News archive for 14th February 2017

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The 10 best cities in the world to be a student 2017 – in pictures - Guardian How far is Scotland from meeting its 2021 widening access targets? - Wonkhe Looking after those student consumers - Wonkhe More than 90 percent of universities are restricting free speech, study finds - Telegraph Pupils deserve great sexpectations, says Valentine's Day campaign - Times Educational Supplement | TES Technical colleges are a failure, admits former education secretary Michael Gove  - Telegraph Cambridge University students warned not to wear their gowns in town for fear of attack - Telegraph Parkfield School still without sponsor ahead of move to £35m new site - Schools Week Graduate nursery staff have 'little effect' on children - BBC Auditor questions financial future of scandal-hit Perry Beeches Academy Trust - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than a third of pupils aged 7-9 can't use joined-up handwriting, survey shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Colleges stand by multi-million pound subcontractor despite insolvency issues - FE Week New funding for hundreds more teacher training places in campaign to tackle school staff shortages - Times Educational Supplement | TES Low mobility of young scientists may hamper innovation - University World News Cut in university tuition fees could be debated by parliament following huge student outcry - Huffington Post Hull College Group silent on future of under fire chief executive - FE Week Scottish Government funding to pay for 371 more teacher training places - Herald Scotland Porn site rises to the sex education challenge for Utah's pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE responds to City & Guilds recent Apprenticeship Levy Survey - FE News This much I know about…modelling deliberate writing to a hall full of more than one hundred Year 13 students - JohnTomsett Swinney promises funding rise for teacher training places - Scotsman We need a proper framework for apprenticeships - FE Week MPs call for compulsory sex and relationships education to stop ‘endemic’ school sexual harassment - Huffington Post Germany, Kenya to launch a regional science university - University World News Leading architect: All public buildings should be inspected following Edinburgh schools scandal - Herald Scotland In the latest edition of CYP Now: SEND revolution - CYPN | Children & Young People Now USA becomes third largest source of international students in the UK - Fulbright Commission Education, science and culture heads debate Brexit in Berlin - British Council Parents say childcare quality is falling - Nursery World Charge for extras to make 30 hours viable, Minister tells nurseries - Nursery World Watch teaching and learn more - Education Development Trust | EDT SLASC 2017: technical specification - DfE FE data library: apprenticeship vacancies - SFA Should parents have to pay fees – for a state school education? - Guardian It’s simple: a huge injection of cash is needed before school funding can be fair - Guardian Report on academic selection echoes concerns raised by the NASUWT - NASUWT Extra trainee teachers for Scotland welcome, but they will need jobs and support - Voice ATL comment on Education Select Committee report on the Government’s case for new grammar schools - ATL Naked pictures are traded 'like football stickers' in playgrounds, Education Secretary told - Telegraph Franklyn Addo: university is still a white middle-class affair – it’s not just Cambridge - Guardian Hundreds of students make an MP their valentine to demand compulsory sex and relationships education - Huffington Post Want your class to go green? These apps will get them hooked - Guardian Scottish schools 'lacking' mental health provision - BBC Expert warns of lethal flaws in Scottish public buildings - Scotsman Lecturers in dispute with colleges over pay deal delay - Times ‘Homecoming’ university chief on a mission to expand diversity - Times Warning over ‘lethal’ public building flaws - Times University’s new principal promises to widen access - Times Tuition fee fallacy - Times