News archive for 3rd January 2017

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Dozens of fake degree certificate websites shut down amid crack down on bogus awards - Telegraph Revealed: the most expensive universities to study at in the UK - Telegraph School terror fears: Now teachers are being trained to guard against deadly attacks - Express These are the most oversubscribed primary schools in Cardiff - Wales Online Schools warned over cold-calling ‘ransomware’ scam - Schools Week 'Stop giving away pens': 14 new year's resolutions for teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 15 things you need to know about applying for a primary place for September 2017 in Wales - Wales Online A university wants to hire a £60k-a-year 'Professor of Storytelling' - Wales Online In 2017, student politics needs to grow up - Huffington Post Parents could apply for faith and council schools at the same time in Cardiff - Wales Online Slow progress on diversity in apprenticeships and skills - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pushy parents live vicariously through their children and become obsessed with 'trophy-hunting', deputy head warns - Telegraph And they're off! Ballot opens in ASCL leadership race - Times Educational Supplement | TES How the way we make decisions and exercise judgment can be deeply flawed - Montrose42 Royal Bank of Scotland uses brain scanning technology to help fill top graduate positions - Huffington Post Government faces revolt from House of Lords over alleged attempts to 'marketise' university sector - Huffington Post 3D Scans of Forth Bridges to be used in educational game - Scotsman How to go gluten-free on a student budget - Guardian University people recognised in 2017 New Year Honours list - Cambridge Network Fake university degree websites shut down - BBC USA: 'White genocide' tweet sparks academic freedom row - Times Higher Education | THE £500,000 for Wales school holiday clubs - BBC School funding cuts worse than predicted. JAMs hit hardest as school budgets plummet - NUT Underpayment of apprentices spoiling the reputation of some VET - Training Journal USA: Foreign student fee revenue filling public funding gaps - PIE News College staff and students honoured - AoC | Association of Colleges Apprenticeship frameworks - SFA Accreditation of specifications for reformed GCSE, AS and A level subjects for first teaching in September 2017 - NAHT 16 -18 minimum standards for 2016 - NAHT ATL comment on State Pension Age (SPA) Review consultation response - ATL School funding cuts worse than predicted. JAMs hit hardest as school budgets plummet - ATL Early years national funding formula: allocations and guidance - DfE FE data library: apprenticeship vacancies - SFA Apprenticeship grant for employers of 16 to 24 year olds - SFA Top UK geneticist faces new inquiry over claims of research misconduct - Guardian Sport changes lives, we need to invest in it - Scotsman New summer holidays lunch and fun clubs will get £500,000 of funding - Wales Online 'No outdoor sport' at 1,000 schools - BBC "Just About Managing" children hardest hit by proposed education funding cuts, warn unions - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 1,000 Scottish schools lack outdoor sports pitches - Scotsman Over 1,000 Scottish schools are without sports pitches - Scotsman Universities ‘to level playing field’ - Times