News archive for 22nd August 2017

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Three MPs quit Bath University roles over vice-chancellor pay - BBC Taxpayers will have to stump up £66m for a school which cost £20m to build - Wales Online Scottish private schools face £5m business rate tax hike - Scotsman Changes to GCSEs are 'deeply unsettling', says man who introduced them - Telegraph UCAS Clearing update: Tuesday 22 August 2017 - UCAS Common basic data set (CBDS): database - DfE Response to Daily Telegraph story on new GCSE grades - Ofqual Admissions latest: what’s happened since A-level results day? - Universities UK New Insights on WP: Bristol scholars - HEPI Who does what when a student dies? - Wonkhe GCSE grade boundaries to spark chaos as thousands of children to receive wrong marks - Express Admissions latest: what’s happened since A-level results day? - Universities UK UCU comment on universities' access agreements - UCU Private schools should pay business rates, says Scottish government review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Private schools should pay business rates, says Scottish government review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top five tips for surviving results day - Huffington Post A year to get your act together: how universities and colleges should be preparing for new data regulations - FE News Peer-to-peer advice: resitting your exams - Huffington Post Colleges given access to new students' full GCSE marks - Times Educational Supplement | TES We are letting Britain’s young people down - The Staffroom Assessors face unique challenges adjusting to the new EPA rules - The Staffroom A-levels are not the only post-16 option, says Edge - Edge Foundation Vocational GCSEs may be holding girls back, research suggests - Education Media Centre | EMC What to do if you fail your GCSEs - The Conversation Vocational GCSEs may be holding girls back, research suggests - IOE London Blog National Audit Office to investigate Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2017: Experts dub new exams ‘hardest since 1980s O Levels’ and warn pupils face disappointment - Evening Standard MPs protest ‘excessive’ pay of Bath University boss who takes home £451,000 a year - Huffington Post Why reformed, tougher GCSEs are a blessing in disguise - Telegraph Daily roundup 22 August: Supersized classes, coding, and letter mistake - CYPN | Children & Young People Now It's a stab in the dark: the myth of predicting your student loan repayments - New Statesman New GCSE exams 'toughest since O-levels' - Independent IPA urges China to 'respect the decision' of Cambridge University Press to restore articles - Guardian Fourth MP quits Bath University role over vice-chancellor's pay - Guardian Private schools and universities 'should be liable for business rates' - Herald Scotland Educating Greater Manchester: The fly-on-the-wall cameras find a new home - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why not getting the right A level results could be a blessing in disguise - Huffington Post This is how new GCSE number grades in England compare with A* to G grades in Wales - Wales Online GCSE Results: Why A-levels are not the be all and end all - Telegraph Business rates could be scrapped for Scottish nurseries - Nursery World Stories of second-chance students: 'Now I don't feel scared at all' - Guardian Forget the exotic trips abroad - gap year students should stay in the UK and volunteer - Telegraph What are the new GCSEs and what do the changes mean? - Independent Benefits freeze adds to cost of raising children for low-income families - Nursery World Too elite? Independent school myths debunked - Scotsman 'GCSE students are being spoon-fed' Expert makes the case for O-levels - Express Which accountability measures should schools prioritise? - Schools Week More graduates leave Wales than arrive, report says - BBC Disabled student told he will fail course because he cannot write shorthand - Guardian Bringing literature to life: the new GCSE syllabus has reinvigorated my students - Guardian Africa: The absolute beginners' guide to Pidgin | Kobby Graham - Guardian Teachers in elite universities not feeling benefit of £9k tuition fees - Guardian Stop raising and lowering the GCSE high-jump bar | Michael Rosen - Guardian New ‘Teach First’ to train teachers as mental health specialists - Guardian Learndirect: Ofsted report - feCompare Exam boards told to expect surge in requests for GCSE re-marks - Guardian Reading scheme keeps pupils on the right page - Scotsman Digital skills development in the workforce - FE News Two more Labour MPs quit their roles at Bath University over 'excessive' £451,000 salary of its vice chancellor - Mail New GCSEs 'hardest since O-levels' - BBC Are Turkey’s schools dropping evolution and teaching jihad? - BBC EBacc improves pupils’ chances of studying A-levels - Schools Week City & Guilds calls for people to share educational experiences that shaped them - FE Week Girls taking more vocational GCSEs 'have much lower chance of doing A-levels' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Include apprenticeships in school league tables, report urges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Project aims to celebrate the skills gained in different walks of life - FE News New guide for student teachers on pupils with learning difficulties - Herald Scotland 'Pupils struggle because their understanding of the world is different’ - Herald Scotland Cambridge backs down over China censorship - Times Maths for girls is the way to close the pay gap - Times Scotland: Hotel plan for iconic Royal High School is ‘a red line’ - Times Ireland: Student loans backed by parents struggling to meet college costs - Times