News archive for 10th December 2017

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University World News - Africa edition: week ending 10 December 2017 - University World News Three into two will go? Two-year degrees welcome, but no game changer… - HEPI Government launches consultation on accelerated degrees - DfE Universities Minister: Two-year degrees will save students thousands - PoliticsHome Energy drinks are 'readily available legal highs' and should be banned from schools, teachers say - Independent University World News - Global edition: week ending 10 December 2017 - University World News The poorest in society experience school as it it were educational apartheid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students will be able to complete a degree in two years in bid to cut tuition fees by £5,500 a head - Mail Teacher sues school after he was sacked for calling transgender boy a ‘girl’ - Metro Weekly Digest #89: Cognitive Load - Learning Scientists 'Schools must say 'no' to out-of-hours revision sessions, for the collective good of the profession' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities' response to pay row 'embarrassing and humiliating' - Guardian Birmingham school snow closures: City Council gives children snow day - Metro Two-year degrees to lower tuition fees - BBC SEND pupils 'pushed out of sight and out of mind', Ofsted chief inspector says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Takeovers and brand new academies; King's Group is laying its foundations in England - Schools Week Government needs to rethink the alternative provision census expansion - Schools Week School's success not possible without young staff, says head - Schools Week Emily Chapman: ‘social mobility’ means nothing without financial support for FE - FE Week Vulnerable pupils abandoned by schools, head of Ofsted warns - Guardian The Observer view on Ofsted as a champion for deprived children | Observer editorial - Guardian Universities win permission to charge £2,000 premium for two-year degrees - Guardian University chiefs’ pay soars 10% - Times Freed paedophile Julien Bertrand gets job as teacher - Times Special needs pupils ‘forced out’ to boost school rankings - Times The monks who stole my childhood - Times Luke Johnson: Our universities’ beautiful minds need to recognise pound signs - Times ‘Racist’ singalong hits duff note at Cambridge - Times DfE bids to raise English fee cap to £11K for two-year degrees - Times Higher Education | THE Government plan for more 2-year degrees to save students £25,000 - Express Stop expelling troublesome pupils to boost league table performance, Chief Inspector says - Telegraph Students to save £25,000 under radical plans for new two-year degrees - Telegraph Stop expelling troublesome pupils to boost league table performance, Chief Inspector says - Telegraph Forestry Commission Scotland offers resources and activities to nurseries - Nursery World