News archive for 17th August 2017

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Glasgow University rector Aamer Anwar caught in Barcelona attack - Scotsman Exam board to change comparison of boys' and girls' marks to include transgender category - Telegraph The Guardian view on A-levels: another misdirected reform | Editorial - Guardian A pupil in Year 13 guides us through the high and lows of A-level results day - Wales Online How to turn Britain’s universities into comprehensives | Sonia Sodha - Guardian A very English celebration for Farnborough's A-level students - Guardian Grenfell students staying positive on exam results day (video) - BBC A Level results 2017: Rhondda schools celebrate day of brilliant results - Wales Online A 10-point guide to getting the best out of your university degree - Wales Online A Level results 2017: This is how Bridgend secondary schools have fared - Wales Online On being called a racist - The Learning Spy More nurseries 'bridge the generations' between young and old - Nursery World 'You're not alone': Celebrities share their advice on A-level results day - Telegraph New Insights on WP: A more radical approach to contextualised admissions - HEPI ATL Cymru comment on A-level results - ATL ATL comment on A-level results - ATL Russell Group universities in Clearing 2017 - Telegraph Tuition fees are a 'pointless Ponzi scheme', says PM's former top aide Nick Timothy - PoliticsHome NASUWT comments on A-Level results - PoliticsHome Former Ofsted chief joins chorus of criticism of university pay packages - PoliticsHome UK plans to allow visa-free travel for EU visitors - PIE News Congratulations to students collecting A Level results today - AoC | Association of Colleges College students celebrate A Level success 2017 - AoC | Association of Colleges A-level results - Russell Group A Level Results: ‘Apprenticeships aren’t only for other people’s children’ - AELP AELP statement on Learndirect’s Ofsted report - AELP A-levels 2017 - Voice Is Nick Timothy right about graduate salaries? A new look at LEO - Wonkhe A-level reforms may have helped boys achieve better results - Guardian Wales' education chief Kirsty Williams gives her take on today's A-Level results - Wales Online Mental health support to be offered as part of National Citizen Service - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Daily roundup 17 August: A-levels, Muslim youth group, and children's wards - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Ex-Wales footballer among 6 facing trial next month on FE fraud charges - FE Week Students celebrate as university places are confirmed - UCAS FE Commissioner intervention reports: June 2014 to May 2016 - DfE A level results day 2017 - DfE Guide to AS and A level results for England, 2017 - Ofqual NASUWT comment on A-level results - NAHT NASUWT comment on Northern Ireland A-level results - NASUWT School leaders advise caution when interpreting this year’s AS and A Level results - NAHT 2017 A Level results and resources - NAHT Schools should not be viewed as front line mental health providers, says NAHT - NAHT Boys help to raise A-level grades - BBC Guide to AS and A level results for England, 2017 - The Staffroom A level results day 2017 - The Staffroom ESFA e-bulletin: 17 August 2017 (issue 183) - Education & Skills Funding Agency A-level results: welcome rise in university entrants from disadvantaged backgrounds - OFFA A level decline in creative subjects and languages makes mockery of government social mobility claims - ASCL Government reform has sounded death knell for AS levels - ASCL Comment on Welsh exam results - NASUWT NUT Cymru comment on A Level results - NUT "A lot of hard work and determination has paid off for people's futures" - CBI CBI Northern Ireland responds to 2017 A-level results - CBI MillionPlus comment on A level results day - MillionPlus A level results – well done! - GSA Top 6 tips for students on A level exam results day - AoC | Association of Colleges What’s the evidence on… international student recruitment - Education Media Centre | EMC A-Level results day 2017: A look at changing grade distributions - Education Datalab A-Level results day 2017: The impact of reform in England and Wales - Education Datalab A-Level results day 2017: Is it the end of the road for AS-Levels? - Education Datalab A-Level results day 2017: The key trends in three charts - Education Datalab British Council comments on A Level languages 2017 - British Council Dr Gary Jones: Teachers’ perceptions of collaborative inquiry - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Scholarship students at top UK college celebrate amazing