News archive for 13th February 2017

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More than 500,000 children to miss out on free 30 hours childcare - CYPN | Children & Young People Now How to best use video CPD - Teacher Development Trust | TDT Graduate settings have little impact on children's outcomes - Nursery World Sir Peter Lampl comments on Education Select Committee grammar schools report - Sutton Trust MPs: Government has not proved the case for new grammar schools - PoliticsHome Apprenticeship funding: how it will work - DfE Register to manage your apprenticeship funds - SFA Schools in England - DfE Grammar schools should lower entrance exam mark for poorer pupils to stop middle classes dominating, select committee chair says  - Telegraph Registration open for online apprenticeship service - SFA Government must show new grammars close attainment gap - UK Parliament 4th Report - Evidence check: Grammar schools - UK Parliament Grammar schools are off the agenda in Wales but selective education is on the way back in England - Wales Online National Citizen Service launches online pupil participation tool - NAHT Latest news from our Assessment Campaign - NAHT Application round now open for National Leaders of Education and Teaching Schools - NAHT The government has lost the argument on expanding grammar schools, says NAHT - NAHT Utah rejects sex education bill, so porn site redirects to instructional videos - Guardian Perspective - Teacherhead Union responds to report into Hull College and calls on CEO to resign - UCU Grammar Schools - NUT Pen and paper 'beats computers for retaining knowledge' - Times Higher Education | THE DfE upate - Apprenticeship funding: how it will work - FE News Swastika and 'Rights for Whites' sign found in Exeter halls of residence - Guardian Schools that work for everyone? - Voice College strike looms as union enters dispute - Times Educational Supplement | TES Prevent scaremongering is dangerous - our anti-terror programme is vital in the battle against extremism - Telegraph Learndirect tops list of European Social Fund contracts with provision worth almost £50 million - FE Week One in three businesses unaware of new apprenticeship levy, survey finds  - Telegraph Minister backs early years educator u-turn as sector made to wait by PM’s office - FE Week Fake news requires us to re-examine how we teach truth in the classroom - Telegraph Supermodel David Gandy calls on pupils to read more - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'I wouldn't have done this at 18': why I switched to a nursing degree - Guardian Study reveals 94% of British universities censor students’ free speech on campus - Huffington Post Employers 'unaware' of April apprenticeship plan - BBC University 'safe spaces' are a dangerous fallacy - they do not exist in the real world - Telegraph Online apprenticeship service registration opens - FE Week Learning Rep - Spring 2017 Edition - Unionlearn Grammars 'unnecessary distraction', say MPs - BBC New legal apprenticeships contract between SFA and employers unveiled - FE Week MPs brand May’s grammar school drive a ‘distraction’ - Financial Times Case for opening new grammar schools is yet to be proved, MPs say - Guardian Small village schools are at risk of closure because of unfunded costs - The Conversation Headteacher sleeps rough in the woods in order to raise funds for new school in Malawi - Telegraph New grammar schools an 'unnecessary distraction', MPs warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education committee: Government ‘yet to prove case’ for new grammar schools - Schools Week Revealed: The academy trust behind a £200k severance deal - Schools Week Qualified nursery teachers make little difference to attainment, study finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Employers still in the dark about forthcoming apprenticeship changes - FE News You only get what you pay for. Or do you? - Wonkhe £1m endowment fund for children to take up music - BBC Students face disruption as lecturers threaten to strike over pay deal - Herald Scotland 'Ban children under 10 heading footballs in Wales' - BBC Pathway to ‘chartered teacher status’ will open in 2018, says College of Teaching - Schools Week Pathway to ‘chartered teacher status’ will open in 2018, says College of Teaching - Schools Week Third of employers paying levy in April don't know it exists yet, according to new report - FE Week Parents' outcry after headteacher decides that well-behaved pupils can leave ten minutes earlier than others - Mail High-stakes exams making a comeback, Scottish teachers warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES A third of businesses not 'fully informed' of apprenticeship levy, survey reveals - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sturgeon warned: Forget independence and sort out our schools - Express Students can’t be allowed to curb free speech - Times