News archive for 27th February 2017

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Nantwich parents protest over school funding - BBC Parents protest over school funding - BBC Reinventing the wheel. Again. - Teacherhead Universities spark free speech row after halting pro-Palestinian events - Guardian Parliamentary launch for FE Week’s Save Our Adult Education campaign draws huge support - FE Week 500 jobs to be created in £24m boost for St Andrews University - Scotsman Spring Budget 2017: Three key recommendations - FE News Bollin Primary School shuts with immediate effect in teaching row - BBC Free speech on Israel under attack in universities | Letter from 243 academics - Guardian Exam board faces £50,000 Ofqual fine for handling of qualifications fraud case - FE Week Poor pupils will be overtaken by wealthier, less talented peers during secondary school, watchdog warns - Telegraph Public wants schools to teach about porn and sexting - Times Educational Supplement | TES Antony Jenkins is formally appointed chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships - FE News Check if your London nursery, school or college is exposed to toxic air - Guardian School to charge parents for GCSE exams if children skip lessons - Independent SASE Framework information: 4th batch withdrawal and survey - Skills CFA Can someone remind me why we need free schools at all? - Guardian Library staff in Scottish schools ‘down by third’ since 2010 - Scotsman Chair of Institute for Apprenticeships named - Times Educational Supplement | TES Traveller camp forces Birmingham school partial closure - BBC Glasgow Clyde principal to retire - Times Educational Supplement | TES Forget about burning a £20 note - Oxbridge's attitudes towards homeless people shows a very different story - Telegraph New university-level centre to offer degree apprenticeships - FE News Sector response to IFS report findings that funding per FE student, no higher than 30 years ago! - FE News First sixth-form college to convert this week - Times Educational Supplement | TES Revealed: University of St Andrews campus plans to create 500 new jobs - Herald Scotland Universities blame others for plagiarism. They need to look at themselves - Guardian Former ‘outstanding’ college’s Oftsed rating slumps after first inspection for decade - FE Week Another 100 students left with FE loans and no courses after demise of provider Edudo - FE Week Schools face first funding cut in 20 years, think tank warns - Telegraph New Institute of Technology to address apprenticeship and skills shortages in West London - FE News Nearly half of teachers struggling with mental health, suggests survey - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children must learn that homophobia is unacceptable - that's why we teach our pupils about the dangers from day one - Telegraph Plan to tackle sexting and online bullies - BBC ‘Buy for Uni’ mortgage turns students into landlords - Guardian ATL comment on the Social Mobility Commission research report - ATL School funding figures don’t add up. We need the NEU to solve the problem - ATL Sir Peter Lampl comments on Social Mobility Commission’s report - Sutton Trust Our young people as the leaders of the next generation: the need for a broad and balanced curriculum - ASCL ATL comment on the Institute for Fiscal Studies - Long-run comparisons of spending per pupil across different stages of education - ATL FE and sixth forms to suffer from 30 years without additional funding - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS IFS: School pupil funding cuts 'deepest for 30 years' - PoliticsHome Success for all - FE News Leading private girls' schools to share physics teachers with state sector - Times Educational Supplement | TES Joint letter by NAHT and NGA to the Chancellor of the Exchequer - NAHT Let’s fix the leaky pipeline linking girls to science jobs - GSA Funding needed to improve social mobility, says NAHT - NAHT NAHT respond to IFS report into education spending - NAHT AELP welcomes acceptance of ‘Baker clause’ on careers advice in schools - AELP UCU response to IFS report on education funding - UCU Questionable data and student immigration policy - Wonkhe Give him credit? Course switching gets a nudge - Wonkhe Social mobility - NUT Johnson revs up plans for fast-track degrees - Wonkhe Final building blocks in place for Institute for Apprenticeships - DfE Drop in poor children's progress at secondary school - GOV.UK Inspectors praise efforts to improve SEND provision in East Sussex - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Poll reveals support for school lessons about pornography and sexting - Herald Scotland Who were the winners at the TES FE Awards 2017? - FE News Lack of awareness stopping providers from applying for EYPP - Nursery World Manchester merger scrapped by FE Commissioner - FE Week HE prep course for refugees expands to UEL - PIE News EU considers bringing Switzerland in from Erasmus+ cold - PIE News Government must make college funding more fair - AoC | Association of Colleges Bringing maths into everyday activities key to success - Nursery World Parents urged to campaign against planned cuts in school funding - Evening Standard Female rugby star Leanne Riley urges schools to give girls chance to try the sport - Evening Standard Indian minister blames ‘subversion’ for campus clashes - Times Higher Education | THE Northern Ireland 'single transfer test' - BBC English schools ‘face 6.5% cut’ in funding by 2020 - Financial Times FE and sixth forms to suffer from 30 years without additional funding - FE News Children 'should be taught about pornography and sexting' - BBC Social mobility: Poorer children 'making less progress' - BBC Older teenagers face biggest funding cuts, says think tank - BBC Streaming 'holds back pupils from poor homes' - Mail School funding ‘done rather well’ and it’s cuts to 16-18 that’s the ‘bigger story’ claims Institute for Fiscal Studies - FE Week Heads and governors call on chancellor to do more for schools facing "impossible choices" on funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES School spending set for biggest fall in 30 years - Times Educational Supplement | TES Three-quarters of Britons back pornography lessons in schools, survey finds - Independent Widening academic gap 'damaging future' for a generation of poorer pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES UK schools 'to be hit with first real-time funding cuts in 20 years' - Guardian School leaders urge chancellor to plug education funding shortfall - Schools Week Poor pupils falling behind at secondary school, study finds - Schools Week FE funding level 'no higher than 30 years ago' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sex education should tackle pornography and sexting, says public - Guardian