News archive for 8th January 2017

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In the hunt for new ideas, Singapore eases obsession with grades - Mail Students could be charged more than £9,000 in tuition fees for ‘speedy courses’ - Telegraph Demands of 'snowflake' students pose threat to freedom of speech, universities warned - Independent University students demand philosophers such as Plato and Kant are removed from syllabus because they are white - Telegraph NUT & ATL letter to the Guardian: school funding cuts worse than predicted - Guardian Public services students become first in the country to undertake prison work experience - FE Week Cardiff's 'unacceptable' schools have made dramatic improvement but many are still left behind - Wales Online Justine Greening: grammar schools key to 'shared society' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greening: New grammar schools are ‘shared society’ example - Schools Week Carole Stott: FE holds the key to 2017's global skills challenges - FE Week DfE recruits team of behavioural scientists - Schools Week Religious studies allocation scuppers plans for Jewish free school - Schools Week Scottish Funding Council in row over £5m reduction to pot for poorer students - Herald Scotland Questions raised over ‘Jimmy Four Jobs’ – Scotland’s highest paid university boss - Herald Scotland Warning over SNP education reforms as vital school business managers axed - Herald Scotland Primary schools must teach all students to pass 11-plus - Express