News archive for 6th December 2017

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Schoolboy rugby player suffers serious head injury in final - Scotsman Bath Spa University chief paid £800,000 in final year - BBC SNP's state snooper timetable in tatters: Named Person scheme could be stalled until 2019 - Express Ex-Bath Spa University vice-chancellor gets final year £429k payout - Guardian Biggest ever 'golden goodbye' paid to Bath Spa University's vice-Chancellor as she earns £808,000 in final year of office - Telegraph University watchdog probes retirement terms of Britain's highest-paid vice chancellor who quit after storm over her £468,000 salary package - Mail Universities deserve stronger leadership from vice-chancellors - Financial Times Academies Accounts Direction - Education & Skills Funding Agency Register of end-point assessment organisations: how to apply - Education & Skills Funding Agency GCSE and equivalent results: 2016 to 2017 (provisional) - DfE ESFA: business update - Education & Skills Funding Agency Life sciences: Sector Deal - GOV.UK Industry Sector Deals - GOV.UK CCT Chartered Teacher Programme and BERA - BERA Parents: Your student children need your ££££ - HEPI ‘ITP learner oversight in new Careers Strategy will hopefully be rectified’ - AELP The best books I’ve read this year - The Learning Spy DfE to pay £10m for checks on school leader qualifications - Schools Week A love of maths multiplies Britain’s potential - Financial Times Critical thinking and questioning minds – Call to action from Hillsborough justice campaigner - SecEd Resources and news round-up - SecEd Teachers called on to ‘speak up’ against political and media rhetoric - SecEd For every 10 teachers needed, only eight have been recruited - SecEd Admin error means 100,000 graduates overpaid student loans by £333 each - The Sun Academy handed £2m for building repairs after disgraced head squandered cash on 'sex den' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher training applicants drop by more than 40% - Times Educational Supplement | TES £85 million gift from the Dolby family to transform Cambridge science - Cambridge Network 42% of parents would consider study abroad for children, says HSBC report - PIE News Daily roundup 6 December: Post-traumatic stress, books, and temporary accommodation - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Schools 'failing young carers', claims Barnardo's - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Professor Becky Francis and Sir Vince Cable launch report on non-university skills gap - IOE London Blog University of Bath: retirement terms of Vice-Chancellor - HEFCE DfE to target free schools in bottom-performing third of country - Times Educational Supplement | TES Vice-chancellors’ pay – who decides? - HEFCE Equivalence-based instruction in the classroom - Learning Scientists Online Free School Meals: maximising support for those most in need - Capita SIMS As a MAT leader, how can you support successful growth? - Capita SIMS Government announce new strategy for careers guidance - The Staffroom Bright Tribe in discussions over future of northern schools - Schools Week GCSE and equivalent results: 2016 to 2017 (provisional) - DfE Memorisation and learning - Paul A Kirschner at SSATs conference - Montrose42 Catholic schools are 'unlawfully' promoting political action, humanists say - Times Educational Supplement | TES Consultation launched on closure of 18th studio school - FE Week How can we get more adults to learn? - FE Week Apprenticeship levy will see revenues soar, despite fall in starts - FE News One-in-seven Gen Z-ers say social media negatively affects their health - FE News A new vision for youth services set out by the LGA - Times Educational Supplement | TES Theresa May told nursery owners are struggling under new rules - BBC Manchester Creative Studio School faces closure - Schools Week SEND: Payout for boy given 'unsuitable' home education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Peer-on-peer abuse guidance to tackle why pupils display 'harmful sexual behaviour' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Innovative new learning practice earns Jisc endorsement - Jisc Early years charity opens new family visitor centre in prison - Nursery World Awards celebrate excellence in supporting children's communication - Nursery World Britain distrusts meritocracy: that’s the lesson from Bath University | Jeevan Vasagar - Guardian Police investigate multi-academy trust accused of asset stripping - Guardian Minister sets out priorities for employability and skills - Welsh Government Final exam results do not yet show full picture, says Education Secretary - Welsh Government 'My double life going to work from a homeless hostel' - BBC Advice for law students: how to impress at a legal careers fair - Guardian Requests for special consideration in GCSE and A levels rise by 19% - Times Educational Supplement | TES Special consideration in GCSE and A Level: summer 2017 exam series - Ofqual Exam special consideration requests up 19% - Schools Week More university jobs cut in Wales as high education funding squeeze bites - Wales Online Government and Life Sciences sector agree transformative sector deal - GOV.UK Critics of degree apprenticeships need a reality check - Wonkhe What online can teach on-campus - Wonkhe Teaching in a prison: 'Education has the best chance of turning lives around' - Guardian Employer providers – is it the way forward? - FE News Fears for students as 9% pay rise imposed on colleges - Herald Scotland Teenage pregnancies halve since 2008 - Mail USA: Lawyers sue California because too many children can't read - Mail Young carers: 'I was tired when I was at school' - BBC More than 770,000 UK children 'don't have any books of their own' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Barnardo’s: 40% of teachers can’t identify a young carer in class - Schools Week New research finds design skills are vital to UK productivity but businesses face a growing skills gap - FE News Best reading in schools for a generation - Times Shakespeare scholar Paul Hamilton deported for second time - Times Stay away from my kids, Jeremy Hunt tells Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg - Times England worst in schooling summer-born - Times Single-school academy trusts told to justify high salaries - Times Cambridge University likes the sound of £85m gift from Dolby family - Times Scotland: Exam remarking fees ‘put private pupils at advantage’ - Times Ireland: Irish children have best reading skills in EU - Times