News archive for 20th February 2017

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Bristol University investigates claims of anti-Semitism after lecturer claims that Jews should stop 'privileging' the Holocaust - Telegraph US university will not back down on Dalai Lama invite - University World News Muslim parents send their children to Christian schools to prepare them for 'life in modern Britain' - Telegraph Why I'm voting YES: greater representation, credibility and clout - ATL College staff to strike over suspended colleague - Times Educational Supplement | TES The neglectful bias against vocational training | Letters - Guardian Student life in London: culture and cuisine - Times Higher Education | THE Half of businesses consider hiring apprentices to fill post-Brexit skills gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Awarding, assessment and apprenticeship reform? - ERSA Government lobbied to keep vouchers to save on childcare costs - Nursery World Summer school successes - Sutton Trust Campaigners lodge complaint against Government on 30 hours 'price fixing' - Nursery World ILR specification, validation rules and appendices 2016 to 2017 - SFA Justine Greening's vision for the teaching profession - DfE NUS and UCU working together for One Day Without Us campaign - UCU Strike action at College of North West London on Thursday - UCU Share your views and experiences of the Prevent duty in schools and colleges - NAHT Coram launches free to access website LawStuff - NAHT Bercow: Ten Years On - Share your experiences of SLCN support - NAHT From Putin to Trump: being a Russian student in New York - Guardian Government reviews pupil nationality check guidance after schools’ passport demands - Schools Week Oxford university reject claims they are considering post-Brexit EU campus in Paris - Independent London’s pollution is so bad that it forced me to give up my dream PhD | Vicky Ware - Guardian Top London school allows girls to identify as male or gender neutral - Independent Church of England: Muslim parents are choosing our schools for 'spiritual development' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Too few 18-year-olds? That's no reason to start shutting universities - Guardian Oxford University denies claims it will open Paris campus in post-Brexit move for EU funding - Huffington Post Comedy star returns to college to impart wisdom to aspiring media students - FE Week Troubled free school 'failed to maintain adequate accounting records' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers fall down graduate pay league table - Times Educational Supplement | TES Regional disparities will be widened by new government apprenticeship levy - FE News NASUWT comments on teacher recruitment and retention report - NASUWT New initiative to boost disadvantaged groups in work - FE News Double standards, social mobility and the degree apprenticeships maze - Wonkhe UKPRN and how to tell which institution is which - Wonkhe Parenting programmes boost children's outcomes - Nursery World Oxford University may break with 700 years of tradition and open a foreign campus - after France offers Brexit sweetener - Telegraph TEF 1, TEF 2 and a complex game of snakes and ladders - Wonkhe The case against the student campaign to boycott the NSS - Wonkhe How does Ofsted know whether work experience is high quality? - FE Week Movers and Shakers: Edition 199 - FE Week We cannot be all things to all people - FE News My Year 12 Life: teens document their final school year in insightful new series - Guardian Oxford University considering Paris campus for EU cash - Mail Oxford University 'set to open Paris campus after post-Brexit funding pledge' - Express Putin critic’s speech cancelled by elite college - Times Muslim parents choose church schools because of focus on faith - Times