News archive for 12th December 2017

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Challenges facing the London skills system - Collab Group SNP fund to help poor pupils used to hire teachers - Sturgeon 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' - Express Headteacher of UK boarding school backs France's mobile phone ban in bid to stop pupils becoming addicted - Evening Standard Is the system of Further Education and Vocational Training funded fairly? - UK Parliament Annual enrolments at grant-aided schools in Northern Ireland 2017/18: Basic provisional statistics - DfE Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities: 2016 to 2017 - GOV.UK Section 96 - Qualifications - Education & Skills Funding Agency Further education for benefit claimants: 2015 to 2016 - DfE Safeguarding children: evaluating the SAAF - DfE Evaluation of the maths teacher exchange: China and England - DfE FE data library: English and maths - Education & Skills Funding Agency FE data library: other statistics and research - Education & Skills Funding Agency Vice-chancellor pay should be linked to university size, head of the new regulatory body says  - Telegraph FE data library: further education and skills - Education & Skills Funding Agency FE data library: education and training - Education & Skills Funding Agency FE data library: apprenticeships - Education & Skills Funding Agency School inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Council leader attacks closure of schools due to snow, saying they have 'no excuses' - Telegraph Ofsted warned before annual report of worsening employer provider performance - FE Week DfE under fire for 'disingenuous' £80m maths premium claim - Times Educational Supplement | TES Gyles Brandreth to host the Tes Independent School Awards - Times Educational Supplement | TES China maths exchange led to 'better than expected' pupil progress - Times Educational Supplement | TES Birmingham's council nurseries up for review - Nursery World Evaluation of University Technical Colleges - Edge Foundation Just because it is cheaper doesn’t make it inferior… - Edge Foundation December's Erasmus+ newsletter - NAHT Seven years in: can University Technical Colleges develop work-ready students to fill the skills gap? - NFER Wales to pass new law for children and young people with additional learning needs - ATL Sexual harassment of girls is widespread in schools - National Education Union Days at the museum - Wonkhe An anatomy of judgement: how do ‘snowflakes’ think? - Wonkhe Best Evidence in Brief: Issue #152 - 12 December 2017 - Institute for Effective Education Developing effective learners – An overview of recent research - The Staffroom Daily roundup 12 December: Sexual harassment, online protection and care applications - CYPN | Children & Young People Now University rankings and teaching excellence: Is your commitment to teaching excellence recognised globally? - HEA Highest number of apprentices to start in a decade - PoliticsHome Record numbers of children are now homeschooled, but who’s keeping an eye on the parents? - The Conversation Number of female professors in Canada up 28 per cent in six years - Times Higher Education | THE China: international education in Beijing - Financial Times New regulator warns universities they face crackdown over pay - Guardian Search for providers to support India’s skills development - FE Week Cambridge don leaves college after new investigation into harassment claims - Guardian Furious parents told by teachers' union 'we're not a child-minding service' as schools closed for second snow day - Mirror ‘Inadequate’ rated provider hopes to secure future through takeover - FE Week French schools ban kids of all ages using mobiles during breaks and between lessons… and the idea could come to Britain - The Sun More Scottish teachers but primary classes stay the same size - Scotsman Curbing university bosses' pay 'won't solve funding crisis' - BBC Pupils freeze after headteacher bans coats bought from high street shops and tells parents to buy 'approved' jacket - Mirror France wants stricter child phone ban in schools - BBC Project to strengthen local collaboration with employers - FE News Computing teachers to get 40 hours of training to upskill - Schools Week Teacher numbers in Scotland hit highest level since 2010 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coleg Cymraeg Cendedlaethol’s role to be expanded – Kirsty Williams - Welsh Government NI schools in the red: Education system faces £350m funds gap - BBC Snow news day: Prankster fakes college shutdown… before it closes for real - FE Week UK teacher shortage laid bare in comparison of European education - FE News They made the education news in 2017 – but what happened next? - Guardian School admissions in England are becoming a wild west | Fiona Millar - Guardian Openness to experience trumps intellectual curiosity for learning - London School of Economics | LSE Education must transform to make people ready for AI - Financial Times Universities minister Jo Johnson hits out at ‘hounding’ of fatcat vice-chancellors and uproar at their huge pay packets - The Sun The children whose gaming turns to gambling - BBC Sexual harassment of British schoolgirls is ‘everywhere’, shocking report finds - The Sun NEU and UK Feminista put pressure on government over sexual harassment in schools - Schools Week Sexual harassment 'rife' in schools but largely unreported, study says - Guardian Sexual harassment 'normal' in schools, warns report - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of funding a 'major challenge' for university technical colleges, research find - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools 'under-investing' in parental involvement - Times Educational Supplement | TES Students at UTCs 'work-ready', report finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Help for students from disadvantaged groups to study, work and volunteer abroad? - FE News Boys in single sex schools are more likely to dismiss sexism, study finds - Telegraph Limit on vice-chancellor’s pay dismissed as damaging - Times Harassment and sexism rife at mixed schools - Times Shine a light on racism and discrimination in further education - Times Ban children from bringing mobile phones to school - Times French pupils given phone ban and told to join choir in Macron school shake-up - Times Scotland: Gordonstoun school insists that Prince Charles liked being there - Times Scotland: Brexit vote ‘helping Scots get places at university by discouraging applications from EU’ - Times Ireland: Schools will add PE exam to the leaving certificate - Times