News archive for 20th December 2017

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Share levy funds with other employers or supply chains - FE News UK children missing school because of `period poverty´ - Mail Teacher retention is a problem, John Swinney admits amid staff crisis - Scotsman Tuition fees help to put UK ahead of Germany in higher education | Letter - Guardian China falls for the charms of an English education - Financial Times Oxford academics criticise professor who suggested people should have 'pride' about aspects of British Empire - Telegraph Accountability: the power of together - ASCL Response to Danny Dorling’s claim that HEPI published information that was ‘not true’ - HEPI Two-year degrees: another week in the media trenches - Wonkhe Barnardo’s left stranded by non-levy tender - FE Week Oxford college commissions slavery plaque amid student pressure over benefactor's colonial links - Telegraph May defends social mobility plan following criticism from former aide - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sesame Street to help Syrian refugees - BBC Sharp fall in grade challenges after schools given free access to exam scripts - Times Educational Supplement | TES School inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Non levy tender update: First contracts to be awarded from tomorrow - FE Week EPI response to inquiry on 'Value for money in higher education’ - EPI Disadvantaged young people left again without apprenticeship opportunities after re-run of controversial government procurement - AELP PSHE Association responds to DfE ‘call for evidence’ on PSHE and RSE - PoliticsHome Daily roundup 20 December: Police custody, memory, and Grenfell message - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Free childcare to be extended to foster carers - CYPN | Children & Young People Now UK pupils celebrate Mandarin learning - PIE News Ofsted FE and Skills Inspection Handbook for use in 2018 - The Staffroom Boosting learner recruitment and retention with UNIT-e - Capita FHE Prince Henry’s Grammar School wins Premier Farnell tech challenge with pill dispenser for the visually-impaired - Leeds Beckett University Academy bosses appointed to powerful committees despite losing elections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford historians object to empire project - BBC By casting teachers as informants, British counter-extremism policy is promoting violence - The Conversation 30-hour childcare to be extended to foster carers next year - Nursery World New consultation on relationships education for four-year-olds - Nursery World Could teachers struggling to get on to the housing ladder 'build their own' homes? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Former student sentenced for cyber attack on the Janet Network - Jisc LA and school expenditure: 2016 to 2017 financial year - DfE Education Maintenance Allowances (EMA) awarded in Wales: November 2017 - Welsh Government Graduate outcomes (LEO): including self-employment earnings data - DfE Sexual harassment at school: What can young people’s gender based activism tell us? - IOE London Blog 'This is a generation challenging their parents on the environment': how schools are taking on plastic waste - Guardian Independent special schools and colleges - DfE School Buildings: ESFA Construction Framework - Education & Skills Funding Agency Academies accounts return - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA update: December 2017 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Removal of apprenticeship frameworks - Education & Skills Funding Agency Qualifications: eligible for public funding - Education & Skills Funding Agency School inspections and outcomes: management information - Ofsted Skills partner statement of action for government and employers - DfE Multimillion-pound contracts awarded for apprenticeship training - DfE Statistics: higher education graduate employment and earnings - DfE Graduate outcomes (LEO): including self-employment earnings data - DfE Primary school accountability - DfE Academies revenue funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant 2017 to 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - Education & Skills Funding Agency Top 15 most popular student articles of 2017 - Times Higher Education | THE Terror in the UK - FE News Old-fashioned educational values offer the UK’s most deprived children a future - City AM Primary school children 'to be taught about civil partnerships' as part of new relationships curriculum - Mail India: 'Good business' means children go to school - BBC Unconditional offers ‘undermine A levels’ - Times Scotland: Teacher crisis ‘may force schools to run part-time’ - Times Scotland: Student flats beside Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building rejected again - Times