News archive for 17th February 2017

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NUS in turmoil after internal report rules its President should not be punished despite making anti-Semitic remarks - Telegraph Teachers who are too scared to give children a reassuring pat on the shoulder are guilty of child abuse, neurologist warns - Telegraph Week in news: 17 February 2017 - UCU Challenging exam grades should never be based on the ability to pay, says NAHT - NAHT Deputy head teacher who had sex with teenage girls given £8,000 golden handshake, tribunal hears - Telegraph Musician who admitted groping students wins teaching ban appeal - Guardian Proposals for pioneering ‘low cost’ private school in England revealed - Schools Week Lecturers face EIS strike ballot in college pay row - Herald Scotland Students not abandoning pen and paper - 10-nation study - University World News Complacency of the Far-Right will only help spread antisemitism on campus - Telegraph Former Tory education secretaries Gove and Baker clash over university technical colleges - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted watch: week of two halves for FE providers - FE Week Kenya: eleven universities face insolvency - University World News Nigeria: universities body moves to curtail religious tensions - University World News USA: united we stand - student resistance to Donald Trump - University World News The problems with sex education in schools - Huffington Post In this week's TES Further: Could EuroSkills be coming to the UK? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Michael Gove is talking rubbish about my technical colleges – they are working brilliantly - Telegraph Michael Gove is spouting 'ill-informed rubbish' about technical colleges, says Lord Baker - Telegraph Schools fear business rate rise will be 'breaking point' - BBC Students should stand up to the safe space censors - Huffington Post Welsh taking off in Tokyo - BBC How music benefits children - The Conversation Teenagers up to four times less likely to apply to university depending on where they live - Huffington Post The student Left’s culture of intolerance is creating a new generation of conservatives - Telegraph Government wants £140k-a-year director to oversee area reviews - FE Week Emerging teacher pay gap threatens to ‘worsen recruitment crisis’ - Schools Week Vicky Beer to stay on as RSC after departure U-turn - Schools Week Vicky Beer reverses her resignation as regional schools commissioner for Lancashire and West Yorkshire - Times Educational Supplement | TES Learners plead with government to end loan misery after provider collapse - FE Week Employers in three sectors to grade their own apprentices - FE Week End adult learner debt for cancelled courses - FE Week Universities admit high numbers of students who are ‘almost illiterate’, say lecturers - Huffington Post Diversifying delivery in higher education - Wonkhe Bell’s agency cocktail needs added vision - Wonkhe Third of children 'not reaching expectations' - BBC Early years apprenticeship group dismissed in GCSE deadlock - Nursery World Nursery's grant to boost children's wellbeing and mental health - Nursery World Most parents want early years teachers in nurseries - Nursery World Row over mismanagement of EU research funding - University World News Ofsted praises SEN funding approach in Leeds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Shortage of early years teachers 'risks developmental delay' for 800,000 children - CYPN | Children & Young People Now What do you mean ‘inclusive practice’? - HEFCE Refusing to touch pupils is a form of child abuse, psychologists say - Times Educational Supplement | TES I want to make a difference in academia – but I'm drowning - Guardian High quality early years education vital to social mobility - NAHT SFA spend over £25,000 (and all other) - SFA Schools Minister questioned on primary assessment - UK Parliament Recruitment and retention of teachers: Committee announces report publication - UK Parliament Justine Greening: teachers - the experts driving social mobility - DfE Nick Gibb: the importance of an evidence-informed profession - DfE Apprenticeship standards - SFA Apprenticeship funding bands - SFA Government raises foreign student quota to 200,000 - University World News The academy trusts that refuse to publish pay information - Times Educational Supplement | TES Flexible approaches are key to the Brexit response - FE News Councils to sell hundreds of acres of school playing field land - Times Educational Supplement | TES University applications 'depends heavily on where you live' - BBC UK's most disadvantaged teenagers four times less likely to apply for university than better off peers - Independent Funding cuts put farming apprenticeships at risk - Times Educational Supplement | TES Third of parents unsure if child's nursery has qualified early years teacher, poll finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Master plan for university’s £1bn campus revolution gets go-ahead - Times Apprentices lack support, says Labour - Times Educational Supplement | TES