News archive for 23rd February 2017

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School which announced plans to ban girls from wearing trousers will now consider 'tailored trousers' - Wales Online DfE data reveals 10,000 fewer childcare providers plan to offer 30-hour places - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Sooner or later, a British university is going to go bankrupt - New Statesman Education workers putting in long hours of unpaid overtime - UCU Tens of thousands of providers don't plan to offer 30 hour childcare - Nursery World DfE outlines next steps for Institutes of Technology - AoC | Association of Colleges Careers advice amendment could give colleges access to schools - AoC | Association of Colleges Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in February 2017 - Pearson Further Education Commissioner intervention reports - SFA Advanced learner loan applications: February 2017 - DfE Childcare and early years providers survey: 2016 - DfE Apprenticeship training agencies - SFA Apprenticeship standards in development - SFA Apprenticeship standards - SFA SFA: communications update - SFA Advanced learner loans qualifications catalogue - SFA DfE encourages more businesses to offer apprenticeships - DfE Almost third of university academics from outside UK - BBC DfE encourages more SME businesses to offer apprenticeships - FE News Nic Dakin MP's Ten Minute Rule Bill on careers advice and access to schools - FE News Councils paid £100k to write to parents about UTCs - Schools Week Bad economics and the education debate - Financial Times How to help all children do better at maths: primary and early years report from Fair Education Alliance - National Numeracy Changes to justice system will affect those working in FE colleges - FE Week The data deficit effect - Conor's Commentary UCU comment on HEFCE grant letter - UCU Science, engineering and technology at greatest risk of Brexit university brain drain - UCU Ministers must put education at the heart of prison reform, says UCU - UCU NAHT response to Health Committee inquiry - NAHT NASUWT comments on asbestos in schools report - NASUWT The importance of the right investment - AoC | Association of Colleges How do visa applications relate to student numbers? - Universities UK Response to government investment - Russell Group Response to HEPI - reforming BTECs - Russell Group HEFCE grant letter 2017 - Russell Group 750 apprenticeships in government open for applications - FE News There’s plenty of hope for Neets. I should know – I was one | Helena Kiely - Guardian Asbestos ‘significant cause for concern’ in over 100 schools - Schools Week Schools could be forced to allow colleges access to students - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers at risk of asbestos exposure in one in five schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Applications open for 750 Fast Track Apprenticeships in England, Scotland and Wales - FE News The overlooked gap in the apprenticeship industry and what some training providers are doing about it - FE News Headteachers should stop whinging about funding cuts and curb 'largesse', Sir Michael Wilshaw says - Telegraph Industry response to the Department for Education's latest NEET statistics - FE News Baker victory will force ‘hostile’ schools to give FE providers access to students - FE Week ‘Baker clause’ will force hostile schools to open doors to FE - FE Week Students: what are your experiences of websites selling essays? - Guardian London university offers free course just for refugees and asylum seekers - Independent Kathy Kirkham resigns as chief executive of Bright Tribe - Schools Week Schools funding: re-think the re-think - BBC Wilshaw: Schools must adjust to funding cuts after 20 years of 'largesse' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why both teens and teachers could benefit from later school start times - The Conversation Bid to force ‘hostile’ schools to promote technical education succeeds - Schools Week Clever teenagers twice as likely to smoke cannabis, study finds - Independent Teachers' Pension Scheme Supplementary Estimate 2016-17 Memorandum - DfE Ofsted Supplementary Estimate 2016-17 Memorandum - UK Parliament Department for Education Supplementary Estimate 2016-17 Memorandum - DfE Higher education institutions could do more to help BTEC students, says new HEPI report - HEPI Rising to the challenge - HEPI PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain - Guardian Student volunteers make a real difference - harness their enthusiasm - Guardian Pupils of 11 to sit specific times tables tests for the first time next year as part of their Key Stage Two exams - Mail Vice-Chancellors’ ‘outrageous’ salaries lead union bosses to demand government action - Huffington Post Teacher changes accent to avoid 'village idiot' tag - BBC School days 'could be shortened' to save money at seven schools - BBC School funding changes 'risk injustice' - BBC University vice-chancellors' average pay now exceeds £275,000 - Guardian Clever teenagers twice as likely to smoke cannabis due to their curious minds, study finds - Telegraph Expert: Focus on national school tests "could damage reading" - Herald Scotland Scottish university principal comes under fire for accepting £15,000 bonus - Herald Scotland Vice chancellors who spent over £46,000 on first class flights among fat cat leaders named and shamed - Telegraph Novels by YouTube stars are ruining children’s reading ages, experts warn - Telegraph Reading age slips as pupils leave primary - Times BTEC students face 'glass ceiling', report suggests - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools must help students choose BTEC qualifications most valued by universities, says report - Times Educational Supplement | TES