News archive for 1st February 2017

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Growing number of student flats raises eyebrows in Glasgow - Scotsman Headteachers to be handed £120m to tackle attainment gap - Scotsman Ofsted places embattled Durand Academy in special measures - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children who go to badger protests could be reported to anti-terror programme, MP warns  - Telegraph DfE not 'on top of' academy land values, admits top official - Times Educational Supplement | TES Association of Colleges launches consultation with members on its change proposals - FE News Teachers 'consider referring children on anti-badger-cull marches to Prevent programme', MP claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES Glasgow School of Art's ashes turned into artworks to fund rebuild - Guardian Donald Trump appoints creationist college president to lead higher education reform taskforce - Independent More than 2,300 Scottish schools to gain extra funding for disadvantaged pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES One body will oversee higher and further education in Wales, it has been announced - Wales Online Cash-strapped academy chain could spend more than £1m on PR - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why schizophrenia need not rob us of a life in academia - Guardian Applying to university? It's time to narrow your choices down to two - Guardian Ilkley Grammar School asks parents for cash donations - BBC Exeter student US trip ban 'undermines academic freedom' - BBC To raise teaching standards we must first improve the use of technology in the classroom  - Telegraph Six ways to stop boys being left behind in the classroom - The Conversation How to create a revision plan and still have a life - Huffington Post Glasgow schools given largest share of £120m fund to close attainment gap - Herald Scotland What will Chinese visitors learn from our emerging apprenticeship system? And what can they teach us? - IOE London Blog Thousands of academics across the world call for US boycott over Donald Trump 'Muslim ban' - Independent Half of academies have spent more than their income - Times Educational Supplement | TES AoC unveils overhaul of 'unsustainable' structures to save £1m - Times Educational Supplement | TES The UK is home to five of the ten 'most international' universities in the world - Huffington Post AoC: Membership fees overhaul consultation to avoid £1 million overspend - FE Week Using the register of apprentice assessment organisations - SFA Scottish government gives 2,513 schools attainment fund money - BBC Wales urged to stop 'obsessing’ over data - SecEd Action urged as report shows poverty’s clear link to poor health outcomes in children - SecEd Recruitment crisis: Migration ruling is ‘deeply disappointing’ - SecEd Six in 10 teachers have not been given one per cent rise - SecEd More parents are giving no reasons for pupil absence - SecEd Concerns over LGBTI support, especially in Catholic schools - SecEd Voucher fitness pilot targets year 9 pupils - SecEd Speech and language therapists raise workload alarm - SecEd One in five regrets choice of university (and not doing enough course research) - SecEd PSHE and SRE 'neglected' in hundreds of inspection reports - SecEd Institutes of technology could be ‘up and running’ by September - Times Educational Supplement | TES My little children were detained because of a toy gun. Prevent has gone too far | Anonymous - Guardian Building our industrial strategy - the role of career guidance - FE News Apprenticeship levy could lower wages, finds think tank - Nursery World Workforce strategy not expected until end February - Nursery World Government commits £170 million for Institutes of Technology to bridge the skills gap in the UK - Training Journal Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2016 to 2017 - DfE New school proposals - DfE Local authority interactive tool (LAIT) - DfE Robert Halfon: BETT 2017 speech - DfE SFA update: February 2017 - SFA Apprenticeship technical funding guide - SFA Apprenticeship funding and performance management rules 2017 to 2018 - SFA Skills Funding Agency: update - SFA Applicants for UK Higher Education down: 5% for UK students and 7% for EU students - UCAS Statement from the NUT’s General Secretary about President Trump’s travel ban - NUT MillionPlus appoints Ann Rossiter as Chief Executive - MillionPlus School leadership podcast February 2017 - NAHT THE - International institutions ranking - Russell Group Half of academies fall short on funding - BBC Building our industrial strategy - FE can lead the way - FE News 'I don't belong here' - BBC Aleppo's online student - BBC Call to look at £30,000 bursaries for trainee science teachers - Herald Scotland Prince Charles’s school named in child abuse inquiry - Times No stop and search powers for teachers - Times An apprentice can do better than a graduate - Times Submission: #37 Strategic Guidance to the Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA) - AELP