News archive for 6th January 2017

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Trojan Horse whistleblowers given Government assurance of anonymity, leaked correspondence reveals - Telegraph Pupils at £25k-a-year private school 'went on cocaine and alcohol binge' during Tenerife field trip - Telegraph Said Business School acts to head off Brexit risk - Financial Times EBacc: Schools could have to wait until summer to see government's consultation findings - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Large-scale incident’ exposes college safeguarding failures in inadequate Ofsted report - FE Week Tory backlash grows over school funding plans - Guardian In this week's TES Further: 'Students with special needs can flourish in the workplace' - Times Educational Supplement | TES More than 1,200 schools have not received an Ofsted inspection for over seven years   - Telegraph More than 1,200 schools have not received an Ofsted inspection for over seven years - Telegraph The coming of age of digital education - FE News Parents could face fines or prison if children are repeatedly late for primary school - Independent Kayleigh Haywood film prompts dozens of children to report online grooming, say police - Huffington Post If DfE is listening it must act now - FE Week Is your child a cyberbully and if so, what should you do? - BBC Schools shouldn’t be left alone to deal with child health and well-being any longer - The Conversation Podcast: Ofsted complaints, top tips for Sendcos and Euan Blair - Times Educational Supplement | TES Postgrad study: a new perspective from the top of the hill - Guardian UCAS applications 2017: Everything you need to know from what to put in your personal statement to who can be your reference - Wales Online British black power: from shrug to school syllabus in six short years - Guardian Churches must tackle ‘bigots’ over LGBT teaching in schools - Scotsman Will technology reverse the fortunes of the Apprenticeship levy? - FE News Higher education is being turned upside down at completely the wrong time - The Conversation Teacher pay: Teaching unions come together to demand salary boost for profession ‘in crisis’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Are you considering a new year, new (teaching) career? - Huffington Post Why the Higher Education Bill is bad news for students - Telegraph Gazelle Group on its last legs after its director and most members quit - FE Week Does a degree today represent value for money? Not if you're going on the number of contact hours  - Telegraph Theresa May set to boost role of schools in tackling mental health problems - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Use empty tube and rail buildings for childcare, Sadiq Khan urged - CYPN | Children & Young People Now New Institute of Apprenticeships consultation launched - Nursery World Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 6 January 2017 - Pearson Outstanding colleges might now expect a visit from Ofsted - FE Week Apprentice levy 'will harm small council schools' - BBC New deal to help schools save cash on computer equipment - DfE FE data library: apprenticeship vacancies - SFA Week in news: 6 January 2017 - UCU It’s time to get serious about recruitment | Ros McMullen - Headteachers' Roundtable The Stand Alone Pledge: understanding the challenges for estranged students - Universities UK Lords examines Higher Education and Research Bill - UK Parliament Joint statement to the school teachers’ review body - ATL A happy New Year for primary assessment? - ATL Institute for Apprenticeship pre-launch. A Quango cometh? - FE News Teachers should keep their regional accents, say pupils - Times Educational Supplement | TES Enabling traineeships to grow - AELP I landed my dream PhD – and it turned into a nightmare - Guardian Catholic Church will take government to court over school admissions letters from priests - Schools Week Government writes off £800,000 of free school funding - Schools Week Euan Blair: 'Apprenticeships should be for smart kids too' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Tony Blair's son working in apprenticeships - BBC University chiefs who earn £342,000 a year (no wonder fees keep going up!) - Mail Wakefield trust walkout leaves special measures school in six-year limbo - Schools Week Ofsted ignores more than 100 schools for a decade - Schools Week Heads fear 'forced academisation' of faith schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parents outraged after primary school slaps fines onto parents if their children are late - Express Schools face 'disastrous' levy to plug funding gap - Times Educational Supplement | TES Local control over education 'is key' - BBC Schools warned about cyber scammers who demand thousands in ransom from headteachers  - Telegraph Fury over ID threat to Trojan school witnesses - Mail Primary school headmistress to fine parents whose children are late, sparking angry backlash - Telegraph Sharp fall in complaints about Ofsted inspections - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education Secretary urged to intervene to protect anonymity of Trojan Horse whistleblowers  - Telegraph Schools to be pushed to breaking point by levy, say education groups - Guardian Calls to give schools full powers over the way they are run - Herald Scotland Scots school leavers being ‘locked out’ of university - Scotsman Most council-maintained schools shouldn’t pay apprenticeship levy, ministers claim - Schools Week Exempt small schools from 'discriminatory' apprenticeship levy, councils urge - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE shelve plan to enforce equal careers advice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hand heads power to sack poor teachers, say reformers - Times