A level results - Wales Online Multiple sclerosis proves no barrier to success - Schools Week A-levels 2017: Today’s top 7 stories - Schools Week Transgender pupils to be recognised in future A-level results - Independent A-Levels 2017: ‘Politics yay, history boo’ – the changing tastes of 18-year-olds - Schools Week Student has best response to live TV A-level result disappointment   - Telegraph A-level results day 2017 - as it happened - Guardian A Level Results 2017: Here's how every school in Pontypridd and Llantrisant has done - Wales Online A-level results 2017: Boys beat girls to top grades for first time in 17 years amid tougher exams - Telegraph Apprenticeship levy could leave schools struggling for finance - FE News How all Cardiff's secondary schools did in A level results 2017 - Wales Online A Level Results 2017: Brilliant Cynon Valley students celebrate terrific set of results - Wales Online A-Level results day and what happens if you f*ck it up - Huffington Post Celebrity A-levels: Game of Thrones star gets three As and Malala secures her place at Oxford - Telegraph A-level results 2017: Politics entries surge by 12.8 per cent - Times Educational Supplement | TES A Valleys student is off to university despite losing his sight in Year 7 - Wales Online Number of top grades awarded in language A-levels increases amid decline in students taking French and German - Telegraph Welsh teen achieves four A*s while being full-time carer to disabled mother - Wales Online Academy celebrates first-ever Oxbridge student - Schools Week A-levels 2017: Exam boards consider additional gender category for results tables - Schools Week University Technical Colleges - cut them some slack - Montrose42 Grenfell A level students ‘should be accepted into university despite grades’, campaigner says - Huffington Post When ABB turned into BCD, clearing came to the rescue - Guardian This is how every school in Carmarthenshire performed in A-Level results 2017 - Wales Online There is no such thing as equality in funding or inspection - FE Week Former May adviser Nick Timothy calls student fees 'a Ponzi scheme' - BBC Learndirect rated 'inadequate' in Ofsted report - BBC A-level results 2017: Boys overtake girls in top grades for first time in years - Independent A-level results: Two Syrian refugees set for medical school after passing exams with flying colours - Independent Student turns down grammar school place for secondary modern sixth-form - Schools Week Drop in grades for 'reformed' A-levels unlikely to be down to difficulty - Guardian A-level results show first rise in top grades in six years - Guardian Cheers and tears on A-level results day 2017 – in pictures - Guardian A-level results 2017: 'It showed me that hard work reflects on your grades' - Times Educational Supplement | TES A teenager who fled a warzone and couldn't speak English three years ago is off to university - Wales Online A-levels 2017: Top science grades take a tumble - Schools Week Schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai wins Oxford university place - Guardian 'Inadequate' Learndirect stopped from taking new apprentices - Nursery World The huge difference in how parents who live in neighbouring towns are fined for not sending their children to school - Wales Online Stay calm, think positive: make the most of your call to clearing - Guardian Whatever your A-level results, stay away from social media today | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - Guardian A-level results 2017: Colleges celebrate exam success - Times Educational Supplement | TES Malala Yousafzai wins place to study PPE at Oxford University after receiving A Level results - Huffington Post Two Syrian refugees receive straight A grades in their A-level results two years after fleeing to Britain - Telegraph Student who battled with cancer throughout A-levels receives straight A*s - Telegraph A level results day 2017: statistical release - UCAS A-level results 2017: Malala wins a place at Oxford with three As - Times Educational Supplement | TES What are my options if I do better than expected at A-level? - Telegraph Learndirect blames government cuts for damning Ofsted report - Guardian Ireland: '169 sex attacks' reported by QUB students - BBC A-level results 2017: Decline in entries for arts and languages 'makes mockery of social mobility claims' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former Theresa May aide attacks tuition fees 'Ponzi scheme' - Guardian Student finance: how to apply for last minute funding - Telegraph How to make the Clearing phone call on A-level Results Day - Telegraph Can you guess which celebrities