... - FE News Growing fee fears among young people - Sutton Trust 'It's a tough transition': why universities must plan for generation alpha - Guardian Data governance – not fun (for most), but vital (for all) - Wonkhe A real step change for fair access - Wonkhe Amanda Spielman is right: our schools are too risk averse - Schools Week Fewer pupils expecting to go to university, says survey - BBC How to respond when one child does well and another does less well (or fails) in exams - FE News The unintended impact our brain has on our learners - FE News Overindulged children struggle in the classroom, says psychologist - Mail Debate: Should foreign students be included in the UK’s net migration target? - City AM Children given free meals in school holidays (video) - BBC Number of young people planning to go to university falls to lowest level in eight years - Independent Secondary pupils losing interest in the idea of university - Schools Week Number of pupils planning to go to university 'at lowest level in 8 years' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges 'should play a key role in widening access to university' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Free university tuition not reducing fee worries - Times Students pay extra £18,000 on loan repayments - Times Schools are told to make science go with a bang - Times Number of pupils anticipating university place at eight-year low - Guardian Some university leaders will only pay 'lip service' to improving social mobility unless forced to change, head of regulator claims - Telegraph John Swinney urges caution over reform of National 4 - Herald Scotland 'Disappointing' decline in pupils sitting Gaelic qualifications - Herald Scotland