News archive for 11th January 2017

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By demanding more experience, graduate employers are only fueling an exploitative system of unpaid, unfair internships - Telegraph New events map for National Apprenticeship Week 2017 has been launched - FE News A school invited to perform at Trump's inauguration will become a symbol of national division - Times Educational Supplement | TES Bristol is right to lower entry requirements – elite institutions like Oxbridge should follow its lead - Telegraph Students’ unions are in danger of becoming nothing more than university marketing tools - we must resist - Huffington Post International university degrees three times cheaper than UK, study finds - Telegraph Addressing mental health at school is one thing, but preventative care must also be at the top of the agenda - Telegraph Call for compulsory sex and relationship lessons in schools - Wales Online From Brexit to Trump: should teachers talk politics in the classroom? - Guardian Troubled Baverstock Academy to close after government fails to find new sponsor - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hard Brexit could be the 'biggest disaster' for UK universities in many years - Independent Providers in limbo as ‘no date’ for adult education budget procurement launch - FE Week University leaders and academics warn hard Brexit could be disaster - Guardian Baverstock Academy closure on again after second government U-turn - Schools Week Teachers given online tool to raise classroom attainment - Scotsman Government examines reforms to school admissions system to improve social mobility - Times Educational Supplement | TES Hard Brexit would be the ‘biggest disaster in years’ for universities, say leading academics - Huffington Post Parliament votes against compulsory sex and relationships education for schoolchildren - Huffington Post Four out of ten students say university does not represent good value for money - Huffington Post Hard Brexit could be ‘biggest disaster’ in years for universities - Scotsman University vice chancellors claim luxury holidays, cake and bottled water on expenses - Independent Sex and relationships lessons will make us safer, pupils say - Times Educational Supplement | TES School leaders accuse DfE of ‘giving with one hand whilst taking away with two’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES What makes a learner job ready? - FE News NUS vice president Richard Brooks caught in undercover sting offering to help oust Malia Bouattia - Huffington Post Teachers prepare to step-up industrial action in Northern Ireland pay row - SecEd Performance of FSM students in key stage 4 under the microscope in Wales - SecEd Fear that Scotland’s cap on university numbers is ‘locking out’ Scottish students - SecEd PSHE calls renewed after report reveals young people’s online vulnerability - SecEd Concern over GCSE computer science uptake - SecEd Average secondary school to lose £477 per-pupil by 2020 - SecEd Social mobility report advises against setting and tiering - SecEd Unions demand recognition of teacher recruitment crisis - SecEd Private school sector ‘robust’ despite Brexit uncertainty - Scotsman Councils given £4.2m funding boost to tackle ‘remaining challenges’ in SEND reforms - Schools Week Majority of children want compulsory sex education, survey finds - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Government blocks Labour bid to make sex education compulsory - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Implementing REF2021 needs the input of the whole research community - HEFCE New £60m funding to support SEND children - Nursery World UCU response to HEPI report on impact of Brexit on universities - UCU UCU response to government proposal of £1,000 levy for EU workers - UCU NASUWT responds to teacher redundancy announcement - NASUWT Barnardo's: Make sex and relationship lessons compulsory - BBC 7 out of 10 schoolchildren want compulsory sex education classes to help keep them safe - Independent Looking for answers: Investigating behaviour and motivation in FE - AoC | Association of Colleges Undergraduate application deadline is looming - UCAS School census: guide to submitting data - DfE School census 2016 to 2017: duplicate reports in COLLECT - DfE School census 2016 to 2017: duplicate reports in COLLECT - DfE Brexit and higher education: evidence session at Oxford University - UK Parliament Trucker’s son and taxi driver’s daughter amongst 42 state school students admitted early to top US universities - Sutton Trust Reforms urged over 'unfair' nursery policy - Herald Scotland Apprenticeship grant: employer fact sheet - SFA We are moving into a new catchment area - will our daughter miss out on our preferred primary school? - Telegraph Creationism fears over move to empower Scottish headteachers - Herald Scotland Poll finds majority of schoolchildren want sex education - Guardian Children demand better protection from Government against sexual predators  - Telegraph MSPs back teachers over quango row - Times How education policy changed - Times Ministers urged to make schools give lessons on LGBTI - Times