News archive for 15th February 2017

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Cambridge University's 300-year-old "class list" tradition could be banned under EU law - Telegraph Lincoln College Group defends ‘isolated error’ after being named in minimum wage offenders' list - FE Week One of three schools shut for maintenance has re-opened for four days - Wales Online Australia’s ‘last’ federal funding for buildings under threat - Times Higher Education | THE Only 1 per cent of the population see education as the country's most important issue, poll shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES Reflections on participation in the FLAIR scheme for Senior Fellowship of the HEA - HEA Lack of compulsory sex education causing surge in STI rates, councils warn - CYPN | Children & Young People Now SFA update: February 2017 - SFA Expanding your academy trust: resources for multi-academy trusts - DfE Holding out for a HeRo! - AoC | Association of Colleges Accepting the textbook challenge - ASCL New research project: early years inspections. Could you help? - Voice Registration open for online apprenticeship service - AELP SFCA in the News - Sixth Form Colleges Assocation | SFCA Government considers council MAT for vulnerable Kent primaries - Schools Week Petitions against new GCSE exams attract tens of thousands of signatures - Times Educational Supplement | TES City University of London student union votes to overturn ban on Daily Mail, Sun and Express - Huffington Post It's half-term, so why not relax and explain: #WeTeachBecause - Times Educational Supplement | TES Is sex education in UK schools good enough? Share your thoughts - Guardian UK school denies Juno Dawson visit was cancelled because she is transgender - Guardian Do apprenticeships have a bad image? - FE News Cambridge University students warned not to wear gowns in city centre over fears of attacks by locals - Huffington Post Education behind bars: why university students are learning alongside prisoners - The Conversation Pupils with alcoholic parents are 'Britain's biggest secret scandal', MPs warn - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of sex education a ticking time bomb, councils warn - BBC Who's afraid of private universities? - Guardian Top Tory throws weight behind EBacc changes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of sex education in some secondary schools is a 'ticking sexual health time bomb' - Huffington Post Response to Joseph Roundtree Foundation and Loughborough University’s Minimum income standard report - Coram Family & Childcare HESA sheds light on the diversity of independent HE - Wonkhe In the age of robots, our schools are teaching children to be redundant | George Monbiot - Guardian London schools will lose up to £500 per pupil as funding is ‘rebalanced’ - Evening Standard Student debt sale gives new generation a first taste of economic slavery - Independent Charities' vital role in supporting children's mental health | Catherine Roche - Guardian What happened to the old technical schools? - Schools Week Lack of sex education 'is a health time bomb': Warning too many teenagers are still getting STIs because of poor information in schools - Mail Inadequate sex education creating 'health time bomb' - Guardian Best in class - BBC More women will become infertile if sex education is not taught in schools, town hall chief says - Telegraph Make sex education compulsory to stop spread of STIs, say councils - Schools Week Lack of sex education is a 'ticking time bomb', warn council chiefs - Times Educational Supplement | TES Lack of ‘compulsory’ sex education in some schools 'a ticking health time bomb' - Express Teachers accuse SNP of breaking vow on data - Times