News archive for 3rd February 2017

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Primary teacher education and training: a new report from CPRT - Cambridge Primary Review Trust Apprenticeships for the over-50s: older workers will stay in jobs longer than flighty youth, Government says  - Telegraph Project to give disadvantaged children places at top boarding schools axed due to 'low aspirations' - Telegraph GCHQ recruits teenagers for summer camps for new generation of spies to fight off Russian cyber-attacks - Telegraph Every child should have the right to a nursery education - Guardian Schools can raise girls' aspirations by partnering with businesses - Guardian Colleges to consider scrapping national pay deals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Do not rely on grade boundary predictions for new GCSEs, Ofqual warns - Times Educational Supplement | TES In this week's TES Further: the journey from asylum seeker to college principal - Times Educational Supplement | TES To get more women in STEM little girls need better role models - The Conversation Ofsted watch: Outstanding rating highlight of positive week for FE - FE Week Funding cuts, academy trust finances and education research - the TES podcast - Times Educational Supplement | TES Leave ESOL to the experts - FE Week Northern Powerhouse report: Schools need urgent attention - BBC Education leaders call for co-ordinated national ESOL strategy - FE Week Australia: education exports hit record high of nearly US$17 billion - University World News US travel ban - no winners in academia - University World News USA: the travel ban hits Iranian professors and students hard - University World News Welcome focus on skills in Industrial Strategy Green Paper - FE News Ofsted denies going soft on employers despite IfA notes - FE Week Tight budgets harm standards, says world school ranking boss - BBC FE Week victory: apprenticeship rules ban brokerage - FE Week Carlisle College becomes NCG fifth FE college member - FE Week Carlisle College becomes NCG fifth FE college member - FE Week ‘Superhead’ Jo Shuter has teaching ban overturned - Schools Week Top academy boss paid £420,000 last year as new analysis reveals several directors now earn more than university vice chancellors   - Telegraph Class size and teaching: width and quality both matter - IOE London Blog This is the lovely message from a centre boss to schoolchildren using it as a temporary classroom - Wales Online Employment boost for older workers - FE News Edinburgh Uni ends global hunt for new principal - Scotsman How pygmy goats have transformed pupil behaviour - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top UK school opens new international branch in Dubai - Telegraph Canada: leading US & UK researchers enquiring re potential relocation to Canadian universities - University World News Ghana: research in universities remains underdeveloped - University World News USA: Christian college head to lead higher education reform - University World News Ofqual Supplementary Estimates 2016/17 - Memorandum to Education Select Committee - UK Parliament Milo Yiannopoulos warns universities ‘the president is watching’ following violent UC Berkeley protests - Huffington Post SEND: Highlights of January and upcoming events and consultations - NAHT Week in news: 3 February 2017 - UCU Sexual abuse and harassment by university staff against students – further work to address the issue - Universities UK What next for the Teaching Excellence Framework? - Universities UK Fair funding for colleges - AoC | Association of Colleges Two thirds of Guernsey teachers have considered leaving - NASUWT HESA - performance indicators - Russell Group Heads need more government funding to invest in teachers' CPD - Voice New research project: early years inspections. Could you help? - Voice South Africa: universities eye austerity measures as student debt grows - University World News Schools across Wales are being urged to 'wear it red' during the Six Nations - Wales Online Epping Forest College hires finance director despite £338k IT scandal - FE Week Academies should be made to take in excluded children, officials say  - Telegraph Policy Exchange announces new education and social reform team - Policy Exchange We need to understand the diversity of research to assess it properly - HEFCE LGA calls for academies to be forced to take 'hard to place' pupils - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Latest UCAS data signals the post-Brexit challenges for higher education - EPI 21,000 teachers in schools reporting no CPD budget, says Teacher Development Trust study - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Apprentice welcome letter - SFA SFA: qualification achievement rate 2015 to 2016 (formerly QSR) - SFA 'Postcode lottery' created by devolution of SEND funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hong Kong: vice-chancellor quits for new UK post after period of 'complexity' - University World News USA: universities feel early impacts of Trump era uncertainty - University World News Unethical academics are making a mockery of our education system - Guardian Academies count the cost of fraud - Times Educational Supplement | TES Beyond co-creation: Courses designed by students - Wonkhe Differential offer rates do not necessarily indicate bias in admissions - Wonkhe Boarding school trial for vulnerable pupils scuppered by 'low aspirations' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revealed: The 23 trusts that broke rules over £4m related-party transactions - Schools Week Roll pupil premium into national funding formula, say experts - Schools Week Auditors flag increase in financially ‘unviable’ academy trusts - Schools Week Meet the £200k-per-year academy chiefs who look after just a handful of schools - Schools Week Schools have no funds to train teachers, says study - BBC George Osborne: north-south divide in schools needs urgent attention - Guardian Decline in young students from disadvantaged backgrounds at Scottish universities - Herald Scotland EU students shunning Scottish universities in wake of Brexit - Herald Scotland Northern schools need 'urgent attention', says George Osborne thinktank - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academic quits £600k job to lead Scottish university - Times One in ten new undergraduates from poor background as inequality gap gets wider - Times DfE rejected almost 90 per cent of requests to force academies to accept excluded pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES