News archive for 4th January 2017

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Gagging clauses should have no place in British universities - Guardian Ofsted’s position on LGBT programmes in schools - Guardian Short skirts row: Headmistress hits out at parents who send daughters to school 'flashing lots of thigh' - Telegraph Christian schools claim Ofsted used them as ‘soft target’ after ‘inadequate’ judgments - Schools Week Alarm at move to reveal identity of whistleblowers who exposed Trojan Horse scandal - Telegraph The extraordinary 'love story' video that highlights the dangers of grooming - Times Educational Supplement | TES Grammar schools 'endanger social cohesion' without improving results, researchers argue - Times Educational Supplement | TES Seven ways education needs to change in 2017 - The Conversation These are the most oversubscribed primary schools in Newport - Wales Online Sport, skills and storytelling: how charity begins at school - Guardian Student housing: 6 dos and don’ts when searching for a new student house - Huffington Post Plan to reveal Trojan Horse whistleblowers 'beggars belief', warn heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES Kent school head defends sending home girls in too-short skirts - Guardian Careless student cooks cause hundreds of fires every year  - Telegraph Anxious international students turn away from UK - Guardian Sector response to the Institute for Apprenticeships consultation - FE News The questions parents of children with special needs should be asking  - Telegraph 'Trojan Horse': Plea to ensure witness anonymity - BBC Training providers welcome crackdown on apprenticeship 'cartels' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Storm over Shami's £500,000 to help girls get degrees - despite them already doing better than boys at university - Mail University students pessimistic about securing their dream job - FE News Fake degree fraudsters are using students’ graduation selfies to help scam employers, warn investigators - Huffington Post Procrastination? I'll get back to you... - BBC Consultation launched on new Institute for Apprenticeships - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxbridge now recognises the importance of mental health - it's time for the rest to follow suit - Telegraph AQA boss Andrew Hall postpones retirement to help with major exam reforms - Times Educational Supplement | TES Institute for Apprenticeships consultation launched - FE Week US university introduces gender pronoun badges - Times Higher Education | THE Taiwanese courses unfilled as birth crisis bites - Times Higher Education | THE Bethnal Green Islamic school slammed by Ofsted for 'book on how women should behave' - Evening Standard Parents furious after Ebbsfleet Academy headteacher sends schoolgirls home for skirts '5cm above the knee' - Evening Standard Jackanory: University offers £63,000 salary for a Professor in Storytelling - Express My plans, priorities and resolutions for 2017 - FE Week What do you believe in as a school leader in 2017? - SecEd DfE demands £3bn in savings as financial pressures mount - SecEd Early years should focus on needs of different ethnic groups to boost social mobility - Nursery World Revealed: How some UK apprentices are working for barely £1 an hour - PoliticsHome Les Ebdon: Government amendments strengthen Higher Education Bill - OFFA Removal of apprenticeship frameworks - SFA SFA update: January 2017 - SFA Skills Funding Agency: update - SFA Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate - SFA LRS: monthly headline report - SFA Institute for Apprenticeships guidance published for consultation - DfE Institute for Apprenticeships: draft strategic guidance - DfE New school proposals - DfE PHE launches new Change4Life Be Food Smart campaign - NAHT Government's amendments to the HE&R Bill - RG Response - Russell Group Clarity still needed after government issues draft strategic guidance to the new Institute of Apprenticeships - AELP Nursery inspections in Scotland fall by one-third - Scotsman Tom Peterkin: Joy of sport is in taking part - Scotsman Night time badger expeditions, croissant making lessons in France and taekwondo classes on offer from Tatler's top state schools - Telegraph Private schools ‘should lose tax breaks and charitable status’ - Times Virtuous schooling - Times Education policy needs to go back to school - Times £52 million awarded to leading-edge research projects in engineering and the social sciences - HEFCE