News archive for 2nd February 2017

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Fewer students from poor areas going to university, figures show - Scotsman Fall in proportion of young university entrants from poorest areas revealed - Herald Scotland Work visits result in fewer young 'Neets' - BBC Comedian Rob Beckett to host TES FE Awards 2017 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Public school defends role in alleged cover up of abuse at Christian camps - Guardian Oxford University bucks national trend and accepts fewer state school students, figures show - Telegraph How to make and save money from solar power - Times Educational Supplement | TES Current grants you could apply for - Times Educational Supplement | TES Choosing a new MIS - Times Educational Supplement | TES Cambridge intake no longer most privately educated - BBC 'Education establishment' deliberately published highly critical draft report, Durand Academy claims - Times Educational Supplement | TES How to save money from recycling - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fewer people in Wales are applying to go to university after generous grants for all were scrapped - Wales Online Phonics resits plan for seven and eight-year-olds dropped - Times Educational Supplement | TES Termly safeguarding audits would help heads ‘sleep at night’ - Schools Week Sponsored academies lose more pupils after takeovers - Schools Week Muslim students: voices for good will Trump hate - Huffington Post Teachers say parents should not be fined for term-time holidays - Times Educational Supplement | TES Attempting to solve the current recruitment crisis with teachers from abroad helps no one  - Telegraph We asked education experts if Wales' school colour codes are working - Wales Online University of Edinburgh names new principal - Herald Scotland The Government's new Institutes of Technology represent a great opportunity - let's hope they make the most of it  - Telegraph Governors in West Sussex plan strike over school funding - Schools Week Katie Hopkins said I was brainwashing children. But they need to learn about protest | Jackie Teale - Guardian Mother shares image of crying daughter to highlight impact of teaching staff striking at school with special needs children - Telegraph Education Secretary pledges to revamp sex education in schools - again - Express Michaela – 'England's strictest school' – worried about teachers being 'harmed' by pupils from other schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities must listen to the voices of working class students - Huffington Post Academy accounts: Executive pay continues to rise - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK university applications fall for third time in 15 years in wake of Brexit - Huffington Post A failing school can hold back even the brightest of students - believe me, I was one of them - Telegraph Studying in Aleppo: 'You get used to seeing blood on the floor' - Guardian Harris Federation boss’s salary reaches £420,000 after latest pay rise - Schools Week Best teacher ever has special secret handshakes for each of his students - Huffington Post Government pushes for more over-60s apprentices - FE Week Almost half of pupils who take the phonics check for a third time fail, DfE trial shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Donald Trump threatens to cut UC Berkeley funding after violent protests over Milo Yiannopoulos talk - Huffington Post Government abandons year 3 phonics check after trial prompts workload concerns - Schools Week Transgender teenager sues former school that told him it was 'just a phase' - Independent Transgender teenager sues former school for discrimination after they refused to let him wear boy's uniform - Telegraph Colm Tóibín appointed chancellor of Liverpool University - Guardian US teacher greets each pupil with personalised handshakes - BBC Ofsted publishes ‘unapproved’ report placing Durand in special measures - Schools Week Devastating impact of meth in the womb exposed in South African schools - Guardian Body cameras: coming to a school near you soon - The Conversation Drop in university applications fuelled by decline in EU students and nurses - PoliticsHome Opportunity Cymru - Sutton Trust Danish drugs giant invests in new UK university research centre - Times Higher Education | THE Apprenticeship Funding Rules 2017 to 2018 - UVAC Fall in EU, nursing and mature applicants squeeze the market - Wonkhe Time to act: UK Universities will be overtaken unless they embrace new technology - HEPI Response to latest UCAS applicant figures - Universities UK Trump makes funding threat to Berkeley over cancelled speech - Times Higher Education | THE Concerns raised over Sir Mark Walport’s new powers - Times Higher Education | THE Education funding needs to change - Scotsman Council to transfer 15 children's centres to schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Of course Donald Trump was going to go after universities – despots hate them - New Statesman Professor Sir Mark Walport named as first chief executive of UKRI - HEFCE The role of senior leaders and managers in inclusive learning - Education & Training Foundation | ETF Alliance launches funding rate database to help providers plan - Nursery World New tests for five-year-olds could be introduced - Nursery World UK HE stakeholders blame Brexit confusion for drop in EU applications - PIE News Sir Peter Lampl comments on today’s HESA data - Sutton Trust SFA funding claims - SFA OFFA responds to UCAS January deadline data - OFFA Apprenticeships: common funding rules - SFA Phonics screening pilot at year 3 - DfE Performance indicators: widening participation - 2015 to 2016 - DfE Lords debates Technical and Further Education Bill - UK Parliament Campaign to reinstate activist sacked by University of Liverpool - UCU UCU comment on UCAS figures - UCU Abandoning phonics check for older children will be welcomed by school leaders, says NAHT - NAHT A small step forward for supply teachers - NASUWT MillionPlus responds to UCAS January deadline statistics report - MillionPlus MillionPlus responds to the Brexit White Paper - MillionPlus UCAS applicant figures: factors behind the decline - Universities UK Russell Group appoints new Acting Director - Russell Group Apprenticeship framework funding rules - SFA Apprenticeship grant: employer fact sheet - SFA University applications fall with drop in nursing and EU students - BBC The Apprenticeship Levy should help people from all walks of life - FE News Schools get share of £120m fund to help tackle poverty - Herald Scotland Transgender teenager sues Hereford school for discrimination - BBC Teachers raise fresh concerns over changes to Scottish qualifications - Herald Scotland Nursing degree applications slump after NHS bursaries abolished - Guardian Number of EU students applying to UK universities falls by 7% since Brexit, latest figures reveal - Independent Students turn backs on nursing degrees in wake of Government decision to axe NHS bursaries, official figures suggest - Telegraph