News archive for 15th August 2017

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Extended activity provision in secondary schools - NAHT MSP wants headteachers to be allowed to ban mobiles in school - Scotsman LRS: schedule for uploading ILR/NPD achievement data - Education & Skills Funding Agency FE data library: apprenticeship vacancies - Education & Skills Funding Agency New school proposals - DfE ESFA: current notices of concern - Education & Skills Funding Agency Alternative provision census 2018: guide - DfE What entry level qualifications available for students? - NAHT NASUWT comments on teacher vacancy figures - NASUWT What to expect from results day and university admissions this year - Universities UK UEAlchemy: TEF appeal is successful for one university - Wonkhe GCSE and A-level results: it’s not just the grades that matter - IOE London Blog New insights on widening participation: foreword by Les Ebdon - HEPI Universities turning to Snapchat and WhatsApp to lure students as they scramble to fill up courses - Telegraph A beginner’s guide to open access - Wonkhe New from Wonkhe! University Top Trumps - Wonkhe Government pulls all Learndirect contracts and funding - Guardian DfE confirms special treatment will be given to Learndirect - FE Week Publish Prince Charles lobbying letters, Scottish government urged - Guardian No reverse on 6.1% student interest rate - BBC Government ‘making it up as they go along’ on non-levy tendering - FE Week A fairer way to finance university students | Letters - Guardian Apply now for a postgraduate investigative journalism scholarship with The Independent and the London Evening Standard - Independent The dustman and the doctor: fairness and the student fees debate - New Statesman Just one in five students in the country’s poorest communities will make it to university - The Staffroom Dreaming and doing: the road to the right career - Villiers Park Educational Trust Int’l transaction fees could cost UK universities £80m a year, says Western Union - PIE News AoC response to Learndirect reports - AoC | Association of Colleges Global: ShanghaiRanking - Academic Ranking of World Universities 2017 results announced - Times Higher Education | THE Global: Give peace (education) a chance - The Conversation How to apply for re-marks and appeal A-level results - Schools Week Clearing: broaden your scope by baccalaureate - Guardian I went to Oxford. As a black female student, I found it alienating and elitist | Afua Hirsch - Guardian Scottish Government refuses to release Prince Charles' letters 'showing him lobbying for Teach First' - Independent Primary school heads pose 'formidable challenge' to large multi-academy trusts - Times Educational Supplement | TES USA: Diversity is the great rightwing scapegoat for working-class woes | Maya Wiley - Guardian Injunction lifted on critical Ofsted report - BBC GCSE results: How many students will get the new top grade?  - Telegraph The ascent to self-belief - Huffington Post Lawyer turned East End head gets 95% of pupils to university - Evening Standard PFA harnesses social media to highlight high quality apprenticeships - Unionlearn Leeds Beckett chatbot to help prospective students find the right course through clearing - FE News A Level results 2017: what is clearing and how does it work? - Huffington Post Learndirect 'financially stable' despite Ofsted probe, firm insists - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher banned for giving pupils answers during Sats test - Times Educational Supplement | TES Get ready for #MathsWorkout Week - Unionlearn A lesson in collaboration - FE News Top UK universities still too ethnically segregated, warns report - Independent Starting a Politics degree: advice from a former Oxford student - Telegraph Former referee celebrates 25 years as school lollipop man - Scotsman 500 teaching vacancies across Scotland as new term starts - Scotsman Ten books every teacher should read - Guardian When do A-Level 2017 results come out? The date to get your grades and what to do next - Mirror ‘I ran to the toilet and cried.’ A-level students whose results were a lesson in life - Guardian The new GCSEs cut off life chances for students like my nurse, Aisha | Laura McInerney - Guardian Unconditional love: the university offers pupils can’t refuse - Guardian 'The help never lasts': why has Mexico's education revolution failed? - Guardian School pupils move into three former UTC sites - Schools Week Is apprenticeship learning a thing of the past? - FE News Academy spends £300,000 to get the High Court to quash Ofsted report that said the school was 'inadequate' - Mail What is the point of making A-levels tougher and then lowering pass marks to make everyone a winner - Mail Global: Asian countries increase share of top 500 universities - University World News Vice-Chancellor is shamed live on the radio over his £295,000 salary and refusal to reduce student tuition fees - Mail 'Segregation' in students' university choices - BBC Schools hit by hundreds of unfilled teaching posts as new term starts - Herald Scotland Scotland’s schools quango a “damaged brand” say teaching unions - Herald Scotland Learndirect faces collapse after trying to suppress Ofsted report - Times Sign up now for better university place, Sheffield tells pupils - Times Private schools ‘game the system’ to win Oxbridge places - Times Scotland: Ministers refuse to reveal Charles letters lobbying for teacher training programme - Times Scotland: MSP demands Holyrood inquiry into narrow subject choice at schools - Times