News archive for 6th February 2017

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Oxford University embroiled in race row as students told to be 'vigilant' after black man seen in grounds - Telegraph Research takes many forms – this should shape how we assess it - HEFCE Looking back, Insights from 2016 HEA Surveys Conference: Linking Enhancement and Excellence - HEA Government urged to scrap universal funded childcare - Nursery World Labour hits out at 'irresponsible' Government over £12bn student loan book sale - PoliticsHome LRS: monthly headline report - SFA Lessons to be learned from Knowsley’s schools - Guardian UCU comment on student loan book sale - UCU ATL Cymru and NUT respond to missed opportunity of supply taskforce report - ATL ATL Cymru: school categorisation results published today - ATL Godot arrives: The Government WILL sell off income-contingent student loans - HEFCE Apprenticeship funding: how it will work - DfE Government launches first sale from the student loan book - DfE RSC Vicky Beer resigns to head new academy trust - Schools Week Tory MPs increase pressure on ministers over school funding cuts - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK to sell record £4bn of student loans to investors - Financial Times From EBacc to mental health, DfE misses deadlines in responding to nine of its own consultations - Times Educational Supplement | TES Unethical behaviour among academics – your responses - Guardian Student loan debt up for private sale - BBC Universities minister announces sale of student loan book - Guardian Why children’s books that teach diversity are more important than ever - The Conversation Do international students want to visit a Trump-led America? - Huffington Post 'Transition period' is needed for the apprenticeship levy, says CBI - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free nursery hours subsidising the rich, report says - BBC National testing pilots fail to take off in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES It takes a lot more than blind CVs to combat bias and boost diversity | Poppy Noor - Guardian KCL lecturer Adam Perkins slammed as ‘racist’ after arguing Donald Trump’s travel ban ‘makes sense’ - Huffington Post Robots should replace school receptionists, claims think tank - Schools Week Why Brexit won't spell the end for our European exchange programme - Telegraph Update to the Agreement on Institutional Designation - HEFCE No more bets, please: evaluating the fall in nursing applications - Wonkhe La La Land: not a normal by-election, not a normal university town - Wonkhe Response to IEA's Getting the State out of Pre-School and Childcare report - Coram Family & Childcare DfE study finds quality ‘does not cost substantially more’ - Nursery World MPs urge action on nursery schools - Nursery World Most jobless parents will work to get 30 hours - Nursery World Real impact of apprenticeship levy will be the recruitment and upskilling of middle and senior management - PoliticsHome Our emergency - FE News Third of secondary schools to cut mental health support - Times Educational Supplement | TES Academy accounts reveal millions more being spent on redundancies - Times Educational Supplement | TES It's time for a national adult learning strategy - FE Week Schools call on MPs to fight ‘grossly unfair’ Progress 8 - Schools Week Almost two-thirds of children worry 'all the time' - BBC Labelling the Apprenticeship Levy as a “tax” is misleading: it’s a skills investment plan - FE News Universities failing to support disabled academics - Herald Scotland Apprentices could offer better value than 'overqualified' Teach Firsters, thinktank suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES After-school care set to be expanded - Times Middle-class parents drive surge in students given extra time for exams - Times Free childcare ‘does not work and should be scrapped’ - Times Boarding schools are perfect for the poorest - Times Primary Teacher Education and Training: a new report from Cambridge Primary Review Trust (6 Feb 2017) - UCET ‘Schools being held back by lack of resources’ - Scotsman