got these A-level results? - Telegraph Grades will be fair, UK exam regulator tells A-level students - Guardian A Level results: student spotted swigging from hip flask on live TV - Huffington Post Student celebrates A-levels swigging from hip flask live on Good Morning Britain - Telegraph 'Win or lose, we're on the booze': students open A-Level results live on air – video - Guardian Clearing: the rules of adjustment - Guardian Flunked your A-levels? Time to consider whether to resit – or risk a re-mark - Guardian Our daughter did better than expected in her exams, can she still apply to Cambridge? - Telegraph Malala Yousafzai gets into Oxford to study PPE after collecting A Level results - Telegraph How to find last minute student accommodation in London - Telegraph UK universities scramble to fill places as number of applicants taking courses falls - Independent A-level results 2017: Pupils who grew up near Grenfell Tower to have exam grades reviewed - Independent 19 of the funniest tweets about the stress of A-level results day   - Telegraph A-level results 2017: AS entries plummet as schools abandon 'decoupled' qualifications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Wales records best-ever A-level results in first year of nation's new qualification - Wales Online A-level results 2017: Six key points - Times Educational Supplement | TES A-level results 2017: Top A* grades reach record high - but drop in reformed subjects - Times Educational Supplement | TES 95 per cent of students at school in one of the UK's most deprived areas win places at Russell Group universities - Telegraph A-Levels 2017: students across the country receive their results - Telegraph Changes to A level exams could favour boys on results day, say experts - Huffington Post Can you find out A level results online? - Wales Online What is a university clearing open day? - Wales Online It's a good year to apply to university through clearing - Wales Online Sector response to the learndirect 2017 inadequate Ofsted report - FE News Ofsted: Learndirect 'failed to stem decline in performance' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Nick Timothy, Theresa May’s former Chief of Staff, slams tuition fees as a ‘pointless Ponzi scheme’ - Huffington Post A-level pass grades fall for first time in three years after introduction of new exams - Independent Ofsted inspection report for Learndirect finally published - FE Week BTec results are out too – let's give these students the attention they deserve - Guardian What's it like being an A-level or GCSE exam marker? Share your experiences - Guardian Everything you need to know about A level results day 2017 - Wales Online Students will no longer be taken for granted by universities - we've made sure of it - Telegraph ‘Clearing isn’t for people who have failed' - Guardian Former Theresa May aide attacks ‘Ponzi scheme’ university fees ahead of A-level results - Express Professor who got a £350,000 loan... interest free! Anger after vice-chancellor who complained of funding shortfalls uses money to buy a house - Mail A-level pupils get onto top courses with lower grades - Times Pressure mounts on Bath University ‘fat cat’ chancellor - Times Pupils traumatised by Grenfell Tower and Manchester Arena bombing win special exam treatment - Times Ireland: High-scoring pupil studied every weeknight and Saturday for a year - Times University pensions bet has failed. Who will pay? - Times Teenagers to find out A-level results - BBC AS level reforms sound 'death knell' for exams, headteachers warn - Independent A-level grades will be fair, UK exam regulator tells students - Guardian What is new about this year's A-levels? - BBC Heads say government reforms are killing the AS level - Times Educational Supplement | TES Disappointing A-level results? Don’t panic, there are options even if you fail - Times A-level results day 2017: why it’s still worth investing in a university education - Times A-level results day: you’re in a strong position if you go into Ucas Clearing 2017 - Times Didn’t get the A-level results you wanted? Here’s what you should do - Metro Got your A-level results? Here’s how to decide where you want to go to university - Metro You’ve missed your university offers – so how does Clearing work? - Metro Scottish university seeks to axe staff in warning over 'difficult financial climate' - Herald Scotland 82% of A-level students completely unaware of the alternatives for university - FE News World first as joint £17m Catholic and Jewish school opens to pupils - Herald Scotland Scottish university to launch severance scheme for all staff - Herald Scotland