News archive for 21st February 2017

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Billions needed to restore school buildings to 'satisfactory' condition, warns watchdog - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ohio policeman helps girl, 10, with maths homework - BBC School spending on supply teacher agencies jumps by a fifth in three years - Telegraph Britain’s first cut-price private school will charge parents just £52 a week - Telegraph Students accused of 'cultural vandalism' after campaign to remove the legacy of Victorian polymath they claim 'invented racism' - Telegraph Sussex University under fire over workshop on how to 'deal with right-wing attitudes in the classroom' - Telegraph Britons 'bumped off' EU medical research grant applications, MPs told - Guardian How varied work experience improves graduate prospects - HEFCE NASUWT welcomes call for action on homophobic bullying in schools - NASUWT Teacher recruitment and retention: EPI research informs Select Committee report - EPI UCU comment on Education Select Committee teacher recruitment and retention report - UCU A long term plan is needed to address the recruitment and retention crisis, says NAHT - NAHT Right-wing student at Sussex? Your professors think you're a problem that needs 'dealing with' - Telegraph MPs call for long term plan for teacher recruitment and retention - NAHT NAHT’s School Funding in Crisis event in Birmingham - NAHT ATL comment on House of Commons Education Committee report on teacher shortages - ATL Community progresses its new build school - Herald Scotland Pupil Nationality (and other) data - NAHT 'Fascists!' Nigel Farage rages at UK's education system for being 'hijacked by liberals' - Express NAW 2017: templates - SFA Key facts about apprenticeships - SFA Toolkits and resources to support National Apprenticeship Week 2017 - SFA Minister demands stiff penalties for student cheats - University World News Review of construction industrial training boards: call for evidence - DfE SEND: 19- to 25-year-olds’ entitlement to EHC plans - DfE Government 'wastes billions' on state-of-art free schools leaving state schools in dire state of repair - Independent Teacher shortage due to 'workload and pressures' - BBC Student behind letter accusing Bristol University lecturer of anti-Semitism leads calls against her sacking - Huffington Post Consultation questions future of construction industry training boards after apprenticeship levy launch - FE Week Scottish councils crippled by staff shortages demand control over teacher training - Times Educational Supplement | TES Four ways to help your students overcome impostor syndrome - Guardian 'I feel unable to provide the education my pupils deserve.' Head resigns over 'bleak' funding cuts – read the full, tragic letter - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sector Response to the Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network - FE News Online 'essay mills' face government crackdown as a threat to the reputation of UK degrees - Huffington Post Local authorities have no control over government funding of schools | Letters - Guardian Princess Nokia in row over 'public display of sexism' at Cambridge University - Guardian Oasis director Andy Yarrow appointed chief executive of CfBT Schools Trust - Schools Week British-Muslim teacher denied entry to US on school trip - Times Educational Supplement | TES A council was fiercely criticised over planned schools cuts. It is now giving them £1.1m more - Wales Online How you can knock £1,500 off your student loan in one simple step - Wales Online Why Oxbridge's posh kids like to hide behind a 'working class' smokescreen - Telegraph Cheating university students could get criminal record for plagiarised essays - Independent Positive thinking is good for us - or maybe not? - Montrose42 Halfon launches new Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network - FE Week George Osborne's flagship apprenticeship scheme 'will deepen regional inequalities' - PoliticsHome Jim McMahon MP: Devolve power to upskill the nation - PoliticsHome New Chief Executive appointed for leading Welsh awarding body - FE News Preview: Special Schools, Specialist and Alternative Provision Conference 2017 - NAHT Pupil Nationality (and other) data - NAHT Network established to encourage diversity in apprenticeships - DfE The need for educators - Training Journal Jo Johnson demands tough penalties on student plagiarism - DfE School teacher shortages worsening, Committee report finds - UK Parliament Teacher recruitment and retention - NUT Teacher supply report shows urgent need for government strategy - ASCL Response to calls for tougher action to tackle plagiarism - Universities UK What more might universities do to promote entrepreneurship? - HEPI Private school fee increases and the KHDA's Education Cost Index - Independent Head Carry on up the cyber - Wonkhe Business schools are feeling the Brexit heat - Wonkhe The new foes are the old ones: lies and ignorance - Wonkhe UTCs are not the problem - FE News MillionPlus responds to the Education Select Committee’s recruitment and retention of teachers report - MillionPlus Academic selection: Policy group criticises 'negative impact' - BBC Cappuccino with extra Italian? Pop-up classes bring a buzz to adult learning - Guardian The US travel ban would be bad news for American universities | Mary O’Hara - Guardian Teacher shortages in key subjects `worsening´, report warns - Mail 'Firmer grip' needed on education improvement grants - BBC We must ensure all Scottish public buildings are safe | Neil Baxter - Guardian Universities and Brexit: ‘We’ve 2,500 EU students – talent we don’t want to lose’ - Guardian Funding cuts threaten London schools’ progress - Financial Times Universities are told to throw the book at web essay cheats - Mail Watchdog to pursue essay-cheat websites - BBC Putting a limit on time spent marking and preparing lessons can stop exodus of teachers, says MPs - Mail Teacher shortage getting worse, say MPs - BBC Scottish universities hit by controversial rates increase - Herald Scotland Teacher shortages at 'crisis' point as pupil numbers set to soar, MPs warn - Independent Non-profit company to run Norfolk's school improvement service - Times Educational Supplement | TES Government has no plan to tackle ‘worsening’ teacher shortages - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sats-style maths exam for university applicants 'could help post-Brexit Britain compete' - Times Educational Supplement | TES UCET response to reported comments by Nick Gibb - UCET University students could be fined or handed criminal records for plagiarised essays, new proposals suggest - Telegraph Plan to crack down on websites selling essays to students announced - Guardian Select Committee report on teacher supply - UCET Give schools 12-month warning on policy changes, and 5 other education committee suggestions to solve recruitment crisis - Schools Week MPs call for national CPD ‘annual entitlement’ to boost teacher retention rates - Schools Week